***OFFICIAL BIG 12 EXPANSION THREAD 2.0***
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I don't blame any school for leaving the Big 12 at any point. We have seen first hand that UT runs the show and they almost blew the whole thing up twice. Colorado, Nebraska, and A&M made the decisions that were best for their schools. Mizzou's is more strange but at that point they took the open lifeboat and any school should have done the same.
If we go back to the summer of 2010 or 2011 and Iowa State had the chance to jump to any of the major conferences, we would all have been clamoring for it, so I can't really blame any other school for doing the same. The Big 12 was fortunate to survive both those years.
I think MU has always wanted into the Big 10; their move to the SEC was to save face after the Big 10's rejection.
No, because tv sets are all that matter in realignment. Getting Nebraska got the btn on basic cable all the way to the rocky mountains, the Dakotas, Kansas, Wyoming. That may not seem like a lot of population, but now faux sports has their imprint coast to coast when you add their pac 12 stuff.
Plus there aren't that many teams that can play Minnesota, Indiana, northwestern, Purdue, Iowa, at 11:30 or 2:00 on espn 2 that will have anybody watching it. Nebraska still has a national following, and their fans will tune in to those games.
Missouri would have actually been a better choice in terms of footprint, TV sets, population. And consider the fact that Missouri is still an AAU member of research institutions, Missouri would have been the better choice.
Nebraska's supposed national following is getting less and less each year. The Big Ten overvalued the Nebraska brand. They will regret it in the long run.
If Nebby got the BTN on every cable package in ND, SD, NE, KS, and WY - all five states (which I'm not sure I believe) - that's about 6.8 million people total.
The state of Missouri alone (which would undoubtedly get the BTN statewide with Mizzou) has 6.1 million people by itself, not counting the KC metro that bleeds into Kansas.
Mizzou would also make the B1G's pipe dream of adding OU while keeping a contiguous-by-state conference possible. Perhaps OU and UT would have been #13 and #14 for the B1G in this scenario.
So if the B1G had the same tunnel vision toward adding markets above all else in realignment in 2009 as it does now, they probably would have gone with Mizzou.
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@FightOnTwist: Sources told me about a month ago that #FresnoState was lowkey looking into obtaining Big XII membership. This probably furthers that.
@FightOnTwist: Sources told me about a month ago that #FresnoState was lowkey looking into obtaining Big XII membership. This probably furthers that.
If there is any truth, makes me wonder who their dance partner would be? BYU? Who else out west would justify expansion?
If we add small program teams so ISU can beat them then the Big 12 turns into the Big East 2.0.
I'm sure Fresno State is looking into Big 12 membership along with a bunch of other non-Power 5 league schools.
A conference that extends from Fresno to Morgantown? I don't see what ever could go wrong with this setup.
Go big or go home!! Go after 4 more teams to make it a 14 team conference...
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