*****The Super, Mega, Huge Big 12 Expansion Thread*****

[cyman05]

Report is that the 6-pack of Big East invites is going out Tuesday regardless of others' choices. Temple will probably be the 7th to get the invite. I'm sure West Virginia and/or Louisville will be hoping to leave before the invites get accepted so they can save $5 million.

Louisville looking to leave Big East for Big 12 - NYPOST.com

 

[cyman05]

I'll let you decide on your own whether you want to believe Chip Brown or not, but I'm just the messenger throwing this out...

ChipBrownOB Chip Brown
Orangebloods.com will have an update in the War Room tonight about how the Big 12 is shaping up to be an 11-team league.

 

[BBHMagic]

I'll let you decide on your own whether you want to believe Chip Brown or not, but I'm just the messenger throwing this out...

ChipBrownOB Chip Brown
Orangebloods.com will have an update in the War Room tonight about how the Big 12 is shaping up to be an 11-team league.

What's the "War Room", is that like premium content?

 

[twojman]

I'll let you decide on your own whether you want to believe Chip Brown or not, but I'm just the messenger throwing this out...

ChipBrownOB Chip Brown
Orangebloods.com will have an update in the War Room tonight about how the Big 12 is shaping up to be an 11-team league.

WVU and L'Ville, the way it should have been. This leaves the door open for Notre Dame (as a full member) in a few years. If not ND, someone else decent once the Big 12 shows it is stable.

 

[twojman]

Check out this article...I included the conclusion, but the whole this is a good read.

What exactly is the benefit of the Longhorn Network? | The Daily Texan

We’re now entering the third month of the network’s existence. It’s given us the following:
Mack Brown is frustrated, the majority of fans are left in the dark, Longhorn Network employees wish their work was visible and the local media has no new angles. Public resentment of Texas has sizzled in the past months, college football is as unstable as ever and Texas A&M is gone.
The network offers an obvious monetary perk, but only eight percent of that goes towards academia. Sounds almost like a sales tax.
So, if the Longhorn Network is merely pumping money back into a football program that doesn’t really need any more of it, and if it’s monopolized (and hiding) all the information regarding the team, and if it’s tiring the coaching staff and alienating the fan base, then we have to ask ourselves the $300 million question: What, exactly, is its benefit?

I am glad their media is frustrated. Perhaps in their infinite wisdom, ESPN and Texas will come groveling to the rest of the Big 12 to form a true conference network that will actually get picked up not just in Texas but in multiple states.

 

[GoldenBear]

WVU and L'Ville, the way it should have been. This leaves the door open for Notre Dame (as a full member) in a few years. If not ND, someone else decent once the Big 12 shows it is stable.

Big Ten did for years. I like it because still doesn't give MU the out they want.

 

[cyman05]

Let's say the B12 does indeed take both, then that would put the Big East down to 4 teams.

Cincy
S. Florida
UConn
Rutgers

That would move up their 6-pack of invites to an 8-pack. Boise, Air Force, Navy, SMU, Houston, C. Florida. Looks like #7 is Temple. Who is #8? Looks like the only options left out there are Memphis and East Carolina. Sounds like Army keeps saying no, so they're not an option. Seems like BYU is out too.

 

[twojman]

Let's say the B12 does indeed take both, then that would put the Big East down to 4 teams.

Cincy
S. Florida
UConn
Rutgers

That would move up their 6-pack of invites to an 8-pack. Boise, Air Force, Navy, SMU, Houston, C. Florida. Looks like #7 is Temple. Who is #8? Looks like the only options left out there are Memphis and East Carolina.

Villanova?

 

[HoopsTournament]

Let's say the B12 does indeed take both, then that would put the Big East down to 4 teams.

Cincy
S. Florida
UConn
Rutgers

That would move up their 6-pack of invites to an 8-pack. Boise, Air Force, Navy, SMU, Houston, C. Florida. Looks like #7 is Temple. Who is #8? Looks like the only options left out there are Memphis and East Carolina.

If football is driving the bus, then East Carolina.
If basketball is driving the bus, then Memphis.

 

[CloneAbuse]

This is laughable...

Alabama | MrSEC.com

The SEC has more d-bags than any other conference. They're holier than thou attitude is getting old. This guy and Clay Travis are far worse than Chip Brown. They're conference homers, not one team, they suck the conference teet. Truth is, if Slive and the SEC had maintained the status quo and not lifted up A&Ms skirt when Aggie offered it's nether regions, none of this is going on. They had 12 schools, they had a conference championship, they had dominance (14 teams will dilute their conference, more teams = more losers in the end). They chased the dollar sign because they were jealous that lesser conference (PAC) made bank on their rights. This is all going on because of the SEC this year.

They point to the dysfunction in the Big XII, but they are the source of the dysfunction this year. They could have told A&M they weren't interested....but they DIDN'T.

Slive's comments at the Quarterback Club this week lets you know just how much he's eating this attention up. That is one huge ego....I'll enjoy the next cycle of play when the SEC is not the almighty and when their cheating ways finally catch up to them. Now if only the NCAA would enforce its rules, we could enjoy watching the SEC fade away....

 

[cyman05]

Villanova?

Seems like the Big East leadership isn't crazy about promoting an FCS team who will draw 20,000 fans. Plus it seems like the BB/FB split isn't as big an issue anymore.

 

[CycloneErik]

Look, all that really matters here is that non-profit corporations attached to academic institutions make more money. As long as that happens, it's all good.

 

[UNIGuy4Cy]

DaveSittler Dave Sittler



Big 12 source: "Big Ten made it work for several years with 11 teams."

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Big 12 source: "In the end, West Virginia and Louisville will both be invited because it's the right thing to do."

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[Cyclonepride]

I'll take an 11 team league over 10 any day. Not sure how the Big Ten worked it out, but I know there's some rotation in the schedule.

 

[CrossCyed]

This is laughable...

Alabama | MrSEC.com

The SEC has more d-bags than any other conference. They're holier than thou attitude is getting old. This guy and Clay Travis are far worse than Chip Brown. They're conference homers, not one team, they suck the conference teet. Truth is, if Slive and the SEC had maintained the status quo and not lifted up A&Ms skirt when Aggie offered it's nether regions, none of this is going on. They had 12 schools, they had a conference championship, they had dominance (14 teams will dilute their conference, more teams = more losers in the end). They chased the dollar sign because they were jealous that lesser conference (PAC) made bank on their rights. This is all going on because of the SEC this year.

They point to the dysfunction in the Big XII, but they are the source of the dysfunction this year. They could have told A&M they weren't interested....but they DIDN'T.

Slive's comments at the Quarterback Club this week lets you know just how much he's eating this attention up. That is one huge ego....I'll enjoy the next cycle of play when the SEC is not the almighty and when their cheating ways finally catch up to them. Now if only the NCAA would enforce its rules, we could enjoy watching the SEC fade away....

I generally like Clay Travis, but today's latest article in which he questions why the Big 12 doesn't add Memphis - it really proves he doesn't understand the Big 12.

 

[Let's Go State]

18,000 is coming! Who wants it?

 

[Incyte]

Seems like the Big East leadership isn't crazy about promoting an FCS team who will draw 20,000 fans. Plus it seems like the BB/FB split isn't as big an issue anymore.

Cant be worse thad adding temple IMO.

 

[CycloneErik]

Cant be worse thad adding temple IMO.

Didn't they kick Temple out a few years ago? Or at least encourage them to leave?

 

[CloneAbuse]

I generally like Clay Travis, but today's latest article in which he questions why the Big 12 doesn't add Memphis - it really proves he doesn't understand the Big 12.

Clay pushes the agenda/talking points the SEC wants out there. When Baylor's litigation threat toward A&M was alive and well, he wrote his piece regarding the forgotten 5 and how ESPN/Fox would not strike the death blow to the 5 given the tortious interference suit potential. He clearly doesn't care about anything in the Big XII, but they wanted the message propagated that the leftovers would be fine, so as to calm the litigation threat aimed at Aggie and the SEC. He's not a voice of reason, he's a mouthpiece just like Chip...

 

[Broodwich]

Louisville is going to be a GREAT roadtrip people.