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Big 12 Expansion: Louisville, BYU Considered Possible Targets, According To Report - SB Nation Kansas City

Big 12 Conference Reopens Expansion Talk - Players - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The four-person expansion committee*—which is chaired by V. Burns Hargis, Oklahoma State’s president, and includes Kirk H. Schulz, president of Kansas State, and DeLoss Dodds, the athletic director at Texas—plans to make a report to the Big 12 Conference’s Board of Directors next week.
That report will be an update on where the committee believes things should go next, Hargis said. “If there are two schools that we feel meet our various criteria—good academic institutions with good athletic programs and strong fan bases—and that our television network partners think are additive to our conference, it’s something we’re clearly going to consider.”
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http://kansascity.sbnation.com/kans...virginia-move-still-tied-to-big-east-move-not
 
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Big 12 still considering expansion, offseason off to rocky start - NCAA Football - Sporting News

“I don’t want to send the message, ‘Oh, they’re getting ready to expand,’” Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione told the Chronicle. “But you’d be naïve to think there’s not instability still in our business.”
Meanwhile, in the land of national playoffs: the COIA, a group of reform-based professors who represent their faculties, wants a 64-team playoff (nevermind the untold logistics of it all), a stipend for players (already pushed to the backburner by the NCAA) and a congressional antitrust legislation to allow the NCAA to regulate spiraling coaching salaries and other costs.
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http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/34477726

“Obviously, this offseason will be just as wacky as last year’s,” writes the Sporting News’ Matt Hayes. "The Big 12 is still in the process of delivering its football schedule for 2012 and has a Feb. 1 deadline from its television partners. The problem is it doesn’t know for sure if West Virginia is officially leaving the Big East to join the Big 12.
“West Virginia officials have said numerous times that they plan on playing in the Big 12 in 2012, but that would mean breaking a contract with the Big East unless a court ruling decides otherwise. Yes, everyone, there are attorneys involved.”
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Yellow Snow said:
Swaim interview on Utah radio today...

Interesting comments to say the least.

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Great interview.

I would love it. BYU and Louisville now for 12. Doesn't set off any more dominoes that can affect the Big 12.

combo of ND/ACC football schools if they ever go to 14 or 16.

I think pods with limited protected rival makes the most sense. Top two pod winners or top overall finishers play title game.

ISU
Louisville
WVU (OSU or TCU protected rival to make BYU trip more rare)
KSU (KU protected rival)

BYU (Tech protected rival to minimize travel)
OU (Texas protected rival)
OSU
KU

Four Texas schools
 
Does not Chuck have to issue the 12 schedule by 1 Feb?

Iowa State Cyclones Football Schedules and Future Schedules

Big 12 Football Schedules & Future Schedules

2012 West Virginia Mountaineers Football Schedule

Look at this:
Missouri Tigers add UCF Knights to 2012 Football Schedule
Missouri will travel to face UCF at Bright House Networks Stadium in Orlando on Sept. 29, 2012. The game will be the first ever meeting between the two schools.
UCF fills a hole in Missouri’s schedule created when the Tigers left the Big 12 to join the SEC. There is no word yet whether UCF will return the game to Columbia in a future season.
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:twitcy::twitcy::twitcy:
Missouri now has three open dates remaining on their 2012 football schedule: Sept. 1 (season opener), Oct. 20 and Nov. 17. One of those dates will be Missouri’s off week, probably Oct. 20.
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I do not see Kansas on their schedule.:twitcy::twitcy:
 
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isuno1fan said:
When are folks going to realize Cincy is not going to happen?? Extremely unlikely. I haven't seen one report that even includes them other than far reaching bleacher report type crap.
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To be fair, how much speculation was there on TCU or WVU to the Big 12? It seems like both of those schools didn't pop up on the radar until it was pretty much a done deal. And I don't think I saw any rumblings of Pitt and Cuse to the ACC until they were announcing it as done on ESPN.

I think the rule with conference realignment has been expect whatever the media isn't reporting. Round one started with Mizzou to the Big Ten and ended with CU to the Pac 12 and NU to the B1G with Mizzou still here. Round two may have started correctly with aTm to the SEC, but really gathered steam with the Big 12 South teams heading to the Pac, which never happened. And Mizzou to the SEC seemed like a long shot until the very end. The main media channels for this stuff just haven't been hitting for a very high percentage over the last couple years.
 
Big 12’s Neinas tees off on MU for ‘selfish’ move Tiger Extra - Mizzou Sports | ColumbiaTribune.com

Missouri and the Big 12 have not commented in recent weeks on where they stand on negotiating MU’s withdrawal fee. Texas A&M’s regents met by telephone Monday and voted unanimously to authorize President R. Bowen Loftin to execute the school’s settlement with the Big 12.
“We are engaging with” the Big 12 “fairly regularly, and it is my hope that we will have a very rapid conclusion on this, but I can’t predict when that will happen or what the outcome will be,” Loftin told the The Bryan-College Station Eagle.
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Revolution said:
I hope we make them pay every cent that they owe. Same goes for A&M.
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What leverage does TAMU and Missery have? They already said they will leave the conference at the end of this athletic year. At least for Colorado and kNU, they had leverage by saying they were fine to wait out the waiting period but we needed them out. I'd expect the Big 12 to get everything out of TAMU and Missery as these two schools have no leverage.
 
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