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Buckaineer said:
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The 17 schools that will make their presentations to the Big 12 include Cincinnati, Houston, BYU, South Florida, UCF, UConn, Memphis, Colorado State, Boise State, Tulane, Temple, East Carolina, SMU, New Mexico and Northern Illinois, sources said.

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...er-bob-bowlsby-interview-17-schools-expansion
Wonder who the other two not listed are?
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Current P5 teams? The list they show is already ridiculously inclusive. Temple, Northern Illinois, SMU, ECU and New Mexico are extreme long shots. Why put everyone through this?
 
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skygusty said:
Current P5 teams? The list they show is already ridiculously inclusive. Temple, Northern Illinois, SMU, ECU and New Mexico are extreme long shots. Why put everyone through this?
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It's the times. Not proper to exclude anyone. We must be politically correct.
 
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The other two are of course Florida State and Clemson....all this other talk has just been for fans and the media...:sunglasses:
 
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For those that expect an expansion announcement.... ....it'll go down like this....

1). Big 12 decides/announces no plans to expand (or step two happens while those teams don't mention the 'real' reason)

2). Two or four teams still announce that they plan to leave their conferences

3). The Big 12 reconsiders and decides to expand....oddly adding teams who were going to leave their conferences anyway
 
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They have been updating the list, added San Diego State and Arkansas State. Now they have 17 listed. At least 12 of them have less chance than a snowball in hell.
 
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If the Big 12 is to expand they should choose schools that expand the conferences geographic reach. The conference is geographically disadvantaged as it is we don't need another school in Texas we need to expand east where the television sets are.
 
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The conference conducted extensive studies and is now interviewing multiple candidates to dispell the false idea they are just doing all of this on a whim or that candidates are not valuable or well researched.

Once decisions are made and finalized no one can reasonably claim due diligence was not performed by the conference or that the new members haven't been vetted to the fullest extent possible.
 
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ColoradoMountaineer said:
If the Big 12 is to expand they should choose schools that expand the conferences geographic reach. The conference is geographically disadvantaged as it is we don't need another school in Texas we need to expand east where the television sets are.
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Geography is irrelevant in today's college football. Only money is relevant. Hell, they can't even count right. Big 12 has 10 members. Big 10 has 12. I think. It's hard to keep it straight. WVU is in a conference with teams from Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Pitt and Syracuse went somewhere. UConn is trying desperately to get into the Big 12. The athletes just get on a plane and fly wherever the game will be played.
 
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If this is true the Big 12 will not exist with current members within 5 years. Will add 2 or 4 but will lose the only 2 that matters quickly.

Big 12 will them lose Power Satus and the stage is set for 4 conferences with 16 teams. This is what the guys the pay the bills want!

Bowlsby needs to look outside the box for a merger with existing P5 conferences. He is not aggressive enough to do that. He is a big company/big organization guy. We have Gov't SES'r type running the Big 12.




Buckaineer said:
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The 17 schools that will make their presentations to the Big 12 include Cincinnati, Houston, BYU, South Florida, UCF, UConn, Memphis, Colorado State, Boise State, Tulane, Temple, East Carolina, SMU, New Mexico and Northern Illinois, sources said.

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...er-bob-bowlsby-interview-17-schools-expansion
Wonder who the other two not listed are?
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The only one that matters...to me...is WVU. If we could ever get good results on the field then we could care less about what Tx or Ok want, think or do. Getting tired of this looking over the shoulder crap. Smack 'em in the mouth!
 
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The BIG 12 is one of the strongest P5 conferences in existence. It doesn't need to merge with anyone to remain strong it just needs to ADD to its membership to remain strong.
Lots of people wishing for 4x16 don't make sense. Wake and Duke and Vanderbilt and Purdue and Indiana and Wazzou etc. in the P5 but not Kansas, K State, ISU, WVU, Baylor, TCU etc.?

This is not going to happen.

The BIG 12 is going to expand and by the time the contracts come around in a decade none of this will matter because the BIG 12 may be the number 1 overall conference in everything by then. Neither Texas nor OU are leaving if the conference expands.

If it DOESN'T expand-hopefully to 14, that is where problems begin.
 
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You can rest assured that Boise State will not become a member of the Big. Boise State ain't no cellar dweller and now ..................the rest of the story.
 
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The list has grown to 20 schools after they added Rice and UNLV to those being interviewed. "Sources also said it's "becoming less and less likely" that the league will expand to 14 teams. The most likely scenario is that the Big 12 will stay at 10 teams or only add two schools for a 12-team league with two six-team divisions, sources said." So it is 50-50 that the conference stays at 10 teams after this circus?
 
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skygusty said:
The list has grown to 20 schools after they added Rice and UNLV to those being interviewed. "Sources also said it's "becoming less and less likely" that the league will expand to 14 teams. The most likely scenario is that the Big 12 will stay at 10 teams or only add two schools for a 12-team league with two six-team divisions, sources said." So it is 50-50 that the conference stays at 10 teams after this circus?
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Should be 100% to stay at 10. None of those teams add enough value to keep everyone's shares the same in revenue.
 
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If what is being said on this thread is true, President Leath from Iowa State is a terrible liar. Considering the conference money, time and effort spent since the presidents told Commissioner Bowlsby to vet potential candidates, the more likely question is, Two or four and how soon?" Do you really want to watch his very recent video again?

 
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Mountaineer Steve said:
Can you say bidding war?
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Bingo! The Big-12 is trying to play Fox against ESPN. Fox seems willing to pay them to expand, and they're now trying to see how much the boys in Bristol will give them not expand.

I've got no problem with them squeezing the TV network that caused most of this crap with their greed, ie; ESPN to see what they'll pay to stop expansion.
 
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michaelwalkerbr said:
Maybe two, maybe four. But it's coming. Probably two.
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So far Houston and UConn are known to have recieved info from commissioner Bowlsby on how to apply, and Cincinnati has officially submitted their letter of interest from the conference.

Early reports were they wanted things finished up by the start of the season, but other reports have said October--and the ISU president most recently said by December at the latest. Since the seasons going to start they may hold up once decisions are made in order not to disrupt anyone.
 
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