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Originally Posted by HerculesRockefell
It's a nice scenario, but there's a big problem: As long as Texas runs the conference and there is an unequal revenue distribution, the Big XII-2 is not long for this world.
KU, KSU, Iowa St, Mizzou, and Baylor obviously did whatever they had to do to keep the conference together because they had no other BCS conference to go to, but nothing they did helped make the conference viable in the long-term.
Continually adding teams to the conference would only further perpetuate the haves and the have nots.
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The PAC 10, if you didn't know, also already operates on an uneven revenue distribution system, so I don't really know why that is such a big hangup. The format would provide huge TV contracts that all schools would ultimately benefit from. As we have seen, schools who may not have a sustainable single product could band together to form a more comprehensive package. Every conference has "have's and have not's". Northwestern getting 20 million from the Big 10 is unlikely to change its fortunes. Your objection sounds more like sour grapes to me. I don't believe Texas has ever been the #1 revenue earner since the conference's inception. The difference usually isn't more than 3 or 4 million dollars. I think this aspect is a bit overblown.
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