It was mostly about how felt that at some point a college team may strike or refuse to play but there was this at the end:
Big 12's Bob Bowlsby sees the day big-time athletes refuse to play
Conference expansion: He said the Big 12 “no active plans to add members” but has a composition committee comprised of three school presidents “and we constantly monitor the environment. … There are some good reasons to get bigger. There are some really good reasons to stay small.”
However, in the larger picture, he cautioned: “I think the jury is still out as to whether these larger alignments really deliver anything other than television viewers and money. I think in the end, we’ve created a television product that is very difficult to compete against -- but if the quality of the TV product results in people staying home because they’re less interested, we will have lost significantly even though the money has flowed in.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...0709313&PID=6146927&SID=ieum3vmcqf001vmn00dth
Big 12's Bob Bowlsby sees the day big-time athletes refuse to play
Conference expansion: He said the Big 12 “no active plans to add members” but has a composition committee comprised of three school presidents “and we constantly monitor the environment. … There are some good reasons to get bigger. There are some really good reasons to stay small.”
However, in the larger picture, he cautioned: “I think the jury is still out as to whether these larger alignments really deliver anything other than television viewers and money. I think in the end, we’ve created a television product that is very difficult to compete against -- but if the quality of the TV product results in people staying home because they’re less interested, we will have lost significantly even though the money has flowed in.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...0709313&PID=6146927&SID=ieum3vmcqf001vmn00dth
