***OFFICIAL BIG 12 EXPANSION THREAD 2.0***
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Here is a Kansas guy that has been spot on with realignment stuff in the last couple years. Obvious that he has some sources and he isn't into wild speculation either. Not a lot of concrete stuff in here today but a good read for the latest.
Realignment Today: Is Florida State still in play for potential Big 12 expansion? | Tale of the Tait | KUsports.com
Realignment Today: Is Florida State still in play for potential Big 12 expansion? | Tale of the Tait | KUsports.com
I like the article. The first comment about KU wanting to leave is just plain ignorant. What do people not understand about the GOR. No school is giving up their rights for 13 years, in 10 years maybe we will need to worry, but for several years no team is leaving the B12.
I think one of those posters points was that if OU & OSU went to the SEC and KU to the B1G and UT spilt that perhaps there wouldn't be enough teams left to fight the GOR fight? Which seems ridiculous.
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Would one team do that with no guarantee that the others are going to? Pretty HUGE risk. The big problem is the risk. Nobody is hoping to risk testing the GOR. Whether there are loopholes or not, it is a HUGE gamble to test it.
I agree. I think if that scenario played out the teams left behind would sue due to collusion by OU/OSU/KU/UT.
It's all nonsense though. KU to the B1G is wishful thinking by them and simply isn't going to happen. the B1G could've had KC and StL with Mizzou and didn't take them. I think the B1G wants UVa and UNC...
edit - Also, regarding this story and FSU; some of these KU guys think somehow they could get out of the B12 by being "replaced" by FSU. Ummm, no. It does not and will not work that way. And FSU to the SEC is a non-starter. Florida would not allow FSU into the SEC under any circumstances.
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That is ridiculous indeed. First of all, if the SEC won't take FSU, Clemson, GA Tech, etc because they double up TV markets within existing states, they're not taking Okla State as a tag along to Oklahoma.
Second of all, even if the B12 did somehow lose 4 teams, that doesn't nullify the GOR. I think it'd take 70% or 80% of the league to bolt to start worrying about that, and the B12 doesn't have enough TV markets to worry about having that many attractive candidates for other conferences.
The whole point the author was making about his upcoming article is that nobody from the B12 is going anywhere for at least 10 years.
"Bill is a dinosaur, marching, marching! Bill is a dinosaur, what do you think of that?"
(either you have children or listen to O&A, I'm in both camps and can only pronounce dinosaur incorrectly now...)
The Big Twelve needs to get back to twelve and it starts with FSU and CU from the ACC, if we do not expand this time around then change the freaking conference name. I believe that FSU and CU would ADD value to the conference.
Freak out much? It's the name of the conference. Who cares. Not to mention what would they change it to?
Wow ISU fourth most profitable football program in big 12.. thats impressive.
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Be very interesting to see. I don't think B1G or SEC is done they will get to 16 as SEC has said 14 doesn't work well. Big 12 may need to move quickly or be stuck at 10
Uh not freaking out, but having 10 teams with a name that suggest you have 12 doesn't it seem funny to you?
Michigan St's AD has an interesting quote saying 14 is clumsy and 16 would be better. Wonder when the next domino will fall
Big 10 had 11 since '93. The conference name has less to do with the amount of teams and more to do with the brand nowadays.
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