Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC

[Cyched]

TCU and Baylor to the PAC would certainly throw a wrench in things

 

[NoCreativity]

You talking about the female population?

Lol, I love my women drunk, overweight, and voting against their own political interests. Missouri is a dream come true.

 

[werdnamanhill]

This ESPN article claims they are talking to BYU, Houston, Cincy, and UCF

 

[NoCreativity]

Lol, Colorado isn't going to the Big 10.

 

[Al_4_State]

We're doing the same thing, I would imagine.

 

[Al_4_State]

This ESPN article claims they are talking to BYU, Houston, Cincy, and UCF

That wouldn't be awful. It's a step down, but it's light years ahead of the current AAC.

 

[NoCreativity]

This ESPN article claims they are talking to BYU, Houston, Cincy, and UCF

They should have done this years ago. It might not have helped with brands but at least they would still have a halfway viable conference with 10 teams.

 

[Cyched]

This ESPN article claims they are talking to BYU, Houston, Cincy, and UCF

If those two stay (nope) and you can add BYU and one of UCF or Cincy, that's not a bad conference at all.

If they're gone, those schools don't move the needle enough

 

[everyyard]

They should have done this years ago. It might not have helped with brands but at least they would still have a halfway viable conference with 10 teams.

It would’ve been dumb to do it years ago. This option will ALWAYS be available, and it isn’t a good option unless it’s the only option.

 

[everyyard]

If those two stay (nope) and you can add BYU and one of UCF or Cincy, that's not a bad conference at all.

If they're gone, those schools don't move the needle enough

That is a horrible ******* conference. But it might be what is available.

 

[SECyclone]

That is a horrible ******* conference. But it might be what is available.

American Conference 2.0

 

[Halincandenza]

Man, was I dead wrong about this being no big deal when I first heard it.

 

[NoCreativity]

It would’ve been dumb to do it years ago. This option will ALWAYS be available, and it isn’t a good option unless it’s the only option.

Houston and BYU would have been perfect. Both are huge schools, BYU has an enrollment of 33,000, has huge stadium's and is a national brand. I realize it's not the same as Texas and Oklahoma level but it's still solid. Houston has an enrollment of 46,000 in a huge recruiting ground for the conference. They would have jumped at the chance for the extra Big 12 profit, would have helped their recruiting also.

 

[jcyclonee]

Totally correct. But if we are being honest Colorado probably adds more money to the Big 10. More subscriptions to the network. Competitively, obviously we are the much better choice right now, but I’m honestly not sure that matters if we can’t put more money in the pocket of the conference. It’s all about greed, not actually providing a product we fans would love.

That is absolutely correct.

 

[NoCreativity]

American Conference 2.0

You have to admit though, it's an elite basketball conference.

 

[everyyard]

At the end of this, you’re either in the SEC, B1G, Pac12, or ACC or you are essentially out of D1 football. With the dollar difference and the NIL and the transfer rule it will be a bigger difference than FBS to FCS (which will also be a gulf) and I am not sure that near term if even ACC and PAC are viable as far as competition with SEC level money.

 

[Thorongil Clone]

 

[DeereClone]

I think that would change if you had the ability to drive to a road conference game against Minnesota, Nebraska, Illinois, Purdue or Indiana.

Probably. I’ll honestly always feel like we are one bad tweet away from getting demoted to the G5 though, even under that scenario, and that just takes a lot of the fun away.

 

[MartyFine]

At the end of this, you’re either in the SEC, B1G, Pac12, or ACC or you are essentially out of D1 football. With the dollar difference and the NIL and the transfer rule it will be a bigger difference than FBS to FCS (which will also be a gulf) and I am not sure that near term if even ACC and PAC are viable as far as competition with SEC level money.

What will be the financial impact? What is to stop our fans from starting corporations to which we all contribute, so that we can move money to our players under the NIL pretext?

That will measure our passion as well as anything.

 

[algonacy]

These guys didn't take long making this one. Funny stuff (like normal).