Big 12 in 2016

[Lobot]

Don't they go together? no expansion = imploding

​What a joke.

In my opinion yes, they go together. I have every reason to believe the conference will effectively disband if there's no expansion when the current Grant of Rights expires.

[bearcat428]

Don't they go together? no expansion = imploding

​What a joke.

[Lobot]

Flugaur tweetstorm this morning. Seems that the dialogue has shifted away from expansion to not imploding in 2024 when the GoR expires.

[bearcatbret]

Just interesting the questions USF asks of "Down the Drive". http://www.thedailystampede.com/2016...ne-chili-sucks

[red_n_black_attack]

I don't believe in frogs.

[Lobot]

If you believe the Frogs O' War blog TCU is going to vote no on expansion.

http://www.frogsowar.com/2016/9/29/13101610/source-tcu-likely-to-vote-no-on-big-12-expansion

[red_n_black_attack]

What if they added Houston and Cincy and played a round robin schedule? It could work if each team had one "rivalry game" that is played in the Cotton Bowl. You get 11 conference games per year, five home, five away, and one at Cotton Bowl. The Cotton Bowl gets six games with fans needing to buy all six games for preferred seating and single game tickets available around Aug 1st. Except each school gets 3,000 tickets early to distribute to the biggest donors. The Cotton Bowl game will be treated as neutral site where game proceeds get split 50/50 between the participating teams after Cotton Bowl/Conference gets their cut. This will allow the conference to own the Dallas market for six games. Schools get option of playing another P-5 team in home and home series and can schedule in a way where every other year you get two non-conference home games and only one in the other years. Surey playing Cincinnati or Houston is better strength of schedule to than a directional upstate or downstate FCS game.

[longtimefan]

The mock draft is completed. The mock presidents chose two teams. UConn and Houston. http://dailycampus.com/stories/2016/...y-has-12-teams

The UConn paper chose UConn, in related news, after much research they discovered that the Pope is Catholic.

[bearcatbret]

The mock draft is completed. The mock presidents chose two teams. UConn and Houston. http://dailycampus.com/stories/2016/...y-has-12-teams

[TheDog]

Twitter had great promise but now it is just a worthless source of noise with no consequences.

[longtimefan]

https://twitter.com/GSwaim/status/781158735808897024

Another one probably not worth wasting time on. I've seen the same thing on and off from the beginning, he cites no source and just says it's the latest theory. He's just guessing like everybody else, and if he turns out to be right he'll heap praise on himself, and if wrong will say nothing and move on. All these twitter experts are just like us trying to guess what will happen, and few if any of them have any real sources worth listening to.

[slimm]

https://twitter.com/GSwaim/status/781158735808897024

[red_n_black_attack]

Brent

I still see this as OU favoring expansion in a philosophically different way than Texas favors it. Texas is looking to make good on old friendships to the SWC and keeping travel as low as possible for fans without seeing that media footprint is the most important element. OU is looking at what is best for the Big 12 as a conference, while keeping options open. The BYU HC is throwing a wrench into the only plausible compromise which is adding four, three outside of Texas.

Maybe BYU gets its HC reworded. Less likely Texas says yes to two schools outside Texas. That's it folks. No way does a two school expansion get approved with one in Texas. Nor will a four team expansion get approved without BYU/UH as Texas wants them both. Less than one percent chance of Houston plus three other AAC teams in eastern time zone.

The horse trading options are known, now they're are staring each other down. Who will blink? Will anyone blink?

[Lobot]

More on Picken vs. Boren and Gundy: http://landgrantgauntlet.com/2016/09...vid-to-retire/

BYU blog take: http://www.vanquishthefoe.com/2016/9...source=twitter

[Lobot]

This includes some quotes from a Barry Tramel article in the Oklahoman yesterday as well:

http://footballscoop.com/news/big-12...r-loving-mind/

and the actual article:

http://newsok.com/tramel-ou-not-anti-expansion-ou-is-anti-expansion-candidates/article/5520007