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[GoBearcats31]

Thamel: Sources: The Big 12 is exploring starting a bowl game in Mexico in the postseason of 2026, with the site targeted to be Monterrey. The league will also hold a regular season game w/Houston and Kansas in Mexico City in 2024 in men’s and women’s basketball.

[Lobot]

And expansion plans ($)

https://theathletic.com/4576036/2023...shared_article

[GoBearcats31]

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark announces the conference is distributing an estimated $440 million to its membership for 2022-23. https://twitter.com/max_olson/status...66858153299968

[bearcatbret]

How the four new Big 12 teams are adjusting. Big 12 expansion: How league newcomers are preparing for life within prestigious Power Five universe - CBSSports.com

[leo from jersey]

Hope it's soon, I'm ready for a new Jersey... still rocking the old Adidas one because I never liked the design of the UA ones

I am not sure you would be ready for New Jersey.

[bearcatbret]

If you are interested in the 2022 payouts per school of the Power 5. How the Big 12 and Pac-12 stacked up in revenue distribution for the 2022 fiscal year (msn.com)

[GoBearcats31]

Not sure the best place to put this, but Scott Springer wrote an article about last night's event in Columbus
UC's Big 12 Bearcat road show boldly makes stop in Columbus

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/spo...s/70233474007/

[Lobot]

Ok, so yesterday Dennis Dodd published this : https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...-media-rights/

Every other sports college football writer on the planet called BS on it and stated that it's incorrect. At this point you have to think Dodd is a completely unreliable reporter or has a bad source for this info, or CBS has him throwing things out there on an agenda. Who really knows.

On the flip side you have Stewart Mandel who is still carrying water for the PAC 12 based on his recent articles.

[Lobot]

This might be paywalled but it's a good writeup on the things Yormark is doing from Extra Points: ($?)

https://www.extrapointsmb.com/p/big-...-idea-bad-idea

[bearcatbret]

And this is why Fresno State thinks they are a fit in the Big 12. Spoiler, it is about playing in Mexico. Big 12 has big plans, and one could be a gateway for Fresno State in conference expansion (yahoo.com)

[Lobot]

More non traditional things from the mind of Yormark.

https://www.si.com/college/2023/05/0...ame-interviews

[Lobot]

I meant to post this yesterday.

Departmental Passport expenses just went way up

[GoBearcats31]

Sorry if posted already...

https://www.si.com/college/2023/05/0...ames-in-mexico

The Big 12 has been exploring playing football and men’s and women’s basketball games in Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico, with a preferred top 10 men’s hoops matchup between Kansas and Houston, multiple sources tell Sports Illustrated.

The conference has had tentative plans to hold regular-season league games south of the border for months, with first-year commissioner Brett Yormark even visiting Mexico City last week. He met with officials and toured potential sites, including at 22,300-seat Arena CDMX in Mexico City for basketball. Football games would be played in Monterrey at Estadio BBVA, a 53,000-seat venue nicknamed El Gigante de Acero. The Houston Chronicle first reported the news of potential games in Mexico.

The league expects to begin holding basketball games in Mexico during the 2024–25 season and football in fall of ’25, a source told SI. In a more long-term plan, the conference is also looking to add baseball and soccer games in Mexico.

[bearcatbret]

Ranking the Big 12 football - Big 12 Football: Spring 2023 Power Rankings (msn.com)
Ranking the Big 12 QBs - Big 12 Football: Early 2023 QB Preview and Rankings - AthlonSports.com | Expert Predictions, Picks, and Previews
Let's hope that our Bearcats can prove them wrong. On a side note, WVU has had 10 years on the Big 12 and are basically last in everything.

[bearcatbret]

I'm not sure that has anything to do with the apparel contract.

I did not really mean to tie it into apparel contracts. I just got the impression that some on here thought that we were already in the Big 12. We still have spring sports going on within the AAC.