ZouTigers

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It looks like they intend to hold sooner and longhorn in the conference until 2025.

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TX and OU already have said they'll honor their contract. They don't want to pay out $80m each to the B12 members. They will likely get it reduced later and make the $30-40m payment.

Okie ST isn't getting in the B10. They've already said they will not take less academic institutions and that means they'll only consider AAU schools. That's ISU and KU and neither of those help the B10. Nobody cares about basketball money. Conference money is all about football and KU is pathetic. ISU is finally good at football but why add them when you already have Iowa?

B12 will add a few AAC schools like Cincy, Memphis, Houston and then BYU. They'll be the elite G5.

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Thank God our conference will still maintain geographic integrity. We have no outliers and all states border another SEC state at least.

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Iowa State would be the only outlier and there is zero chance they are taking Iowa State. They didn't want these schools last time WITH Texas and Oklahoma but now they'll take them without the cream?

The decent schools have all been taken. You don't get "better" by taking low level teams.

ACC is already at 14 1/2 schools. WVU isn't giving you anything that it didn't when you turned them down 10 years ago and chose Louisville and Pitt.

Kansas only plays basketball in a football world. Plus their basketball programs is as corrupt as you can find.

Or, it's a rumor floated to generate a bidding war between the PAC12, ACC and Big10. Texas floated a crapload of rumors just for this reason back around 2010. Back then the rumors started swirling and boom, conferences announced they were evaluating expansion partners.

The SEC has 7 national championship contenders. Some want to believe the networks decide these things, UT and OU would be better served (to them) to be in the Pac12. Otherwise the entire West Coast will forever be an afterthought for college football.

If the SEC shuts down, the schools still be paid for SEC Network subscriber fees. Wonder how much that has turned into per school. There are roughly 70 million subscribers so is that $8m per school?

Big10 owns so they get a share of the profit - without games there likely isn't much profit.

I'll go to a few high school games and local college games in person - I gave up watching almost all college basketball and NBA 6-7 years ago.

My SlingTV is cancelled as soon as college football is over so I don't even have ESPN again until next Labor Day.

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I used to watch college basketball 4-5 days a week. I think I've watched 2 games all year.

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This is it. I used to watch a TON of college basketball, used to go to Arch Madness every year and would get tickets to NCAA tourney games if remotely close. I would have seen almost every team in the NCAA brackets because I watched all the conference championships also. Now, I go watch a few high school games.

I've gone to a few Webster University, Fontbonne, Wash U level games the past few years. Free to get in, decent quality and you get close to the action.

I think you have until the 28th to actually enroll for the semester to count. The point is he is enrolling now and not next fall.

Really? As a journalist did Gabe consider verifying the story before running with it? Maybe call the police? Maybe call the family?

Oddly when they needed to investigate it further, they were able to get to the bottom of the story rather quickly and get the facts. Shocking how journalism works isn't it?

I don't know if this new system will be a bad thing but I think most people are under estimating how massive the money will be.

I also think the grad transfer portal is going to be a highway of transfers. Undergrad transfers are going to be FAR more common.

Every player 3-star and higher will have a guaranteed payment contract. Most 2-stars will sign contracts.

I've read journalists trying to declare this isn't pay for play. That's a semantics argument of who's paying. The school isn't paying but the booster club is signing contracts at the direction of the coach and AD.