Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC
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Gonna be real honest…I took one law class in college and got a C-. Someone please explain this like I’m 12.
I'll try...........ESPN is trying to lay waist to FOX. And UT/OU aren't very bright following them.
I don't think they technically can, though that obviously never stops anyone. This is saying that ESPN cannot contact individual schools and encourage them in their desired direction
No, it just means ESPN can’t talk with teams about realignment or other conferences. ESPN also can’t discuss with other conferences about Big 12 teams. This is all assuming the cease and desist letter is enforceable, which is a stretch.
Most interesting open question is whether this is about UT and OU (seems unlikely since there is nothing for ESPN to cease or desist about) or if ESPN is working to get 1 or more of the 8 leftovers into a different conference. Since it owns ACC rights, the most obvious guess is WVU there as a #16 package with Notre Dame.
To me, the cease and desist means that the other 8 are having a tough time finding another home. If they were going to move, ESPN would HAVE to be involved in those negotiations and they basically just told ESPN they'd sue if ESPN keeps it up.
It has everything to do with UT and OU and the SEC (which has an ESPN contract starting soon).
Glad the Big 12 grew a pair (even if late). May be for nothing, but get a few licks in first before we inevitably bite the dust.
So can UT and OU just buy out their contacts with the Big 12? Like they could buy it out and be in the SEC next year (2022)?
You're reading an awful lot into that, when it almost certainly means that ESPN contacted a member institution (or institutions) to try to steer them in a certain direction (whether that institution reported it to the Big 12 or someone found out about it).
I admit sometimes I forget which towns Ole Miss and Miss St are in. But they're not in an adjacent state. You'd think even a casual fan of a B1G team would notice bylines of ISU/Iowa game stories over the last 40 plus years.
I admit I'm a bit of a geography nerd so it seems very odd not to know Ames is ISU
That 12-1 KU team also did not play UT or OU that year. Go back and look at the Mac years when the Big 12 was split into North and South. Only two teams had the 2 on 2 off with OU and UT, that was KU and ISU.
It was an EIU type of championship where they did not play the best teams from the other side of the conference.
Yes, they could (I think the price tag is somewhere around $70 million each?). I think everyone is posturing to make that as high or as low as possible, depending on which side they're on.
I am struggling to understand what this gains the Big 12. The damage is already done. It's not like this would void Texas and OU going to the SEC. Those talks already happened.
if i had to guess the leftovers are joining an alliance to get espn to help launch wild country, we are going after much more than GOR money, this could be RICO level infractions
ESPN's money. Basically, the Big 12 is saying ESPN is communicating with members about possible values and payouts in the event of realignment which will damage the value of the Big 12. And the Big 12 is correct. They are setting up a lawsuit.
