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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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CincyInterloper said:
Somebody on a Houston board posted this GIF to explain the Big 12 Conference expansion process.


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Michigan punting try outs...
 
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The Big 12 went to ESPN and said "give us more money, or we are going to add four teams from the AAC, pay them shit, and make you pay us a full extra share per team per the terms of our contract". ESPN said "Screw you Big 12, we get those games for pennies already." So now, the Big 12 is conducting this retarded Kabuki theater to try and convince ESPN that they are serious about inviting teams to cash in on a provision of their network contract. The fact is, the Big 12 doesn't want to add anyone. They also can't cut the list down significantly because once they hit four teams, they'll either have to pull the trigger and invite the teams, or have their bluff exposed for what it is.

And for the record, the only team that got cut as far as I can tell is East Carolina. East Carolina. Were they ever even a serious candidate? Maybe if the goal was to make the ESPN executives vomit up in their mouths thinking about how they signed a contract that could potentially obligate them to pay an extra 20 million a year for ECU.

Hell, there are enough teams in the pared down list to form their own conference. A conference having more teams than the Big 12.
 
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CincyInterloper said:
The Big 12 went to ESPN and said "give us more money, or we are going to add four teams from the AAC, pay them [Mark May], and make you pay us a full extra share per team per the terms of our contract". ESPN said "Screw you Big 12, we get those games for pennies already." So now, the Big 12 is conducting this retarded Kabuki theater to try and convince ESPN that they are serious about inviting teams to cash in on a provision of their network contract. The fact is, the Big 12 doesn't want to add anyone. They also can't cut the list down significantly because once they hit four teams, they'll either have to pull the trigger and invite the teams, or have their bluff exposed for what it is.

And for the record, the only team that got cut as far as I can tell is East Carolina. East Carolina. Were they ever even a serious candidate? Maybe if the goal was to make the ESPN executives vomit up in their mouths thinking about how they signed a contract that could potentially obligate them to pay an extra 20 million a year for ECU.

Hell, there are enough teams in the pared down list to form their own conference. A conference having more teams than the Big 12.
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I think UNLV was cut too.
 
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BUCK3YE5 said:
The Big 12 has to do something though or they will be dead before long.
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Actually this is the common misconception. They are much stronger if they don't add any more teams. Watering down the conference will only alienate their bigger schools, piss off the networks that pay them, reduce the overall value of the conference, reduce the strength of schedule for the teams hoping to make the cut and lower the ratings with even more junk games. The only benefit is short term money, but in the long term the next deal would end up higher with the ten they already have than with 12 and they will end up splitting it more ways. So in the long term it's much less money.
 
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