I don’t think BY would have added CU without knowing AZ or another P5 school was coming. If the only options are those two then you take UConn but damn that would make the football side of the conference look crazy bad.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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I will be shocked if the Big12 took Colorado without knowing a 2nd PAC12 team was following.
UConn, easily. Neither brings much in football (and i'm cool on either option) but at least UConn brings their massive amount of basketball cred and east coast presence.
It would be nice to get Nike to be the exclusive brand of the big 12. Then let them do some extra jersey versions and then could have a Nike game of the week (basically similar to the color rush in the nfl)
That’s an easy fix. Just call up the Big 10 and ask them to volunteer Iowa to be the ninth conference game for the odd man out. BF could be worst offensive coordinator in two conferences then.
I was thinking of the “next Texas” in the context of always pushing for preferential treatment under the threat of leaving, and often got whatever they wanted.
Good lord, we aren’t adding UCONN or any G5’s. Stop with these stupid hypotheticals. Arizona will join the Big12. The only question is if it’s just Arizona and stop at 14, or if Oregon and Washington join and go to 16.
That was me that proposed that. I certainly believe and hope at least one more PAC team comes. But I don’t think in absolutes. I’d hope no one in B12 leadership does
And Oregon would never get that treatment. Phil Knight may have set up an endowment, as some have said, but the ties to Nike they have now, will eventually end or at least slow down when he passes. Texas is Texas, because of the State of Texas. The State of Oregon will never have that population or media power.
It's amazing reading these pac 10 boards.....they all think if you go to the big 12 you are dead, can never get into the big ten or sec....and it's so stupid, the big ten will take you if they want you, being in the big 12 wont stop them....hell, everyone leaves the big 12 if the big guys call... it's the definition of a temporary stay
Agree, he would never take one without knowing another was coming.
I’m really thinking Oregon and Washington are backup plans for the big 10. truly believe they want Notre Dame, Virginia, North Carolina and Stanford first. Not sure for the $ec besides Clemson, Florida State and possibly Virginia Tech.
It's a good point. Oregon has a touch over 4 million people, which isn't that much larger than Iowa (though I expect that gap to widen as time goes on). Portland is a nice market, but it's no Seattle or Bay Area.
Nike/Knight has been good to them, but people don't realize just how many people and how much money is in Texas. Which is probably hard to grasp when we're approaching it as outsiders.
According to the podcast, it’s Kansas and one other school, I forget which one (TTech, Under Armor?) that aren’t Nike already. The other schools contract ends after this year. There is obviously Kansas and Adidas and they didn’t know when that ended. Which is odd, since a quick google search shows it through 2031. So, they aren’t getting Kansas.
Well sure, now that I think about it some more. The idea is out there though now. Whether BY and the Big 12 would allow just this example, who knows? But selling naming rights, even to the Big 12 conference, on a yearly basis, who knows? It goes on every day/year; it's actually very common practice now. It just hasn't been allowed to happen to a collegiate athletic conference, yet. If it makes each member school millions of extra dollars, I don't know how you could not at least consider it. These were just talking heads, you know, talking. It wasn't the only idea they were discussing.
Regardless, the point of it all is that BY is, and is going to continue, exploring new ways to go about business. He will probably be a large player in the think tank that writes the new playoff guidelines and rules, as well. We'll see how much the other conferences, especially the B1G and SEC want to listen to what he might have to say.
After year 1 of Brett Yormark, about all I can say with confidence, is that he hasn't created his Big 12 legacy just yet.