BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

No. Nothing is going to happen. Grant of rights = locked in. What about that can't you understand?

 

RIP, realignment era: http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/4/23/4253490/college-conference-realignment-acc-media-deal

 

I know what it means.
What I mean is nothing is ever in concrete. You think years ago that anyone in Texas could see the Horns and Aggies splitting?
What any good lawyer and the collective will of the biggest donors will do can be done. Not saying it will happen tomorrow, but the W.Va -Big 12 marriage will be back on the table at some point unless other changes are made.

 

I just wish there was someone who could veto any of these moves if they make zero sense from a geographic standpoint.

 

The NCAA gave up that right long ago.

 

Those who have covered the Big 8 and the Big 12 were less surprised about schools wanting to get as far away from Texas as possible. You can't have a conference where one school gets so much more than everyone else, even if they bring the most to the table.

I remember hearing at one point that when Notre Dame was flirting with the Big Ten that it wanted a deal similar to what Texas got from the Big 12.

 

Why? Because West Virginia has so many better options?

 

Yeah, but the schools that really had a problem with Texas and the way things were set up are all gone. Texas wasn't/isn't alone in the Big 12 when it come to wanting to keep their Tier 3 rights and have their own "network." Kansas has been doing quite well for itself syndicating non-conference basketball games, coaches' shows and the occasional football game with the "Jayhawk Network" for about 20 years now. It's no coincidence that Kansas was the first Big 12 game football game for Texas on the Longhorn Network, a game which was also shown in Kansas and the KC metro on the Jayhawk Network. Those schools had very similar agendas in all this.

K-State, OU and others have also enjoyed selling their own content, not to the profit level of Texas and Kansas, but they've done well and are fine with the set up. Nebraska didn't like the power it thought Texas had and was pissed about the Big 12 championship game and had an opportunity to make a ton of money, so it left. Texas A&M had an inferiority complex, was pissed about the "recruiting advantage" of the Longhorn Network and decided to stick it to Austin by going to SEC. Mizzou, for some reason, had been whoring itself out to other conferences for decades and Colorado made a move that actually makes sense. The rest of the schools are pretty happy to coexist.

 

All of those moves were made before grant of rights. West Virginia is poison to any other conference because of it. West By God better get used to it.

 

W.Va would have been in the ACC if it had held its cards a little longer.

 

No fucking way. If the ACC wanted West Virginia, why didn't it grab-ass for them sooner? The Big Ten and ACC wanted no part of West Virginia. For starters, they bring zero meaningful TV markets into the fold.

 

The ACC thought so highly of West Virginia it invited its prime rival.

West Virginia wanted to be in the ACC for a long time, and the ACC flipped the bird repeatedly.