I thought the NCAA requires a conference to have a minimum of 8 members . The conference may continue to exist with 3-5 members but am not sure their tv deal holds at less than 8. ESPN may have a minimum number required in those contracts too, otherwise why go through the trouble.
Wowā¦ Iowa State AD knew the deal 5 years
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Here the promised Dennis Dodds article:
āBowlsby also tells CBS Sports that ESPN has actively engaged the American Athletic Conference (AAC) to pursue ā3-5ā Big 12 members join the league, suggesting it would be rewarded with āfuture television proceedsā.
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The fact that he had the American and SEC in the headline is a win in itself.
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No to Baylor. Maybe even no to TCU.
Hereās what my preference order would be:
Kansas
West Virginia
Oklahoma State
Texas Tech (or maybe TCU)
Iowa State
ā Cut-off line
TCU (or maybe Texas Tech)
Baylor
Kansas State
I could be convinced to do the second Texas school in place of ISU. Itās just that, in addition to already having three Texas schools at that point, we already have three private schools.
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Precedent can go back to the big12 grabbing tcu and west vir from the big East. They have no leg to stand on and if they did win, there would be zero movement going forward which isnāt going to happen.
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This is just Bowlsby trying to keep his job. The Big12 is dead. Now if thereās only a grave I can stomp and dance on thatād be great.
TX and/or OK State legislature may step in big time here. This is gonna cost Bay/Tech/TCU/Pokes millions and millions.
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They can add new teams to get back up to 8 or 10. Theyād probably prefer that to joining the MWC (their next best option) and they can probably sell MWC teams on a chance to drop their worst programs.
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The problem here is heās getting very specific with his allegations. You have to be careful what you allege publicly.
Attorneys sue in both directions.
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What if TCU gets shut out of any expansions as a result of this and is left without a home? Do they have to go back to the MWC for a home? That would sting to come full circleā¦
ESPN tried to get B12 to dissolve to get TXOU out now. brokering WVU/OkSt to ACC, KU/ISU to B1G, and Baylor/KSU/TCU/TT to AAC
TTU snitched
From MHver
I would much prefer Baylor be in this situation. Fort Worth >>> Waco not even close.
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I doubt there is any truth to that but if I were TTU Iād have snitched, too.
Please stop posting MHver garbage, that dude has never been right. Heās pivoting now that the real back door story is coming out
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Ify just like to say, that this is all terrible for college sports football in particular and possibly for us.
But in this moment I am so gosh darned entertained by all of this weekās developments and we donāt have load up on the circular during squad again over CDH
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Absolutely BU deserves to be left in the college football wasteland. I started thinking about the homeless Big XII teams after all of this and thought about TCUās path to P5. The thought they might be relegated to MWC made me feel a little sympathy for themā¦not much but a little.
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Haha. I was gonna say the same. Why would anyone follow and believe what he tweets.
I like him. Heās a great source of rumor. If you donāt think he actually has inside sources, well I plainly disagree with you. Heās talks about what people are saying, not what is going to happen. Iām not sure how one would have a problem looking in on that. If you donāt want to partake in rumor, I get it, but he is as good a source as any.
His personal analysis isnāt any better that anyone elseās, I agree.
I might be the only one but if I get to pick between Baylor and TCU, Iāll go with Baylor. I think we hate them so much that we can create a hatred rivalry between the 2 schools. Men basketball would be a fun match up. TCU really offered nothing. Football not all that anymore. Basketball is average.
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