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RE: Killing the BIG XII
Here is my take on this:

Big 10
Oklahoma
Kansas

SEC
TCU
West Virginia

PAC 12
Texas
Texas Tech
Oklahoma State
Kansas State

American
Baylor
Iowa State

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(01-11-2018 08:26 AM)Erictelevision Wrote:  School (destination)

ISU (MAC)
KU (B1G)
KSU (MWC)
OU,OSU,TT,UT (PAC-XII)
WVU (AAC)
Baylor,TCU (SEC)

Everyone reasonably happy, nobody in ridiculously isolated situation.

WVU definitely gets into the SEC over Baylor and maybe TCU as well. I'm not sure the SEC would take any of the three though.

Iowa St would go MWC or AAC over the MAC.
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PAC 18

Texas, Texas tech, OU, OSU, KU, KSU

ACC

Wvu

AAC

Iowa state, TCU, Baylor
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Gamecock: your first point is probably true. But ISU would end up WORSE off, geographically, in either of those conferences.
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(01-11-2018 10:10 AM)Bogg Wrote:  The Big 12 isn't going to go away entirely. In the event of defections when the current GOR is up the Big 12 will lose somewhere between 3 and 5 teams and then backfill with some combination of AAC and Mountain West teams, plus maybe Rice.

My guess? The whole linchpin is Kansas. Texas is always going to have options, but if Kansas gets an attractive offer from a more stable conference they'll have to seriously consider it, and that could spook Oklahoma into being proactive. If that happens the gears necessary to force Texas to make a move are in motion.

Definitely agree with your thoughts. The most likely expansion scenario IMO is below.

Kansas and Oklahoma to Big 10
Texas and OK State to Pac

That would leave the remaining conference at:

West Virginia (Possible ACC target)
Kansas St
Iowa St
Texas Tech
TCU
Baylor

Then adding schools from the following:

Houston
Cincinnati
Memphis
UCF
USF
BYU
SMU

In the end, the new Big 12 will likely be a better version of the American with a heavy presence in Texas. Again, this all doesn't happen if they just extend their GOR, but I would say there is a decent chance they don't.
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(01-11-2018 10:57 AM)Billy Bob Bearcat Wrote:  
(01-11-2018 10:10 AM)Bogg Wrote:  The Big 12 isn't going to go away entirely. In the event of defections when the current GOR is up the Big 12 will lose somewhere between 3 and 5 teams and then backfill with some combination of AAC and Mountain West teams, plus maybe Rice.

My guess? The whole linchpin is Kansas. Texas is always going to have options, but if Kansas gets an attractive offer from a more stable conference they'll have to seriously consider it, and that could spook Oklahoma into being proactive. If that happens the gears necessary to force Texas to make a move are in motion.

Definitely agree with your thoughts. The most likely expansion scenario IMO is below.

Kansas and Oklahoma to Big 10
Texas and OK State to Pac

That would leave the remaining conference at:

West Virginia (Possible ACC target)
Kansas St
Iowa St
Texas Tech
TCU
Baylor

Then adding schools from the following:

Houston
Cincinnati
Memphis
UCF
USF
BYU
SMU

In the end, the new Big 12 will likely be a better version of the American with a heavy presence in Texas. Again, this all doesn't happen if they just extend their GOR, but I would say there is a decent chance they don't.

Yea, this isn't that far off. If Texas is headed to the PAC I think they insist on Tech, and the Pac would give it to them. Other than that whether or not WVU gets picked up by someone probably determines whether the conference goes East (in the north, FLA doesn't count) of Cincy with adds, but in general I agree.
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(01-11-2018 08:38 AM)PGEMF Wrote:  
(01-11-2018 08:26 AM)Erictelevision Wrote:  School (destination)

ISU (MAC)
KU (B1G)
KSU (MWC)
OU,OSU,TT,UT (PAC-XII)
WVU (AAC)
Baylor,TCU (SEC)

Everyone reasonably happy, nobody in ridiculously isolated situation.

Yes, I'm sure Iowa State and Kansas State would be thrilled in your scenarios. I'm sure the SEC would be thrilled to have Baylor too.

Especially since their fan bases dwarf those in the respective conferences
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(01-11-2018 11:03 AM)Bogg Wrote:  
(01-11-2018 10:57 AM)Billy Bob Bearcat Wrote:  
(01-11-2018 10:10 AM)Bogg Wrote:  The Big 12 isn't going to go away entirely. In the event of defections when the current GOR is up the Big 12 will lose somewhere between 3 and 5 teams and then backfill with some combination of AAC and Mountain West teams, plus maybe Rice.

My guess? The whole linchpin is Kansas. Texas is always going to have options, but if Kansas gets an attractive offer from a more stable conference they'll have to seriously consider it, and that could spook Oklahoma into being proactive. If that happens the gears necessary to force Texas to make a move are in motion.

Definitely agree with your thoughts. The most likely expansion scenario IMO is below.

Kansas and Oklahoma to Big 10
Texas and OK State to Pac

That would leave the remaining conference at:

West Virginia (Possible ACC target)
Kansas St
Iowa St
Texas Tech
TCU
Baylor

Then adding schools from the following:

Houston
Cincinnati
Memphis
UCF
USF
BYU
SMU

In the end, the new Big 12 will likely be a better version of the American with a heavy presence in Texas. Again, this all doesn't happen if they just extend their GOR, but I would say there is a decent chance they don't.

Yea, this isn't that far off. If Texas is headed to the PAC I think they insist on Tech, and the Pac would give it to them. Other than that whether or not WVU gets picked up by someone probably determines whether the conference goes East (in the north, FLA doesn't count) of Cincy with adds, but in general I agree.

I agree. We are more likely to see Oklahoma and Oklahoma join the SEC. Then Texas and Texas Tech in the PAC 12.

That would leave Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Texas Christian and West Virginia.

Because of the P5 status the B12 would invite Houston, Cincinnati, Memphis, SMU, UCF, USF.

West

Baylor
Houston
Kansas
Kansas State
SMU
TCU

East

Central Florida
Cincinnati
Iowa State
Memphis
South Florida
West Virginia

If they decide to go to 16 teams, they would add BYU, Tulsa, UT San Antonio and UT El Paso. Houston and Baylor would be in the East division.
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(01-11-2018 09:41 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  
(01-11-2018 09:34 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  
(01-11-2018 08:26 AM)Erictelevision Wrote:  School (destination)

ISU (MAC)
KU (B1G)
KSU (MWC)
OU,OSU,TT,UT (PAC-XII)
WVU (AAC)
Baylor,TCU (SEC)

Everyone reasonably happy, nobody in ridiculously isolated situation.

My guess is that if the B1G and SEC were to "get" those schools while the PAC gets the cream of the crop, neither will be happy.

Still not sure why schools like OU & TX would choose the PAC when they'll have numerous options, all of which would be better.

I can speak for me personally, and for a significant portion of the SEC, when I say that I do not want Texas.

I believe you but it might come down to the SEC taking TX just to keep the B1G from getting a hold in Texas.

If the XII is to explode, the game might be as much about what the other guy doesn't get as it is what you get.
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(01-11-2018 08:57 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Sometimes I wonder if people grasp just how far from the California schools like UT and OU are.

I also think in that situation both TCU and Baylor get left out instead of go to the SEC.

Exactly. Thats why Ive always said the Pac12 wont be the choice for UT (they have much better options). Plus, the ESPN/UT Longhorn Network agreement doesn't expire until 2030. When the ACC Network kicks off, every single P5 EXCEPT the B12 will have a conference network. The LHN wont fly in any other P5 conference except the B12. Frankly, Ive come around to the belief that the Big12 is the best home for UT (and at the very least, its almost certainly their best home until 2030).
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(01-11-2018 09:31 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  
(01-11-2018 09:27 AM)Erictelevision Wrote:  PG: you're OBVIOUSLY correct that I overstated the geographic spread of the AAC. As to why the BIG XII is constantly discussed for implosion? It's the least geographically stable, and has an alpha-dog looking to get out.

I'd say the ACC is at least as geographically/culturally unstable. The ACC sprawls from Miami Beach in the south to Boston in the north and Louisville basically in the midwest.

And politically, it has its football-first deep south contingent and its mid-atlantic basketball-first contingent, and then its Yankee emphasize-both contingent as well.

Their commish did a great job with the GOR and promise of an AACN to settle things down, but those fissures still exist and if things head south, particularly if ACCN revenues don't materialize as hoped for, they could re-open.

Quo the ACC exists for three reasons:

1. It was initially cheap to acquire.

2. It was a great place to park the OBE teams that ESPN wanted to keep out of an independent Big 10 Network and away from Jim Delany and since the OBE was at least on par with, if not stronger than, the ACC at that time it was a move to protect ESPN's investment in the ACC.

3. The ACC existed to keep the SEC from becoming too strong in the Southeast, at least in terms of leverage over key states like Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Tech was conveniently already in the ACC. And in '91 ESPN successfully kept Clemson and even more so Florida State out of the SEC's hands. Serendipity was they also made sure that South Carolina stayed out of the ACC's hands. The last thing they wanted was for a conference to control a whole state. So the market model was used as an excuse to break up states.

If you don't believe me just look at the ESPN's property maps and remembered they targeted North Carolina, Virginia and Texas to break up state monopolies by conferences. They knew from day 1 that if they could split these big states it gave them an in to each of them without having to go through their primary conference. They were wiling to pay more short term on subscription fees but their plans all along were to shift to a % of the market pay model. Streaming refined that beyond their initial thinking so that in the future more of the pay will be based on actual viewership. Both play into the original plan of divide and conquer.

So Quo the ACC is not in peril as it should be because ESPN has a use for it. Whereas the Big 12 only has 3 maybe 4 products the networks are interested in: Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and possibly Texas Tech since it is a P5 public in the state of Texas.

Breaking up the Big 12 is not a fan fantasy, it is a network fantasy. Texas and Oklahoma can be used to improve the Big 10 or SEC without giving them huge leverage.

Oklahoma in the SEC puts the SEC in Dallas without giving them control of the whole state by giving them Texas. Texas is large enough they may get their own way, but I would bet that ESPN would love to pair them with N.D. in the ACC, or even use them to gain more leverage with the Big 10. Kansas would be a good travel partner with either OU or UT. But neither FOX nor ESPN own a % of the PAC and there isn't much there for them. They both lease 50% of the PAC product and that gives them all they want for that time slot.

I seriously doubt that Texa-homa to the PAC is viable because those 4 all earn more than any PAC school for their TV rights and could earn even more in either of the Big 10 or SEC. In the case of Texas they earn close to 22 million more than the PAC schools for TV rights and OU earns about 11 million more. So it's not happening.

But if the networks could poach UT / OU / KU and another out of the Big 12 then when the contract expires in 2025 they are off the hook for 35 million each for the other 6. Does that mean the other 6 all lose P status? Probably not.

The PAC could be assisted with the Texas market by only Tech and T.C.U. if the networks are willing to underwrite that and even if the PAC TV revenue only goes up 3 million per school the networks would be saving about 5 million each on ever how many Big 12 schools head there so for the cost of about 21 million they could add two schools to the PAC and increase their CTZ inventory of PAC brands and do so without wasting OU or UT on a PAC schedule.

WVU could be another football / basketball bone to the ACC now that Louisville has cracked the academic argument there.

So I wouldn't rule out the absorption of the Big 12, but I would rule it out for about 5 more years.
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(01-11-2018 09:52 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  As long as Texas is making money on par with other big-time blue bloods (which they are), and UT/OU still have an opportunity to make the CFP playoff each year (now with the CCG, they can), I don't think the Big 12 is going to go anywhere.

As far as expansion, we all know the story with the Big 12 fiasco 18 months ago. However, their current deal is split between ESPN/Fox. When their deal expires, who's to say that Fox pays more to be the sole media rights holder? Or ESPN? One of the hangups for expansion (aside from the then current options) was that neither network could agree on such an addition. If ESPN gets the next Big 12 package, solely, why would they not consider a UCF/USF combo addition to the league? It would drive the price of the AAC down (cheap quality content), it would add Florida to a power conference (w/ the SEC and ACC), and - by then - it will have added two programs that have shown they can compete with the power programs.

The Big 12 - as a whole - is more valuable with its current membership together than split apart. Texas needs the Big 12, and the Big 12 needs Texas. As long as all parties continue to make tons of money (which they are), I really don't think the conference is in danger as many predict.

You know what Ive always wondered about these kind of arguments? It will likely cost 30-40 million a team for the next B12 agreement. Adding a pair of AAC teams to the Big12 would then have a price tag of between 60-80 million for an additional 12 (or so) games of inventory. The AAC gets 20 million now. An upper tier non-CFP bowl could be had for less than 10 million a year or a CFP bowl could probably be purchased as an add on for 40 million a year.

So essentially, ESPN could probably buy the entire AAC for 60 million--add a CFP game for 40 million---and manufacture themselves 60+ games of "contract conference" inventory for what about what it would cost to add 2 AAC teams to the Big12.
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It seems to me that ESPN want to have a p4, this would mean the b12 would lose the top 4 teams, The schools left out would add 4 teams from somewhere
Would it be
The p4 and now be g6?
Jrsec said that the b12 would still be a p conference, Iam not sure about this , there would be no flagship team left no matter who they shuffle in there from the g5, heck they might even invite Texas st
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(01-11-2018 12:53 PM)JHS55 Wrote:  It seems to me that ESPN want to have a p4, this would mean the b12 would lose the top 4 teams, The schools left out would add 4 teams from somewhere
Would it be
The p4 and now be g6?
Jrsec said that the b12 would still be a p conference, Iam not sure about this , there would be no flagship team left no matter who they shuffle in there from the g5, heck they might even invite Texas st

What I said is that if the existing P5 consolidated to a P3 of 20 schools each that the remnant of the Big 12 could merge with the 3 service academies (if they desired) and the next ever how many top G5 schools to form a 4th 20 team P conference.

That's what I said. That would be inclusive of UConn, Cincinnati, Houston, Boise State, San Diego State, U.C.F., U.S.F., E.C.U., Colorado State, Temple, S.M.U., etc.
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(01-11-2018 12:22 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(01-11-2018 09:31 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  
(01-11-2018 09:27 AM)Erictelevision Wrote:  PG: you're OBVIOUSLY correct that I overstated the geographic spread of the AAC. As to why the BIG XII is constantly discussed for implosion? It's the least geographically stable, and has an alpha-dog looking to get out.

I'd say the ACC is at least as geographically/culturally unstable. The ACC sprawls from Miami Beach in the south to Boston in the north and Louisville basically in the midwest.

And politically, it has its football-first deep south contingent and its mid-atlantic basketball-first contingent, and then its Yankee emphasize-both contingent as well.

Their commish did a great job with the GOR and promise of an AACN to settle things down, but those fissures still exist and if things head south, particularly if ACCN revenues don't materialize as hoped for, they could re-open.

Quo the ACC exists for three reasons:

1. It was initially cheap to acquire.

2. It was a great place to park the OBE teams that ESPN wanted to keep out of an independent Big 10 Network and away from Jim Delany and since the OBE was at least on par with, if not stronger than, the ACC at that time it was a move to protect ESPN's investment in the ACC.

3. The ACC existed to keep the SEC from becoming too strong in the Southeast, at least in terms of leverage over key states like Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Tech was conveniently already in the ACC. And in '91 ESPN successfully kept Clemson and even more so Florida State out of the SEC's hands. Serendipity was they also made sure that South Carolina stayed out of the ACC's hands. The last thing they wanted was for a conference to control a whole state. So the market model was used as an excuse to break up states.

If you don't believe me just look at the ESPN's property maps and remembered they targeted North Carolina, Virginia and Texas to break up state monopolies by conferences. They knew from day 1 that if they could split these big states it gave them an in to each of them without having to go through their primary conference. They were wiling to pay more short term on subscription fees but their plans all along were to shift to a % of the market pay model. Streaming refined that beyond their initial thinking so that in the future more of the pay will be based on actual viewership. Both play into the original plan of divide and conquer.

So Quo the ACC is not in peril as it should be because ESPN has a use for it. Whereas the Big 12 only has 3 maybe 4 products the networks are interested in: Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and possibly Texas Tech since it is a P5 public in the state of Texas.

Breaking up the Big 12 is not a fan fantasy, it is a network fantasy. Texas and Oklahoma can be used to improve the Big 10 or SEC without giving them huge leverage.

Oklahoma in the SEC puts the SEC in Dallas without giving them control of the whole state by giving them Texas. Texas is large enough they may get their own way, but I would bet that ESPN would love to pair them with N.D. in the ACC, or even use them to gain more leverage with the Big 10. Kansas would be a good travel partner with either OU or UT. But neither FOX nor ESPN own a % of the PAC and there isn't much there for them. They both lease 50% of the PAC product and that gives them all they want for that time slot.

I seriously doubt that Texa-homa to the PAC is viable because those 4 all earn more than any PAC school for their TV rights and could earn even more in either of the Big 10 or SEC. In the case of Texas they earn close to 22 million more than the PAC schools for TV rights and OU earns about 11 million more. So it's not happening.

But if the networks could poach UT / OU / KU and another out of the Big 12 then when the contract expires in 2025 they are off the hook for 35 million each for the other 6. Does that mean the other 6 all lose P status? Probably not.

The PAC could be assisted with the Texas market by only Tech and T.C.U. if the networks are willing to underwrite that and even if the PAC TV revenue only goes up 3 million per school the networks would be saving about 5 million each on ever how many Big 12 schools head there so for the cost of about 21 million they could add two schools to the PAC and increase their CTZ inventory of PAC brands and do so without wasting OU or UT on a PAC schedule.

WVU could be another football / basketball bone to the ACC now that Louisville has cracked the academic argument there.

So I wouldn't rule out the absorption of the Big 12, but I would rule it out for about 5 more years.
This...04-cheers

The original proposal is wrong on so many levels. Look at the conference money the Big XII teams would lose. Some of them, like ISU, have just invested in major stadium renovations. This is a financial nightmare for them.
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(01-11-2018 09:36 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  
(01-11-2018 09:11 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Why is the Big 12 always the target here?

Big 12 is making money hand over fist, and on the football field they had an excellent year. All systems go ... 07-coffee3

For now.

In 4-5 years when new contracts are being negotiated and they won't be getting paid to NOT expand, we'll see.

Not to mention the lack of a conference network which the other P4 all have.

Remember, the last time the Big 12 negotiated media and bowl contracts was from late 2011 to mid-2012, shortly after TAMU and Missouri bolted, and just two years after Nebraska and Colorado bolted. The conference looked like it would be dismembered any day then.

And yet they signed deals worth as much as any other P5 conference.

It's hard to imagine that in 2025 the Big 12 can possibly be worse off than it was in 2011 - 2012, so I will believe that the Big 12 will sign deals then that will make it obviously no longer competitive with other P5 .... when i see it.

But not until then. 07-coffee3
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(01-11-2018 09:11 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Why is the Big 12 always the target here?

I know, right? I haven't been around in a long time, and it's like the same conversations from two years ago are still going on.
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The Big 12 will never be fully destroyed. Not all 10 schools will land in P4 conferences and the ones left behind would be better off collecting exit fees and rebuilding as a tweener conference with American schools and possibly BYU/MWC than joining a G5.

On another thought, as JR SEC points out, it's the networks that would most benefit from a Big 12 break up. Wouldn't it be in their best interest for everyone to low ball the Big 12 next time around, forcing Texas and Oklahoma to consider moving and knowing that you could leverage your other conference media holdings to absorb the best pieces?
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(01-11-2018 04:58 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  The Big 12 will never be fully destroyed. Not all 10 schools will land in P4 conferences and the ones left behind would be better off collecting exit fees and rebuilding as a tweener conference with American schools and possibly BYU/MWC than joining a G5.

On another thought, as JR SEC points out, it's the networks that would most benefit from a Big 12 break up. Wouldn't it be in their best interest for everyone to low ball the Big 12 next time around, forcing Texas and Oklahoma to consider moving and knowing that you could leverage your other conference media holdings to absorb the best pieces?

The low ball strategy only works if nobody else is very interested....otherwise FOX..or CBS...NBC...or Amazon....swoops in and steals it. The B12 is a prize possession so long as UT and Oklahoma remain.
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(01-11-2018 05:43 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  
(01-11-2018 04:58 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  The Big 12 will never be fully destroyed. Not all 10 schools will land in P4 conferences and the ones left behind would be better off collecting exit fees and rebuilding as a tweener conference with American schools and possibly BYU/MWC than joining a G5.

On another thought, as JR SEC points out, it's the networks that would most benefit from a Big 12 break up. Wouldn't it be in their best interest for everyone to low ball the Big 12 next time around, forcing Texas and Oklahoma to consider moving and knowing that you could leverage your other conference media holdings to absorb the best pieces?

The low ball strategy only works if nobody else is very interested....otherwise FOX..or CBS...NBC...or Amazon....swoops in and steals it. The B12 is a prize possession so long as UT and Oklahoma remain.

If ESPN lowballs or is not interested, it reduces the incentive for its competitors to pay top dollar.

ESPN desperately needs to cut long term investments (liabilities). It's no guarantee at all that ESPN will pay for another contract at $100M per year for half of the B12's football games, and unlikely they would shell out more than the current contract. That's assuming Oklahoma has made up with UT and a new GOR is on the table. If not, an unstable B12 is going to scare away all players from putting up big, long-term money.
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