Big 12 in 2016

[longtimefan]

‏@flugempire 13m13 minutes ago BTM/OU Contacts "Nothing has changed course" "AAC & B12 communicating this week on setting parametiers for Exit Fee and penalties"

[red_n_black_attack]

Dodds Just now:

http://www.cbssports.com/college-foo...g-their-fists/

Open Letter to Bob Bowlsby,

Maybe I see this a little differently. The SEC has Vandy, and Arkansas. The B!G has NW, and RU (and Maryland). The tv contract is for Tier 1 rights, not tier 3. I don't expect any more than maybe 1 game involving new schools reaching the Tier 1 level. This will leave ESPN and Fox more higher level games in any given week to choose from showing. Any "dilution" of the product will be on the lower tier 3 games. In fact, Mr. Bowlsby should be able to successfully argue that the quality of the tier 1/2 games should increase if the scheduling is done with that in mind. In this way nearly all of the marquee games should be available to Fox/ESPN Note: ABC is part of the ESPN contract. Looking at the tv schedule for just last year these games weren't on Fox, ESPN, or ABC and could be with creative scheduling because there are so many good teams in the Big 12.

Texas v TT
WVU v Texas
Arkansas v TT
OU v WVU
TCU v WVU

and these games were on Fox, ESPN, or ABC

ISU v Iowa
KSU v TCU

Net - the networks will have more of the top tier to put on their premiere networks.

[Johnny Mac]

Chatter? what chatter? We'll accept any rumors

For what its worth. Heard that an Ultimate Jet Charter from Cincy, with UC as the charterer, left Wednesday for flight to Dallas Love Airport. Returned from Dallas last night arriving at approx. 9:30 pm. More fuel for the fire?

John

[longtimefan]

Entire BYU athletic department called to an unscheduled meeting this morning. Who knows?

http://www.sltrib.com/home/4182085-155/byu-athletics-big-12-tv-partners

[Lobot]

Here's what I know about the Dude. He operates from a blog and twitter account that has multiple email addresses behind it. Each email address is used to send different scenarios to followers of different schools. So if you follow Houston you get scenario A. If you follow UC you will get scenario B in email. He's been doing this for years. He strikes me as an intelligent guy and I believe he may have a law degree and knows the TV business. Most of his scenarios are plausible but they're almost never ,if ever, correct. He is manipulating you for page views on the blog and twitter followers. He's got an inside track on West Virginia only, if that. He's also been known to threaten other expansion related accounts both in email and with lawsuits. His stuff can be interesting but it's my belief that he's not credible on anything that doesn't directly concern WVU.

Same goes for Tuxedo Yoda. He's good with Texas internal politics and that's about it. The difference there is he's been know to be right occasionally although it's been a while.

Even Greg Fluguar gives me some pause. His stuff seems to be the most credible but not sure why he's even interested in the Big 12 since he's a Minnesota fan. If I had to pick one, I'd take Fluguar but that doesn't mean it's not a snow job also. It wouldn't entirely surprise me if they were all the same person although none of them seem to like each other on the surface.