doug blackburn@dblackburn 7 Jun 12 FSU prez Barron says he will talk about Big 12 today. ... @TDOnline#fsu Florida State's board of trustees could talk Big 12, ACC at meetings 1:55 p.m. EST, June 7, 2012|By Coley Harvey, Orlando Sentinel TALLAHASSEE — Florida State's board of trustees will have the school's athletic programs firmly in mind Friday morning as the board holds its quarterly meeting in Sarasota. Among the agenda items of concern to the sports programs: the expected passage of a 2012-13 athletic department budget that contains a $2.4 million shortfall, and the official acquisition of the Donald L. Tucker Center. FSU's basketball teams use the arena that had been previously owned by the city of Tallahassee. What likely could get the most headlines out of the meeting, though, is an item not currently on the board's agenda. It is expected that at some point during the meeting, the board may discuss and offer its recommendation on what the school should do about proceeding with rumored talks regarding FSU and the Big 12 Conference. For the past month, Internet reports have linked FSU with interest in leaving the ACC in favor of joining the Big 12. School officials have vehemently denied such reports, but have said they'd be interested in listening if the Big 12 reaches out to them. Big 12 officials last week said there has been no contact.
I don't disagree with this guy that losing members would suck, but he needs to check his facts. "Conservative estimate" is just that. The high end is 13-14 million. It'll probably settle somewhere in the middle around 9-10 million. The thing this guy forgets is that there are lots more competition in the market than there was when ESPN offered their renewal. The Big East should be in for a significant pay increase, not decrease, because of excellent timing. Losing members would obviously hurt, but the money to keep the conference alive is going to be there one way or another. And about this... it is clear that the Big East cannot possibly aspire to the level of play seen in the Big12, Pac-12, Big Ten and SEC, let alone the ACC. This is the breakdown of how the new conferences fair according to the old BCS AQ style of rating them (bitten from a Big East BBS): Spoiler So, yeah, that blog post reeks.
not arguing with anything you said, donny. i'm interested in conference realignment stuff, so i'm posting virtually everything i read/see about it here to foster further discussion.
I thought this was a reasonable dissection of the media markets for each conference. While the Big East is obviously 6th of the largest 6 conferences, the gap between 6-7 is exponentially larger than the one between 5-6. Spoiler
I think it will be in July after the new play off system is finalized before any more real good rumors start again. Big 12 is holding out hope for ND regardless of how big a long shot it is.
I think you're going to see the rumors pick up before then...and you're going to see Clemson and FSU talking about making application to the Big XII sometime in mid to late July.
Well we got a lot of noise about Notre Dame to the Big XII now as a partial member to where Chip Brown has to comment: http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1377426 Basically the same **** we heard before, but apparently gaining traction.
It would be really disappointing if the Big XII chose to stay at 10 teams with programs like FSU and Virginia Tech ready to make the leap...
Exactly what I was thinking. I've lost touch with UT sports this past year, I believe totally because of this stupid network. I don't know if it was the games I physically missed because they were on it or if it was my conscious telling me not to pay attention because of it.
Got email today from my friend saying he's hearing expansion is imminent. That we might have announcements from FSU and Clemson as early as this weekend.
Yes I'm sure it willl probably otherwise be on ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC, maybe they'll pre-empt Modern Family for it.
