Pitch an idea to new B12 Commish ITT
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Big 8 Basketball in KC. 4 teams that left play the 4 teams still in the Big 12. 4 games in a row on a Saturday in December. Rotate opponents every year. Sell the event to TV
Blackmail Baylor for 100 million with investigation threats and then spread that money out to all of the other schools minus the 4 new schools and Texas and OU.
You could open the season with it even. That event could be a grand slam
Go to 16 teams so we can have 4 pods.
Probably 3 Mt West schools and 1 easter school (e.g. Memphis or USF or Temple or UAB or East Carolina plus AZ schools, and Colorado).
Football stays at 9 conference games (3 pod games and 2 each from other 3 pods).
Get creative with having 3 time zones (e.g. back to back Thursday or Friday night games).
Do cross-conference basketball games by pod (e.g. eastern pod plays SEC; western pod plays PAC 12).
Do more things in major metros (e.g. Denver, KC, DFW, Houston, etc.) for things like basketball.
-AZ, AZ St, BYU, Colorado
-ISU, KSU, KU, OSU
-Tech, BU, TCU, UH
-Memphis (or other), Cincy, WVU, and UCF
Probably 3 Mt West schools and 1 easter school (e.g. Memphis or USF or Temple or UAB or East Carolina plus AZ schools, and Colorado).
Football stays at 9 conference games (3 pod games and 2 each from other 3 pods).
Get creative with having 3 time zones (e.g. back to back Thursday or Friday night games).
Do cross-conference basketball games by pod (e.g. eastern pod plays SEC; western pod plays PAC 12).
Do more things in major metros (e.g. Denver, KC, DFW, Houston, etc.) for things like basketball.
-AZ, AZ St, BYU, Colorado
-ISU, KSU, KU, OSU
-Tech, BU, TCU, UH
-Memphis (or other), Cincy, WVU, and UCF
figure out the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow
That’s fun. But no chance in hell that ever happens. The other schools collectively would never all agree.
Why not? It’s a high profile resume building game at a neutral site? Add in the shared history and it makes a ton of sense. All 8 schools can split the revenue from it.
City of KC should be pounding on doors for this to happen
I completely agree with that and hope it happens. I just don’t see those 4 other schools ever agreeing to it. Egos, etc. are too big to overcome. Nebby, for example, isn’t going to sign up to get their ass beat by teams they think they are way better than.
You can tailor the matchups. Say Nebraska gets KSU this year as they both are down. The Border War and Bedlam would be the biggest issues IMO. Schools are going to want those games on campus
8 conference games instead of nine. Need more P5 crossover matchups to remain relevant to the rest of the P5.
