re: Big XII Meeting With Expansion Candidates

Tulane wouldn't be a terrible choice, IMO. The SEC has an athletically shitty, academically respected school and nobody really cares. Gets the XII into Louisiana and our recruiting hotbed, a destination city in New Orleans for conference championship events, and geographically neighbors the current footprint of the conference. Win-win, IMO.

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What about Colorado State?

USNWR Top 100 School
Decent enough in football
Tournament team in men's basketball
Gives them the Denver footprint (Lord knows CU doesn't give the PAC much of anything)

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It would be smart, IMO.

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I would not like it to be Memphis. Why not go after BYU?

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BYU apparently wants to stay independent.

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BYU apparently wants to stay independent.

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That's a dumb move for them, IMO.

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He gets it.

They ran off Neb, Colorado, A&M, & Mizzou.

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it's amazing how many here still don't get it though...

SEC fans, SEC edumacations...

BYU wants in (at least the coaches are very vocal about it). However, the issue around no Sunday play makes basketball and/or baseball tournaments a significant challenge for Big12.

Cincinnati.



Oh, shite. Well, there goes the Big 12

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Can some Aggie post a brief synopsis of why this is the sips fault?

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2006 - Kevin Weiberg pitches the idea of a Big 12 Conference Network. Is rebuffed by Deloss Dodds. Forms Big Ten Network a year later.

2007 - Texas proposes the idea of a Lone Star Network to Bill Byrne. Wants to split the operating costs 50/50 but wants the revenue split 70/30 in favor of Texas. Byrne says no.

2009 - Texas secretly meets with Larry Scott from the PAC 10 and promises them Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, and Texas A&M with the possibility of Colorado and Texas Tech if they wanted them.

2010 - Fresh of their national championship attempt Dodds pitches the idea of a "Longhorn Network" to ESPN.

2010 - The rest of the conference finds out about the secret meeting with the PAC 10. Missouri courts the Big Ten. Dan Beebe requests a "loyalty check" from the rest of the conference. Nebraska says "we're out". and accepts a bid to the Big Televen. Colorado, concerned that their bid to the PAC 10 would go away if Texas politics goes south, secures their bid. A&M, fed up with Texas attempting to negotiate on their behalf, courts the SEC through Gene Stallings. All of a sudden, "saving the conference" is a priority to Texas.

2011 - The Longhorn Network is announced. Multiple attempts are made to circumvent NCAA rules regarding recruiting and high school athletics. The NCAA basically rules that, if the Longhorn Network attempts to recruit on Texas' behalf, ESPN as a whole would be considered a Texas booster. (paraphrased)

2011 - Fed up with Texas' bullshite, A&M BoR gives Loftin permission to speak with the SEC. Baylor attempts to sue to block the move, is laughed at, A&M joins the SEC. Texas convinces the rest of the conference that TCU is an upgrade in every way shape and form.

2011 - Dodds tells Alden, the Missouri AD that he and his school need to, "remember their place". Alden realizes that, maybe the SEC isn't such a bad idea and A&M holds the door open for them. After Missouri goes through, the door is slammed in the face of the Big 12. West Virginia joins as the Big East falls apart around them. Syracuse and Pittsburgh join the ACC effective 2013.

2011 - 1 conference game is put on the Longhorn Network, just like we said it would, after Dodds' lies to the contrary.

2012 - A&M's exit fees are reduced from the $30 million that Baylor and Texas claimed to $9 million, which was less than Nebraska paid. 2 conference games are put on the Longhorn Network, just like we said would happen.

2013 - Ole Miss game is put on the Longhorn Network, just like we suspected would happen.

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The SEC has an athletically shitty, academically respected school

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That athletically shitty school has the SEC's last national championship in any sport.

BYU doesn't want to stay Indy. They aren't viewed on the same level as ND. Their coach was openly campaigning for a Big 12 invite.

The Big 12 is pretty much screwed, the only options they have are second class directional schools. They are landlocked as well, and have no hope of adding any flagship schools. They'll just have to add whoever, and get to 12 to avoid getting left out of the playoffs again.

I would say I feel sorry for them, but it's 100% their own doing. The remaining schools let Texas go in dry on them and now they are paying the price.