Posted on 10/17/2016 1:54:58 PM PDT by C19fan
The Big 12 university presidents concluded on Monday that they will not be adding any new members, ending a three-month expansion exploration with a decision that the league is better off with its current 10 members for now.
The Big 12 presidents met in Dallas for a working dinner Sunday night and for a six-hour meeting on Monday. Their conclusion was not a surprise. Sports Illustrated indicated on Friday that the league would focus on getting more money from its television partners instead of adding schools and agitating the TV partners. The Big 12 will not definitively shut the door on potential expansion until striking a deal with its television partners.
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Where will they go?
Most of the candidates brought a big time TV market, good programs in football and basketball, excellent academics, excellent sports history, and honorable programs.
Most were too far....east coast.
Houston and Cincy had great credentials, but many didn’t want another school from Texas. Big 12 made a mistake earlier in not picking up Louisville. Then Cincy, Louisville, and WVa would have been a great mid-east branch to go with the North central teams.
Good. There’s no need for rapid expansion. If the new club wouldn’t be above average in the conference, let them stay where they are. As for the AAC (American, not Atlantic Coast), I expect UConn will play in the Big East, now, except for football. That’ll keep the Big East satiated for a while.
BYU will stay independent in football, staying with West Coast Conference (Gonzaga, St. Mary’s, etc.) for other sports. CUSA and AAC maybe could realign to create one major conference and one minor one, instead of two major-conference wannabes.
They’re chicken #hits. Boise State would have been a good addition but would have come in and beaten their top teams right off the bat. So they quietly dumped them.
The big 12 is still recovering from getting their cocky butts handed to them by the boys shooting muskets.
Mountain people will always be free. :-)
Pac 12 is very strong now, top to bottom. Throw in the SEC and the Big 10(12) and you wonder why we can’t have 4-5 BIG TIME conferences. Throw in a few Colorados and Villanovas to fill out the rosters and you have real competition for the top 25! Bad news is that a real playoff is in the cards. Since the players are now OPENLY being used they will now have to pay them.
The big boys in the Big 12 will take a look at the payouts the other conferences pay and they will bolt long before 2025. The word was that the SEC wanted Texas and Oklahoma when it expanded in '92 and the last time it expanded, but the Okies didn't want to come without Okla St (and Bob Stoopes didn't want to have to play a tough game every week). Texas wouldn't come supposedly because of their TV contract.
Traditional rivalries and conference loyalty can't hold a candle to the megabucks being tossed around.
UConn just lost its last excuse for delaying the firing of Coach Diaco.
Great news for the WCC, who now have 3 legit chances for the NCAA basketball tournament.
Too bad...I was looking forward to having North and South divisions and a conference championship again.
I thought Louisville and Cincinnati would have been great additions, as well as Houston (but I understand the whole we-don’t-want-yet-another-Power 5-school-recruiting-in-Texas thing). I wouldn’t have minded BYU (screw the LGBT bidness) or Notre Dame because they would bring big numbers of viewers, as the major universities for their respective faiths, but we already have two private schools in the Big 12 (btw, Sic ‘em!). I was briefly intrigued by the idea of UCF, but I’m off that wagon now.
I have zero faith in the Big 12’s leadership. I sure love the teams, though!
Some news sources (a.k.a. sports reporters daydreaming) are suggesting that UConn might abandon football. I think they should.
As a Big East fan, I want to see UConn come home. Objectively, UConn as a non-football ACC team would make the best sense. They’ll always be a basketball powerhouse, mens and womens, and I think in no time at all, they’d be fielding great teams in other sports that don’t bring the TV fans and tailgaters but are important for a state university.
Plainly, the ACC wouldn’t want UConn football. And if UConn were to be a football-only team in the American, they’d go back to the geographically more reasonable Big East. (Yes, there are teams as far away as Chicago, but that’s an easier flight than, say, Athens, GA or Clemson, SC or Tallahassee, FL)
But UConn could be a real asset in the non-money sports, like Baseball Tennis, LaCrosse, Soccer, Cross-Country. And the BC foothold in New England is a bomb. UConn basketball, mens’ and womens... that’s big.
Memphis?
Bob Stoops wasn’t the coach at OU...in 1992.
He was this last time and then made it a point to badmouth the SEC every chance he got to try to justify his action.
Okay..thanks for not admitting it.
Just remember: EVERY college football stadium is empty 359 days a year.
What do you want? OK, I was trying to be kind, but Oklahoma has been second rate and only gets notoriety by not playing a Big Boy schedule while Stoopes runs his mouth. Happy now?
I'm sorry you are unhappy....
My apologies....for pointing that out in the first place.
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