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Originally Posted by beer bacon
The St. Louis Post Dispatch has an article out saying that the new Big 12 will have three tiered system for football payouts. First tier will be OU, UT, and A&M at 20+ million dollars a year. The second tier will be Ok. State and Texas Tech at 15-17 million a year. The last tier is everyone else at 14 million or less a year.
Missouri has to be led by some of the world's all time greatest ****ups to go from thinking they had a sure thing in the Big 10 to getting a train ran on them by the Big 12 South minus Baylor. Here is the article.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/spo...1?OpenDocument |
Personally, I'm not that bent over it. We all know this expansion was led by football and TV revenues. What schools in the conference generate those for us? The Big XII South teams do, and its not even close. What state provides the recruiting ground for almost every conference member? Texas does. What state provides the most viewership? Texas does. And so, what do us poor little Texas bitches have to put up with to allow Texas to take the lion's share? Only a hair under what the SEC schools currently get. That's right, despite little gridiron history to speak of or titles to add, Texas, who we haven't even been partners with for more than 15 years has enabled us to be players in major college athletics. I mean, who else was looking out for us? AT ALL. You want a bigger share of the pie, here's what I would do: WIN. Win often and win big so it is at other's peril to overlook you as a key contributor or attractive target, and quit bitching about good fortune. You almost just doubled your previous high mark takes for a season.