Big 10 Report: Conference Realignment

[Mr. Laz]

A source in St. Louis familiar with the situation told NewsCenter 16 Thursday afternoon that Missouri will leave the Big XII and soon join the Big 10. Other schools expected to follow the Tigers are Syracuse, Pitt, Rutgers and Nebraska.

Many have speculated that such an expansion would include Notre Dame but ND athletic director Jack Swarbrick told me today that the Irish prefer to stay independent in football and in the Big East for other sports. Swarbrick said maintaining football Independence is such a part of what Notre Dame is.

He went on to say the Big East is a great partner for the University in other sports.

"We do have to monitor what is going on," Swarbrick said. "There will be significant shifts. "Hopefully we can navigate them by keeping our football independent and keeping our Big East affiliation because that is what we care about."

The move of Syracuse, Pitt and Rutgers to the Big Ten from the Big East could categorically change the landscape of the Big East itself. Thus, what Swarbrick is referring to when stating the University must continue to monitor what is going on.

The interview with Swarbrick was done before the late afternoon announcement.

http://www.wndu.com/sports/headlines/92447574.html

[|Zach|]

The Big 12 will live on as long as the money's good and the teams being treated like lesser entities don't have better offers on the table, but that probably won't be the case forever.

[DaKCMan AP]

Originally Posted by buddha

Better for who? Not for the team who is trying to make a run at a BCS bowl. Strength of schedule doesn't figure into the mix, so it's even more of a race to sign up the lower tier D1 programs for the NC schedule.

Alden and Deaton completely fucked Missouri on this deal.

Strength of schedule absolutely figures into the equation. Some of the computer polls figure it in and it definitely weighs into the minds of voters.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

The Big 12 will live on as long as the money's good and the teams being treated like lesser entities don't have better offers on the table, but that probably won't be the case forever.

But you can be sure that, should Missouri ever be one of those teams with a better offer on the table, Alden will do everything in his power to !@#$ it up.

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

But you can be sure that, should Missouri ever be one of those teams with a better offer on the table, Alden will do everything in his power to !@#$ it up.

Whatever, you guys assume too much.

[kepp]

IMO, if Texas would have been thinking long-term, they would have agreed to a more amicable deal in regards to revenue sharing. All this deal does is ripen the fruit on the vine for future expansion attempts by the more powerful conferences. Then where is UT's $25million a year?

[ChiefsNWildcats]

I have to believe this strengthens the Big 12 when looking to future expansion itself. The ability to create your own network could be somewhat enticing to other power schools out there should they have a fallout with their current conference.

But not really any schools that fit that bill at the moment. Notre Dame probably would be interested in something like that, but they aren't going anywhere anytime soon with recent developments. The idea of super-conferences probably is all but dead right now.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by buddha

Better for who? Not for the team who is trying to make a run at a BCS bowl. Strength of schedule doesn't figure into the mix, so it's even more of a race to sign up the lower tier D1 programs for the NC schedule.

Alden and Deaton completely fucked Missouri on this deal.

And they'll probably end up getting fat raises for it, too.

Is there ANY accountability for these two ****s? Any at all? Christ. I can't imagine people in Columbia are reacting very well to this. What about the donors? Personally I wouldn't give them another dime until sweeping management changes were made.

[chiefsnorth]

This is terrible for Missouri, who stood a chance to be adopted by a power conference. It's good for Baylor, Kansas State, Iowa State, Kansas... the ones on the cusp of being mid-majors.

Although the argument could be made that the loss of two teams and the replacement by inferior teams, plus the consolidation of power in the big 3, means the Big 12 is more like a mid-major football conference.

Now Texas is once again like the road captain, letting everyone know those chains are for their own good. Wish they'd stop being so good to everyone.

Guess all these other schools will just have to accept that they have been moved down a peg in football relevancy, while the schools in major conferences have all improved themselves.

If the Big 12 is to become more relevant in the future they need to add quality football progams and lose the millstone football programs.
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[KChiefs1]

Big Texas Press Conference on 810 WHB.

[KChiefs1]

KMBC also covering it.

[kepp]

Originally Posted by ChiefsNWildcats

I have to believe this strengthens the Big 12 when looking to future expansion itself. The ability to create your own network could be somewhat enticing to other power schools out there should they have a fallout with their current conference.

All this deal is, is a rehash of the Big8/SWC merger...except with even more unequal revenue sharing. It puts the conference on even shakier ground than before. First, the sharing is more lop-sided. Second, we only have ten teams now. All it takes next time is for one team, any team, to leave and the conference is a goner.

[chiefsnorth]

Originally Posted by kepp

All this deal is, is a rehash of the Big8/SWC merger...except with even more unequal revenue sharing. It puts the conference on even shakier ground than before. First, the sharing is more lop-sided. Second, we only have ten teams now. All it takes next time is for one team, any team, to leave and the conference is a goner.

Exactly. The conference is even more unequal, the situation is worse than before. Meanwhile other conferences are adding to their power. It's awful. Other than relegation to the mountain west this would have been a worst case scenario.
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[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by kepp

All this deal is, is a rehash of the Big8/SWC merger...except with even more unequal revenue sharing. It puts the conference on even shakier ground than before. First, the sharing is more lop-sided. Second, we only have ten teams now. All it takes next time is for one team, any team, to leave and the conference is a goner.

Yup.

Nothing solved, nothing gained - only a bandaid to save an unsustainable conference and a whole lot of public humiliation for Mizzou.

Good job, fellas.

I'll say this - for as corrupt and underhanded as Lew Perkins is, he'd have never let Jim Delaney sneak up and anally rape him like Alden just did.

(And Delaney might've been afraid to try it; Perkins might have him killed for it...)

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Yup.

Nothing solved, nothing gained - only a bandaid to save an unsustainable conference and a whole lot of public humiliation for Mizzou.

Good job, fellas.

I'll say this - for as corrupt and underhanded as Lew Perkins is, he'd have never let Jim Delaney sneak up and anally rape him like Alden just did.

(And Delaney might've been afraid to try it; Perkins might have him killed for it...)

Alden is a boy among men.

[DeezNutz]

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