Big 12 Expansion rumors

Yes if Hillary is elected 8 years would seem like an eternity.

 

Welp. The Big 12 never fails to entertain.

 

Good thing they have a press conference to say nothing.

 

Eff 'em. AAC > Big 12 anyways. Big 12 should lose P5 status and AAC should enter the P5

UH, Navy, Cincy, Memphis, Tulsa, Temple, UCONN > Big 12 teams.

 

LOLOL

 

Dude you keep posting the same garbage over and over. The Big 12 survives as long as the tv deal runs (through 2025). Not sure what's so hard to comprehend about that.If you don't want in, that's fine. But saying the conference lasts a few more seasons is plain wrong.

 

It's cool, Big 12. I mean, look at what y'all still have:

 

The writing has been on the wall that expansion wouldn't happen right now. It will happen when it makes more sense. UH brings a lot to the table, but unfortunately it hurts the Big 12 schools. The Big 12 needs to find the UH equivalent that is not in Texas.

They're in line to get raises that may put them over the Pac 12 and ACC in revenue. You guys can huff and puff all you want but if it makes dollars, it makes cents.

 

I guess it depends on if you are looking at short term or long term. I consider a conference dying in 2025 as being "only a few more years"....I mean, if you knew you were going to die in 2025, would you consider that an eternity?

 

BIG 12 failed again which I totally expected. They have the worse leadership in college football. They have no vision, no forward thinking. Worrying about today while sacrificing tomorrow. Run by dinosaurs who are assisting their own demise.

 

Anything Hillary or Trump belongs in another forum. Please keep it out of our apolitical areas.

 

I think he's basically imagining a scenario where UT and OU withold their GOR and start flirting with other conferences...

Then a giant Red Wedding style melee breaks out and before you know it over half the teams have reached agreements with new conferences and so the Big 12 dissolves and all previous legal agreements are voided well before 2025.

 

BYU and Boise St?

 

As a UT fan I hope the Big 12 dies. It had its run.

 

That's another possible scenario but even if the Big 12 makes it to 2025 before dissolving it's still on death row. Barring a miracle, it will die in a decade. I'm looking long term, not short term.

 

You're banking that UH will get invited to a different P5 before 2025 then?

 

Pretty much, yeah. Right now they are the hottest non P4 conference school, if more forward thinking conferences start planning expansion, they could certainly get an invite and any of those P4 conferences will be better long term than the Big 12.

 

I can't see us sustaining success for that long without P5 money.

 

I think that depends on fan support and recruiting. If UH keeps recruiting the Houston area well, then they'll stay competitive. I would think in the next couple of years other conferences will look to expand, they just have to keep the lights on a few more years.