I'm still not perfectly clear on what just happened to the college football landscape, other than I know that Texas just made a lot of schools really happy, including themselves. But here's what I'm hearing so far but am still a little unclear:
1. Texas can and will build their own TV network and doesn't have to share a penny of it with anyone?
2. Texas will receive 25% of the Big 12 TV package, the other 9 schools share the other 75%...this one can't be right...can it?
3. The Big 12 is now the Big 10 because they can't afford to add any other school because Texas will bolt because their 25% will be smaller....right?
If the above is true..the conference should be re-named Texas and it's 9 Bitches - T9 for short (sorry, profanity necessary here to drive home the point)....or Texas Hold'em (cuz Texas is holdin' all the cards here baby).
I do realize that without this deal, the Big 12 goes away. If there is no more movement, how stupid does Missouri look..they basically begged their way into the Big 10 and lost?!!!!!! What most don't realize is these moves were done with eyeballs and fan loyalty on the line, not boundaries, tradition, rivalry or much less common sense. Nebraska has a rabid national fan base for football (Jim Delaney, B10 commissioner likes that)...Missouri, Iowa State, Pittsburgh fit the Big 10 (natural rivals in conference, proximity, tradition and great academics)...sorry, your football tradition doesn't attract the type of person who would demand BTN from their cable company like an NU fan. Bottom line, that's all that matters to JD. Heck, if Fairbanks Roofing, Siding, and Construction College in Alaska had what Nebraska has JD would snap 'em up in a hurry.
Teams Happiest:
Texas, Notre Dame (they can stay status quo without being forced into the Big Ten) Kansas (top 5 BB program spared)
Teams Happy:
Kansas State & Iowa State(these schools had nothing to offer and a ton to lose)
Team Happy this is over:
Texas Tech (some say they were in a Texas package some say they weren't...OMG I can't imagine the sweatin' their fan base was doing).
Teams Indifferent:
OK, OKSU, and Texas A&M (most likely would have gone east or west with Texas)
Teams looking foolish:
Missouri, B12 Commissioner's office
3 comments:
Scott P says:
Masterful. Perhaps, you should get a radio time slot.
Jeff T (for Texas) says:
Well it was Texas and its 11 b---es, so your name still works. As our
AD once astutely noted, "we don't keep up with the Joneses, we are the
Joneses"
Lobl says:
The biggest winner here is the Big 10. The Big 10 faced a very real possibility of being pushed from the #2 conference in the country (behind the SEC) to the #3 conference (behind the Pac 16 and SEC). That is significant, because at that point, the focus of the bowl season would have shifted from resolving the SEC/B10 superiority question to resolving the SEC/P16 superiority question. For the B10, that would have meant goodbye Capital One Bowl, goodbye Outback Bowl, goodbye Gator Bowl (or, if not goodbye, those bowls would have been be diminished behind the Cotton Bowl, Holiday Bowl and other marquee SEC/P16 matchups).
The next biggest winner here is the SEC. By brilliantly using Texas A&M to drive a wedge between the Pac10 and Texas, they fended off the Pac16 threat and preserved their loft atop the college football world.
The biggest losers here are Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Missouri. They should have banded together and joined the Big East or MWC, where they would be celebrated as equals, rather than agreeing to be Texas' bitch for another decade. Not an ounce of self-respect among the four of them.
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