Concede some if we need to to make the conference hold for a season or two while getting things line up to bolt to a different conference and let UT and OU sit there with their dicks in their hands with Baylor and TCU.
Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC
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Have we started building the pedestrian bridge yet? JP might want to cancel that thing now if he can get out of it.
I wouldn't be shocked if this season is it for the Big 12. OU and TX are gone.
It absolutely is. They aren’t staying together for the kids for 4 years.
Maybe not for the kids… but they signed an iron clad grant of right that goes through the 24/25 season. If they want money, the they are staying until that is up.
Screw that idea, if I am Bowlby, I am telling UT/OU and ESPN that as long as they are in the conference, those 2 schools will be on the 11:00 TV slot. I would think the conference has final say in game times, so inform both schools get used to early games, you will be playing a lot on them as long as you are in the league. Next time UT calls up and wants special treatment, tell them to contact the SEC,
Big deal if we piss off ESPN the league is finished anyway and so is Bowsby's job as commish, time to burn some bridges between the league and OU and UT.
Not just for football. Basketball in Lubbock on Saturday night. Then Morgantown on Monday and back to Waco for Wednesday.
It wouldn't stop Texas and OU from leaving, but it would have built any newcomers brand equity at least.
So we’d groom G5 teams, and when this inevitably came around we’d have more teams to compete with for a landing spot? Makes no sense.
No, you'd have a better shot at keeping the conference together. Adding BYU wouldn't have impacted our shot at landing somewhere else in any way.
Our conference was never going to stay together by promoting G5 teams or throwing a lifeline to BYU. The situation we are in now would not have been prevented in any way. The media had us out to be the permanent whipping post while the SEC built a brand beating everyone else. We needed our teams to perform on the stages they were given, and even then the cards were stacked against us.
The only way ISU survives this I'm afraid is if we get a B1G invite or join the PAC 16 and it somehow does well.
Anything short of that and we're in deep trouble IMO. Adding some worthless schools to the remaining Big 12 won't do it I'm afraid.