Big 12 considering adding two teams, realign and add conference title game

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Who is going to pay for expansion? As one network executive once told me, the likes of ESPN aren't necessarily in the business of wanting to pay for all this realignment. There seems to be a feeling that adding Cincinnati and BYU -- or anyone else -- would mean nothing more than a slight bump in the Big 12's rights fees ($23 million per school). But it wouldn't be the home run the Big Ten hit with Nebraska.

In that sense, expansion has evolved from being about brand to being about volume. Both Rutgers and Maryland are running deficits. Football is slumping. Yet the mere suggestion the pair could deliver the New York and Washington D.C. markets was enough for commissioner Jim Delany to the Big Ten.

Sorry, but BYU and Cincinnati just do not bring enough brand recognition or volume (TV sets) to the Big 12. Together, they'd have to bring $46 million per year just for the Big 12 to break even. There is no meaningful pro rata. Definition: Getting more money by adding more teams.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...d-to-know-about-big-12-conference-realignment

Go Gophers!!
 

I know that Rutgers and Maryland is probably good for the conference but can we give them back. I feel that adding Nebraska was perfect and 12 teams was just the right amount.
 

dannygopher9100 said:
I know that Rutgers and Maryland is probably good for the conference but can we give them back. I feel that adding Nebraska was perfect and 12 teams was just the right amount.
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Agree. Also, can we have the WCHA back in men's hockey, please?
 




What makes this even odder is the Big 12 lobbying to get a Conference Championship Game with only 10 teams, finally worked. They can have their game without going to 12 teams.
 

Iceland12 said:
What makes this even odder is the Big 12 lobbying to get a Conference Championship Game with only 10 teams, finally worked. They can have their game without going to 12 teams.
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I don't like them adding two teams because it will leave us as the only conference that can't count.
 

Can't turn back the clock. I know a guy who says (loudly and often) that the three-point shot has ruined basketball. He also wants to outlaw dunking again.
 





dannygopher9100 said:
I know that Rutgers and Maryland is probably good for the conference but can we give them back. I feel that adding Nebraska was perfect and 12 teams was just the right amount.
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Don't give them back yet. I'm planning on making the road trip to D.C. next year to see the Maryland game. Give them back after that and I'm with ya!
 

Is this where we start talking about expanding the Big 10 again? If so, I'd add Navy (or Army) and Louisville. Adding a military school gives us a bigger market for television dollars (and an easy win for our basketball team); and adding Louisville is cause they've got good teams (and yes, I'd go for Notre Dame but I'm pretty sure they'll just say "nope" again...).
 




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