BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

The Big 12 reduced is still a better conference than the AAC. The weakest school remaining in the Big 12 reduced is who? Kansas State? I would think Kansas State is a more lucrative school to have in a conference than Tulsa or Tulane. I believe the Big 12 needs to get and recruit the top half of the AAC. That way the Big 12 schools will not have to carry the weak sisters of the AAC.

 

I tend to agree, but there's a natural tendency to rush to the lifeboats. If you add in the potential to find a better/safer/higher paid new home, the whole thing may collapse. No one wants to be left standing when the music stops.

 

The ACC sued Maryland, in North Carolina courts, to get the large payout from them for going to the Big 10. They won. Cost Maryland a small fortune, one that they made back eventually, and more, in the Big10. The rest of the Big12 could get a huge windfall from Texas and OK

 

A couple of others guys and I took our sons to a game two years ago. We got free tickets because we work at the university and the game was not going to be close to a sell-out. We hung out at a tailgate for a while and then found our seats on the visitors side, in the sun, for an early-season afternoon game. Drinks were expensive, it was hot...bleh. If I'm not working a game, I doubt if I'll ever go back either.

 

I think the future is going to be made-for-streaming sports with condensed action and virtually no crowd as we think of it, just a studio audience to lend color. Think of stuff like 3x3 basketball and rugby sevens.

 

Navy is an AAC associate member for football just so they can get to 12. Navy was indifferent to being in, IIRC, and the AAC made the hard sell so they could get a conference championship game.

 

Bowlsby is playing the conspiracy card -- which worked so well for the Kraken lawyers -- so he'd better have actual proof instead of "I know it to be true." A judge in a lawsuit is going to want to see concrete evidence specifically relating to an attempt to "destabilize" his conference, not just communications between ESPN, the SEC, and OU and UT.

That needs to be e-mails, letters, phone calls or texts. Not just "I know a guy."

His statements are now public record, which places Big XII lawyers on the defensive. (And we all know how well the Big XII plays defense.) That's really a dumb move on his behalf, and smacks of desperation.

If I'm sitting in Bristol, my lawyers are salivating at the opportunity to counter-sue Bowlsby and the conference for defamation.

In any case, it's going to be fugly.

 

3x3 basketball is dreadful. I watched the gold medal game for about 30 seconds.

 

Ded

 

OTOH, if he actually has some hard evidence, this will be fun to watch. The catch is that conspiracy cases are notoriously difficult to prove. I'd purely love to see the Big 12 get ESPN by the short and curlies, though.

 

If there's a lawsuit, which seems inevitable, the discovery process (which I didn't think about because "not a lawyer") would shed a lot of light on what happened here.