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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

Were fans potentially excited about that? Yeah, there were some. I'll admit to enjoying the idea that some rivals might not come out of realignment as well. I was actually against moving when Missouri did, but I understand the reasons the administrators and decision makers did it.

The primary motivation of Chancellor Deaton and other administrators wasn't to screw everybody else and relegate rivals to the Mountain West or etc. This was a stability issue, plain and simple. Missouri had a chance to play its own cards rather than sitting around and waiting to see what Texas did (and how everything shook out from there).

The movement of Texas A&M and Missouri (as well as Nebraska and Colorado) and resulting instability forced the Big 12 to change some of its operating policies, including how Tier 1 and Tier 2 revenue is split, to survive.

If schools like Iowa State like the money they're receiving under this revenue model, they can't demonize or mock the schools that left. It probably wouldn't have happened this way otherwise.

It also looks more and more like the SEC Network is going to be a significant financial windfall that compensates SEC schools at an extremely high level. I don't buy the $500 million-to-the-conference stuff that's being thrown around, but I could see $250 million ($17.5 million per school). Even at $150 million, you're still looking at $10 million+ per school. That's impressive T3 rights money for everyone except Texas (or at least was the last time we saw T3 numbers thrown around).

Long-term, that MORE than makes up for 2-3 years of getting $2-3 million less in revenue for Texas A&M and Missouri (not sure if that even plays out that way, though... my understanding is each school's cut is $20.9 million this year, but that is before bowl revenue is distributed).

EXACTLY!!!!!