Big 12 vs the mouse

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“What Bowlsby said is already sending reverberations through the sport, and it directly implicated the AAC. He accused ESPN of conspiring with the AAC to steal three or five members from the Big 12. This would take the AAC to 14 or 16 teams, lead to contract re-negotiations, make the AAC a power conference, and twist the knife in a dying Big 12.”

“For one, it effectively ends the Power 6 campaign, as the Big 12 is going to be dead if this is what happens. Three to five teams is not enough to run a conference on, and whoever might be leftover is going to go running for a different conference. The AAC, meanwhile, will take their place as the fourth or fifth P5 conference, depending on the season.

“The next thing it means is that there is going to be more money coming to the AAC’s current members. Adding multiple schools will force a re-negotiation of the media deal that the AAC currently holds with ESPN. It should lead to more money coming in to each conference member, which will further separate them from the rest of the current Group of Five, putting them financially closer to a conference like the PAC-12. In other words, a clear middle class will develop.”

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I do not see it that way. The rodent can give the AAC peanuts for a limited number of years and then?
The rodent to the AAC:
Get lost you served your purpose
AAC:
but I thought we would be rewarded.
The rodent:
You are what the definition of imbecile is. Now get lost. I gotta see the utau pimp. He is complaining his SEC schedule is too hard.

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If the current Big 12 teams can’t move to a P4 conference, which looks likely because nobody is making those noises, makes more sense to play it out to the end and get their shares of the exit fees, etc. Might be the last big payday they ever see. Even a renegotiated TV deal for the last 3 years will be more than they’ll get in the MWC or AAC. Ride this out to the very last.

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And they can invite MWC teams and be in a slightly improved MWC. If they invite 9 they can eliminate MWC exit fees.

It would suck for them but it would suck less than joining the MWC outright, which is their next least worse option.

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Just to be clear here the most likely outcome of all of this is still that the Big 12 takes AAC teams.

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Big 12 has lost ESPN forever what teams want to go there now?

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Idk about that. ESPN is involved now. I think it is a hell of a lot more likely that AAC is poaching from the Big 12 now. Without a doubt.

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Totally makes sense for ESPN to send the most attractive property left in the XII to a network that’s completely controlled by FOX.

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Not many teams will want to bank on a conference that is burning the bridge to ESPN.

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The MWC mostly doesn’t do ESPN anyhow, and anyway Bowlsby will be gone gone gone.

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ESPN will pay more the AAC then Fox is going pay the Big 12 without OU and UT.

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ESPN is the reason there was no expansion in 2016. And they’re about to be the reason that the Big 12 implodes. Sending 5 teams to the AAC. Probably looking at a nice pay raise for us.

I just wish we could pull the plug on ECU, Tulane, and Tulsa.

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Sorry I thought you were resounding to my other post

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Before the threat happened today I would say the B12 had the upper hand with the AAC. But slow thinking, arrogant Bowlsby, always entrenched on the wrong side, opted not to swoop in and offer AAC teams. Instead he just sat there mired in a fantasy that somehow he could stop OU’s exit.

Now reduced to legalities. Outmanned, outmaneuvered, he’s brought the residue of the conference to the brink of toxic pariah status.

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MHver is a dipstick troll with no sources. Ignore that guy

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The Big 12 is dead.

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Yea, MHver is a dishonest, possibly ill twit.

I’m convinced he’s fourteen years old and sits in his room typing in a Brent Musberger halloween mask.

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Nah just like the Dude they’re both out in West Virginia… Which explains so, so many of their defects

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West Virginia
Texas Tech
Kansas
Iowa State
Okie State
To the AAC

Baylor
TCU
Kansas St
To the MAC

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That’s the golden question for me. Are the networks allowed to immediately enter into renegotiations with the Big 8 to give them significantly less money per school now that their conference is a joke? If no and the big 8 can hold until 2025, why not just do that?

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