On Saturday morning HoosierPal wrote:
http://www.si.com/college-football/2016/10/14/big-12-expansion-unlikely
According to this SI article, Fox and ESPN might be paying the Big 12 NOT to expand. Wow. What a CF. The anticipated presser on Monday or Tuesday should be interesting.
Fieldhouse Flyer wrote:
IS THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG WITH ESPN/FOX BLOCKING POTENTIAL BIG 12 EXPANSION?-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Last week, after ESPN and Fox Sports made it clear that they were unhappy with the Big 12’s plans to expand, the conference’s commissioner, Bob Bowlsby, called executives at both networks. Bowlsby assured the networks that expansion was not imminent, multiple sources said, although the conference is moving in that direction by vetting expansion candidates.
According to SBJ, the conference and the networks could look to come to some kind of compromise. The Big 12 could seek to receive more money from ESPN and Fox in exchange for not expanding.Xudash wrote:
This is turning into a freak show staged on a train wreck.
Alternatively, it could be an effective strategy to coerce ESPN and Fox to renegotiate the current TV contract in order to leverage (extort?) more money per year for each of the ten Big 12 schools.
ConnersvilleBulldog wrote:B12 votes for no expansion.
Ramp up the UConn to BE rumors.
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