Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC
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Of course there is if they want to be focused on Texas. Adding Tech with a large DFW alumni base plus TCU actually being in DFW would be a big play to get Pac 12 Network on cable packages in that market. And that still matters as long as they have the network albatross.
Nobody knows how this will go so it is really naive to be certain that we are in the Pac-12’s top 4 options. I think it’s more likely than not.
Texas is a national brand, big names carry value nationwide whether they are good or not. He was just saying that while location isn't what it used to be (like it was in 2010 realignment), it's still something and distributor rights is one of those reasons. For an ISU, our value may be in that we provide a new state for the network to distribute, for Texas that is less important.
Pac 12 won’t invite TCU. They would have invited BYU years ago if they were going to take a religious school. Same for Baylor. I would look for more of a Iowa State, Kansas, Oklahoma State, Tech “wall” to keep all the other big conferences out of the western half of the US.
Nobody watches Tech football. You add zero watches by having both Tech AND TCU. If you’re trying to add Texas televisions, you add one or the other. They have the same problem we do with the Big Ten in that aspect.
Like I said before, if they thought that was going to work, ESPN is about as stupid as, well, I thought they were. I love how all these reports about how the AAC was trying to take the Big 12 teams. Well, no ****. There's never been one second in the past where if Big 12 teams said they wanted to join that the AAC wouldn't take them.
The AAC can "try to get" Big 12 teams all they want, but some of these teams probably simply have better options that they can absolutely explore and exhaust, and if those look bad, take the best of the AAC.
God people are so ******* dumb.
They have nowhere near the same problem as us because they are in TEXAS. The second largest state in the country. You don’t add one school and say yep, we got that one on lock. Let alone if that one school is Tech or TCU.
It’s nothing like the B1G looking at Iowa (which is ranked in the 30s for population) and thinking that they already have it.
NO ONE is going to the AAC.. unless teams get absorbed by the Pac12 and/or B1G. The fact that ESPN pushed the narrative for us to join that conference instead of saying the logical thing ==> AAC joins the actual “P5” Conference, just proves that ESPN was trying to get out of the rest of their deal with the Big 12.
Bunch of f****** snakes.
I see more and more big ten people staying they should stay at their current level. I think they all realize how dumb they were to add Maryland and Rutgers. I don't think it happens unfortunately. Let's hope for a pac and big 12 merge.
Give it a listen below, it's pretty fascinating but I listen to LeBatard often so I may be biased.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hour-2-a-new-look-sec/id934820588?i=1000530192227
If true, this confirms meddling at the highest level. I can not wait for the first lawsuit ... of many while Iowa State patiently waits on the sidelines for their best move.
It would be an interesting poll if the general college football fan not associated with any of the remaining big12 schools would rather watch a Cyclone game in comparison to the other remaining teams. I’d guess us or okie lite would lead that poll?
I think recency bias & Matt Campbell could make ISU the favorite, especially for this year, but yeah I’d presume it’d be Okie State if not us.
For the record, I saw that the Big 12 games that did not included Texas or Oklahoma still drew an average of 1.05 million viewers. The average AAC game drew 770k by the Central Florida SB Nation site, I believe. That's a big difference.
However, they are trying to make the case because the same data over the past 5 years suggests that viewership is very similar that the Big 12 getting absorbed by the AAC makes sense.
Of course it's bad analysis because taking out OU automatically removes the Big 12 conference championship game, while still counting the AAC conference champ. game, which gets a nice network slot, and usually gets very solid ratings (the Cincy-Tulsa CCG got 1.88 million).
So despite cooking the analysis to make it as favorable as possible, it still shows that the Big 12 leftovers as a whole aren't getting absorbed into the AAC. Now, if 4 or so of the current leftovers disperse to other conferences, that might be the only option. But if there's still 7 or 8 Big 12 teams, they would be taking on schools to complete a conference that would be better than the current AAC.
BYU is a much different flavor of religious school than TCU. TCU is even notably more liberal (in the religious sense) than Baylor. I think the Christian angle could be a hindrance to TCU but it is not a 100% no chance situation like BYU that is punishing students for premarital sex and drinking alcohol.
Let's hope so. To me there seems to be a lot of conjecture, but no hard evidence. I'm still waiting to see that.
