Texas Will Leave

[Zig72]

following the 2023-24 athletic year, one year earlier than originally announced.
Big 12 Announces Agreement for Withdrawal of Oklahoma and Texas

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

Looking forward to it.

 

[Zig72]

Now we see that this early departure has a $100M price tag for OU/Texas. Wow.

Summer SEC 2024

 

[HornView]

I won’t lie, I’ll miss the round robin conference schedule of the Big 12. It really seemed unfair when the South Division was beating up on each other while the leading contender in the North had an easier path depending on their home schedule against the South

 

[Born in ATX]

I won’t lie, I’ll miss the round robin conference schedule of the Big 12. It really seemed unfair when the South Division was beating up on each other while the leading contender in the North had an easier path depending on their home schedule against the South

How does the SEC schedule WBB now? Seems like I saw a post here at one time that said you'd have some teams scheduled with home and homes and others scheduled with alternating year home and road games. There needs to be a fair way to do it but one things for sure, we're going to be traveling out of the state quite a bit more.

 

[brnkj]

I won’t lie, I’ll miss the round robin conference schedule of the Big 12. It really seemed unfair when the South Division was beating up on each other while the leading contender in the North had an easier path depending on their home schedule against the South

I agree... I prefer conference schedules to be equal for all. I'm afraid, with all the mega conferences forming, we won't see those days again.

 

[1sahorn]

I won’t lie, I’ll miss the round robin conference schedule of the Big 12. It really seemed unfair when the South Division was beating up on each other while the leading contender in the North had an easier path depending on their home schedule against the South

I agree, but the Big XII died on the vine thanks to nebraska, missouri & a&m (& to a lesser extent Colorado). Their whinny *****-*** crying about how the evil Texas screwed them so they took their marbles and found another playground screwed the conference. Well, enjoy the B1G cellar, Nebraska. And Mizzou, a&m...see you in the funny papers. (HA!)

 

[Born in ATX]

Looks like TempestHorn already posted the answer on our SEC schedule with a prior thread. Here is what we're stuck with:
Women's Basketball

• Regular season: Each season a team will play one rotating opponent home and away, plus the 14 remaining teams in single contests either home or away, for a total of 16 conference games.
• SEC Women's Basketball Tournament: All 16 teams will compete in a single-elimination format, consistent with the current format but with two additional games. The top four seeded teams will continue to receive a bye through the first two rounds of the tournament.

Here is the article:
Six SEC sports future scheduling formats are approved

 

[justabbfan]

Any news about the Longhorn Network? I suppose it will go away. Hope
ESPN + will have all the games. Don’t know much about the SEC network.

 

[loyallonghorn]

Looks like TempestHorn already posted the answer on our SEC schedule with a prior thread. Here is what we're stuck with:
Women's Basketball

• Regular season: Each season a team will play one rotating opponent home and away, plus the 14 remaining teams in single contests either home or away, for a total of 16 conference games.
• SEC Women's Basketball Tournament: All 16 teams will compete in a single-elimination format, consistent with the current format but with two additional games. The top four seeded teams will continue to receive a bye through the first two rounds of the tournament.

Here is the article:
Six SEC sports future scheduling formats are approved

I'd much rather have 18 conference games and 2 home and home series like the men. I wonder why the women's differs from SEC men's.

 

[brnkj]

Any news about the Longhorn Network? I suppose it will go away. Hope
ESPN + will have all the games. Don’t know much about the SEC network.

SEC Network is run by ESPN so there'll be the same access to every game as we have now.

 

[WCBBNUT]

For what it is worth, the $100 million is chump change compared to what will happen once we are in the SEC. And the B12 schools thinking they screwed us (see Tech’s Twitter feed) are about to finally understand why Texas was wasting its time sticking around. The sooner we leave, the better. They’ve been milking this steer (pun intended) for way too long.

 

[Zig72]

Excerpts from a AAS Kirk Bohls article:

The Longhorns figure to reap a windfall in exposure, money, branding, money, recruiting, money, sponsorships, money, prestige and, of course, money. They stand to improve their standing with membership in a league whose model is properly summed up with “It Just Means More,” although one could add “It Just Means More Money.”

The SEC distributed $49.9 million to each of its current 14 schools. That’s $7.3 million more than Big 12 schools earned in the school year ending in August 2022.
Here’s how all the parties fared:

• Texas and OU get free and clear of the Big 12 a year early, not in July 2025 as scheduled, so now the schools knows their path.
• The Big 12 pockets an extra $100 million from the two schools in penalty fees, although the money will actually just be withheld from league distributions. (Some of that dough will go to Fox, but the bulk to the eight legacy Big 12 members.)
• Texas and OU will offset some of the $50 million loss in new revenue distribution from the SEC.