It's time to blow it the f*** up. UT to the PAC OU, OSU to the SEC Baylor, Tech, TCU to the AAC Kansas, KSU, ISU, WVU to B1G I know any, if not all, are not likely.
The only way we can give Herman and his staff more money at this point is to start getting P5 paychecks. If we lose him, the entire apple cart gets flipped in the air. There is zero guarantee that our next coach will be a winner. As for other conferences, it's a hell of a gamble to think we're going to end up getting an invite before the whole thing collapses on us. If we got into the Big 12, the first thing we would do is start making our exit plan.
The Big 12 has made some bad decisions but you can't fault them for taking time to decide, there is no real motivation yet to expand. There was no real deadline, no imminent threat to the conference. They can literally wait years to bring this back up again. Unless UT or OK decide they want to leave all of a sudden, this conference is still a commodity. I hate this as a UH fan but as long as the athletics continue this upward trend they'll be in a conference in a few years.
You say a lot of things and speak in absolutes. Baylor would never be relevant again (here we are sitting in the top 10). We may lose a game or two who knows, but you were dry hating without knowing anything about the team. Then you were so freakin confident about UH being the best team in the state, yada yada yada. Now, all we're going to hear about is how the Big 12 is about to implode from you. Great...start a Big 10/ACC expansion thread and move it there but the Big 12 will expand at some point when it makes freakin sense to.
They don't need to wait years. They need to wait until there are 2 crystal clear additions that bring value to the conference. Again, UH is deserving but it just doesn't make sense to the current members. TCU getting in was a miracle tbh. The big 12 needs to find the next Louisville...should have never missed out on them.
All the twitter reactions are hilarious. National reaction to no expansion: Big 12 remains hilarious, likely just signed its own death warrant http://sportsday.dallasnews.com/col...ns-hilarious-likely-just-signed-death-warrant Spoiler
Not an eternity, but definitely not a "few more years" either. Even in the long term, how would not getting in help UH? Unless the conference extended the GOR (which everything indicated wouldn't happen), UH would still have been able to join another conference at the end of the current Big 12 deal. And during that time, UH would've been collecting a nice 30 or so million a season for the next 9 years, for reference, it'll take another 6 seasons under the current AAC deal to make that. Moot point now I guess.
Here's the thing about finding "the next Louisville"... there isn't one. No program is just going to suddenly fall out of the clear blue sky with 50K+ attendance, massive TV ratings, top 25 rankings, geographic convenience, great academics, etc. The Big 12 needs to wake the hell up and realize that it is going to have to take a risk here and make an investment. Standing still is just dying a slow death at this point for them. If the votes had came through for BYU and UC, I'd be crushed, but I'd understand it. Those are two great programs and schools. Good for them! But holy hell, this year long dog and pony show and you STILL can't come to a consensus? The college athletics world is laughing their asses off right now.
I think last year's number was 33M and it should probably increase for not picking any of the expansion candidates (as reported). The Big 12 schools are being paid not to expand. That speaks volumes on how much the candidates were going to bring to the conference.
All it says is that no candidate was worth 20M+ to the networks (IIRC that is the extra share that would have to be paid out to cover expansion).
At the end of the day, expansion will be re-visited. Maybe Texas gets their guy and then UH is let in. #conspiracy
Do you take it, Coogs? Let big daddy sleep with your wife so you can take a seat at the big boy table?
Rumors like that could be one of the reasons expansion decisions were not made. We don't know what is going to happen. I can't see Nebraska coming back but they were relevant in the Big 12 and would have an easier road to the playoff in the Big 12. The chances of Texas and OU getting to the playoffs is the best in the Big 12.
