Big 12 in 2016

[Lobot]

Somebody pulled the data out and it's 10 million from ESPN over the remaining life of the contract.

[Lobot]

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/17858675/big-12-commissioner-bob-bowlsby-says-expansion-candidates-were-disappointed-league-decision-stay-10-members

[Greg7173]

http://www.espn.com/college-football...tay-10-members

What a pile of horse manure!!

[longtimefan]

I may be wrong but I see it this way. Houston was the wrench in the whole deal. Remember Texas governor Greg Abbot's comment "no expansion without Houston". If this process had been two years ago Houston would never have been a candidate at all, but the fact that they managed to put together one good season was enough for the politicians to get involved. The problem is that outside Texas nobody wanted Houston and they were never going to secure the eight votes needed; never. It still may have been UC and BYU or UConn but Texas simply would not consider expansion without Houston and that was enough; the other Texas schools joined them. In the end Texas got what they really wanted and rammed it down Oklahoma's throat again. When Boren realized he was beaten by Texas, he started blabbing to make it look like no expansion was actually his idea. Texas showed Oklahoma who's boss, and that's all there is to it. Of course it wasn't really unanimous but the extra $$ from ESPN made the status quo easier to accept for all involved.

As for Bowlsby claiming expansion candidates "thought they were treated respectfully" that's as big a bunch of manure as the supposed "unanimous" decision not to expand.

[coach]

10m split 10 ways over 8 years is without a doubt less than they likely would have been able to negotiate with the new schools to share on the expansion.