*****The Super, Mega, Huge Big 12 Expansion Thread*****
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Because no provider would pick it up if there were several football games on it annually. Worked for the Big 10.
You can't seriously be comparing the LHN to the Big 10 network, can you?
C'mon people, Texas isn't going anywhere. I think it's funny how everyone assumes they know exactly where UT admins stand on conference realignment and what they are telling the rest of the conference members behind closed doors. Unless you've been in the room during those discussions, you likely don't know jack about what's really going on.
The way I see it, people can either worry themselves sick about ISU's fate and what Texas is doing to try to secede from the union again, OR they can put some faith in the visionary leaders we have at ISU and trust them to lead us to the best outcome.
how is the ACC going to make ND the richest school? Their contract is weak at best and the rest of the schools would take a paycut to get ND???
Just doesn't make a lot of sense.
I think that question is what has most people baffled. The ACC is already behind in the $ war with their new contract. How does one squeeze the blood from that stone?
they probably can and will expect every penny to come their way. FSU and others will be left in the cold..........we know how unequal revenue sharing works over the long haul.
Maybe when they renegotiate, the current teams keep about the same, just ND gets more? ND becomes their Texas? And they become when the Big12 was... hoping to go through rough patches then suddenly become arguably the best? Real long shot, but they are trying lol.
OK so where do we stand currently financially, and where would we stand with the additions of FSU and Louisville? I know Louisville isn't the sexy option, but the potential is there that maybe a big conference can unlock. Or maybe the Big12 would just like another bottom feeder school since ISU and Baylor have decided to get pretty good and teams need another win on the schedule.
OK so where do we stand currently financially, and where would we stand with the additions of FSU and Louisville? I know Louisville isn't the sexy option, but the potential is there that maybe a big conference can unlock. Or maybe the Big12 would just like another bottom feeder school since ISU and Baylor have decided to get pretty good and teams need another win on the schedule.
Maybe this could be between ESPN and NBC? ESPN will pay the ACC to get ND away from NBC. Since ACC has offered whole membership vs Big 12 partial, ESPN has swung big cashola the way of ACC to lock up ND and then hurt NBC. Maybe NBC needs to get some dollars in the game to swing ND back toward Big 12 as partial and keep ND as their own.
If clemson wasn't ready to go but FSU was i'd still say grab FSU and go to 11. They'd add to the conference, and the big 10 did just fine for nearly 20 years with 11 teams and no divisions... we might be even better off with the 9 game schedule, we'd only miss 1 team a year.
NBC Sports Network has resorted to showing Ivy League games this fall. That's not even FBS level. Steal ND from NBC and we might get a reconstituted Gateway Conference game of the weak on the Peacock Network
Providing ND wants to join Big 12 as full member. Who knows what ND could be saying behind the scenes or ESPN is thinking in regards to programming.
I know we want ND first. But I say lets just add FSU and get to 11. Pretty much the same situation when the B1G added Penn State. Then see what ND wants to do, if they only want to be a partial member allow Clemson to join. If ND wants to be full, tell Clemson thanks but no thanks. If we go to Super Conferences, add Clemson and whoever else. If ND goes ACC, or doesn't come here partial... we just add FSU and maybe Louisville if we don't have a better option and would rather be at 12 than 11.
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and so it begins. ND will do anything and everything to their advantage....if they are allowed......and apparently they will be. If they are allowed to piggyback into the new Champions Bowl, that is just wrong and foolish on our part. There is ALOT of disinformation out there now, but one thing remains constant....ND looking after ND interests at others expense. Count me in the join fully or no thanks crowd.
and so it begins. ND will do anything and everything to their advantage....if they are allowed......and apparently they will be. If they are allowed to piggyback into the new Champions Bowl, that is just wrong and foolish on our part. There is ALOT of disinformation out there now, but one thing remains constant....ND looking after ND interests at others expense. Count me in the join fully or no thanks crowd.
I'm pretty sure there's a rule that you have to be in the conference to play in the conferences Bowl game unless its a lower bowl and the conference doesn't have enough eligible teams... But hey it could end up being a smart play by the Big12. ND isn't ever going to be good enough to play in that game anyways. ND still thinks they are high and mighty and if we inflate their heads even more with this chance at the Champions Bowl and we get more money out of it, why the hell not.
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