I feel bad for like... Baylor fans for example. But I do not ****ing care to hear their leadership cry like babies. Bad look.
AAU program. Hoops. Midwest. Fits. Big 12 worried about UT and OU staying until 2025 when the teams in it are trying to jump ship too. Lulznt. Texas (the state) thinks the Big 12 is somehow theirs. Get over it.
It's an interesting dilemma. There's a lot of money left in the pot if everyone waits it out until 2024, but there's no future money after that (speculated 50% less value). Who jumps ship and when do they jump? Who holds on for dear life, other than the direct employees of the Big 12?
TCU and Baylor have been the odd men out on a lot of the realignment “predictions” and they’re acting like they know it.
Over the '18-19 seasons, there were 40 UT/OU games on ABC/ESPN/FOX that drew an average of ~3.5M viewers. The other 59 B12 games averaged ~880K
Pac 12 don't need that **** pile. They need 1 football team in the Texas market. And schedule Baylor in bball and call it a day. Poach Tech, or if the Big 12 tries to squeeze an ounce of momentum from that, just take UH. Big 12 is nothing.
makes zero sense if you're also gonna say that academics matter. I don't think they do, honestly, going forward. But the ACC is just the sort of conference that might want to hold on to that antiquated notion.
This has always bothered me, because it feels like WVU is being punished for something it has basically no control over. It isn't like WVU is dysfunctional or something, they're simply the flagship university of one of one the smallest, poorest, least educated states in the union. They're fighting an uphill battle against soaring poverty and shrinking growth. That being said, the whole idea of academics determining who you play hand egg with is silly on its face. Research partnerships and the money that goes along with them are the lifesblood of a university and absolutely dwarf the athletics budgets. The brainiacs who run that show don't give two ***** about who is playing who in shooty hoops.
This is basically what happened to the Big East (except the ACC was responsible for destroying it instead of the SEC).
I could not agree with you more. If it once mattered, I can't see how it possibly matters enough now to move the needle given the landscape of where all this is heading. UT isn't less of a school because they'll be in a conference with Ole Miss. Stanford isn't less of a school because it's in a conference with Oregon State. The suggestion that it matters rings completely hollow to me. I'm not sure the traditional "brands" of these conferences is going to matter much longer. None of this is meant to be a knock on West Virginia, Ole Miss, or Oregon State, either. Those are good schools and tons of people get degrees there that lead to amazing careers.
