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Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

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Which Teams Should the Big Ten Add? (please limit to four selections)

  • Boston College

    Votes: 32 10.2%

  • Cincinnati

    Votes: 19 6.1%

  • Connecticut

    Votes: 6 1.9%

  • Duke

    Votes: 21 6.7%

  • Georgia Tech

    Votes: 55 17.6%

  • Kansas

    Votes: 46 14.7%

  • Maryland

    Votes: 67 21.4%

  • Missouri

    Votes: 90 28.8%

  • North Carolina

    Votes: 39 12.5%

  • Notre Dame

    Votes: 209 66.8%

  • Oklahoma

    Votes: 78 24.9%

  • Pittsburgh

    Votes: 45 14.4%

  • Rutgers

    Votes: 40 12.8%

  • Syracuse

    Votes: 18 5.8%

  • Texas

    Votes: 121 38.7%

  • Vanderbilt

    Votes: 15 4.8%

  • Virginia

    Votes: 47 15.0%

  • Virginia Tech

    Votes: 62 19.8%

  • Stay at 12 teams and don't expand

    Votes: 27 8.6%

  • Add some other school(s) not listed

    Votes: 25 8.0%
  • Total voters
    313
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Funny post from Shaggy Bevo:

this is how i feel after a trip to vegas. i get all excited about the prospects of the big trip . . . the girls, the gambling, etc then i lose at the craps table, got drunk and some random girl tries to rob me, i wake up on the floor of the bathroom hungover and i have to go catch my flight back to texas and wonder what the hell happened.

and to think, we're gonna do this again before 2016. gives me time to get excited again.
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:lol:

Okay, I guess things have quieted down. I have to do three days of work today. :shake:
 
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Chip Brown on Cowherd just now. Says the deal is a 10-year TV rights deal with ESPN/ABC. Once everyone signs on the dotted line, should they break the agreement, they'll "get sued into oblivion" by ESPN/ABC, not the other member institutions. E.g., ESPN just bought the TV rights for the ten remaining Big XII conference member institutions because:

1) They own the rights to the BCS, and if the Big XII folds the current BCS goes up in smoke.

2) If the Big XII football schools all went their separate ways to the Big Ten, SEC, and Pac-10, ESPN wouldn't have much worthwhile football to air. CBS is financially invested in the SEC while the Big Ten has married themselves to FOX through the BTN. In a three-conference college football universe, ESPN would be left with a bunch of Thursday ACC/Big East quality contests.
 
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Dryden;1717580; said:
Chip Brown on Cowherd just now. Says the deal is a 10-year TV rights deal with ESPN/ABC. Once everyone signs on the dotted line, should they break the agreement, they'll "get sued into oblivion" by ESPN/ABC, not the other member institutions. E.g., ESPN just bought the TV rights for the ten remaining Big XII conference member institutions because:

1) They own the rights to the BCS, and if the Big XII folds the current BCS goes up in smoke.

2) If the Big XII football schools all went their separate ways to the Big Ten, SEC, and Pac-10, ESPN wouldn't have much worthwhile football to air. CBS is financially invested in the SEC while the Big Ten has married themselves to FOX through the BTN. In a three-conference college football universe, ESPN would be left with a bunch of Thursday ACC/Big East quality contests.
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Assuming Brown Chip got something right, that would appear to doom any notion that Mizzou could jump to the Big Ten when this picks back up next Winter. Mizzou and Aggy had such high hopes of getting their freedom. Now, they're tied to Texas for at least another decade. They are clearly the big losers in all of this.
 
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kn1f3party;1717585; said:
Texas Tech still hasn't agreed to any of it, not sure if you've seen that.

Also, hearing that UT/A&M/OU get all of the buyout money from Nebraska and Colorado--everyone else signed theirs over to them.
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Saw that from Mandel's twitter. Also from Mandel's twitter:

"Beebe: We don't have a future television deal thta's been reached at the time." Just confidence base on research/conversations.



Wow. Just wow.
 
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kn1f3party;1717585; said:
Texas Tech still hasn't agreed to any of it, not sure if you've seen that.

Also, hearing that UT/A&M/OU get all of the buyout money from Nebraska and Colorado--everyone else signed theirs over to them.
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Craig James must be in TTech's ear right now.

:wink:

Oh wait, I s'posed to be working :paranoid:
 
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Mandel is on fire right now:

Stewart Mandel (slmandel) on Twitter

slmandel

That call gave me no reason to believe there's anything stopping that league from crumbling again a year from now.
9 minutes ago via TweetDeck

Nebraska, Colorado were very wise to get out when they could. They'll find it refreshing to have a voice.
24 minutes ago via TweetDeck

Unbelievable. The five "leftovers" (KU, KSU, ISU, BU, Mizzou) agreed to sign over their share of CU/NU's buyout money to UT/OU/A&M.
26 minutes ago via TweetDeck

"Our analysts have given us strong indication ... that we're in very good position to get high amount of revenue" from existing TV partners.
about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

Beebe: "We don't have a future television deal that's been reached at this time." Just confidence based on research/conversations.
about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

Beebe just confirmed that Texas Tech has yet to sign off on the new deal. Hoping they will do so at board of regents meeting today.
about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

Texas press conference over. Officials made it pretty clear the formerly Big 12 will be staying at 10 teams.
about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck
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Dryden;1717580; said:
Chip Brown on Cowherd just now. Says the deal is a 10-year TV rights deal with ESPN/ABC. Once everyone signs on the dotted line, should they break the agreement, they'll "get sued into oblivion" by ESPN/ABC, not the other member institutions. E.g., ESPN just bought the TV rights for the ten remaining Big XII conference member institutions because:

1) They own the rights to the BCS, and if the Big XII folds the current BCS goes up in smoke.

2) If the Big XII football schools all went their separate ways to the Big Ten, SEC, and Pac-10, ESPN wouldn't have much worthwhile football to air. CBS is financially invested in the SEC while the Big Ten has married themselves to FOX through the BTN. In a three-conference college football universe, ESPN would be left with a bunch of Thursday ACC/Big East quality contests.
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So I was right :wink:

The "get sued into oblivion" is very interesting though. Seems like ESPN/ABC REALLY didn't want the Big XII to dissolve.
 
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