JRsec
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The Big 12: The Nuts and Bolts of Their Present Situation
Forget all of the speculation. Forget which conferences claim to want Oklahoma and Texas. Forget the big brother little brother talk. Just look at what we know to be true:
1. The Big 12 decided not to expand.
2. The Big 12 decided not to extend the GOR.
3. The Big 12 is a conference where 75% of it's population resides in one state.
4. The Big 12 is admittedly over payed by the networks but those contracts end in 2024-5.
5. West Virginia is an outlier.
6. T.C.U. and WVU were only invited to keep the TV contract enforced.
7. The Texas schools do not have a long history with the Big 8 schools with Oklahoma and Oklahoma State excepted.
8. The top programs of the Big 12 are the only schools that would add value to the other P conferences.
9. Texas and Oklahoma are those programs. Kansas might be a third. The rest might have some value to a conference, but not all conferences.
10. The clock is ticking on the current contract.
There are two schools of thought on their present situation:
1. Nothing is happening and Texas wants to stay and wants the rest of the programs subservient to them.
2. The reason nothing appears to be happening is because they are working out the details of dissolution and movement in private.
Personally I have a hard time believing that without a future contract in hand, with no extension of the GOR in place, and given their history of disunity, and the sprawl of their small conference that they are simply doing nothing. I expect an eventual ESPN crawler to tell us where they are all going sometime before 2024.
What are your thoughts?
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08-07-2017 12:27 PM |
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