The Tea-Sippers whine and cry until they get their way, what is new?
In other words, save us from going to a mid major conference and we’ll give you more money.
Those five shouldn’t be so sold that they will receive much if any liquidated damages at all from Nebraska or Colorado. If this supposed Beebe TV deal is as great as it supposedly is they will have a hard time selling that they damaged them by leaving. Plus courts tend to look at things such as ultimatums negatively.
The new Big 12 will be boring as they only two teams that will be competitive will be OU and UT.
Everyone else may as well be SE Kansas School for Crippled Women.
The Big 12 is losing the revenue from having a conference championship game, unless the NCAA votes to remove the by-law. So, there are definite damages.
Future anticipated earnings should not factor into whether an action led to damages. Otherwise, everyone could shoplift at Wal-Mart and argue that Wal-Mart won’t miss the money because of anticipated future profits.
As for the Little 5 bribing the others to stay, it was a smart move on their part although I’d insist that any school that wants to launch their own network put 20% of their earnings in a conference pool. After all, the Harlem Globetrotters need the Washington Generals to show up if they expect a game.