I hate the Big 10 but this is the reason ISU needs to go to the Big 10 and the reason other schools are going to leave.
Not so fast my firend...
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I hate the Big 10 but this is the reason ISU needs to go to the Big 10 and the reason other schools are going to leave.
I think the SEC will expand once the other BCS conferences begin to have more than 12 members.
they are already the premiere football conference by a landslide and no one cares about anything else down there. they are getting 240M a year as a conference from ESPN and CBS for the next 14 years. the SEC caught lightning in a bottle when negotiating these contracts and no other conference will be able to get that much. not the big10 network, not a pac10 network, and not a big12 network it just isnt going to happen. why would the members of the SEC vote to expand a conference in which they are leaps and bounds better than anyone else and take a paycut at the same time? it wont!
It ruins the TV contract with Fox that was likely the only reason that Texas was even thinking of staying in the conference. Perhaps, a exec with Fox will also be at this meeting to see if this deal can be reworked without Nebraska. With Mizzou staying, we lost a big name but not a big market. Maybe there is still a chance that offer could still be on the table if they get two decent teams to come in.
The Big 12 needs to get 4 teams to replace CU and NU. I would look at Louisville, Boise St, Cincinatti and any one of these three in this order BYU, Utah and Colorado St.
This opens up new TV 'markets' for the Big 12, is feasible, allows the Big 12 to keep a championship game and would probably open up a television network of some sort. Beebe keeps thinking in terms of 12 and it is not good. I think if you can get the teams I mentioned competition in football could be decent and I think the conference increases its basketball stature even more.
Is this possible? Depends on what the Southern schools want to do and if Beebe has any balls.
This opens up new TV 'markets' for the Big 12, is feasible, allows the Big 12 to keep a championship game and would probably open up a television network of some sort. Beebe keeps thinking in terms of 12 and it is not good. I think if you can get the teams I mentioned competition in football could be decent and I think the conference increases its basketball stature even more.
Is this possible? Depends on what the Southern schools want to do and if Beebe has any balls.
well, I have been a Texas detractor for some time. I always knew where we stood in this conference. But if Texas can hold this thing together...well I have a new respect for the longhorns. We could find a lot worse coattails than UT. At this point the goal isn't pride, it is keep your head above water if you are ISU and live to fight another day. Mizzou...if they remain...is now my biggest rival. Texas could offer Arkansas a place in the north where Arkansas will think they have a shot at a lot of wins, coupled with a big TV contract pending and Arkansas could bite...even with the SEC. Then, pull in Utah or BYU, or New Mexico and BAM...right back in this thing. Never count out Texas and as long as they have a bigXII logo on, I'm with them. Now if Texas is out, we are f'd.
You get BYU you absolutely get a National fanbase. I think they should be the first target, then Cincinatti.
Texas is going to argue that the Pac 16 superconference is going to be worthy of TWO automatic qualifiers for the BCS, one for each division and ensuring they won't have a need for that pesky and troublesome conference championship game.
In the end they will want to take that with them too. Leaving the rest of us with nothing to attract new teams to build around. Just watch.
I also hope JP is on the phone with someone and that someone better be Chuck Norris.
There is no way the BCS allows this. If they wanted to create such a big league then they'll have to deal with only one AQ. In reality though, a conference like that should never have to worry about getting two teams in the BCS.
I don't know if the conference will survive all this, but even if A$M and Texas decide not to blow it up immediately, the Big 12 is still a dead conference walking. They've shown their colors, and the conference deathwatch will become an annual occurrence.
Texas is only meeting with A&M to convince them to come with them to the Pac10. They don't want to compete with A&M for recruits if A&M is in the SEC, and they don't want the SEC schools to have a better chance of recruiting the Texas high schools. This has nothing to do with the Big 12. That conference is already in the Longhorns rear view mirror.
IMO if they want two bids they should just make two 8 team conferences each worthy of an automatic bid, not one 16 team mega conference.
The BCS is controlled by the power conferences.
A better hope is that people get politically active and force the anti-trust issue.
JP is on the phone with me right now. We're discussing how HandSanitizer might be pretty drunk right now. :wink:
I agree. Super conferences would probably have to always be walking a fine line to avoid being taxed.
All of this talk makes me think that the federal government should tax the NCAA.... I already find it amazing that they seem to be taxing everything else and not a peep yet about the NCAA. Seems like its all about the money and nobody gives a d)#$( about tradition.
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