HoosierPal wrote:http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-12-expansion-losing-momentum-no-grant-of-rights-extension-ranking-candidates/
This week's edition of As the World Turns in the Big 12. Sounds like they are pumping the brakes BIG TIME on expansion. To me it looks like Texas and OKie will bail as soon as they can figure out an escape plan. The recent trend is to not pay full exit fees, so you never know. (Maryland paid $31.4M instead of $52.2M and Rutgers $11.5M instead of $15M.)
GoldenWarrior11 wrote:HoosierPal wrote:http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-12-expansion-losing-momentum-no-grant-of-rights-extension-ranking-candidates/
This week's edition of As the World Turns in the Big 12. Sounds like they are pumping the brakes BIG TIME on expansion. To me it looks like Texas and OKie will bail as soon as they can figure out an escape plan. The recent trend is to not pay full exit fees, so you never know. (Maryland paid $31.4M instead of $52.2M and Rutgers $11.5M instead of $15M.)
Texas and Oklahoma will announce they are leaving in 2022-2023 (right before the expiration of the Big 12 Grant of Rights). Both Texas and Oklahoma will be able to choose where it would like to go (PAC-12, B1G or SEC), with the caveat that they will not be able to bring along their little brothers (Texas Tech and OK State). My belief is that Oklahoma will go to the SEC along with West Virginia. Texas will join the ACC as a non-football member, and get a Notre Dame-like scheduling alliance (possibly going to six games instead of five). The PAC-12 would then add Kansas (AAU/Blue Blood Basketball), Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and TCU (for Dallas/football). The B1G would wait to go after Virginia/UNC/Georgia Tech/Florida State again when the ACC GOR expires, so they would remain at 14. Unfortunately, Iowa State, Baylor, and Kansas State get left behind (not unlike UConn, Cincinnati and USF) and are tasked with either joining the American or the MWC.
The question three years ago, when the downsized Big East debuted, was this: Could a basketball-driven league survive in a football world?
Villanova answered by winning the NCAA Tournament last April.
The next question, an undercurrent for the conference’s media day Tuesday, is this: How does the Big East capitalize on all the momentum?
The one-word answer: UConn.
Mutual interest in a reunion was widely reported over the summer, and in recent conversations with Gannett New Jersey, multiple people in the know laid out the framework. Here it is:
admin wrote:Bringing this back from the dead:The question three years ago, when the downsized Big East debuted, was this: Could a basketball-driven league survive in a football world?
Villanova answered by winning the NCAA Tournament last April.
The next question, an undercurrent for the conference’s media day Tuesday, is this: How does the Big East capitalize on all the momentum?
The one-word answer: UConn.
Mutual interest in a reunion was widely reported over the summer, and in recent conversations with Gannett New Jersey, multiple people in the know laid out the framework. Here it is:
http://www.app.com/story/sports/college ... /91840616/
admin wrote:
Bringing this back from the dead: http://www.app.com/story/sports/college ... /91840616/
2. UConn isn’t there yet, but the day of reckoning is coming. Still desperate to play in a power football league, the Huskies are angling for a Big 12 invite. By all accounts, that seems like a long shot.
The endgame might be parking its football program in, say, the Mid-American Conference (with Akron, Ohio, Buffalo, Western Michigan, etc.).
UMass was effectively kicked out of the MAC football conference after the 2015 season. It was offered full membership, but declined.
After two years as a football-only member of the Mid-American Conference, the University of Massachusetts will leave the league in 2015, MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher told USA TODAY Sports.
In February 2014, MAC league presidents enacted a clause that started a clock on UMass' membership. According to the clause, UMass could either accept full membership in the MAC or serve only two additional years as a football-only member.
Rather than join the league across all NCAA sports – including basketball, the school's premier athletic program – UMass opted for another two years as a football member before leaving the conference altogether.
gtmoBlue wrote:Paging Mr. JP Schmack. Paging Mr. JP Schmack. Please pickup the white courtesy telephone.
11 members allows for a 7th NCAA bid some years... 12 or 13 allow for a 7th NCAA bid annually. Yes...we don't NEED anyone at this point, but UConn meets most of the criteria - especially the basketball "moving the needle" part. Aw, what the heck...bring 'em on.
Mr. Schmack, please pickup the white courtesy telephone.
anyone seen JP?
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