Cal would be a good addition, could just add nw and vandy to balance the divisions. The smug is getting smuggy.
I don't think it will ever happen but I do wonder with all of the moving parts if someone at one of these schools at least tries to make something like this happen. A lot of these schools continue to bitch about how their missions are different than other schools and that they play by a different set of rules. These schools and their alumni would be thrilled to be associated with each other and they could create rules (like banning jucos and increasing qualification requirements) that fit with their academic mission and put all of the schools on an even playing field. Plus the conference would rake in ridiculous amounts of money. It'd be a poor mans Ivy League with great sports.
Historically, schools that have actually been about this shit and not just paying lip service while still wanting baller athletics have demoted themselves. University of Chicago (original B1G member) and Sewanee (original SEC member) come to mind
OU isnt going anywhere Boren despises the SEC. He thinks he has turned Oklahoma into the Stanford of middle america and therefore thinks the SEC is below him.
Pac 12 would help in California but we will never be able to really build a roster relying on guys to leave cali for Oklahoma. The 10 pm CT kick offs would not be good for our exposure in Texas. Plus the culture fit would be horrible. This is all a moot point, OU will be in the Big 12 as long as Texas allows it to exist
Now that the Big Ten has snagged Maryland and Rutgers, does anyone really care about Texas, Notre Dame, and Oklahoma anymore?
We weren't going to just give people money to stay and we weren't going to stop moving forward with the LHN after the conference (and later a&m) gave us the middle finger on a network. Why would we?
What did we lie about? This isn't a new discussion but the remaining b12 schools not named Texas an OU should be thanking the four that left. Unfortunately it took four teams leaving for them to realized they were hurting the conference with the revenue stuff. If those teams didnt leave, my beloved big 8 bros would still be making dick in revenue.
I don't know. Maybe to be able to read the tea leaves 5/6 years ago and understanding the revenue splits were gonna put the conference in the situation it is now.
Did you forget that your pres was pushing out a fake big ten offer that started most of the big 12 breakup?
Read the tea leaves like being the first to come up with an idea for a conference network? The conference was doomed when they said no thanks because we had our own options and at that point we were going to go forward with them. Shit we even tried to split a network with A&M, and I bet Tech and the other Texas schools would've been rolled into it eventually.
But 2 of those 4 teams also voted against revenue sharing so I think it's safe to say that every school involved was just doing what was best for their own personal interest and gave few, if any, shits about what was actually "fair" for everyone in the conference.
I thought it was a given Penn State was leaving for the ACC (oh wait, this isn't a 2012 TMB thread regression page due to the Great 2015 server destruction?)
SEC: ALABAMA AUBURN FLORIDA GEORGIA OLE MISS LSU MISS STATE TENNESSEE KENTUCKY VANDERBILT LOUISVILLE ATM BIG XII: TEXAS TEXAS TECH BAYLOR TCU OU OSU ARKANSAS NEBRASKA KANSAS KANSAS STATE ISU MIZZOU ACC: FSU CLEMSON UNC NCST DUKE WAKE VIRGINIA VT GT MARYLAND WVA SOUTH CAROLINA B1G: OHIO STAT MICHIGAN ILLINOIS INDIANA IOWA MICHIGAN STATE MINNESOTA NORTHWESTERN PENN STATE PURDUE WISCONSIN NOTRE DAME PAC 12: USC OU OSU UCLA CAL UW WSU ZONA ASU STANFORD COLORADO UTAH AAC: RUTGERS MIAMI UCF USF HOUSTON MEMPHIS UCONN SYRACUSE PITT BC ECU CINCY 12 in each conference, 6 ccg's, 8 team playoff, 2 at-large spots.
At UCF we can offer a very large tv market, decent football, and excellent women's soccer. We also have some recent history of cheating, sweeping a death under rug, and are training all coaches in embarrassing recruit letters. Pretty much the total expansion package.