Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....

[Katpappy]

Also, Fox is a clever dog!  This would make ESPN backed conferences second rate.

[eastcat]

I still think the cart is pulling the horse.

The blogs seem to drive all the realignment discussion into fairytale land. The cats on the ground (bowlsby) have no idea till some sbnation turd asks him a million questions about it.

[420seriouscat69]

Sorry Ramsack:

May be announced next week.

From Mainboard:
Word on the street is that an announcement could come as soon as next week. It looks like the 4 schools will be Cincy, Memphis, Houston, and BYU. Still trying to work out the details with BYU on all sports or football only. This comes from the same person that told me on July 1st that the Big 12 would announce they are expanding during the week of Big 12 media days and two weeks later they would anounce the schools. The marketing/merchandising departments of one school has been contacted by the conference and asked if they could have stuff ready by Monday if needed. I'm just sharing what I heard, so TIFWIW and don't shoot the messagenger.

[chum1]

Sounds absolutely horrible. Let's go back to talking about the Arizona schools.

[scottwildcat]

So is scheduling for 13 in basketball that much different from 14?

Yes. But it wouldn't be that big of a deal IMO

[HerrSonntag]

Cincy, Memphis, Houston, and BYU

 

[420seriouscat69]

I'd be grateful for everyone of those schools, minus Memphis, but JT makes me feel better about them too.

[ChiComCat]

These had to be the favorites right?  Maybe UCONN could've been up there somewhere.  Sure we would rather have PAC 12 schools but assuming those are unobtainable, this is what expansion was going to look like.

[mocat]

the big 12 is so gross except for UT

[HerrSonntag]

Cincy, Memphis, Houston, and BYU

 

Maybe they have really good analytics which shows some drop-off, but why not just go to 16 and up that partial membership payday?

Name one good thing that's ever come out of Cincinnati?
Name one good thing that's ever come out out Memphis? (Bonus: Universities named after cities are small timey AF)
We don't need any more Texas schools
We don't need any more crazy religious schools

[420seriouscat69]

the big 12 is so gross except for UT

And OU. And KU. But yeah.

[Skipper44]

We don't even need schools that are good at football

[ednksu]

So glad we didn't take FSU, Louisville, Clemson and someone else.  Imagine where we'd have to put all that money.  Huge storage issue.

[WildcatNkilt]

Whatever happened with Blackcat's bombshell? 

[cfbandyman]

Cincy, Memphis, Houston, and BYU

 

Maybe they have really good analytics which shows some drop-off, but why not just go to 16 and up that partial membership payday?

Name one good thing that's ever come out of Cincinnati? Maybe the Big Red Machine in the 70's
Name one good thing that's ever come out out Memphis? (Bonus: Universities named after cities are small timey AF) JT
We don't need any more Texas schools True
We don't need any more crazy religious schools Fact

[SdK]

Bob Huggins

[chum1]

So, this has probably been discussed. But if something like that happens, it totally means that the Big 12 is simply cashing in now, UT, OU, et al. will bolt once the current contract is up, and then we'll be left behind with Conference USA, right?

[wetwillie]

Whatever happened with Blackcat's bombshell? 

He was just being a dumbass, he doesn't know anything.

[Trim]

At least we've had a head start on being a near-exclusively combofan'n bbs.

[BostonPancake]

The only way adding these teams is anywhere near OK is if the grant of rights is extended another 10 year or so.

[steve dave]

The only way adding these teams is anywhere near OK is if the grant of rights is extended another 10 year or so.

that thing is meaningless and dumb

[That_Guy]

Whatever happened with Blackcat's bombshell? 

He was just being a dumbass, he doesn't know anything.

Remember the whole bombshell that was supposed to happen this off-season with the coaching staff? Blackcats info too. He knows nothing.


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[MixBerryCrunch]

If true, then the conference is done. It will go the way of the Big East and we will be stuck with the trashy remnants when OU/OSU, Texas/Texas Tech, WVU and KU leave. Hopefully the last few years of being in a power conference will be fun, but with that list of crap I seriously doubt it.

[Havs]

Can we still get Nebraska back?... and Colorado?

[chum1]

If we take Nebraska and Colorado in addition the Arizona schools, we'll be up to 14 teams total. We should probably stop there. At least for now.