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Eh, not a big fan of that move.

The Big 12 is gonna die sooner rather than later.

Next year we'll be talking about Baylor being poached by the Pac 12 and Iowa State and Kansas by the Big Ten.

Reminds me of when teams replaced the initial schools that left the Big East for the ACC only to watch the Big East die a couple of years later.


EDIT: And btw Baylor is the hidden prize the Big Ten should be after. Great academics, basketball power house, and very underrated football school going on the better part of a decade.
 
Eh, not a big fan of that move.

The Big 12 is gonna die sooner rather than later.

Next year we'll be talking about Baylor being poached by the Pac 12 and Iowa State and Kansas by the Big Ten.

Reminds me of when teams replaced the initial schools that left the Big East for the ACC only to watch the Big East die a couple of years later.


EDIT: And btw Baylor is the hidden prize the Big Ten should be after. Great academics, basketball power house, and very underrated football school going on the better part of a decade.
i thought big 10 had some weird rules about new schools have to be from a state that touches another state that already has a big 10 school? Or some such crazy non sense?
 
i thought big 10 had some weird rules about new schools have to be from a state that touches another state that already has a big 10 school? Or some such crazy non sense?

I don't know. I know the Big Ten only wanted AAU schools, but now that Nebraska has been kicked out of the AAU, I don't know if that's a requirement anymore. If they were going to add a school from Texas, it should have been UT. Too late for that now.
 
Eh, not a big fan of that move.

The Big 12 is gonna die sooner rather than later.

Next year we'll be talking about Baylor being poached by the Pac 12 and Iowa State and Kansas by the Big Ten.

Reminds me of when teams replaced the initial schools that left the Big East for the ACC only to watch the Big East die a couple of years later.


EDIT: And btw Baylor is the hidden prize the Big Ten should be after. Great academics, basketball power house, and very underrated football school going on the better part of a decade.

The Big East didnt die. ESPN murdered it.

The Big East turned down an extension of TV rights with ESPN. When their contract was up, it was clear CBS Sports was going to put in a large bid for Big East TV rights. ESPN did some underhanded shit and facilitated Pitt and Cuse to the ACC knowing it would implode the conference. Pretty much the same shit ESPN did with OU and Texas.

But the Big East was alive and well. Had great basketball, and was routinely winning BCS bowl games. This idea they fell apart is nonsense. They were kneecapped by ESPN who didnt want to see the Big East sign with a competitor.
 
EDIT: And btw Baylor is the hidden prize the Big Ten should be after. Great academics, basketball power house, and very underrated football school going on the better part of a decade.
Agree. Baylor's been up and down as a football program. But I think even Baylor at it's low points does more for the B1G than Cincy at it's high points.

Also, imagine a B1G expansion that includes Baylor, Kansas, Virginia and UNC. The last 2 NCAA Basketball champs plus 2 of the biggest bluebloods of basketball. And in 4 new states, 3 of them in the Sun Belt.

Sign me up.
 
I like the move by the Big 12 to promote some programs to the Power-ish 5, especially since it seemed like a long shot for these schools previously. There's no way they could swing bringing in someone to actually replace OU/UT, so just embrace your position as a tweener conference and create some stability.

I'm not convinced that the PAC or B1G would gain anything by poaching from the Big 12 after this year when they already had a chance to raid the cupboard and passed. Iowa State was fringe because they don't provide a new market and aren't a historically great team. Kansas has basketball money but abysmal football, a questionable addition without a bigger partner.

No need to expand now, you have the Alliance for the time being and Notre Dame is the only school that could join a conference and raise the bottom line for everybody anyway.
 
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Lets turn this shit around:
 
Texas A&M is the most overrated team in the country by a huge margin.

They're gonna lose like 6 games this year, minimum.
 
The Big East didnt die. ESPN murdered it.

The Big East turned down an extension of TV rights with ESPN. When their contract was up, it was clear CBS Sports was going to put in a large bid for Big East TV rights. ESPN did some underhanded shit and facilitated Pitt and Cuse to the ACC knowing it would implode the conference. Pretty much the same shit ESPN did with OU and Texas.

But the Big East was alive and well. Had great basketball, and was routinely winning BCS bowl games. This idea they fell apart is nonsense. They were kneecapped by ESPN who didnt want to see the Big East sign with a competitor.

Whatever the reason, it's dead.

And the Big 12 just lost their two big cash cows. They'll die too. Whether it self-implodes or TV networks just outright kill it because it doesn't make much money anymore.
 
Agree. Baylor's been up and down as a football program. But I think even Baylor at it's low points does more for the B1G than Cincy at it's high points.

Also, imagine a B1G expansion that includes Baylor, Kansas, Virginia and UNC. The last 2 NCAA Basketball champs plus 2 of the biggest bluebloods of basketball. And in 4 new states, 3 of them in the Sun Belt.

Sign me up.

For a lot of reasons Baylor makes sense.

They're by far a better football school than either Rutgers or Maryland. They're better than Nebraska at this point, I'd say. They're an elite basketball program. THey're an elite academic institution.

And it gives the Big Ten a school in Texas.
 

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