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Missouri leaving wouldn't be a big stretch.
There's no good reason for the others to leave. Nebraska, UT and A&M are all staying put, imo.
There are unconfirmed rumors that Missouri and Nebraska are bolting the Big 12 for the Big Ten conference. I've also read other rumors that there is a deal in place for Texas A&M/Texas to join the Pac-10. ESPN apparently reported earlier that Missouri is a done deal, but this article calls that into question.
http://campuscorner.kansascity.com/node/870
From what I've heard, the Pac-10 for A&M might be the best-case scenario. Anyone else have an opinion on the subject?
Missouri leaving wouldn't be a big stretch.
There's no good reason for the others to leave. Nebraska, UT and A&M are all staying put, imo.
I think down the road, the bigger conferences will end up merging into 4 super conferences of about 16 teams each.
Didn't the SEC make some noise about looking at expansion? A&M, Texas, OU and somebody else to the SEC would make a lot of sense IMO.
I heard the Pac-10 was looking at Colorado, but I haven't heard anything about Texas and Texas A&M.
Texas and OU don't get into the le game every other year if they belong to the SEC, imo.
The Big 12 cannot afford to lose 2 of Colorado, Nebraska, and Missouri. Nebraska is the 3rd most popular and 3rd highest revenue team in the conference. Lose Missouri and you lose a chunk of KC and all of St. Louis. Lose Colorado and you lose Denver. If two of those are gone, the Big 12 is done.
naw, the Big XII would just add UTSA
Yeah, I saw the commissioner of the SEC on ESPN yesterday and he was talking about the SEC doing expansion studies. He said they're only doing it just in case the other conferences do grow in size and they feel like they will be left behind. However, at this point they have no desire or commitment to expand.
so then the big 10 would have 13? thats a bit of an odd number
as is 11
Let Iowa St and Kansas St walk. Keep the rest and add TCU and Houston.
Move OU and OSU to the North. This way every year, OU and UT can battle it out for the real Big 12 Championship.
North
OU
OSU
Nebraska
KU
Colorado
Missouri
South
UT
A&M
TCU
TT
Baylor
Houston
By joining the Big10, Nebraska and Mizzou both stand to increase revenue sharing dollars by no less than double their current numbers. (The worst Big10 team made 22 million last season.).
Mizzou, Nebraska, Pitt, Cuse, Rutgers.
All about the money with Cuse/Rutgers. Lock up the New York/New Jersey market. Every house would get the Big10 network.
The extra 10 mil a year for Nebraska wouldn't be a good enough reason to leave. I don't think UT and A&M are going anywhere either.
I agree with that. Would be interesting to see what teams go where.
Wouldn't a group of Miami, Florida St, Georgia Tech and Clemson make more sense as far as the SEC goes? I think IF UT goes anywhere it would be to the Pac-10.
According to that rumor Pitt/Rutgers/Syracuse would also go giving the Big 10 16 teams, essentially eliminating the Big East as a BCS conference and screwing over Notre Dame's sports besides football.
Where would they walk to.... If you think the Big 10 would take those teams you are sadly mistaken.
ND is screwing their own sports. They can't have their cake and eat it to.
So, for the first time, I'm hearing these rumors about the Pac-10 expansion.
Apparently if you want Texas, you take all three primary schools, so that's Texas, A&M and Tech. With that many, a full-fledged expansion to 16 teams is most likely for the Pac-10 as they are looking at Colorado and either the Kansas Universities or, more likely, the Oklahoma universities and having an 8-team Coastal Division (USC, UCLA, CAL, STAN, ORE, ORE ST, WASH, WASH ST) and an 8-team Mountain Division (AZ, AZ ST, COLO, TEX, TEX A&M, TEX TECH, OLKA, OKLA ST).
For football, they'd kill, with three top-15-type programs. They'd rival the SEC more than likely, and in terms of depth, most certainly. In basketball it makes them marginally better, with Texas being the only real top-20-type addition (unless they go with Kansas over Oklahoma universities, which is unlikely as they would want to retain the UT/OU rivalry in football), but they get some solid depth with A&M, OK and OK ST.
The balance of the divisions sucks right now for football, but that can work itself out with schedules with a half-n-half schedule where every two years your play an opponent.
At least this is offseason news
I don't know if yall know but these stories never stop, ever, and they never will because you don't have to like sports or a team to report or talk about these non stories
Texas never goes to a le game again if the big 12 dissolves though.
Ahh... No. But I am curious to know what your logic here is.
Cbf is down on the program, historically
CFB history is not CBFs forte
An article in this week's SI about expansion:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...48/2/index.htm
You can read it, but its long...here are their 3 scenarios:
Scenario 1:
Big 10 adds Missouri
Pac 10 adds Colorado and Utah
Big 12 adds BYU and TCU
Scenario 2:
Pac 10 adds Colorado and Utah
Big 10 adds Missouri, Nebraska and Rutgers
Scenario 3:
Big 10 adds Missouri, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Pitt and Rutgers
ACC adds Cincinnati, Louisville, Syracuse, and West Virginia
SEC takes Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas and A&M
That's funny I wonder what they would not consider a "scenario"
If they could take Texas or Oklahoma they would.
What is funny though is how Indiana, Purdue and Northwestern make more than double in TV revenue than the almighty Notre Dame.
I'm assuming the Big 10 splits bowl earnings?
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