Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[CincyInterloper]

You forget that the proposed Pac-16 also included Tech, A&M, Oklahoma & Oklahoma St. Texas wasn't going alone.

I don't think the the PAC was ever going to take Tech or the Oklahoma schools due to their academic standing. Texas, A&M, Kansas and Missouri maybe. A&M and Missouri are gone now, so that ship has sailed.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

I don't think the the PAC was ever going to take Tech or the Oklahoma schools due to their academic standing. Texas, A&M, Kansas and Missouri maybe. A&M and Missouri are gone now, so that ship has sailed.

It's not as important to the PAC as it is to the BIG. ASU, OSU and WSA are all pretty mediocre, and they had no problem with Utah. Tech and OU aren't a problem, and aren't too dissimilar from Oregon or Arizona. The problem for the academic schools is the religious schools (Baylor and BYU specifically) that have longstanding issues of academic freedom up to and including being censured by the American Association of University Professors. When you have schools that literally make professors sign contracts saying that they will not research or teach anything that conflicts with church doctrine, the academic schools are going to have a problem with that.

 

[Muck]

I don't think the the PAC was ever going to take Tech or the Oklahoma schools due to their academic standing. Texas, A&M, Kansas and Missouri maybe. A&M and Missouri are gone now, so that ship has sailed.

The member schools had already given approval (albeit grudgingly by some) for the deal. It was ultimately sunk because the conference & Texas could not come to terms regarding LHN. Oklahoma & OKST were in negotiations to join alone as a pair & there are different stories about why that fell through. Either the Sooners backed out because had concerns going without Texas or the Pac turned them down.

 

[Dryden]

Thanks to conference expansion, UNC & WF have just inked a two year (2019/2021) non conference deal.

 

[jlb1705]

Thanks to conference expansion, UNC & WF have just inked a two year (2019/2021) non conference deal.

"How can the same street intersect with itself? I must be at the nexus of the universe!"

 

[OSU_D/]

Oklahoma president David Boren puts possible Big 12 expansion back in news

Wednesday, Oklahoma president David Boren made waves when he suggested the Big 12 “should strive for” a 12-team league. Boren’s comments were the first from a Big 12 leader advocating expansion in a long time.

http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/...n-puts-possible-big-12-expansion-back-in-news

 

[ShowMeBuck]

Option 2 is funny because I think other conferences have the same plan except they wait for the weakness in the herd to be a big 12 calf.

 

[RugbyBuck]

{ Clearly, Delaney should go ahead and lock down North Dakota State to keep them out of the Big 12's hands. "Oh, Lawd, yes. We gotta beat dat competition." }

 

[cincibuck]

I think I hear Bearcat Pres Ono on the phone to Boren right now. While it wouldn't do much for the Big Whatchamacallit, it would do wonders for UC, give WVU a close road game and bring the conference closer to a much needed CCG.

 

[cincibuck]

1. The problem with the Big Phantom 12 is also their biggest single asset; Texas. Until Oklahoma decides to move on Texas has no compelling reason to give up one inch of their LHN entitlement.

2. Texas, like Notre Dame, will never join a conference that insists on equity.

 

[kujirakira]

Well, they might be forced to eventually. I don't see P12, B1G, or SEC letting them play their games.
Only in the WannabeBig (please stop stealing our brand) ... which will eventually collapse for that same reason.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

I think I hear Bearcat Pres Ono on the bone of Boren right now. While it wouldn't do much for the Big Whatchamacallit, it would do wonders for UC, give WVU a close road game and bring the conference closer to a much needed CCG.

Went ahead and fixed 'er up for you, Cinci.

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

It's back folks.... Dont have any links sorry but heard tejas mouthpiece Chip Brown talking something about Big XII and the SEC merging and sending shockwaves through the other conferences to get them to band together and collectively bargain their TV rights.... Ignores Tejas wont give up the money from the LHN (http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/is-...s-lhn-mean-for-texas-espn-and-the-big-12.html), also ignores that Disney (Espn's boss) & Fox are cutting cost in their sports depts left and right... I think the cash printing machine that is TV rights is about the plateau

 

[ScriptOhio]

Dependence Day: Navy officially joins AAC

For the first 135 years of its existence, Navy played as a football independent. With Independence Day just three days away, the Midshipmen have officially shed that football independence for its first-ever conference home.

What has been known was going to transpire for a more than a year has now come to fruition as the American Athletic Conference officially introduced Navy as the league’s 12th member. Along with Houston, Memphis, SMU, Tulane and Tulsa, Navy will be a part of the AAC West. The AAC East will consist of Cincinnati, UConn, East Carolina, Temple, UCF and USF.

The conference will conduct its first-ever championship game in its third season of existence, which will take place a week before the annual Army-Navy game.

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/07/01/dependence-day-navy-officially-joins-aac/

https://twitter.com/American_FB

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It's official! Welcome @NavyFB

12:00 AM - 1 Jul 2015

 

[woofermazing]

http://www.elevenwarriors.com/colle...-as-much-as-309-million-in-conference-payouts

BIG TEN MEMBERS RECEIVED AS MUCH AS $30.9 MILLION IN CONFERENCE PAYOUTS

According to Big Ten legend, an ESPN executive once told Jim Delany he'd be rolling the dice if he walked away from the conglomerate's offer for the rights to Big Ten games.

"Consider them rolled," Jim Delany reportedly replied before walking out of the room.

It seemed like quite the gambit at the time, but now? Not so much.

According to Chip Scroggins of StarTribune.com, the Big Ten paid $30.9 million to each of its members last year. Rutgers and Maryland likely did not receive the full share, much like Nebraska didn't upon joining the league. The Big Ten office also gets a cut.

Of the payments, $7 million was generated by the Big Ten Network, a number that's going to balloon after BTN signs another TV rights deal next year.

The SEC, by comparison, shelled out as much as $31.2 million per school.

That'd be a good year's work by most companies standards, but Jim Delany reportedly thinks the Big Ten could net its schools as much as $50 million per year in the near future.

Our tier 1 and 2 rights contracts are about to expire, and will be the last major sports property going on the open market for several years. We'll make bank, but probably trigger another round of expansion chaos as the other conferences try to keep up.