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BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Apr 19, 2010.

  1. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  2. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  3. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

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

    Hmmmm.....
     
  4. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

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

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  6. FreddiePatek

    FreddiePatek Active Member

    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
     
  7. trifectarich

    trifectarich Well-Known Member

    Yeah, and so the Big 10 schools have another institution that gets a portion of revenues. This is all working out so nicely, eh?
     
  8. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

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

    Someone is going to look really stupid.
     
  9. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    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.
     
  10. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    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.
     
  11. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    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.
     
  12. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    It looks like Orangebloods is right.
     
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