Why would KSU or KU want a protected rival when they can see they would get their butts kicked every year from now on.
Big 12 Conference Realignment
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Typical fan on a Saturday night browses the games to see what gets their interest. I'm sure that game won over nearly every fan that didn't have a rooting interest playing.
I've watched it four times already which is double my norm.
Ksu had a rival with Kansas and probably didn't want to add another one. Jamie probably didn't want to push hard.
I'm glad we weren't forced into a manufactured rivalry game.
Agreed.
Living out on the west coast I had multiple friends text me during the game how awesome it looked on tv. Same with co workers when I got back to work Monday. It was a novelty snow game that turned out to be highly entertaining and also aesthetically pleasing and in turn it looks like a lot of people watched.
Also, most them couldn’t believe Abu Sama wasn’t a blue chip and just local 3 star product.
They purchased an online college for $1 thinking it was a great deal. Then they found out how much “that investment” is costing them.
It's been a good three decades now that KSU is an above average FBS team (nobody can argue above average, beyond that gets into some debate).
I'm fine with not guaranteeing them on our schedule every single year.
Arizona is playing great right now and Baylor/TCU are unusually down very quickly, but if you look at the past decade Utah, KState, TCU, Baylor and OKSt are probably the teams where if you guaranteed play them every season you're going to trend toward a harder SOS than if you didn't play them every single year.
If KSU was traditionally as bad as KU sign me up. It's why I'm not going to kill Iowa for having relatively easy Neb/Minn because at least they also have Wisconsin that's been a top half team in their conference. If they just had Neb/Minn I'd laugh about how they still tricked out an easy schedule even in their new league. Still just Neb/Minn guaranteed I expect them to be #16 to #18 on average in that big league if you just look at conference game strength, I just don't see either of those programs being anything other than a punching bag as the 7-8 big brands get more and more money/exposure.
BYU and ISU have the largest capacity football stadiums in the new Big 12, so perhaps a future rivalry might develop between them. I just do not want the manufactured rivalry to be with Colorado. Had enough back in the Big 8 days.
Who told you that? The stadium's final capacity is not finalized yet, but it will be more than 45K. Most speculate it will be around 50K.
Rather schools downsize and have a little more room. Haven't read details but hope seats instead of benches.
I think they’re talking about the reduced capacity for just next season while they construct and confusing it for the final capacity
Pretty sure initial recommendation and subsequent rumors were that capacity was going to fall just below 40k, but the AD came out and said that wasn’t going to happen in August. He never gave a specific number but said it’d be more than 40,000.
Pretty sure the general consensus is low 40s (potentially) to mid 40s.
Pretty sure the general consensus is low 40s (potentially) to mid 40s.
So will OSU and WSU split Washington’s CFP money? Since the other members split, I assume all revenue goes to them as sole members of the conference?
Okie lite would be a nice rival, they are usually good and an old Big 8 rival. We need to have a comparable, close team.
Looking at this i feel like we jumped the gun taking all 4 following OuTs announcing. Colorado will only be a temporary blip on the radar then fall back to nothing soon enough. I wonder if we needed all 4 to secure stability. Hindsight Cincinnati/BYU would of lessen the overall watering down. Then grabbing Arizona plus Colorado would of given us a stronger 12.