Big XII heading south?
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The only South-North aspect I would change is to have BB in KC. The football CG in Texas makes sense to me. Scheduling wise, they try to have the South play the South and the North play the North in November. There are not too many times the North plays the South in Sept/Oct. ISU does get OU/TT/UT at the same time, but I am not convinced it is clearly worse than splitting up OU and UT.
My main complaint about the Big 12 is the revenue sharing, but that is not directly North vs South. If anything, revenue wise it is best to expand the Big 12's presence in its biggest market, Texas.
Keep it rotating. Like the mileage breakdown. Seems about as close as it comes to fair. Rotate both football and basketball sites. If we wanted fair a south team should have to play at a north team after the second week in october during the regular conference schedule.
A big difference is that for the MBB/WBB tournaments, all 12 teams travel to the tournament site. For the the FB title game, only two teams travel to the game site. I imagine travel costs will have to be analyzed in making the decision to make permanent sites.
As I recall, the last time the MBB tournament was in Dallas, attendance was poor. Revenue generation is a big part of the MBB tourney and the FB title game.
You'd think after 13 years or so, most would have figured that out, but apparently not...
It was poor. Do you know how much that actually hurt revenue? I would guess not as much as one might think.
The South is also has more TV sets than the north. That's the point I was making if the old Big 8 existed today, it's TV contract would be with the CBS College Sports Network, perhaps the old SWC as well.
Yep, the Big 8 need to add more TV sets and markets. It did, and renamed itself the Big 12. I just do not see this Big 8 vs Texas schools talk. Does the Big 10 have OSU/UM/PSU vs Iowa/Minn/NW discussions? The SEC title game is in Atlanta, favoring the Eastern Division. Does that mean the SEC only cares about UGA/Tenn/UF?
********. Texas would be nice to keep but the others could go **** up a rope. Personally I'd like to go back to the B8 and add a team, Notre Dame. Yeah I said it!
Don't you think Arkansas would consider defecting to a rejuvinated B8? I think that would be pretty cool.
This year on 11/7:
A&M @ Colorado
Oklahoma @ Nebraska
Oklahoma St @ Iowa St
Baylor @ Missouri
I like it. The SEC plays in Atlanta every year. Why shouldn't we play in Dallas? Besides, if they put that game in Dallas, that means that basketball has a good chance of staying in KC long term. We all know that we'll be going to KC for that no matter how good the MBB team is. And if the FB team goes to Dallas, you KNOW that we'd brink 20-40k whether it was in KC or TX.
My plan the whole time was FB=Dallas, BB=KC, Baseball=OKC. Looks like it's getting closer to coming true. Definitely helps that KC and Dallas have new facilities.
My plan the whole time was FB=Dallas, BB=KC, Baseball=OKC. Looks like it's getting closer to coming true. Definitely helps that KC and Dallas have new facilities.
This. And it would be fine by me.
Of course, such an arrangement wouldn't benefit the Texas schools, so it won't happen.
They should just change the name of the conference to "Big Texas and some other schools"
A big, giant NO.
I would not trade BB in KC for FB in Dallas. BOTH sports should rotate to appease ALL fans.
I would not trade BB in KC for FB in Dallas. BOTH sports should rotate to appease ALL fans.
Maybe I should have been a little more clear. Notice which two arent on the list:sad::sad::sad:
I am not say a south team has never played in the north after the fall has cooled down. It was very cold for the TT game for Wallace's run. I am simply stating that it is a rarity for the south to come up north after mid October. How about a mid to late November game, say Neb vs Tex or CU vs Tech. When Mac played UT @ UT his last time it was 32 degrees in Ames on Thursday and 97 degrees in Austin on Saturday afternoon. I was in the stands and couldnt stay hydrated after that change. 21 to 21 at half. After half, UT beat the snot out of us. Tell me the a 60 degree temp change doesnt factor into conditioning. And that game was in early Oct.
Texas has played at ISU, NU, CU or Mizzou a grand total of ONCE in the month of November since the Big XII was formed. And that was at NU on Nov 2 in 2002.
Tech has NEVER played at a north school in the month of November.
OU has played us in 1999, NU in 1997. Nothing since.
FYI - A&M has played 3 games in Nov (2 against Mizzou, 1 against the Huskers)
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