The Big 12 'Grant of Rights'

I get the impression that Texas wants the BigXII to become the super conference in the middle of the country. I don't think they're patching it up just to leave it. I've been wrong before, though . . .
 
Texas and Big XII do need to maintain a high quality conference worthy of big tv money. They can't afford to promote too many teams to AQ status. TCU is has proven itself. Of the other schools being mentioned only WVA and BYU have credentials. Others will be viewed as stepping way up. IMO
 
It would appear that BYU is now out of the loop.

I don't exactly know why, but I suspect it has to do with equally sharing Tier 1 and 2.

Anyhow, look to Louisville as of now if MO goes away. If MO stays, then it looks like just TCU for now.
 
Remember a simpler time in college football when we fans never worried about things like "revenue distribution" or "tier 3 network rights" and never gave much thought to what teams might join or leave a conference?
 
I'm so old, I remember the ABC game of the week. GAME as in singular. All games basically kicked off at 1:00pm. I just laugh at idoits (
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Who said BYU is no longer in play? I think we Internet posters are guilty of believing our own speculations too much.
"No way Big 12 adds TCU"
"if ATM leaves the Big 12 is toast"
"If Mizzou leaves the Big 12 is over"
"If Big 12 adds TCU, UT will leave"

I'm taking a step back and see how things shake out over the next few months.

Oh yeah, there's some really good games on this weekend.
 
Agssuk,
I hear ya.

I used to look forward to halftime and post game to see the College Football Scoreboard (may have been Prudential or GE, not sure) where ALL the days' scores were on a board using placards and listed by conference incuding the Ivy League. There were no highlight interruptions to the game you are watching or scrolling banners or 6 games broadcast at the same time. Those were the days!

Then you watched a football recap show on Sunday morning.
 
I think the SEC and Big10 and Pac-12 are starting to see how watered down conferences get when you get over 12 teams. I think the idea of 16 team super conferences is losing momentum.

Again, I keep mentioning this and I can't find it but a study was done for the optimal number of schools in a conference and it was 12.
 
XOVER -- I was hoping you were right on the other thread about UT planning to bolt in a year, but it looks like we see it the same way now with the 6 year assignment of rights. Dodds has apparently decided trying to re-build the Big 12 by promoting non-AQ schools is better than going to a better, more established conference as those who have left have. Bummer.

I am sure we will continue to win and will do pretty well, at least in the short term. My concerns remain twofold: (1) playing conference games against mostly a slate of former mid-majors and second rate Big 8 schools does not make for compelling or exciting football, and will reduce excitement of the season to the RRS and whatever bowl we play in (i.e. no games against Michigan, tOSU, Wisconsin on the one hand, or USC, Oregon, etc on the other hand), and (2) if the "hype" and ratings for the Big 12 decline with the lesser replacements, will we still be able to attract great recruits and compete for MNCs, or will we start to slowly decline as the better players leave for greener pastures and bigger games on the national stage?

Anyway, it looks like we are now stuck, so it is what it is. Its just hard to get very excited about playing so many games against the likes of ISU, TCU, Lou, KU, KSU, Baylor, etc. We are now in a conference where most of the teams we play play in stadiums of less than 65,000, and average less than 45,000 fans. We have lost teams that average 85,000 (Neb), 82,000 (aTm), and (soon) 62,000 (UM). Our first replacement averages about 40,000 (TCU), and the other "favorites" are in the same ballpark: Cinci (35,000), UH (31,000), Lou (50,000), Air Force (40,000), and Tulane (23,000). Well, outisde of Texas and OU, at least they will fit in with the rest of our sparesly populated agricultural remnants: OSU (50,000), KSU (49,000), KU (44,000), Baylor (40,000), ISU (45,000). The Big 12 used to be in the middle of the pack attendance wise behind the SEC and B1G but ahead of the Pac 10 and ACC. We will now fall behind the Pac 10 for sure, and probably the ACC too.

That aint good.
 
I'm not sure I would say superconferences are losing "momentum", necessarily. They might be, but I doubt it.

Why? Because a true multi-tier playoff is worth, maybe, a billion dollars per year. A lot of money anyway. Hence, the pressure to create superconferences.

But things may be slowing down for now.

There are two "10s" out there: Texas & ND. It looks like Texas is going to work the LHN over at least the next 6 years to see what happens financially. If Texas stays put in the B2, then I think the SEC stays at 14 (after they add #14).

So things may jellify for awhile after the SEC hits 14, and the B2 hits 10 (or 12). Of course the Big East wants to stay alive, but they're looking at mid-majors which won't affect the B2 or the major conferences.
 
I think this pull the hill brake on the superconference alignment sweepstakes for a while, at least if what you mean by that is 4 16 team superconferences. The Big 12 will now survive for 6 more years, and the ACC isn't going anywhere either. That means you are going to have 5 conferences with 12 to 14 teams. The Big East is probably done as an AQ conference (as it should be), but with the Big 12 surviving there is no logical conference to be split up to get to 4 x 16. So the status quo will reign for another 5-10 years, which means no playoff.

I'd be infavor of an 8 team playoff with the champs of the 5 remaining conferences and 3 at large, but it aint going to happen.
 
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