Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[kn1f3party]

Cowherd just reported Utah will be 16 instead of A&M.

When they first said the Big 12 south - Baylor + Colorado was going I thought: shit, this could work for them.

Now that Utah is going in place of A&M, supposedly, this is starting to seem like a bigger version of the Big XII. I mean that in the sense that it is a jumbled mess of schools that have no business in the same conference with one another.

 

[jlb1705]

Cowherd just reported Utah will be 16 instead of A&M.

When you add schools like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup.

 

[Piney]

ESPN has been "behind" this story all along. They seem to know as much about realignment as they do about recruiting.

I have been finding it odd how behind ESPN has been on all of this expansion talk. With all of their investigative reporters and none of them are looking into the biggest college story in ESPN's existence?

 

[PlanetFrnd]

This damn thread....

 

[mross34]

Cowherd was just talking like Texas to Pac10 was a done deal... Now backtracking to saying Texas will stay in the Big 12.

 

[Dryden]

Thought they just said a 10 team Big 12 would work.

Sources: Texas' Pac-10 commitment imminent - ESPN

By Joe Schad
ESPN

There you have it. Joe Schad is the most clueless bag of monkey spunk that network has, and it's been obvious over the past ten days his sources are Chip Brown and other Internet message boards.

Joe Schad should be in that "always wrong" FedEx commercial.

The Big XII is toast. There is no resuscitating that corpse with Nebraska and Colorado gone. I get a kick out of all the expansion theorizing and hypothesizing that have scenarios of a Big XII without UNL and CU (and without a CCG) making more money than a Big XII that had UNL and CU (and a CCG). Or even better, how a merged Pac-10+Big XII south will make 3x or 4x more money than the Pac 10 and entire Big XII were making previously if you combined the value of their contracts.

If Dan Bebee couldn't score mega-bucks when Texas, Texas Tech, OU, Kansas, and Missouri were impossibly simultaneously competitive and knocking each other off for the #1 spot, Bebee isn't upping the TV-ante two-fold with a Leach-less Tech and Kansas and Mizzou replacing their QBs.

Texas, Oklahoma, and Southern Cal may have some national cache, but that brand has virtually NO value east of the Mississippi. A Big XII (-2) has nothing to sell other than the Red River Rivalry. Nobody outside the state of Oklahoma gives a shit about Bedlam. Nobody outside of the states of Kansas and Missouri give a shit about KU/KSU or KU/MU.

That conference is toast. Fin. Kaput. Put a fork in her.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Cowherd just reported Utah will be 16 instead of A&M.

That makes absolute sense to me. It pairs Colorado up with a geographic rival, delivers the SLC market and buys Orrin Hatch's silence.

 

[Colvinnl]

How in the world do Texas officials have time to figure out which conference they will (or won't) be going to with all the time they spend as "sources" for bloggers, reporters and ESPN...

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Over/Under on how long before Texas and the Three Amigos rot the Pac 10 from within?

 

[kinch]

Damn Dryden. That was harsh.

 

[Dryden]

That makes absolute sense to me. It pairs Colorado up with a geographic rival, delivers the SLC market and buys Orrin Hatch's silence.

Orrin Hatch is just one piece of the puzzle.

Lavell Edwards to Capitol Hill in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

 

[kn1f3party]

That makes absolute sense to me. It pairs Colorado up with a geographic rival, delivers the SLC market and buys Orrin Hatch's silence.

I've always saw Utah as #12, even with the Pac-16 noise I anticipated it to go down that way. They are going to move forward with the plans they've had for years before entertaining the circus that has unfolded over the past few weeks. As soon as it was known A&M was balking on the idea I'm sure he had his mind made up about Utah.

 

[Buckeye86]

Over/Under on how long before Texas and the Three Amigos rot the Pac 10 from within?

Significantly less time than it took the Big 12 to rot, that is for sure.

 

[Dryden]

Damn Dryden. That was harsh.

You going to tune into Texas @ Arizona St at 11:00pm EST on the Vs Network? Or Arizona @ Colorado? Or Texas Tech at Texas A&M (oh wait, because A&M can't fill their stadium this one will be subject to blackout or carried on Pay Per View).

Big XII teams have been playing on Pay Per View! That's inconceivable to me.

 

[jlb1705]

You going to tune into Texas @ Arizona St at 11:00pm EST on the Vs Network? Or Arizona @ Colorado? Or Texas Tech at Texas A&M (oh wait, because A&M can't fill their stadium this one will be subject to blackout or carried on Pay Per View).

Big XII teams have been playing on Pay Per View! That's inconceivable to me.

I will. You don't get a multi-billion dollar TV contract by attracting viewers like me though. You get it by attracting viewers like most of my friends.

You can see the evidence right here on these boards. See how many people are posting in a vBet thread for a game between Washington-UCLA... versus your random SEC, ACC or Big East game. Folks here are some of the most intense and informed college football fans that you're going to find, and even most of us don't give a damn enough to actually watch very many of those west coast games.