Wonder if Castiglione and Del Conte are going to be at that meeting?
Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC
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What they lose in interest between Iowa State vs. Kansas cannot be compared to what they will gain interest when Texas' worst opponent every year is Missouri or South Carolina. That's where this is headed
The best of the Big 12 remaining for the Pac-12 to take would probably be Iowa State, Kansas, Oklahoma State, and Texas Tech. That’s four states, a national power in basketball, a foothold in Texas, football stadiums that sell out (other than Kansas football), and access to the 12pm Eastern time slot.
What constitutes 'draw'? Reputation? I'd argue we're the biggest 'draw' in the conference now because the up and coming under dog is always of more interest to outsiders than the perennial expectations. See last years' bowl viewership. I'd agree that 'image' is more elite with the likes of Oklahoma and Texas, but those can just as easily be yesterday's perceptions. Just as Nebraska made the B1G more elite. They may have been when they joined, but look at what they've done for the conference since joining.
It's all about what we do next!
Not when half the country no longer watches college football. Currently I watch other teams when we aren’t at a home game. If they went to a 30 team league I wouldn’t watch a second of it. They would basically become the G-League or Triple A baseball.
I'd probably be in the same boat too. I do watch other games in the background or if I am not doing anything. But if there is consolidation of conferences, I'll probably loose interest if ISU isn't a part of it.
I'd add that it would be a fool's mistake for ESPN to not balance promotion. If they go all in on their Super conference, they'll also lose other ESPN viewing as well. This is a high stakes game they're playing and I can't help but believe ESPN will be on the short end of it.
You think eliminating every football fan outside of the big 60 generates more eyeballs on a UT/Mizzou game? UT doesn’t magically get more fans. You are net losing. I don’t know how you think that’s not the case. This is only good for UT, not college viewership in total and not for content providers:
Tx and OU arent moving to any conference before 2024...Not unless they want to surrender their media rights for 4 years and.....and...not even be on TV. The big 12 owns the right to keep any team from being televised under conference by laws if they leave the conference prematurely.
Since ISU can't control what happens concerning alignment, let's go out with a blaze of glory beating both OU and UT and winning the last Big12 football title (or titles)!!!
this is going to happen, cmc is irate right now and is going to take all his frustration out by preparing like no one has ever prepared before
Disagree. Texas fans will be willing to pay for streaming service regardless if their worst opponent each year is South Carolina or Kansas. A lifelong Iowa State fan sure as hell isn't forking over money to watch Texas play at South Carolina if Iowa State is on the outside looking in. I along with millions and millions of others will have no dog in the fight and literally will not care and will not watch.
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It will be kind of funny to see Texas become shocked when the schools in the SEC dont ballwash them 24/7 like we do in this conference.
I think that would be hilarious (in an awful situation). I'd imagine they would just lawyer up at that point.
If they can get $40 from 1 million customers, or $5 from 6 million customers, which would a business chose? SEC doesn't give two ***** about overall health of college football; they care about making as much money as possible off of their brand. Improve the brand, improve the bottom line.
Brings back memories of the meeting the Big 12 held where Missouri couldn't vote on anything per their lawyers.
Man seeing all of this makes Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, and Texas A&M seem like they were the smart ones 10 years ago.