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

[deputy dawg]

I've seen speculation that if schools break away from the NCAA to do their own tournament down the road, a very strong Big 12 could get a huge piece of that pie. And that could be a way to close some of the gap between the Big 12 and the SEC, Big Ten.

Trust me, everyone on the Phog hoops board believes this. I'm a little more circumspect about the prospects of it.

Is this speculation on the Phog in conjunction with their impending move to the Big 10?

[Spracne]

I've seen speculation that if schools break away from the NCAA to do their own tournament down the road, a very strong Big 12 could get a huge piece of that pie. And that could be a way to close some of the gap between the Big 12 and the SEC, Big Ten.

Trust me, everyone on the Phog hoops board believes this. I'm a little more circumspect about the prospects of it.

Is this speculation on the Phog in conjunction with their impending move to the Big 10?

I think we've all moved on to accepting our fate as the most successful and richest athletics program in the Nu Big12.

[Kid In the Hall]

I've seen speculation that if schools break away from the NCAA to do their own tournament down the road, a very strong Big 12 could get a huge piece of that pie. And that could be a way to close some of the gap between the Big 12 and the SEC, Big Ten.

Trust me, everyone on the Phog hoops board believes this. I'm a little more circumspect about the prospects of it.

Is this speculation on the Phog in conjunction with their impending move to the Big 10?

I think we've all moved on to accepting our fate as the most successful and richest athletics program in the Nu Big12.

Until UCF passes you in a couple of years - enjoy it while you can.

[MakeItRain]

I've seen speculation that if schools break away from the NCAA to do their own tournament down the road, a very strong Big 12 could get a huge piece of that pie. And that could be a way to close some of the gap between the Big 12 and the SEC, Big Ten.

Trust me, everyone on the Phog hoops board believes this. I'm a little more circumspect about the prospects of it.

As you should be. The current NCAA tournament media deal runs out after the 2032 tournament. The Big 12 media deal expires before then. I don't think there's ever, in my lifetime anyway, going to be a breakaway from the current tournament format. It certainly isn't happening before the current television deal expires.

[Katpappy]

I've seen speculation that if schools break away from the NCAA to do their own tournament down the road, a very strong Big 12 could get a huge piece of that pie. And that could be a way to close some of the gap between the Big 12 and the SEC, Big Ten.

Trust me, everyone on the Phog hoops board believes this. I'm a little more circumspect about the prospects of it.

Is this speculation on the Phog in conjunction with their impending move to the Big 10?

I think we've all moved on to accepting our fate as the most successful and richest athletics program in the Nu Big12.

How can you say this with a straight face?  Knowing KU has the shitiest FB stadium and no money from those "RICH ALUMNI" to build anything close to a top stadium in the conference?

[MadCat]

More fodder from the sportskeeda / Swaim Show:
https://www.sportskeeda.com/college-football/news-after-pac-12-implosion-big-12-expansion-eyes-add-6-schools-part-conference-realignment-2026-member-count-hit-22

College football insider Greg Swaim reported that the Big 12 could add six more teams by 2026 to get to 22 teams. That would create a round-robin conference schedule with two 11-team divisions and the winners of each division facing off against one another in the Big 12 Conference Championship.

The six teams are the Oregon State Beavers, Washington State Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, NC State Wolfpack and the Virginia Tech Hokies.

[Trim]

[Stupid Fitz]

Looking forward to that game against the Huskies

[star seed 7]

Interesting post from the texas board

Starting 2024 the Big Ten has exclusive time slots on FOX at noon, CBS afternoon, and NBC prime. All other games will be on BTN, FS1, or Peacock.
The SEC and ACC (minus 1 ACC game a week now on the CW) are full ABC/ESPN with an agreement that ABC afternoon slot will be reserved for the SEC (but not exclusive meaning they could have another game on ESPN at the same time).
The Big 12 is split, however as the Big Ten has an exclusive slot with CBS in that afternoon slot that basically means the Big 12 will own that afternoon window with FOX save for the odd/occasional MWC game.
While it’s hard to predict exactly how the inventory situation will flush out. This seems most likely.
Noon: FOX=big 10, ABC=B12/ACC, ESPN=SEC

Afternoon: CBS=big 10, ABC=SEC, FOX=B12, ESPN=ACC, NBC=ND
Prime: NBC=big 10, ABC=SEC, FOX(after MLB)=B12 (maybe big 10 if they can work out a deal with NBC to break the exclusive window), ESPN=SEC
Late: ESPN=B12, FS1=big 10
The Big win here for the Big 12 is FOX. With FOX being locked out of the SEC/ACC and not bidding on the PAC12 and with the Big Ten granting exclusive over the air broadcasting windows to CBS/NBC to get them to play ball the remaining Big 12 programs are going to get a lot air time in that afternoon FOX slot. True it will be opposite of the SEC and Big Ten games of the week plus Notre Dame but that more than the ACC has going for it. Both will have plenty of games on ESPN2/ESPN+ but the Big 12 could theoretically have 3 games OTA while the ACC at most could only have 2 (not including ND home games) which is why I think the Big 12 will be (or already is) clearly the #3 conference.

[deputy dawg]

Yeah, I think I'm good now thanks unless each school gets like an extra mil or two by doing it, and we're not.

Yormack has a weird basketball fetish. Maybe he's a genius and is playing 3,000D chess, but still, no ....

I would think the residents of Phogistan would be ecstatic to have a men's BB oriented conference commissioner.  That you would call that a fetish is astonishing.  It disrupts my stereotype of the typical KU fan that wants to see de-emphasis of football in favor of basketball - usually over some type of player safety concern to mask KU's historical futility in football.  BTW, I don't see the current state of the KU football program as being futile.

[Houstoncat93]

https://twitter.com/dennisdoddcbs/status/1716882894533374282?t=VeWdEAkmStj3P3EVFm9X2A&s=19

Just filing this here for historical purposes in case in becomes significant later

[MakeItRain]

Clemson trying to strike while the iron is hot, trying to scam the Big 10 into thinking they're a blue bloods. They have nothing to offer a conference, at all, they don't even have a top 25 football team right now. Playing games on the CW and crap.

[Pete]

They allegedly have one of the best facilities.

[MakeItRain]

They have to take buses from their locker room to the stadium

[Houstoncat93]

Army to AAC as football only.

https://twitter.com/dennisdoddcbs/status/1717156113215312354?t=yvinCOr89iYTA9vmLs5SoQ&s=19

[Katpappy]

Horseman has a warning for the new PAC teams coming to play ball in a real conference.
https://x.com/1ReginaldS/status/1716913260996571191?s=20

[chum1]

https://twitter.com/max_olson/status/1719447540452462803

[pissclams]

https://twitter.com/max_olson/status/1719447540452462803

we better not have to travel to a single one of these neophytes’ stadiums for the next few years or I am out on yormark

[Katpappy]

Clams, you don't travel from KC to the Little Apple.  LOL

[Pete]

LOL

[star seed 7]

rip

[ben ji]

It was hard for clams to make it to every game because he had cross country meets last year and sometimes his parents wouldn't let him borrow the car to drive to Manhattan.

Now that he is a freshman and worked enough hours at taco via over the summer to get a car he hasn't missed a home or road game yet.

[DaBigTrain]

I've been to 4 games this year and I live in TX. It will be 5 games this weekend when I'm in Austin for the game. 

[DQ12]

Pappy just bodied clams.

[tdaver]

gE trail runs and leaf peeping next two years!!