Texas can bully the Big 12 in a way I don't think's possible if they were to go to the B1G.
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Texas will demand a higher share, want the B1G Championship game in Dallas permanently and all will go downhill from there. The long Husker nightmare of the final years of the Big XII will come roaring back. Sure Texas is worth a lot of money, but it's not worth selling your conference's soul to get it.
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They could try it, but you're discounting that tOSU, Michigan, Wisconsin, and PSU, will not act like the abused wives clubs that the Big XII and SWC were, Nebraska never did act that way towards UT. Think of it like this Nebraska added tremendous value to UT in the BIG XII days, but we were in their league. If UT, comes to the B1G, they are moving to our style league. If they pulled any of that crap they would learn real quick what a 15 to 1 vote feels like. Maybe they would create problems, but they would be their own problems that the rest of the league wouldn't tolerate.
Texas would never take an equal split of anything. No possibility.
I think this is one of the reasons that it won't happen, not saying it couldn't happen, but I don't think it will. Also, Texas wants to be in charge very badly and knows that the Big 12 is likely one of the few places it can do that and still make a lot of money. It will stick with them for quite awhile before they will acknowledge that it is not working. Will the BIG be willing to wait that long to get team 15 and 16? I don't see it going past 16 teams but I definitely could be wrong.
Lost in all of this is the fact that the people who will be affected most, the student athletes, seem to be the only ones no one is considering when making these decisions. When you have conferences stretching halfway across the country that means there will be a lot more travel on school nights, etc. If they're doing all this in the name of the Almighty Dollar then I say the student athletes should get a stipend of some type.
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Yep.
Texas would never join another conference without some sort of supporting cast. They need schools like TT, Baylor, OU, TCU, etc. to be there with them for leverage. Despite the failure that is the LHN, the people at Texas aren't dummies. They know that if they enter a conference all on their own, then they will have to conform to that conference's way of doing things. So it's not gonna happen.
There's already a lot of travel on school nights, and most D1 teams aren't taking school busses to games anymore.
I'm well aware of that, but this will only add to their load.
Beyond the more obvious ones, the Texas Legislature will be a huge impediment to UT leaving their "brothers" behind. TAMU ended up being ok for leaving, mainly because the Big 12 settled down after the UT/OU scare. UT bolts, TTU & Baylor are in a very tough position; they have lots of alumni in politics to help them out.
I agree, it'll be tough, but D1 schools have it easy. Most sports get to fly to their locations. Hopefully conference schedules won't have the women's basketball team traveling to Rutgers for a Tuesday night game. The longer distance games should be reserved for the weekend. Still, Michigan State and UConn just played a game in Germany. Doubt they left the day before the game, and doubt the players on those teams were at their full attention for classes that following Monday morning.
I think Delaney is considerate of geographic and cultural fit as much as TV market. Now, will the dollar trump everything else? In the case of Texas, I don't think so. I'd bet you anything that Delaney and the B1G would make exceptions for ND to join before they would take Texas as a equal member. ND brings more TV's than Texas (based on real viewers, not just state population). It's not always going to be about the money. Maryland and Rutgers fit in most of what seems to be important to the B1G. They are not football powers, like Texas would like to be, but they bring market money and a decent cultural fit. We could all be surprised in the end but, much like the earlier round of expansion talks...the Texas angle to the B1G never had any merit (and I understand the Bevo Network was a no go for the Pac and B1G and maybe it dies and things change).
Agree. Hopefully the powers that be won't be so blinded by dollar signs to realize that.
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