This as the premise (which I agree with), presents a whole lot of back room deals/bribes/compromises/bluffs which is intriguing and scary.
IOWA STATE TO BIG TEN?!? Dave Wannstedt thinks so.
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The way he is acting, the remaining 8 must have stolen his wife. Seems actively bent on the worst possible outcomes for us.
Girlfriend most likely, not wife. Some days, you know...................
If Chris gets him to come on, that’s must listen podcast stuff.
The only way you naturally stop perpetual expansion is to limit the playoff to auto-bids only by conference champs. Otherwise, bigger will always be perceived as better and the college football elites will continue to gather in their own conference and leave the rest behind.
Stew is going to get put into a pretzel if he comes on and just gives opinions like he’s been doing on Twitter. Blum and Chris will have actual numbers to prove he’s wrong over and over.
There’s too much money to be made for the system to go that route.
Hard pass. I wouldn't listen to Stew read me my winning lotto numbers.
Nope. All they'd need to do is set the date of entry to 2025.
This is fascinating to me, that the move to the SEC slipped out before they could approve the expanded playoff. Not expanding significantly hurts, both ESPN and the SEC. The best news...Texas continues to slide, just like Nebraska, into the abyss. OU has a chance, but only slight given the gauntlet that the SEC represents.
Dr Hicksville truly representative of their fan base.
Complete troll. UCF is reluctant of an invite solely due to the fact that they’re afraid the H8 are leaving lol.
You are really, really bad at this.
UT may have that $32 billion endowment but you can't really count on that as if it's some kind of financial war chest. Much of those funds are very strictly and legally tied to specific uses and purposes, it's not like they can dip into it whenever and for whatever reason they see fit.
Correct.
Everybody's going to be reluctant of a big 12 bid in this environment. Anybody that has a finger on the pulse knows that the big 12 has to present that they're going to expand for all the obvious reasons. Doesn't mean they have to, but it means that they need this as an option. But as I've said, they have to go down this path to see what computable damage is for a tortious interference claim.
That is correct, but it adds to what is really behind them.
The Iowa State University just completed a 1.5 billion dollar fundraiser. Fabulous news and it was highly successful. The original goal was 1.1 billion as I recall.
They are at an additional level or two, to say the least. A big part of their endowment is the oil in the Permian Basin. It is split between UT and Texas A&M as financial cloud behind already both well-oiled machines and a fast growing state.
Their financial engine, both that their foundation and that their athletic department, is so well oiled that the move to the SEC is not about making an additional 10 to 20 million dollars a year.
