I can only guess that the grant of rights (security) and the big payday (that only needed to be split 10 ways) was a big factor.

Or they thought that Texas had such a sweet deal controlling an entire conference that they would never leave.

Because none of them outright dominate a television market.

We hope and pray that Patrick Mahomes will help to keep Texas Tech in a P5 conference. :) That's all I ask.

That’s false, they do not.

Rutgers doesn't dominate shit but if they got in purely because of "NY" then why wouldn't Houston or Dallas/FW?

(that's aside from the fact that television market is an antiquated way to think about it this time around)

I’m glad they didn’t. Last time around Iowa States home was the Big East or Big12. This time around it’s the B1G, PAC, or weird Big12 that’s neither P4 nor G5.

Source?

I did some light Googling earlier and didn't find anything else on it... and it makes sense that as long as they're in the B12, they would have to basically waive their right to a vote or something along those lines unless there's specific verbiage around them being nullified with an acceptance to another conference (which of course would be ideal).

I’m not going to spend time looking for it, but I saw multiple people the week it officially happened report it. Whatever section of the bylaws.

But in some wild scenario where that were true, OuuT wouldn’t vote to expand, they’d vote to dissolve which would only happen if each conference goes to 16 which would pass with or without OuuT.

BINGO!

YES!

THIS GUY GETS IT!

That’s why NO ONE in the Big 12 should be butthurt towards Mizzou, Nebraska for leaving the conference when they did so many years ago. They knew what was coming with Texas and got out when they could still control their own destiny.

Mizzou would be screwed right now and looking at a lesser Tier 2 conference when the Big 12 eventually breaks up if they had stuck around in the Big Texas conference.

Becasue Buttgers is the state U of New Jersey, which has 10 million people. The BIG was able to get full cable carriage in that state plus some level of carriage from the NYC metro, making that addition a moneymaker for the other schools.


None of that applies to TCU or SMU or Houston.

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This just popped up on Twitter and I hadn’t seen it. Nebraska’s mascot after they changed their name from the Bugeaters?

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Just more reason to hate Texas.

KU can try and get into the American Conference as long as Navy doesn’t object on the grounds that their Football program will lower the quality of play in the league.