Basically this whole thing appears to be a big F-YOU to Texas. Nebraska last year. Then A&M. Now OU.
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Basically this whole thing appears to be a big F-YOU to Texas. Nebraska last year. Then A&M. Now OU.
Maybe this is all a misunderstanding? OU wants to leave because they think Texas wants to. Texas wants to leave because OU wants to.
This will likely end with one of the teams sprinting through the airport, hoping to catch the other before they get on that plane heading to far-away land forever. Luckily, through the actions of a few romantic TSA agents, they will be able to reunite just in time. They will share a passionate kiss, and the airport will clap enthusiastically. ISU, Mizzou and the others will smile, and hug. All will be well...
Perhaps I misunderstood and they were talking about priority level of funding. Men's golf and the others would exist but they would be cut to the bone first. I guess I didn't ask to clarify. My mistake.
The only thing I wonder is because A&M left that means only OU had a chance to stand up to Texas and they knew it wouldn't matter what they tried Texas wanted to do what was best for texas regardless. So Oklahoma wants to go to Pac 12 knows Texas likely will go along so the keep their rivary but not Texas is not king anymore they are just 1 school out of 16
So chances that ESPN has been over-hyping this type of story and spinning it to try to make the Big XII fall apart are? Because they stand to make a hell of a lot of money with one less conference to pay each year.
That seems to open them up pretty well to some lawsuits for causing the league to fail.
It probably doesn't happen immediately but is more of a gradual decline. And I'm not plugged in enough on the academic side to know how much money might really be at stake.
But I can say with 100% certainty that if the perception of the quality of the university suffers by dropping down to a lesser conference - fairly or unfairly, your perceived quality is partly based on the company you keep - then it will become tougher to recruit top-flight faculty.
THAT is when you lose research dollars.
If you look at it that way, the LHN is supposed to be absorbed one way or another into the PAC network. OU was looking for $5MM for theirs and ESPN would get them for free then.
BYU is going to be desperate to get into an automatic qualifying conference now. They picked a bad time to go independent, IMO.
I'd like to see Cincy and UCF/USF/ECU in there too.
I think we might see an attempt at it. If we can get an ok TV deal, slightly less money and greater parity, the schools might agree.
It could be a weaker AQ football league, and a hell of a basketball league.
If there really are 100,000,000 in exit fees and this conference is interim until the big 10 and SEC complete their process, then smaller is better, fewer mouths to feed AND if we have money for relevance for a few years the schools in a small but cash flush conference will be better positioned for the final round...
Throw in Memphis, Cinci, Houston and Louisville. You have a great MBB conference and wider footprint.
Bah, all this new conference talk is nonsense. This conference would be so second rate compared to the new superconferences it wouldn't even be funny. We would be the Mountain West of the Midwest. Eventually, we would get shut out of the BCS or the playoff or whatever it is that gets setup, and the gap between us and the other schools would grow. We have three options now as I see them. Save the Big 12 with OU and UT, join the B1G, or die as an AD. The backup plan to merge with the Big East seems to be off the table, as it doesn't look like there is going to be much of a Big East left.
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