*****The Super, Mega, Huge Big 12 Expansion Thread*****
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What does the Saskatchewan Indian Agricultural Program have to do with this?
What does SIAP stand for?
That would be 15,000 posts...awesome. We may be talking world record. That's gotta count for something in this whole realignment crap.:yes:
Yet he agreed to the model of revenue sharing that ultimately brought us to this situation. NE, OU, UT, and A&M were all laughing like mad men drilling holes into the sinkin ship as they sit on their piles of money. When NE's pile of money didn't stack up to the other's they got ****** and got a life raft to the B10.
Sick and tired of hearing how NE was this lone voice of reason. When they had a hand in building this house of cards.
And Texas wasn't even one of the programs who came up with unequal revenue sharing. Care to take a guess who those three were? NU, CU, and aTm. Texas simply did what they could with what others helped decide. You can bang on Texas all you guys want, but they did nothing outside of the rules other teams allowed them to create. When no one else could pull that off, they cried and left. I think there was a little more to it for NU, however, that little more still came down to the fact that their **** wasn't as big. Hell, OU had the infrastructure for a network of their own but they couldn't even get it. aTm was invited to a partnership with UT on their network as well. It also seems to me like Texas is working pretty ******* hard to save this thing.
UT is not without sin in this either. Their "screw you all we're awesome" attitude perpetuated a bigger divide as well.
Agreed. However, I also believe that they understand that they over-played their hand and now believe that the best place for their entire athletic department (not just football) is to stay in the Big XII.
That column is total *********.
The demise of the Nebraska FB program began when the B12 was created and partial qualifiers that NU previously depended on were eliminated. UT led the charge to eliminate partial qualifers with ISU's support. Once all of their partial qualifiers left the program, NU hasn't been a legit national contender since then and never will be. That is what has chapped Tom Osborne's *** all these years. His unfortunate return as NU AD started this whole mess for the B12.
The idea that nothing has happened yet when this was such a 'done deal' several weeks ago I believe bodes well for the conference. In the end aTm may or may not leave, but regardless I still believe the Big 12 as a conference will continue into the future. Texas appears to be doing what they can to save the conference and in reality if they truly do give up some money to OU than you have to think it bodes well for their image of 'conference killers' and it can't look to pretty on Oklahoma to only be looking out for themselves in this situation.
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