Posted on 06/01/2016 6:50:20 AM PDT by C19fan
Big 12 expansion is not happening, neither is a Big 12 Network - not this year - multiple sources across the league told HornsDigest.com as the Big 12's presidents and chancellors meet in Dallas this week. If summer releases are about blockbusters, then what everyone is calling potential “Big 12 realignment” when the league’s presidents meet in Dallas the first week in June is shaping up to be the biggest letdown of the summer.
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10 teams in the Big 12, and 12 teams in the Big Ten. Go figure.
UCF brings Florida. Big 12 could do worse.
The Big 12 needs at least two more teams to compete with the other power conferences.
There are 14 teams in the Big Ten.
USF is even better as a candidate.
Is this about football?? who the f cares about that/? shhesh...
Took me years to figure out that the University of SOUTH Florida was in Tampa. LOL.
San Diego State has the tv market, history, great MBB team, opens West Cost to recruiting
The Big Ten could become more prominent than the Big 12 because Big Ten schools like Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin have gigantic alumni bases (and huge number of donations/endowments). Even little Northwestern has a famous national reputation and more recently an actually competitive football team.
Big 12 is dead. Baylor was the last straw.
What the f__k are we talking about here?? Is this something to do with sports?
That's why the conference lost four respectable schools (at the time at least, notwithstanding Missouri's recent issues with political correctness, which of course came after their departure to the SEC) all at once.
"If one school is gonna have all the say we're out of here."
Colorado, Nebraska, and Texas A&M are all good state run institutions that could have been kept in the conference with the possible exception of Colorado, which has always had a cultural affinity for the PAC-12.
My personal opinion has always been to try to keep the conference together, but in view of the most recent news from one particular member institution, I'm not so sure.
Maybe just disband it and let everyone go their own way, or better yet just reorganize all the conferences into however many uberconferences of 16 teams each, that feed into a playoff system.
Or, in light of all the cheating that persists, and the crime and thuggery that no one seems to be able to entirely control and at least one school in the Big 12 appears to have condoned and enabled... also another recent problem at a school in another conference that had successfully promoted itself as "clean"... how about just shut it all down, and everyone go get a little exercise and some fresh air of their own on Saturday afternoons?
Ah, you must be referring to Barry Switzer's Sooner teams when they use to pop off their MAC 10's and Uzi's from their dorm room windows.
It makes sense to get it down to Four Major conferences, it makes the playoff system even easier. You can essentially devise a system to have conference semi-finals and the Conference Championship game with the four winners going to the National Semifinals. So right there, is your 16-team playoff.
My point might not have been clear. I'm disgusted with the Big 12 but really... something needs to change at the NCAA level before "some other controlling legal authority" invites itself onto the scene.
I think what will happen is a bunch of the big programs will break away from the NCAA and start their own organization.
That would be a solution. :)
Football generates the revenue that funds much of the other athletic programs.
I don’t think enough would. If they leave the NCAA in football, they have to leave it in everything else, meaning no March Madness money. No network is going to give them exposure as the NCAA would shut them out of any other events. Any network that takes a chance on this league isn’t going to offer the schools any more money than they get now. Alabama has all the fans they’re going to get. There isn’t going to be a surge in new fans because they left the NCAA. You may not care if people in New York watch, but networks do, and there isn’t going to be an increase in viewership, therefore no increase in TV revenue.
To be honest college football is on a slow downswing. Smaller schools in the mid-major conferences (Idaho, E, Michigan to name two) are leaving for I-AA. Parents not wanting to let their kids play. Tuition payers are tired of paying athletic fees on top of record high tuition, and with the scandals at Baylor, N Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi, people are getting tired of the hypocrisy of college football. I see an NFL minor league before I see anyone leaving the NCAA. Unfortunately the NCAA has too much power.
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