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RE: Its fall of 2010 and B12 is losing 4 members. Why not add WV @ Louisville?
(01-06-2020 05:09 PM)CliftonAve Wrote: (01-06-2020 05:02 PM)Once a Knight... Wrote: What's obvious is the Big 12 was and still is shortsighted. At a time where you needed a minimum of 12 to keep a conference championship game, getting back to 12 makes the most sense, as does expanding your conference footprint east, as does increasing your basketball prowess. All of this could have been achieved by adding TCU, Cincinnati, Louisville, and WVU to get back to 12. Even now.. the conference SHOULD be looking to UCF, USF, Memphis, and Cincinnati to get to 14 (matching other P5s and moving into large TV markets and new recruiting areas).
Again. The Big 12 has been very shortsighted with their moves (or lack thereof) over the last decade and here we are, all waiting for the mid 2020s to see if any major players leave or if the Big 12 stays put with their current 10 (leaving WVU on an island) and almost exclusively in the central time zone.
"Yeah but those are 'city/directional schools'.... number of beds on campus... moving needles... would water down the conference.... blah, blah, blah".
-Big Twelve Fan The Past 10 years
"What happened. We used to be in a conference with Texas and Oklahoma. Now we are on the outside looking in."
- Same guy in 2025.
Yeah, I know. Their shortsightedness and pridefulness will be their downfall. Texas and OU have nothing to worry about as they are highly desired, the others I feel may be playing on borrowed time. We'll see how it all shakes out though. Hopefully when the TV numbers for 2025/26 show up they will realize they need to expand.
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