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Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC
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Just curious. In your model, is TX out revenue or is the rest of the league imbalanced in revenue to adjust for TX admission?
This doesn't talk too much about Iowa State but the Clones are mentioned a bit:
It just means more...teams? Texas and OU flirt with SEC
Today was proof there is no offseason in college football as conference realignment talks have returned. Dan Wetzel, Pete Thamel and SI's Pat Forde have the latest surrounding Texas and OU reaching out to the SEC. The guys break down every angle including will A&M, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech...
And neither is going to take K-State's academics. Oklahoma State could probably get into the Big 10 but no way they get into the Pac 12.
There is no way an ACC school is leaving the ACC with their current GOR and media contract, they would lose way too much money for 15 years.
ACC schools are not going to be available for the B1G, its going to be if and what Big 12 schools are the other conferences going to take, because they will be going somewhere, so take them or they will go somewhere else.
What is happening is you have 10 schools that are being thrown into a bucket, with 4 conferences vying for them, 2 schools have been hooked by one of those conferences, leaving 8 schools, for the other 3 conferences to decide if they are going to keep up with the big kid on the block, to take or let another conference take them and possibly leave you behind.
You have Power 5 caliber programs available right now for expansion...where otherwise you only have G5 schools to take if you expand, if you sleep on this other conferences will take them and you will lose out. So I dont see the 3 other conferences not doing something to try to scoop up the rest or most of the rest of the Big 12 before some other conference makes a play for someone they might want.
An Iowa State, Kansas IS way more enticing for expansion than a Cincy or Memphis, and if the B1G misses the chance at us and we go to one of the other conferences and a couple years they decide they have to grow to match the other conferences it will be too late.
This is the issue right now the entire Big 12 is destabilized and the other conferences know it, and the SEC is making a play to jump to the front and control the power structure. The other conferences will have to do something to match them or be left behind.
'Timing' is essential in that decision as well. The state of marketing and media channeling was much less mature. Today is a different animal.
Faster rate meaning in the year 2150 Des Moines may have 2.2 million people in which is what the KC metro has now. The reality is that Iowa itself isn't growing at nearly the rate southern states are.
I would be happy to have more sex and do my part but it takes two to tango.
It's a massive advantage having 2 major metro areas in your state compared to a city like Des Moines that isn't even growing at nearly the rate Boise is. We don't have the booster power Mizzou has. Not even close. We also don't have near the political power Missouri does. Iowa is so insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
Pete has some great nuggets here (of course, it's all speculation):
- Thinks it's likely to happen ASAP, possibly after this coming year
- ACC had hoped to bring Texas on after GOR + ND, messes with their plans
- A&M may be only "no" in SEC
- Leftovers will have very little interest from other P5 leagues, most likely is a "retooling" of B12 through adding 2-6 schools, 4 seems most likely (Cincy, UCF, USF, BYU, Boise are floated - Houston & SMU less likely as TX schools don't want more competition)
https://sports.yahoo.com/se-cs-cour...big-12-pac-12-big-ten-and-ncaa-190134687.html
- Thinks it's likely to happen ASAP, possibly after this coming year
- ACC had hoped to bring Texas on after GOR + ND, messes with their plans
- A&M may be only "no" in SEC
- Leftovers will have very little interest from other P5 leagues, most likely is a "retooling" of B12 through adding 2-6 schools, 4 seems most likely (Cincy, UCF, USF, BYU, Boise are floated - Houston & SMU less likely as TX schools don't want more competition)
https://sports.yahoo.com/se-cs-cour...big-12-pac-12-big-ten-and-ncaa-190134687.html
I can’t really even predict it at this point. There’s too much we don’t know. It feels like there has to be something going on we don’t know about. It doesn’t make sense for Texas and Oklahoma to pick up and leave just for a prestige badge.