I hope it makes them think twice about adding fucking houston and memphis just to add teams, and hopefully be more selective. schools like OU will not sign a new GOR if those types are added and it will only hasten the end of the conference cliffs: the conference is over
So the networks offered this contract and the LHN to prevent the move of OU, oSu, Tech and Texas to the Pac 12 and now don't want to honor the contract. cool.
The way Texas has behaved its like they didn't know that clause existed until they found out at the big 12 meetings and they were like shit add prairie view a&m and pay them a million bucks a year and everyone else can keep the rest.
They will grab 4 so they can make more money then when the GOR ends Texas and OU will bolt. Nice cash grab.
If this is what we are seeing it will be interesting to see how much of the pie the additions get. Houston made like 2 mil last year off their tv rights. If we bumped them up to 5 would they be satisfied?
More than double last year and be in a major conference? I would imagine they would be stupid to say no.
Texas and Oklahoma leaving the B12 will be the biggest shit show ever. The B1G, SEC, Pac-12, and even ACC will whore themselves. Fox and ESPN will manipulate deals. The remaining B12 teams will freak out and threaten dubious lawsuits. Texas politics will happen. I can't wait.
Well adding 4 teams and distributing 20 mil between them would be a massive windfall for the current conference members. Thats gotta be filed in the too good to be true file. ESPN's model is already broken and they're supposed to just fork that cash over for a bunch of teams that don't move the needle?
lolwhat? Texas and OU doesn't want to renew the rights, in fact we're doing everything we can to NOT extend the GOR in the expansion talk so we can bail after 2025 to the B1G
Geocities just acquired exclusive rights to Ball State football. That may throw a wrench into the Big12's plans.
The contract is what it is. I have heard it is a race to the bottom for the expansion candidates. They are basically bidding against each other for the spots. Pretty genius by Texas.
It would be insane if these schools just ended up taking an offer to join the Big 12 with no real bump in pay just to have a chair when the music stops in 2025.
You'd think BYU would be willing to go low since they already have a revenue stream, but they're supposedly a sneaky bunch to deal with so who knows what they'd do.
It would still give them a better chance at long term viability than most of their current situations.
Bae: Come over I got Memphis, Houston, Cincy and UCF. Me: I cant I'm in the Big 12. Bae: I'll give you 60 million and let you leave in 2025. Me:
The first time Texas and Rutgers play a B1G game is the day I stop watching the sport. Fortunately I'll probably old enough by then I won't really care anyway.
I mean if you go from $2 to $7 mill a year that is huge. Plus there would be an increase in NCAA credits and other things I'm sure. So even if you take $5 plus whatever you would get you will end up ahead before the GOR runs out. And if you are a school like UH or UCF that is in a big city with a healthy recruiting area and large enrollment you might just be okay after the conference loses its top teams.
Texas played at Rutgers back in 1999. 2026 has been in the works for a long time. #rivalryrenewed #unfinishedbusiness #bigstageB1G
Check out this jet Tom Herman used to fly to the American Conference media days this afternoon. https://twitter.com/CoachTomHerman/s...rc=twsrc%5Etfw The jet is owned by Maintenance Supply Headquarters, one of our sponsors. FlightAware says the jet was used yesterday (Saturday) to fly to Provo, then this morning to fly to Austin.
I wonder if all of a sudden Texas started pushing expansion because they found out ESPN wouldn't play ball and actually pay 80 million bucks for 4 non p5 programs.
cliffs: the texas tech-oregon matchup scheduled for 2023/2024 may be a conference game sources: high iq people
That supposedly got taken down fast. I've seen a lot of shops in my time but Ive lost my ability to analyze pixels.
1. There is no situation where adding teams to the Big 12 will result in OU thinking its in a viable long term situation 2. OU wants more $$ and they won't get it in the Big 12 3. Boren is trying to position OU to get out of the Big 12 without having to pay a buyout (thats my opinion) 4. Texas is gone the second OU is gone 5. Kansas may get to piggy back with OU when they leave 6. Only the teams that leave will profit???
It's not out of the realm of possibility that OU and Texas blow up the conference and then rebuild it with some pac teams if they don't come up with an attractive situation out there. I just can't help but think that by the time a lot of this comes to pass cfb and media in general will be consumed entirely differently. The world will be a very different place in 2025 and I'm sure a lot of the current variables will be completely different.