Oklahoma and...... Kansas to the Big 10?

[Red_Alert]

Yeah, Boren just told Texas

More like a shot across the bow.

However, he's got the 'Go Fuck Yourself' card in his back pocket.

 

[Codaxx]

"ACC has a great basketball conference I don't argue that and they had a good tourney but it's not better than the Big12"

I'll make a poll.

Neither of you are wrong on this subject. Yes, the Big 12 was rated higher last year. That said, on any given year I would bet on the ACC being a better basketball conference. Occasionally the Big 12 will have a better year, but most years the ACC will be a better basketball conference

 

[Texas Jefe]

I read something the other day, which goes along with my idea that in few years, this will all be irrelevant. Collective bargaining for a huge pile of money, bring old rivalries back into play, and to hell with the ncaa.

6 regions, 11 teams to a region. Regions will be geographic, no more conferences in two different time zones.
It will bring a little sanity back to college football.

I see it happening. Why? MONEY always wins, and they will make a lot more money.

Guess in 5-10 years, we'll see if it happens.

 

[HuskerinBig10]

Texas Longhorns Football, Basketball, and Recruiting Front Page

nice find.

The Texas Division with five Texas schools and the two Oklahoma schools. It has worked out so well in the past. Nebraska fans, please bend over and grab your ankles, only an idiot from Texas would come up with that.

 

[Texas Jefe]

well, he's from Michigan.

plus, he just got axed from his radio gig, because his station just won the contract to become the UT flagship station and radio network. He does not get along with the Texas admin.

He has nothing to do with Texas, other than writing about them.

 

[Texas Jefe]

Lol all you conference nutswingers.

 

[Texas Jefe]

"But is Boren, a former US Senator, still upset he couldnt get Louisville and Pittsburg into the Big12 when Tcu and WVU were added (in hindsight Boren was right on that one), willing to wait that long?"

 

[KansasSooner]

I do find it odd that those saying KU basketball, even given their history and tradition, isn't enough for consideration turn right around and say OU football would be the prize, because recently KU basketball has done better than OU football...

 

[TexasExes98]

I do find it odd that those saying KU basketball, even given their history and tradition, isn't enough for consideration turn right around and say OU football would be the prize, because recently KU basketball has done better than OU football...

Corn Fuckers don't want KU in the B1G b/c they're afraid the Jayhawks might drop 76 on their football team again.....

 

[KansasSooner]

Corn Fuckers don't want KU in the B1G b/c they're afraid the Jayhawks might drop 76 on their football team again.....

I must say I never, even in my wildest dreams, ever thought that could happen.

 

[TexasExes98]

I must say I never, even in my wildest dreams, ever thought that could happen.

If the KU football team ever drops 70 plus points on Texas, I will convert to being a Sooners fan.....

 

[KansasSooner]

If the KU football team ever drops 70 plus points on Texas, I will convert to being a Sooners fan.....

Careful, as a Sooner I can tell you from experience that KU can sometimes pull off the most outrageous upsets and wins...

 

[nddulac]

I read something the other day, which goes along with my idea that in few years, this will all be irrelevant. Collective bargaining for a huge pile of money, bring old rivalries back into play, and to hell with the ncaa.

6 regions, 11 teams to a region. Regions will be geographic, no more conferences in two different time zones.
It will bring a little sanity back to college football.

I see it happening. Why? MONEY always wins, and they will make a lot more money.

Guess in 5-10 years, we'll see if it happens.

I read that too, and I don't buy it. While it would make a great deal of sense from a great many standpoints, it will mean that the richest and most powerful programs will have to make sacrifices for the weaker, poorer programs. And that's why it wont happen.

Individual greed always precludes general welfare. It's just the messed-up way humans work.

 

[Codaxx]

I read that too, and I don't buy it. While it would make a great deal of sense from a great many standpoints, it will mean that the richest and most powerful programs will have to make sacrifices for the weaker, poorer programs. And that's why it wont happen.

Individual greed always precludes general welfare. It's just the messed-up way humans work.

They already do that. Vanderbilt's payout is the same as Bama's.

 

[Agent Orange]

I made a poll in the College Basketball Forum.

Didn't say UConn was a bigger national brand, just that they were also a national brand. Add the fact that they actually play other sports with content value and have better academics, then you'll get why I favor them over Kansas. Both are national [in basketball] brands, but UConn adds more stuff.

Now if we had brought Missouri in with Nebraska and not added Rutgers, then I'd be in favor of Kansas over UConn.

 

[Texas Jefe]

I read that too, and I don't buy it. While it would make a great deal of sense from a great many standpoints, it will mean that the richest and most powerful programs will have to make sacrifices for the weaker, poorer programs. And that's why it wont happen.

Individual greed always precludes general welfare. It's just the messed-up way humans work.

As Codaxx pointed out, they already do that. Is what 'conferences' do. When, e.g. a Purdue gets as much and has the same power in a conference as a Nebraska...or a Vandy has the same as a Tennessee, etc.

It's a crazy prediction, but it would make everybody more money because of consolidated bidding and an enlarged playoffs.

 

[nddulac]

As Codaxx pointed out, they already do that. Is what 'conferences' do. When, e.g. a Purdue gets as much and has the same power in a conference as a Nebraska...or a Vandy has the same as a Tennessee, etc.

That does not explain why Missouri, Texas A&M, Colorado, Nebraska, and Maryland chose to leave their conferences to join conferences in which they felt they would be better off. But acting in their own best interests (rather than those of their conference members) does. It also doesn't explain why the CFA was formed. As was mentioned in the article, the CFA grew out of the "haves" in college football wanting to make sure that they didn't have to share with the "have nots." (And that pattern has repeated itself . . . well . . repeatedly.)

It's not a new concept. John Nash won a Nobel Prize in Economics describing the differences between acting in ones own best interest rather than in the interests of the greater good.

 

[Texas Jefe]

That does not explain why Missouri, Texas A&M, Colorado, Nebraska, and Maryland chose to leave their conferences to join conferences in which they felt they would be better off. But acting in their own best interests (rather than those of their conference members) does. It also doesn't explain why the CFA was formed. As was mentioned in the article, the CFA grew out of the "haves" in college football wanting to make sure that they didn't have to share with the "have nots." (And that pattern has repeated itself . . . well . . repeatedly.)

It's not a new concept. John Nash won a Nobel Prize in Economics describing the differences between acting in
ones own best interest rather than in the interests of the greater good.

That's why,imo, I think eventually it will come down to an NFL like structure, with collective bargaining for a tv/content distribution contract- it will be in the 64 (or 65, 66 whatever the number may be) teams best interests. Because, it will garner more money for each program.

Teams are realigning, why? Because they want a bigger piece of the pie, 100 year old rivalries be damned. Isnt that basically what it came down to? In the end, they didnt care if they were the 'big dog' in the conference, or if other programs got the same as them, because they would themselves make more money than they were in the Big12.

I doubt they did it because they wanted to be a part of a conference that 'cared for everyone equally'.

 

[nddulac]

I doubt they did it because they wanted to be a part of a conference that 'cared for everyone equally'.

And yet you are arguing that a large number of teams will make exactly that choice. Odd. I find myself agreeing with your premises, but arriving at exactly the opposite conclusion.

 

[GoldRusher]

That does not explain why Missouri, Texas A&M, Colorado, Nebraska, and Maryland chose to leave their conferences to join conferences in which they felt they would be better off. But acting in their own best interests (rather than those of their conference members) does. It also doesn't explain why the CFA was formed. As was mentioned in the article, the CFA grew out of the "haves" in college football wanting to make sure that they didn't have to share with the "have nots." (And that pattern has repeated itself . . . well . . repeatedly.)

It's not a new concept. John Nash won a Nobel Prize in Economics describing the differences between acting in ones own best interest rather than in the interests of the greater good.

Love the John Nash reference, God rest his southern WV soul.