BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

[Armchair_QB]

If the Big 12 does stay together, then it will expand because it can't have a football title game without 12 teams. If the Pac-11 can't get any of the Texas schools, then I suspect it will add Utah.

Unless the Big 12 decides they don't want championship game.

Mack Brown and Bob Stoops have campaigned against it for years. Doing away with it might have been one of the concessions the conference made to get UT to stay.

 

[micropolitan guy]

The Orangebllods story says Texas is committed to the Big 12 if Texas A&M stays, and that's a big if. Texas won't stay if A&M bolts and say, Hosuton, is added instead. Big difference. It's hardly an ironclad commitment.

And the commish bends over backwards to make Texas the Yankees of the new league by further tweaking the revenue-sharing disparity that created the league unrest in the first place.

 

[JackReacher]

Who is a guy to believe....OrangeBloods.com, which has been breaking most of the news, or ESPN?

Hmmmm.....

 

[deskslave]

Said bastardized B12 / ACC / Big East amalgam shall consist of:

MASON DIVISION:
Cincinnati
Connecticut
Iowa State
Kansas State
Louisville
Missouri
Notre Dame
Syracuse

DIXON DIVISION:
Clemson
South Florida
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Virginia
Florida State
Miami
West Virginia


Changes:
Kansas to the Pac 16.

Georgia Tech — to B10 (AAU member)
Duke — to B10 (AAU member)
Pittsburgh — to B10 (ditto)
Rutgers — to B10 (ditto)
That's 16 for the B10.

Virginia Tech — to SEC
Wake Forest — to SEC
Baylor — to SEC (because West needs a Vandy)
Texas A&M — to SEC (because West needs a Miss Sta ... aw damn)

Bada boom, bada bing. Too forking easy.

What the heck does the SEC want with Wake Forest and Baylor?

 

[JayFarrar]

So, really, all the talk of a split was just a way for Texas to get its own TV deal?

Cool.

TCU replaces Nebraska. Utah/BYU goes to the Pac-10 and the Big 10 stands pat at 12 teams, assuming Notre Dame turns them down, again.

 

[FreddiePatek]

I would gamble that the Pac-10 sits at 12 teams by inviting Utah. If the Big 12 wanted to go back to 12 teams, BYU and TCU would be likely targets ... should this happen, funny how the MWC went from the chic new BCS power conference to the new WAC

 

[trifectarich]

So, really, all the talk of a split was just a way for Texas to get its own TV deal?

Cool.

TCU replaces Nebraska. Utah/BYU goes to the Pac-10 and the Big 10 stands pat at 12 teams, assuming Notre Dame turns them down, again.

Yeah, and so the Big 10 schools have another institution that gets a portion of revenues. This is all working out so nicely, eh?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I love it that Orangebloods has one thing and ESPN has the polar opposite.

Someone is going to look really stupid.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Brown has kicked everyone's ass across the board on this to this point. I'm guessing he has someone high up at UT in his back pocket and that's how he's breaking all of this.

Of course, Texas may have used Brown to get all the talk going just so they can get its own network.

 

[mustangj17]

So, really, all the talk of a split was just a way for Texas to get its own TV deal?

Cool.

TCU replaces Nebraska. Utah/BYU goes to the Pac-10 and the Big 10 stands pat at 12 teams, assuming Notre Dame turns them down, again.

Yeah, and so the Big 10 schools have another institution that gets a portion of revenues. This is all working out so nicely, eh?

Well, the Big 10 will probably still make more money for a few reasons.
1. They now have a conference championship game, which means another nationally-telivised game. More tickets to be sold, more merchandise, another sponsorship.
2. They also get revenue from the TV sets watching 12 Nebraska games
3. There will be more money for getting more TV sets tuning to BTN in Nebraska, and other parts of the South and the West.
4. With a conference championship game, the B10 will be playing later in the year meaning more money, more exposure and better opportunities for better bowl bids.
5. Nebraska will fill up games against Nwestern, Illinois, Indiana. They will make money for the conference through tickets and maybe spme of those games watched a bit more than Northwestern vs. Illinois.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I wonder if Nebraska and CU thought they would have to pay $10 million for leaving early if the conference disbanded.

Now, that $20 mil will get divvied up between the remaining 10 teams.

If Texas stays after all this, the Longhorns played everyone.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

It looks like Orangebloods is right.