Teams
Forum List
Toggle sidebar

*****The Super, Mega, Huge Big 12 Expansion Thread*****

Status
Not open for further replies.
Interesting read on Missouri's move...

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-missouri-sec

Basically the article says

1. Mizzou will have a lot more expenses in the SEC
2. ZOU is planning on adding 2,000 seats for the football stadium
3. Wresting is thinking about joining a league with the Dakotas, Utah, Wyoming, and they'll see if the B12 teams are interested
4. Mizzou is hoping to have exit fees of $10-12 million (good luck with that)
5. A&M and Mizzou were hoping to negotiate exit fees together, but Bowtie Loftin has said good luck and we think we'll negotiate separately
6. There is actually one sport where recruits are now looking to head to Mizzou because of the SEC instead of looking to run from Mizzou: Women's tennis. Congrats Mizzou. You'll now be a women's tennis power...

Although football and TV contracts are the driving forces behind conference realignment, perhaps no better example of Missouri’s promotion to a top-tier league can be found than by looking at women’s tennis.
At Florida, the reigning NCAA champion and a five-time title winner since 1992, players compete in the 1,000-seat Scott Linder Stadium’s 15 courts and enjoy a 5,620-square-foot building with male and female locker rooms, coaches’ offices for both the men’s and women’s teams and a palm tree-lined outdoor courtyard. Tennessee boasts a 2,000-seat stadium that’s within walking distance of campus dorms.
As for Missouri? There is no men’s team, but the women’s team played its home matches at city of Columbia park three miles from campus—and shared those courts with a local high school squad—due to drainage problems at their campus courts.
While the school is building new outdoor courts as part of a $900,000 improvement project, much work remains beyond that initial effort, said new coach Sasha Schmid.
But Missouri’s announced move already is paying dividends, Schmid said, as prospective recruits flooded her e-mail inbox with letters of interest after learning that a Midwest school soon will compete in the warm-weather, talent-rich SEC.
“The interest we got from five-star recruits was more than I’ve ever seen,” she said. “There are kids that want to play in the SEC. Not everybody can go to Florida and Georgia.”
Click to expand...
 
that article implies that ISU would be in the same wrestling conference as...North Dakota State...LAKEBISON!!!!!!

Seriously though, wouldn't the NCAA ok a micro-conference tourney with WVU taking Mizzou's place? I thought it was already ok'd for ISU/OSU/OU/MIZZOU.

I hate to wish for the death of Missouri wrestling, but I'd prefer to ask Northern Iowa and three other teams to join our four teams for wrestling only than join any conference with Mizzou.
 
Last edited:
HFCS said:
that article implies that ISU would be in the same wrestling conference as...North Dakota State...LAKEBISON!!!!!!

Seriously though, wouldn't the NCAA ok a micro-conference tourney with WVU taking Mizzou's place? I thought it was already ok'd for ISU/OSU/OU/MIZZOU.

I hate to wish for the death of Mizzouri wrestling, but I'd prefer to ask Northern Iowa and three other teams to join our four teams for wrestling only than join any conference with Mizzou.
Click to expand...

Yup, we're good with a 4 team conference. ISU, OSU, OU, and WVU will all wrestle for the Big 12 championship.
 
cyman05 said:
Interesting read on Missouri's move...

Missouri move to SEC: more money, more expenses - College Football - Rivals.com

Basically the article says

1. Mizzou will have a lot more expenses in the SEC
2. ZOU is planning on adding 2,000 seats for the football stadium
3. Wresting is thinking about joining a league with the Dakotas, Utah, Wyoming, and they'll see if the B12 teams are interested
4. Mizzou is hoping to have exit fees of $10-12 million (good luck with that)
5. A&M and Mizzou were hoping to negotiate exit fees together, but Bowtie Loftin has said good luck and we think we'll negotiate separately
6. There is actually one sport where recruits are now looking to head to Mizzou because of the SEC instead of looking to run from Mizzou: Women's tennis. Congrats Mizzou. You'll now be a women's tennis power...
Click to expand...


Email boxes getting flooded with 5 star recruits wanting to play for Missouri?

bs-meter.jpg
 
Louisville coaches telling recruits they will play in the Big12

"My main question for them was, what conference are they going to be in?" he said. "And also if (Charlie) Strong and them would take a (job with a) bigger team in the next four years, whether I will be able to count on them to be there the next four years. I felt they have always kept it real with me and looked me in my eyes and told me the truth.

What was Carter's response for which league he thought the Cardinals would land in? "He said they would be in the Big 12, no doubt," Wales said.

Louisville Coaches Telling Recruits They're Headed For The Big 12? - Big East Coast Bias
 
Ahh, I'm just going to put my feet up and enjoy watching to see what happens first: the monster thread hits 20k, or the complete collapse of the Mizzou athletic department. They are so far out of their league that they don't even know how bad off they are.
 
I expect the two supposed/poised/rats leaving the ship exiters, MOlehole and TAMmy to have as much success the first year as did Colorado and Nebby.
 
@kbohls
kbohls
Big 12 administrators are expected to talk about future expansion during the trip to NYC for Hall of Fame dinner next week.
 
Boomer said:
@kbohls
kbohls
Big 12 administrators are expected to talk about future expansion during the trip to NYC for Hall of Fame dinner next week.
Click to expand...

I still think it's going to be BYU and Louisville with either pod scheduling or some sort of football balanced divisions like the new Big Ten.

I think they want to go big. BYU is the biggest financial get out there, bigger than WVU and TCU were. Louisville is a decent athletic department and great geographic fit in a new market.

BYU might balk at joining the Big East and being in the new Service Academies and East Carolina conference, but they'd be insane or stupid to turn down the Big 12 with their hated rivals being Pac 12 now.
 
BYU is never happening. Its not byu balking at the big east, its the big east balking at the conditions BYU is trying to put on any conference it joins, the same conditions that caused discussions with the big 12 not to go very far.

If BYU wants to come in with no conditions and be an equal member, sure, bring them in. Otherwise they can gtfo.
 
alarson said:
BYU is never happening. Its not byu balking at the big east, its the big east balking at the conditions BYU is trying to put on any conference it joins, the same conditions that caused discussions with the big 12 not to go very far.

If BYU wants to come in with no conditions and be an equal member, sure, bring them in. Otherwise they can gtfo.
Click to expand...
This. If BYU wasn't one of the first two added, why would they be joining now?
 
Adding Louisville would be great. Besides Cinci, I don't know what other team I would like to see in the big 12. Maybe Houston? Mine as well make an all Texas South :P
 
HFCS said:
I still think it's going to be BYU and Louisville with either pod scheduling or some sort of football balanced divisions like the new Big Ten.

I think they want to go big. BYU is the biggest financial get out there, bigger than WVU and TCU were. Louisville is a decent athletic department and great geographic fit in a new market.

BYU might balk at joining the Big East and being in the new Service Academies and East Carolina conference, but they'd be insane or stupid to turn down the Big 12 with their hated rivals being Pac 12 now.
Click to expand...

I don't understand the obsession with BYU and I don't agree that they are the biggest financial get out there. Not at all. Unless you are Mormon or stuck in Utah, or both, then BYU is not all that great IMO. And the baggage they bring in by insisting that there be NO Sunday games is very troubling for Basketball. I say NO to BYU.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Help Support Us

Become a patron
Top Bottom
Back