RUMOR: Texas Stays In The Big XII

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#76
I think it's been proven the SEC is the only league that's had a great deal of success with a conference championship game.

Nobody gives a rat's behind about the ACC title, and the old BXII north was long a competition of who gets to lose an extra conference game.
 
#77
#77
vol66 said:
Yes, exactly, they are sweetening the deal for OU and A&M, but otherwise it's the same. WHEN Texas does their TV network, it won't be as sweet for them. All it would take Is OU to come on board with TAMU to the SEC and Texas is left holding the bag, an empty one.

Honestly, after spending time on the sips board, not for all the money on earth would I want them in the SEC.
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Texas is getting their $20+million a year no matter what out of this whole deal. Even if Beebe manages to plug the cracks in the dam, I still don't see the conference lasting another decade. This ought to be a perfect case study of why unequal revenue sharing doesn't work.
 
#78
#78
Equal revenue sharing doesn't work either when a school believes it is so much better than everyone else that equality is ridiculous. This is looking more and more to be about what Texas wants rather than any conferences.
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milohimself said:
Texas is getting their $20+million a year no matter what out of this whole deal. Even if Beebe manages to plug the cracks in the dam, I still don't see the conference lasting another decade. This ought to be a perfect case study of why unequal revenue sharing doesn't work.
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I agree
 
#80
#80
well the pac-10 doesn't have equal revenue sharing per se. so texas would probably still get a lot more than WSU for instance.
 
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PeaceCorpsVol said:
:crazy:

Don’t like it? Then don’t watch it! Anyone who’s ever played the game understands the excitement, skill, and strategy involved.
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I imagine the same can be said for cricket. I don't watch it either. The only games of cricket I have attended were background events for the party.
 
#82
#82
I just read on the Aggie forum that ESPN has offered the Big 12 a new TV contract, is this true?
 
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Velo Vol said:
Why not?
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Because they are the Big XII duh.


No they cannot get a big time TV deal with only ten teams. A conference championship is a must for any network to justify spending that kind of money or they make their own TV network.
 
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Burhead said:
I just read on the Aggie forum that ESPN has offered the Big 12 a new TV contract, is this true?
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i have a hard time imagining that a big 12 minus nebraska would make so much money that they could afford to give them that much more. unless ESPN has really been holding out on them the last few years.
 
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golfballs03 said:
i have a hard time imagining that a big 12 minus nebraska would make so much money that they could afford to give them that much more. unless ESPN has really been holding out on them the last few years.
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There is at least a theory being floated that ESPN is willing to lose money on this in order to keep Fox out of college football, which is who the Pac 83 was going to go through with their network.
 
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#92
golfballs03 said:
i have a hard time imagining that a big 12 minus nebraska would make so much money that they could afford to give them that much more. unless ESPN has really been holding out on them the last few years.
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smells to me as well. of course they would hvae likely lost the entire west coast to fox and that might have worried them enough to give the big-12(10) a big offer. i still find it hard to believe that it will end up being as much per team as the pac-16
 
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#94
justingroves said:
No they cannot get a big time TV deal with only ten teams. A conference championship is a must for any network to justify spending that kind of money or they make their own TV network.
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Orangebloods.com - Remaining schools in Big 12 close to saving league

Per this:

--The conference championship game would be dumped in the short-term (because the NCAA mandates 12 schools for a football title game).
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Also interesting (from that link): NE and CO have to pay $20 million in buyouts for leaving.
 
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droski said:
smells to me as well. of course they would hvae likely lost the entire west coast to fox and that might have worried them enough to give the big-12(10) a big offer. i still find it hard to believe that it will end up being as much per team as the pac-16
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Maybe t Boone pickens is paying part of it. I bet he had no interest going to the PAC 10
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#97
Atlanta radio is reporting breaking news."The remaining Big 12 schools have reached an agreement and WILL be staying together." They also said that the new deal will allow the schools to start their own networks. TIFWIW
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#98
#98
So I guess now the talk will be who will be the 12th Pac 12 team and who will the Big 12 get to replace Colorado and Nebraska....if they even do since Brown and Stoops hated the championship game.
 
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