Uh-Oh, Could Big12 be expanding!?

[JohnFrancis]

Plenty of stories out there now....

https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/big-12-reportedly-met-with-cincinnati-before-playoff-was-finalized-160133203.html

[slimm]

I won't believe any expansion rumors till something happens. This is all just a ton of smoke.

At that point , it wouldn't be a rumor then....

[CincyEngGrad02]

I won't believe any expansion rumors till something happens. This is all just a ton of smoke.

Finally, a man speaking common sense.

[cmm27]

The Big 12 had conducted a study last off season in regards to expansion and revenue. UC was the only school at that time that would not decrease revenue per team if added.

[98bearcat]

Tuxedo Yoda @TuxedoYoda

[mosucrc]

Ah - but generally where there is a "ton of smoke," there is also a fire!

If there's one thing we've learned from all of the coaching changes, it's this.

[richard k.]

I won't believe any expansion rumors till something happens. This is all just a ton of smoke.

Ah - but generally where there is a "ton of smoke," there is also a fire!

[Banter]

I won't believe any expansion rumors till something happens. This is all just a ton of smoke.

[longtimefan]

DeCourcy: Big 12 researching possible candidates for expansion even before playoff snub

"Big 12 officials recently met with administrators from the University of Cincinnati, a source close to the university told Sporting News. That is not an indication membership will be offered to the Bearcats in the immediate future —*only that they would be a candidate were such an expansion to be undertaken."

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2014-12-08/college-football-playoff-big-12-expansion-champions-bob-bowlsby-cincinnati-memphis-byu?eadid=SOC/Twi/SNMain

[mjv780]

I despartely want to see UC in a P5 conference. I think our program deserves it. I am also worried that we will get in to the Big 12 and then the powers that be decide it is best to have four 16 team leagues to end the argument of one conference being left out of the playoff system And then we are kicked out by the big boys
and left holding the bag.

Maybe somehow UC can pull a TCU and skip conferences twice within one year if that scenario happens...

[kennh]

I despartely want to see UC in a P5 conference. I think our program deserves it. I am also worried that we will get in to the Big 12 and then the powers that be decide it is best to have four 16 team leagues to end the argument of one conference being left out of the playoff system And then we are kicked out by the big boys
and left holding the bag.

[longtimefan]

Ya, that pretty much discredited the whole article for me when he threw Marshall in there?? Really, I guess they are going for the WV rival angel there but I have never ready anything that suggested WV was asking for Marshall to be added as their new foe and travel mate.

WVU pushing Marshall for the Big 12 would be like O$U pushing UC for the Big 10. No way, no how. Unless of course politicians get involved, which would never happen in Ohio.

[bobestes]

WV is not a large enough state to really justify being there in the first place, so I can't imagine they'd double down and add another WV school.

WE HAVE GOT TO OWN THE WEST VIRGINIA MARKET!!!!

Ya, that pretty much discredited the whole article for me when he threw Marshall in there?? Really, I guess they are going for the WV rival angel there but I have never ready anything that suggested WV was asking for Marshall to be added as their new foe and travel mate.

[TheDog]

I would suspect like many reporters today that he didn't do any research. Marshall has no chance to be invited to the Big 12. BYU and Cincinnati are the top two choices.

[98bearcat]

[QUOTE=bearcatbret;233694]Interesting that he does not mention schools that others have and seem to be in the lead... "Which is why programs like East Carolina, Marshall and even BYU, which are stuck outside the Power 5 with slim playoff hopes, are updating their r