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<blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 130995502" data-attributes="member: 1428007">The SEC has their network because the Big Ten bolted ABC/ESPN to go in with FOX to start a network after ESPN lowballed them on a tier one offer.ESPN decided to start a network before the SEC made a similar move.To make it profitable, ESPN needed to get it on everywhere, to fleece cable subscribers all over the country for money to give to the SEC.&nbsp; They succeeded by BUNDLING all Disney products with it to force carriers to carry it.&nbsp; People in the northeast, west, midwest, far midwest are not watching SEC football when their teams are playing and they certainly aren't watching the SEC network.Texas and Oklahoma want to continue to keep up revenue wise, which is made more difficult when the Big Ten schools are getting in the neighborhood of $10 million per school from their network to go along with $40 plus million from FOX and ESPN and CBS for the various things they cover.They would gain exposure in an expansion as people not viewing them so much now, would begin to care as a more regional team faced them every couple of years.&nbsp; You aren't winning national championships with just players from Texas and certainly not just from Oklahoma.&nbsp; You have to recruit nationally, and having teams in more recruiting hotbeds is not going to hurt your recruiting it will help as recruits see your teams regularly.They also want to be in the playoff, and its pretty clear by real evidence that playing 8 conference games and having 14 teams is going to get you in the playoff every year, whereas playing a round robin or even 9 game schedule&nbsp; with more teams in conference makes it more difficult.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buckaineer, post: 130995502, member: 1428007"] The SEC has their network because the Big Ten bolted ABC/ESPN to go in with FOX to start a network after ESPN lowballed them on a tier one offer. ESPN decided to start a network before the SEC made a similar move. To make it profitable, ESPN needed to get it on everywhere, to fleece cable subscribers all over the country for money to give to the SEC. They succeeded by BUNDLING all Disney products with it to force carriers to carry it. People in the northeast, west, midwest, far midwest are not watching SEC football when their teams are playing and they certainly aren't watching the SEC network. Texas and Oklahoma want to continue to keep up revenue wise, which is made more difficult when the Big Ten schools are getting in the neighborhood of $10 million per school from their network to go along with $40 plus million from FOX and ESPN and CBS for the various things they cover. They would gain exposure in an expansion as people not viewing them so much now, would begin to care as a more regional team faced them every couple of years. You aren't winning national championships with just players from Texas and certainly not just from Oklahoma. You have to recruit nationally, and having teams in more recruiting hotbeds is not going to hurt your recruiting it will help as recruits see your teams regularly. They also want to be in the playoff, and its pretty clear by real evidence that playing 8 conference games and having 14 teams is going to get you in the playoff every year, whereas playing a round robin or even 9 game schedule with more teams in conference makes it more difficult. [/QUOTE]

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