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re: Big 12/SEC Announcement coming today
Posted on 5/21/12 at 7:21 am to CGSC Lobotomy
Posted on 5/21/12 at 7:21 am to CGSC Lobotomy
Lobotomy sounds like he's hoping more than thinking... Perhaps to justify the aggies move to a conference they'll never get close to winning in football.
Big 12 is movin on up. Fact.
Big 12 is movin on up. Fact.
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Posted on 5/21/12 at 7:40 am to TejasHorn
This is going to be a great move for all involved. Either the ACC or Big12 was going to die in conference consolidation.
I think Slive and Co. made this alliance with the Big12 for the following reasons:
1) Control of the new game and guaranteeing a high payout slot for the #2 SEC team. The bowl operators should have been cut out of this process or their payday greatly reduced a long time ago.
2) Destabilize the ACC. If any teams move to the Big12, there is a high probability that the ACC will implode. SEC will target adding North Carolina and Virgina to the SEC television footprint from the ACC remnants to increase the television contract value.
3) Counter all the Big10/PAC12 chatter about the place the Rose Bowl should have in the coming playoff scheme.
I think Slive and Co. made this alliance with the Big12 for the following reasons:
1) Control of the new game and guaranteeing a high payout slot for the #2 SEC team. The bowl operators should have been cut out of this process or their payday greatly reduced a long time ago.
2) Destabilize the ACC. If any teams move to the Big12, there is a high probability that the ACC will implode. SEC will target adding North Carolina and Virgina to the SEC television footprint from the ACC remnants to increase the television contract value.
3) Counter all the Big10/PAC12 chatter about the place the Rose Bowl should have in the coming playoff scheme.
This post was edited on 5/21/12 at 7:47 am
Posted on 5/21/12 at 8:10 am to TejasHorn
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Big 12 is movin on up. Fact.
Facts require hard evidence. Here are some concrete facts:
-FACT 1: In 40 days, Texas A&M and Missouri will no longer be members of the Big 12 Conference.
-FACT 2: In two years, the Big 12 conference has reduced the number of AAU schools from 7 down to 3.
-FACT 3: The only conferences in the last 10 years who have replaced its lost members with members of a lesser quality are the Big East (replaced Miami, Virginia Tech, and Boston College with South Florida, Connecticut, and Louisville), and Big 12 (replaced Nebraska, Colorado, Texas A&M and Missouri - notice how you conveniently leave out the other two schools you drove away - with West Virginia and TCU).
-FACT 4: You're on an SEC board. Let me say this again, you're on an SEC board.
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