I haven't kept up with all the players' number switching. Who is #12 on the squad this fall?
The Dude from South Dakota is our Big Ten insider. He probably won't have much information for us on the Big 12...
Not at all possible. The P-5 power today means it's get in or be relegated to the peanut gallery. The control the rankings, and the only post-season games that pay out 95% of the bowl money. It definitely looks like the NCAA has been forced to virtually cede much of its power to the P-5. With the P-5 moving to pseudo-paying its players and severely limiting OOC games to mostly other P-5 opponents, we've already moved to a de facto 2-division split between the half of I-A division teams in P-5 conferences and those on the outside looking in.
And the reply: that was before the P-5 made such things impossible, no matter what color your field is. And of course, Boise lost it's coach Peterson to Washington (just like most non-P-5 top do) which ended its future dreams. Also, no way they could get the strength of schedule anymore as P-5 teams increasingly must play each other OOC. The preseason coaching poll has only non-P-5 Houston ranked. That even deprives them of big pay days to be human sacrifices at P-5 Coliseums.
Recall that UT tried the SEC on for size balked when they discovered they'd be just one among several equals; and the SEC made it clear they could live without their outrageous demands. So Texas decided it wants lots of control and deference, which means a conference where it's the unchallenged top banana. That's why even an Oklahoma threat to leave for the Big 10 or SEC (or PAC 12?) won't get UT to budge. Perhaps they have deceived themselves to believe they could pull a one-team conference in football like Notre Dame if Kansas and Oklahoma are raided (i.e., the choice stuff left in the Big 12). That's why I say it is silly to attempt to forecast what they do about expansion because they will immediately regret whatever they decide.
to quote donald and bernie, it's rigged! So it's better to become a rigger than than remain a riggee.
The benefit is not only $$, but also the higher profile in conference competition and the resulting enhanced recruiting leverage.
But that also translates to dollars. Recruiting is easier and more successful and generating more revenue. Better competition gets us more lucrative cable contracts, more donors, higher gate revenue at much pricier rates, more concession sales. If Frost is successful, we won't automatically lose him to a P-5 school because we'll be one and we can pay him and his asst. coaching talent more.
Question: What to keep a Kansas and Oklahoma from getting so bummed out by this chaos that they make overtures to jump to the PAC12, which is still 2 teams down from 14? Right now, rather than 2026! Can't they do that, or does the Big 12 have an ACC raid-proof contract clause for its conference members?
With the GOR signed by the Big 12 a few years back, those schools would forfeit any TV contract dollars they got in a new league. I believe the Big 12 GOR is up after the 2024-2025 year. Might be 2025-2026.
Sorry. Sport is ONLY entertainment in it's the purest form, because it doesn't affect anything in the world (even in the case of the Olympics). It is incapable of ever mattering. That's why we (or at least guys) love it. Total escapism like Suicide Squad or a Van Halen concert. Escape from everything that does matter, stresses us out at work, argument with a spouse, dealing with a teenage daughter (where's my panic pills?), worrying about either of two power-crazied equally-hated nominees getting elected, fear of climate change, worry if you'll be able to retire.
As if Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas schools would care about offending anyone. But it ain't happening because UT has made it clear they won't ever consider BYU.
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