Interesting Big12 idea

[DudeAnon]

You may want to read that again, and it's not even in the fine print: Those rights holders are contractually bound to provide "pro rata" for any new Big 12 members. That is, any new members would be paid an equal share of the current Big 12 members -- approximately $23 million per year.

In other words, the distribution per existing member goes nowhere.

Seriously, the existing 10 could not realize any form of material lift on the media side of the equation. Don't you think they would have announced two or 4 candidates already if it were true that the existing membership could nab from $500 million to $1 billion in incremental media rights revenue?

Touche. I still hope Cincy gets picked up somewhere, I feel bad for my Cincy fan relatives who have pretty much completely given up on the school.

I'm sorry, Dude, but I can't feel sorry for UC fans. When did we ever see the time when UC fans felt sorry for us Muskie fans when we were a struggling Independent or a member of a lower-level D-1 conference like the MCC? Now that institutions like Xavier and Louisville are in markedly better Conference situations than UC's AAC, we have learned that it is up to the individual University to elevate its product from within in every respect (facilities, scheduling, coaching, and recruiting) to attract the attention of more highly ranked Conferences. At this point, UC is seemingly "closing the barn door" AFTER the horses have escaped!

No doubt they have gotten themselves into this situation. But its more fun to beat them up when they are good.

[DeltaV]

ACC is more stable, but has more desirable products. All the Big 12 really has is Texas, which is like the hot chick who is so crazy that no one in their right mind really wants to date her.



And if they have money that they could offer to remnants of a post BIG/SEC raid of the ACC...well, things then get interesting. I think it comes down to who bites first...the ACC or the Big12. Its kinda like being in Poland during WWII before Barbarossa.

Now I'm intrigued.

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's World War II invasion of the Soviet Union, which began in June 1941. Hitler essentially started the global war by invading Poland in September 1939.

So is it kind of like being run over twice?

I was going for one party springing a surprise attack on the other.

The Soviets were planning on invading Nazi Germany as well; the Germans just acted first. Although in this instance, I don't think the target of the attack will be able to win in the end.