Big Ten, ACC, and Pac12 officially announce Alliance

[peacock]

the big question is where the Alliance conferences are going to be willing to surrender the fertile Texas recruiting market to the SEC.....if any of the three probably Pac-12 wants to get in Texas...we are going to be their first choice,....you really can't showcase your school to big time recruits in Lubbock and Waco!

 

[steelfrog]

Dave Wannstadt says we are currently out in the cold

 

[gohornedfrogs]

Our old nemesis, Barry Alvarez mentioned as a consultant to the alliance on scheduling. Man, I despise that guy.

 

[Gehörnter Frosch]

I disagree it’s over in that scenario. It’s not good, but it’s clearly a middle of the road option between a PAC invite and going to the AAC or MWC

Attendance, enthusiasm, revenue, and general interest will all wane. We will collectively remember 2000-2023 as the glory days of TCU football.

 

[Mean Purple]

As they should. From a sports perspective, this doesn't mean much.

Well, when you actually look whole picture ...

These three were not invited to the table when the playoff expansion was plotted out.
They also mentioned that they would look at who the rights to playoff are set. (That is something ESPN is really concerned about).
This also gets leverage for the PAC and BIG as they start negotiation for the not too far off re-up of tv deals.

 

[Mean Purple]

If Wannstedt was so in the know, he would have known that this alliance was coming. They got all 41 schools on board. That work started long before those Fox meetings.

 

[Peacefrog]

Dave Wannstadt says we are currently out in the cold

Dave Wannstadt is an unmitigated pile of crap. To use your parlance.

 

[hiphopfroggy]

Well, they are saying "the Big 12 matters in college football" and basically saying they want it to survive.

In other words, they don't want any of us.

Seemed like the forced obligatory cya statement to me.

 

[Mean Purple]

Finebaum on SEC Network/ESPN Radio saying only teams worth looking at in the Big 12 are Okie State, Iowa State and TCU. When some caller was talking about contracting games and teams going to other conferences.

 

[Eight]

Dave Wannstadt says we are currently out in the cold

you are only quoting wannstadt because you like the way his eyebrows and mustache feel

 

[jake102]

Finebaum on SEC Network/ESPN Radio saying only teams worth looking at in the Big 12 are Okie State, Iowa State and TCU. When some caller was talking about contracting games and teams going to other conferences.

I think most people who aren't in charge of numbers like TCU

 

[Mean Purple]

Some guy on the SEC Network reporting some sports reporter about something about the PAC will announce where they are regarding any decision to expand by the end of the week.

 

[jake102]

Some guy on the SEC Network reporting some sports reporter about something about the PAC will announce where they are regarding any decision to expand by the end of the week.

I think today's announcement pretty well guides what that announcement will be.

 

[Moose Stuff]

LMAO at anyone that thinks Dave Wannstadt was in on some important secret meetings.

 

[Mean Purple]

I think today's announcement pretty well guides what that announcement will be.

PAC Commissioner was the top dude at the company that has MGM resorts. Those cats tend to go big whenever they feel like it. So who knows.

 

[hiphopfroggy]

I think today's announcement pretty well guides what that announcement will be.

How so?

 

[watchoutforthelizard]

I would doubt Dave Wannstadt as any sort of insider. Right now everything is speculation. I'd love TCU/Tech/OSU and other left overs to find a way into either PAC 12 and Alliance or SEC. Both options seem like a pipe dream at this point. The most logical outcome is stay in Little 8 and become something close to AAC or little 8 folds and TCU gets stuck in the AAC. Either option spells the end of athletics as TCU currently knows it and ushers in dark times. Keep OU/UT in as long as possible and enjoy the next 4 years of relevant football because after that it's the minors.

 

[vicarfrog]

you are only quoting wannstadt because you like the way his eyebrows and mustache feel

Don't know why, but I always thought he kind of looked like Sargent Slaughter.

 

[FWSTC Hfrog]

You just had to watch Wannstedt on FOX sports to see he was clueless half of the time on his in-game analysis. So, assume he was asleep half of the time
during these discussions he was talking about.

 

[vicarfrog]

Finebaum on SEC Network/ESPN Radio saying only teams worth looking at in the Big 12 are Okie State, Iowa State and TCU. When some caller was talking about contracting games and teams going to other conferences.

If Purple Pooper's prediction becomes true, we're going to have get that guy a box of Shipley's Donuts.