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Might as well break off and form your own association with your own championship.
Big 12 exploring alliance with ACC, two other leagues
Home > SportsPosted: 4:26 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, 2013Big 12 exploring alliance with ACC, two other leagues 1 4 144 151By Kirk BohlsAmerican-Statesman StaffThe Big 12 is actively exploring a possible alliance with the Atlantic Coast Conference and two other unspecified leagues for purposes of scheduling and marketing and possibly even television partnerships in a move that could preclude those leagues from further expansion.“We’ve had conversations with three other leagues,” Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby told the American-Statesman on Friday afternoon. “The ACC is one of them. It’s a process of discovery that would provide some of the benefits of larger membership without actually adding members.”Bowlsby declined to name the other two leagues, but the Pac-12 Conference is presumed to be one of them because that 12-team league is landlocked with the Big 12 to its east, which makes Pac-12 expansion with like major-college institutions more geographically prohibitive.Bowlsby said the topic would probably be discussed during the two-day meetings of the Big 12 athletic directors that begin Monday in Grapevine but stressed that “certainly nothing is imminent” about a potential alliance.Such a partnership would include football and basketball but could be expanded to other sports as well. The agreement could also involve participation between the leagues in bowl games to “share post-season inventory, allowing us more flexibility.”“It’s purely exploratory,” Bowlsby said, but added that the involved leagues have had “multiple discussions” about it.Bowlsby said the potential move should not be interpreted as a precursor to future expansion in light of the SEC’s additions of Texas A&M and Missouri and the Big Ten’s more recent move to invite Maryland from the ACC and Rutgers from the Big Ten.“If anything, it’s the opposite,” Bowlsby said. “You can begin to get some advantages without taking on any of the disadvantages (of expansion). It’s one option that allows benefits. It’s kind of like friends with benefits. IACC commissioner John Swofford could not be reached for comment.
Quote from: qatzmanchu on January 25, 2013, 04:52:46 PMMight as well break off and form your own association with your own championship.yeah, this is what's been talked about for hundreds of pages of this thread.
an "alliance"? with those dorks? Bob you rough ridin' idiot.
For fucks sake, this is the exact same rough ridin' thing Beebe did with the PAC-10 that almost resulted in the death of the Big-12. If this is what Bowlsby's plan is we're mumped and giving the ACC a lifeline rather letting it die.
It’s kind of like friends with benefits.
Quote from: BowlsbyIt’s kind of like friends with benefits.So the Big 12 and ACC are totally going to eff, but they definitely won't be dating exclusively. Oh man, Bob.
Quote from: Mr Bread on January 25, 2013, 05:10:56 PMQuote from: BowlsbyIt’s kind of like friends with benefits.So the Big 12 and ACC are totally going to eff, but they definitely won't be dating exclusively. Oh man, Bob. We just want FSU and Clemson (maybe Miami) to see what it's like to be with a real conference
Who are the other two leagues?Prob the big least and the mac. Woof.Nothing says big time like hanging out at the loser table.
Quote from: Shacks on January 25, 2013, 05:13:38 PMQuote from: Mr Bread on January 25, 2013, 05:10:56 PMQuote from: BowlsbyIt’s kind of like friends with benefits.So the Big 12 and ACC are totally going to eff, but they definitely won't be dating exclusively. Oh man, Bob. We just want FSU and Clemson (maybe Miami) to see what it's like to be with a real conferenceSo just the tip then eh Shacks you ol' dog you?
Is Bob still trying to get Notre Dame some how with this steaming pile of innovation?
