Great direct flight on Allegiant that goes to Houston on Thursday night, comes back on Sunday night. I'm in for a long weekend in Houston and some football.
Big 12 Expansion (new thread)
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Great direct flight on Allegiant that goes to Houston on Thursday night, comes back on Sunday night. I'm in for a long weekend in Houston and some football.
I know I speak for most of us here when I say that I still hope and pray for the day we leave you behind to join the B1G. These new additions don't do much for me.
SIAP - if this happens it would be hilarious!
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Big East and Pioneer League i tell ya.
Just saw on the ticker. BYU will play in 23, the others in 24.
I doubt there's any 6 team split where Texas could beat five New Big 12 teams.
You could give them KU and Texas Tech, they'd still have 3 other teams that have been just as good or better than them over the past decade or so.
Hot take for KU...maybe you should have invested some $ in football facilities like the ENTIRE REST OF THE BIG 12 HAS for the past 10-15 years.
I guess the pro basketball team needed more luxury hotels and such. It's like they've just written off the idea they can make $$$ with football beyond what they get from the TV deal.
I wish I could understand what the hell he's trying to say (mainly the second sentence):
“The facts are there’s most likely a scenario where when we do a new deal with a makeup where we likely can’t stay at the level we’re at.”
I was expecting a "then ..." portion.
The truth is KU is the drag on the conference that's in no small part responsible for the defections. By all rights they don't deserve what they're getting and the lack of reinvestment drives the point home.
I wish he had said it THAT way ... Concise, easy to follow and probably closer to the truth.
I think he’s saying that we’re not getting the same amount of money we used to get with the new media deal for this new conference.
That's not really how pods work... you partner with another pod each season and play a couple teams from the other two pods you are not partnered with. winners of the two pod groups play for the championship....
So if pods were:
1. ISU, KSU, KU
2. TT, HOU, OSU
3. BYU, TCU, Bay
4. UCF, WVU, Cinci
Then...
Pod 1&2 play, Pod 3&4 play (basically form a 1 yr div)
Next year
1&3, 2&4... etc.
So, you always end up with "div winners"playing a championship... but in the pod system the divisions are changing.
I still hope KU and ISU make it to the Big 10.
Hmmmm. I suppose that is better than hard coded divisions.
As it is, I like the way the Big Xii has done it with 10 teams and the ACC did it last year with 15 teams. I suppose the ACC was a one off, as I do believe there is a requirement to play everybody to have the top 2 make it like the Big Xii currently does?
Not unless SEC and other Power conferences do same. SEC has a clear advantage (in a better record) with historically only scheduling 8 conference games per team. That might be changing, but until it does...How about 11 conference games and one non-conference?
With Iowa, THAT would make the toughest schedule out there!
The Big 12 might have to stay at 9 (or heck even 10) per future TV contract revenue. But the smarter people involved in those negotiations will make that decision.
