(05-02-2022 12:22 AM)Stugray2 Wrote: The key point is no negotiations have happened, and neither school nor the Big 12 have requested them or even hinted they are interested in a settlement.
For the 2023 exit to occur a lot of negotiating needs to be happening now and be concluded by the fall so that the SEC can prepare the 2023 football schedule. It's getting awfully late in the day for that. There are a number of complicated issues to resolve, none I think can be settled quickly, even if all sides are on the same page. But how can they be on the same page if they have not even begun to talk?
Maybe things will change come July or August or even September. But right now it's sounds a lot like crickets.
SMH, negotiations go on all of the time. They just don't have a presser until something is decided, and sometimes they have reached a settlement and have an agreed upon future date for a press release. Just because you hear nothing about it doesn't mean it isn't going on, or hasn't been completed.
Talks are ongoing and have been for 10 months between the SEC and a handful of other institutions. Because you've heard nothing doesn't mean they aren't. If they come to fruition it will be like the Texas and Oklahoma announcement (actually more like the A&M and Missouri announcements which weren't leaked early). If it doesn't come to an agreement it will be as though they never happened. It's simply how it's done.
More happens after basketball and before football than at any other time of the year, mostly because Presidents and AD's have time which is compatible with counterparts, and the past couple of decades that's been almost every Summer.
And Stu, the SEC has contingency schedules for any year between now and Fall of 2025 should they come on board early. I don't think we had them for 2021 or 2022. Those matters are worked out in advance of the signings which took place earlier than expected last July, and those schedules likely have been in place sometime between then and now since this Spring Meeting (2022) would have been the original official announcement time.
From the time a school applies until they play is usually 2 years and from the first vote of acceptance until the formal vote which ceremonially is unanimous, and it is in that lag time when both legal teams work all the minutia and details out. The Houston Chronicle broke this story about a year early. The SEC will be ready now anytime after July.