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Originally Posted by sedated
Honestly, I don't care about the "Texas rules us all" shit right now. The discrepancy is not that much (2 or 3 million in terms of 10 or 12 million) compared to losing BCS qualification and a historic basketball program.
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At this point, I'd be fine with just moving the needle. It's half equal and half slightly unequal right now? How about we move to 2/3 and 1/3?
When you consider the athletic department income for most of these schools is way above 50-60 million total from all sources, What is 2 or 3 million, really?
I think that issue is just an irritation to Nebraska, its not why they are apparently leaving. It's simply because the Big 10 is rich right now, and the Big 12 is locked into a lousy contract through 2015 or whenever it expires.
Sure the Big 12 might eventually get a lot closer, but thats a long time to wait and they probably are also concerned that if they let this opportunity close and the Big 12 falls apart in a couple years for some other reason, they are screwed.