is Missouri gone or not?

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WalkingCY

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Why can't the conference just get Louisville now? Play with 11 for the next school year. The Big Televen did it for years..... get them now, and find a way to get back to 12 with either ND, Cincy or BYU.

Louisville to the Big XII is inevitable. Mr. Anderson.

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Wesley

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Why can't the conference just get Louisville now? Play with 11 for the next school year. The Big Televen did it for years..... get them now, and find a way to get back to 12 with either ND, Cincy or BYU.

Louisville to the Big XII is inevitable. Mr. Anderson.

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That would be too simple. These conference bigwigs want drama. They like to smoke stogies. They like to crack open the wine. They want to make the process look complicated so that they can earn the big bucks when it could be so:

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Mizzoulander

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Why can't the conference just get Louisville now? Play with 11 for the next school year. The Big Televen did it for years..... get them now, and find a way to get back to 12 with either ND, Cincy or BYU.

Louisville to the Big XII is inevitable. Mr. Anderson.

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Adding Louisville (or any other team) right now means less money for each current conference member. Even if you add them at "partial" payouts, that money has to come from everybody else's share. There's no way to expand the pie until the next TV deal in 5-6 years.

Louisville's not going anywhere. They haven't been mentioned as a candidate for expansion into any other conference, other than the Big 12. Why lose money and mess up scheduling just to rush to add the Cardinals now?