Big 12 Conference Realignment
- Thread starter t-noah
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I don’t recall seeing any Arizona games on tv other than 2 this year in the past 5-10 years. ASU I can recall some late night after dark games.
TT is the one that stands out to me. They are on regular networks just as much as everyone else and they have a huge alumni base.
In my opinion, this chart reflects teams that have been relatively good, playing in higher profile games on larger networks (ESPN, ABC, FOX). The one exception being Colorado of course because of the 2023 PRIME effect.
Adding the 4 after OU/UT stabilized to conference and allowed us to ad ASU, AZ, CO, and UT. We'd be in the Mountain West if it wasn't for them
The one question is Houston, the last one decided on. We had stabilized.
I was originally against it, but came around to it if as a defensive move. Some in the PAC were open to Rice, let alone Houston. The rumors that most of the PAC were interested in TCU and Houston that summer were valid imo
But the PAC was more dead than I thought. USC was going to deny expansion regardless, and once they left, it didn’t matter. The PAC was such a zombie conference they couldn’t even invite SDSU and passed on a deal.
But what school now won’t have spot? Imo we’ll still have 8 spots for ACC schools. Stanford won’t join Big 12 and Cal isn’t wanted. Tulane? USF? I’d rather have Houston than Oregon St or WSU
It also destabilized the Pac12 by taking expansion candidates off the table. BYU would have been very interested, and possibly Houston.
This is assuming all remaining members got on the same page (which is a big assumption), but it limited them to essentially SDSU and SMU, Which alone did nothing for the networks but it might have if they could package them with BYU and UH. The key was getting the pro rata "guarantee" (more or less) on the 31.7 mil figure for the 4 corner schools.
Yeah the raw numbers are pretty meaningless. What channel games are on has a huge impact and needs to be controlled for.
Your game starts on ESPNews because there’s still 6 minutes left in the WVU game
You want to slap John Higgins so hard it messes up his hair
LOL. What were some of Higgins more, ahem, shining moments, in your opinion, as and Iowa State fan?
I take it he had a number of calls that were not so popular? Was he equivocal or did he favor certain teams?
There are quite a few. The one that sticks out the most and I forget what year, but Tim Barnes was absolutely mugged at half court by an OSU player. And I’m talking full on grabbed and bear hugged. Barnes finally smacked the OSU player away and tried to drive to the basket. Higgins decided that Barnes should be called for a foul and gave the ball back to OSU. Hilton went absolutely ape ****
There are quite a few. The one that sticks out the most and I forget what year, but Tim Barnes was absolutely mugged at half court by an OSU player. And I’m talking full on grabbed and bear hugged. Barnes finally smacked the OSU player away and tried to drive to the basket. Higgins decided that Barnes should be called for a foul and gave the ball back to OSU. Hilton went absolutely ape ****
Sounds like more heads are going to roll at Arizona. Robbins may be out as well.
So thankful for stable leadership at ISU
So thankful for stable leadership at ISU
