*****The Super, Mega, Huge Big 12 Expansion Thread*****
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But with OU, you are getting less than stellar academics but their football team offsets that, but to take an even worse academic school like OSU which also hasn't really won anything in football either, much tougher sell.
That means they will do something different because they are UT. Bevo is King.
OU has no leverage with this. Why would the Pac take OSU when they don't want them?
You lost me at "semi realistic". None of this would have seemed to be semi realistic a short time ago.
I really believe that if there is a Pac-14, it will include Texas and Oklahoma. A Pac-16 would then also include Tech and OSU... probably.
What part of OU and OSU playing conference games 2 time zones away is semi-realistic? Yet at this point it seems somewhat likely.
Despite all of the speculation and ramblings in all of these posted articles, there's one common denominater - Texas and their beloved LHN. When will they realize that conferences with an equal TV revenue sharing arrangements are stable, happy, and able to grow? When will they also realize that those same conferences do not want TX and the unequal and destabilizing LHN? Even some of the local media such as the Dallas Morning News is beginning to turn on them. I am beginning to feel that TX will go independent, after they cause the demise of the Big 12 and financially impairing several of their conference schools athletic departments. In two weeks maybe we will know alot more than we know today. It will be interesting to see how ISU fans react when TX comes to Ames.
That is also my feeling. The academics are bad enough for OU. At some point you have to get schools that have some academics.
I should have said semi realistic source that said the OU and OSU won't go together. I understand that the Pac 12 has the power but I haven't heard/ read anything that says the won't take OSU if its a package deal to get OU
I disagree...look at the ACC grabbing Pitt and Syracuse. It is logical expansion. The B10, SEC will also have logical expansion geographically. The Pac can't do that because of their location.
I could see a rebuilt Big XII letting Texas stay around for other sports but I'm not sure they would like that.
I am mostly new to this thread that totals some 788 pages. Is there a Table of Contents to point a new reader like myself to the different chapters of this drama? Are we at the middle or the end of this book. I guess the middle because I do not see a fat lady singing or the good guys winning the big battle and living happily ever after.
Right in the middle. The fat lady maybe warming up the voice for Monday but untill then...........
Texas didn't just start the LHN and break a bunch of rules. I don't know how many times this will have to be said, but OU and aTm voted exactly the same as Texas on this. CU and NU as well. This wasn't a rogue Texas AD situation like everyone wants to make it out to be. Texas did what the conference voted to allow when it was formed. After that, every other big program got ****** because they couldn't do it. aTm was offered to be included on that network. They declined then saw UT get a metric **** ton of money and were ******. This thing doesn't come down to Texas. Judging by everything that has been put out there, UT has actually done everything in their power to save the thing. Had OU, NU, CU, aTm, not been greedy in their own right, the LHN would never have happened. Then, instead of ******** and leaving, they could have all used their collective power to create a league wide network with a full schedule of quality content and generated perhaps more money than they will ever see. Good grief, we could have had a network getting paid for in Texas all the way up through Iowa. That would have been a nice deal for all involved.
Sure, Texas could have initiated all of that on their own but why should they?
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