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Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC
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I just think you guys are overreacting. If programs like Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt have a place there will be a spot at the table for Iowa State football.
Yeah, even if OU and Texas were to stay, it would behoove the other teams in the conference to try to find a way out, if it’s there. We can’t keep dealing with a destabilized conference every other year because their panties are in a bunch about something.
Yep. Find an escape and tell them to go screw. Easier said than done, but they will never change.
I don't disagree but you also have to factor in that if the Big 12 dissolves there is a lot of air time up for grabs and that carries a ton of money.
Those colleges are firmly positioned in their (stable) conferences. If (for some reason) the SEC or ACC breaks up completely (as is the case for the Big-12), those universities would also struggle to find a Power5 conference.
They have that place because they have it right now and that table isn't going anywhere! Iowa State has a place at a table that may not exist in a couple of years. There may not be any seats available for Iowa State at the other tables. And the ACC/SEC isn't going to boot those schools to add someone like ISU!
I just don’t see any other moves anyone can make besides adding more teams to keep up with the SEC at this point.
Texas is more inline with the Mississippi St, Texas A&M tier than they are with that second tier of teams like Florida and Georgia.
They have been grandfathered into a spot. If they had to find another spot, it would be a challenge, but they're not in that scenario.
I guarantee we will have better numbers than half of the ACC, at least half of the PAC 12. We are in the middle of the pack for streaming potential, which is great. I would rather us be valued for that than the size of our cable tv market.
If Clemson and Florida State and Miami were bolting to the SEC right now instead, and the ACC was dying, then Wake Forest would be doomed to the American. They are fortunate because they're already there, not because another conference would want them.
Fortunately, ISU is a much more valuable school than Wake Forest - but not so valuable that it is a 100% sure thing that the B1G, Pac-12, or ACC will take us. And that is scary.
Why does all the G5 schools like Houston, the Florida schools, Cincinnati and others want to get into a P5 conference. They are winning and having success currently, why leave? Because its all about the money, without OU and UT the dollars the networks will pay go from 35 million a year per school to 10 million a year. Without that money its hard to keep coaches salaries going up, expanding and updating facilities and the rest of it.
If it was only about winning, teams like Vanderbilt would have left the SEC a long time ago, it not about winning its about the money you get that you hope you can use to get into a position to win.
What incentive would UGA, Florida , and Bama have to vote yes? Why would any of those schools want to potentially make their path any harder?
More teams for more teams sake may not work. The Big 12 has been saying that for a few years now and we all thought having a smaller league was working (most of us). It has to be the right teams!