Articles seem to come in waves now.
Note, I’m going to stop including Flugaur and Montemayor tweets going forward in these things; just too much BS. It was funny and thought-provoking before, but now its just idiotic and sad.
OU and Texas could save the Big 12, but do they want to?
One league official likened the budding situation to a pair of star players nearing their free agency. Instead of inking extensions with their current team, they seem intent on “testing the free agency waters.” And when the rights near their expiration, the Sooners and Longhorns could be, as yet another official put it, “floating around like bees.”
Speaking of Montemayor
Strange things have happened in conference expansion, sure. I’m not sure anyone thought we’d be seeing Maryland-Iowa games pop up on the schedule every couple of years, or that Syracuse-Pitt would one day be a crucial ACC basketball matchup. But the thought of Nebraska jettisoning the Big Ten and everything it offers is just absurd.
Related Coogfans Thread: Welcome back Nebraska
How the SEC is outclassing the Big 12 in Texas during Red River Showdown week
It’s Oklahoma-Texas week and Texas A&M-Tennessee matters more nationally
Coogfans Thread: SEC bigger than RRR (Houston related)
Plus Oklahoma isn’t exactly struggling in the Big 12. While the presence of the Longhorn Network might grate on Sooners fans, it hasn’t led to a competitive disadvantage. This decade, Oklahoma has won three Big 12 football titles, getting to the College Football Playoff last season. The men’s basketball program reached the Final Four in Houston last spring.
One thing that consistently gets left out of these articles is that OU makes almost as much as UT and the LHN on their own Tier 3 network deal with FOX.
Coogfans Thread: And Vince Young's choice for B12 Expansion is
Excitement About Big 12 Expansion Has Dimmed; Will Conference Stay At 10 Teams?
Earlier this week, TMG College Sports reported that ESPN and Fox are urging the Big 12 to not expand. Sources told the website that the television networks could be willing to increase payouts next season for the conference’s first championship football game and extend the overall TV contract for5 years.
Rutgers’ season tickets count is down 8.6 percent from 31,168 in 2015 to 28,478, and season ticketholder accounts are down 12 percent from 7,405 in 2015 to 6,511, according to data obtained by NJ Advance Media in response to an Open Public Records Act request.
Episode 29 of On Second Thought: Barry Switzer talks OU football, Red River showdown preview
https://soundcloud.com/austinamericanstatesman/on-second-thought-ep-29
Coogfans Thread: Barry Switzer(OU) & B12 Expansion