Big-12 Expansion

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VolnJC

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Doesn't look like it is happening this year.

Chip Brown
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No new members were added to the #Big12 during today's Big 12 Board of Directors meeting, multiple sources tell Texas Longhorns Football, Basketball, and Recruiting .

of course he also said this
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VolnJC said:
Doesn't look like it is happening this year.

Chip Brown
‏@ChipBrownHD
No new members were added to the #Big12 during today's Big 12 Board of Directors meeting, multiple sources tell Texas Longhorns Football, Basketball, and Recruiting .

of course he also said this
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And he was also the one to say "Texas, A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and Colorado are going to the PAC-10" the year before that.

He's been terrible as far as presenting rumors as news of massive change goes. However, he is a bit better when it comes to reporting things not going through / status quo / nothing will change types of news.
 
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Perhaps some of the bigger news that shouldn't be as under the radar as it has been: the Big 12 meetings ended without the conference extending its Grant of Rights further than the previous date of 2024-25,
 
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TrueOrange said:
Perhaps some of the bigger news that shouldn't be as under the radar as it has been: the Big 12 meetings ended without the conference extending its Grant of Rights further than the previous date of 2024-25,
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Sorry, but what does that mean?
 
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No way the likes of Texas, OU and OSU stay. They also just dissed some pretty decent possible additions. Big 12 screwed this up big time as usual.
 
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Have to wonder if Texas played their hand and wouldn't allow Houston in so they can go get Herman. Only thing that makes any sense to me.
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
No way the likes of Texas, OU and OSU stay. They also just dissed some pretty decent possible additions. Big 12 screwed this up big time as usual.
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I don't see it as a screw up. They got their TV partners to discuss paying them more so that they wouldn't expand.

There are no great candidates out there, and the conference is limping towards dissolving anyway.
 
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It seems to me that the university of Texas is a cancer to any conference its in. It was a big reason the Southwest conference failed and it seems to be doing the same thing to the Big 12. Why would any conference want to add Texas, with their "me first" attitude is beyond me.
 
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Big12 isn't even power conference quality anymore. They have the same fate as the Big East, their time is limited.
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
The MAC is a better conference than the Big 12 these days.
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Agreed Big 12 is pretty weak this year. I'm surprised that WVU is ranked 12 after playing only 5 games (2 less than many teams to this point) with their FBS opponents' records combined 12-13. I used to really enjoy Big 12 football next to SEC but man it is a dying conference.
 
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:mf_surrender:In a 714-word league memo covering the league's talking points, obtained by ESPN, the first two items instructed officials to "Indicate the Board arrived at a "Unanimous Consensus" and say "the Board was unanimous in its desire and commitment to stay at 10 members."

The internal Big 12 memo also suggested conference officials not "indicate that TV influenced [its] decision" and that the Big 12 was not "psychologically disadvantaged" because it didn't expand.

The memo issued by the Big 12 instructed league officials not to repeat what Boren said last year, when he told the OU Daily that "I believe that we [the Big 12] are psychologically disadvantaged because we are a smaller conference."

The conference also provided a number of "message points," which recommended not discussing individual schools and quashing any conversation that the Big 12 is "dysfunctional."
 
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For everyone except Houston and BYU, this is good news. It gives everyone else more time to try and grow their football programs. If the Big 12 dies 5-10 years from now, I can see the Big 12 leftovers (I presume Texas and Oklahoma will make it into a current Power 5) and the AAC upper programs merging to form their own conference.
 
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If the playoff is expanded to 8 teams, then you can give 5 automatic bids, and 3 wildcards. This is the only way the Big12 keeps TX and OK past expiration date in 2025.
 
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OldandStillaVol said:
For everyone except Houston and BYU, this is good news. It gives everyone else more time to try and grow their football programs. If the Big 12 dies 5-10 years from now, I can see the Big 12 leftovers (I presume Texas and Oklahoma will make it into a current Power 5) and the AAC upper programs merging to form their own conference.
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The big winner in this is Texas. They are now free to open their prized Houston campus, within close proximity of the worlds largest medical district, without fear of political blow back. That was the whorns end game in this exercise. Their Medical School is already located in the Medical District and they can now purchase even more land adjacent to the properties they have already bought for the new campus. UofH just thought they had an "H-Town Takeover".
 
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vols-1 said:
:mf_surrender:In a 714-word league memo covering the league's talking points, obtained by ESPN, the first two items instructed officials to "Indicate the Board arrived at a "Unanimous Consensus" and say "the Board was unanimous in its desire and commitment to stay at 10 members."

The internal Big 12 memo also suggested conference officials not "indicate that TV influenced [its] decision" and that the Big 12 was not "psychologically disadvantaged" because it didn't expand.

The memo issued by the Big 12 instructed league officials not to repeat what Boren said last year, when he told the OU Daily that "I believe that we [the Big 12] are psychologically disadvantaged because we are a smaller conference."

The conference also provided a number of "message points," which recommended not discussing individual schools and quashing any conversation that the Big 12 is "dysfunctional."
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sounds like the AD of a school saying that he has complete confidence in his coach. and we all know how that turns out
 
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The Big XII announced that they will not split into divisions, but will stage a championship game between the top 2 teams after the regular season round robin.

This means that the conference title game will always be a rematch. It also means that the slim chance the Big XII had to ever get two teams into the playoff is now completely gone.
 
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