Interesting article. I would've focused on how Texas poached Texas Tech's basketball coach while being in their own conference, then promptly leaving the conference.
How the University of Texas treated Texas Tech should be against the law | Opinion
Texas should have told fellow state school Texas Tech it wants to leave the Big 12.www.yahoo.com
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Well that podcast has brought me into the “depression” stage of grief.
One step closer to acceptance I guess
This whole thing is just plain ugly
One step closer to acceptance I guess
This whole thing is just plain ugly
With the SECs new contract they are going to make more than the Big 12 and the LHN money combined. They were already just behind or breaking even with the B1G, and the new SEC deal was going to leave them in the Dust even with the LHN.
They make about $52M combined between the LHN at $15M and the Big 12 $37M payout. The B1G pays about $55M, the SEC about $45M, but they just got a huge contract to blow that away, and look to increase it even more with OU and UT.
My point exactly. LHN was such a disaster for ESPN that Texas wasn’t going to get that again when it came time for the Big 12 to renew. Add to the fact they’d make more $$$ in the $EC than with a new Big 12 contract and Texas gone is a foregone conclusion.
Micro-transcript. Not all excerpts are in-sequence. Quoted portions are CW's (some paraphrasing).
“I can’t imagine being in this situation for Iowa State if Pollard wasn’t here. Every stone will be turned over.”
“If the SEC becomes a mega-conference, I’m not just gonna be, ‘I pick Auburn as my new team.’ It doesn’t work that way in college athletics” (from fans’ perspective - transcriber note)
CW doesn’t put "blame" on Bowlsby for UT/OU move, but said it makes him "look bad. Says Sankey played (Bowlsby) "like a freaking fiddle.” “How did (Bowlsby) not get wind of this?”
CW’s guess: This is the last Big 12 football season. (a common assumption among most of us - transcriber’s note)
“This is not good for college football, I don’t care what anyone tells me.” Disputes whether most fans care how much an institution is making from a TV contract. “If you’re an Arkansas fan, you just richer today, like, does that make you feel any better when you can’t win an SEC game?” …. “They’ve (networks) tricked us into thinking that this stuff is good for fans and fans should care about television contracts … we need smaller, regional divisions … that’s the best for the future of this sport.”
“Big 12 may continue to exist, but any remaining member (or any school that joins) that gets another invite, they’re gone.”
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It's amazing how a ****-ass athletic department can make so much money. Imagine the money they'd bring in if they actually won football games.
Yes this is why I think it would be smart for all the conferences outside the SEC to partner up as one entity and for the SEC to either join or choose their slow and painful death.
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I am at acceptance as well. College football as we knew it will cease to exist within 20 years, if not much sooner. Just enjoy this season and whatever may be left after that.
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Now that Oklahoma and Texas are destined for the SEC, the question remains: what happens to the remaining eight Big 12 teams? The eight teams could try and re-build the Big 12 or they could bolt for other conferences. The latter appears to be the preference of most fan bases, but whether or not...
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Chat. join the premium (t2) you are wasting the last of your possible big isu fandom on the outside looking in.
I'm still in the "If you don't hear it from JP directly, don't believe it" camp.
Maybe in a week or two we'll really know something.
Maybe in a week or two we'll really know something.
I’ve got no problem with people joining a premium board but let’s be honest, what will be will be. A premium board might let you know a few hours early.
you are literally missing out on twice daily updates from CW along with distilled conversation on what is happening. you don't have 2 hour old tweets about BS showing up.
I signed up for premium this AM.
It seems very well worth it thus far.
It seems very well worth it thus far.
I hope I'm wrong, but to some extent I don't see why the B1G and PAC would want to rush out and grab more schools. Why wouldn't they wait and see what the SEC really has planned?
No one even knows that the SEC is going to maintain NCAA affiliation.
No one even knows that the SEC is going to maintain NCAA affiliation.
We came out of the last re-alignment is better shape than ever. I'm not getting the feeling it's going to work out that way this time. It's not just the leftover 8 of the Big XII that are in the crosshairs of this. I put a lot of credence in the fact that the ESPN/$EC death star is trying to pull in Ohio State, Clemson, and others. The NFL doesn't care that it's spread over four time zones and neither will this new professional league. If not this year, then in the near future, they will start voting others off the island. There is no loyalty among these thieves. The elite blue bloods seem to be tired of co-existing with us plebes. Oh, and Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, Mizzou and others better pay attention. The sleaze that is cooking up these schemes doesn't care that they currently belong to that evil cabal known as the $EC. Sankey and Co. will screw them just as quickly. I hope state legislatures and courts get involved in this in a serious way.
Because if they do nothing their big schools get wandering eyes. They have to do something to reassure their schools.
