BeBee Killed His Own Conference?

[Trelvis]

Has this been posted yet? Kind of interesting...

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news...amp;PID=3792338

Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe all but killed his own conference on April 30, 2008.

That’s when he decided to team up with the Big Ten and Pac-10 to reject a four-team playoff being pushed by the SEC and ACC. If the Big 12 (and/or the Big East) had supported it, the so-called “Plus One” model likely would’ve happened.

 

[Westover Hillbilly]

QUOTE(Trelvis @ Jun 6 2010, 10:16 PM) [snapback]569959[/snapback]
Has this been posted yet? Kind of interesting...

Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe all but killed his own conference on April 30, 2008.

That's when he decided to team up with the Big Ten and Pac-10 to reject a four-team playoff being pushed by the SEC and ACC. If the Big 12 (and/or the Big East) had supported it, the so-called "Plus One" model likely would've happened.


That is indeed a good read... His positions are a bit bold but he may prove right on in that the PAC 10 and Big 10 and even the SEC are positioned to deliver more than a few knock-out punches on the ACC, Big East and Big 12...

As much as I hate the Big 12 and the scummy way it was formed in back-stabbing behind the scenes secret meetings, any raid on it is not good for college athletics in the long run... Who would have thought the Big 12 was vulnerable even a year ago?

That being said, I remember hating the MWC too for the way it was formed in 1998 also... Oh well, at least we got to go beat USC in the Sun Bowl because of it- the good people of El Paso excluded a more deserving Wyoming team in favor of us...

 

[halfwaytoheaven]

If all of this goes down, I think it will be the Big Ten Network that killed the Big 12. The Big 12 doesn't have the population base to support a network that can bring in that sort of revenue, so Texas and company will be forced to partner up with the Pac-10 to make sure they don't fall behind.

 

[Dogfrog]

Time to turn it all back over to the NCAA where it should have been in the first place. This is what they get for turning their game over to the bowl moguls and conference power brokers.

 

[FeistyFrog]

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If all of this goes down, I think it will be the Big Ten Network that killed the Big 12. The Big 12 doesn't have the population base to support a network that can bring in that sort of revenue, so Texas and company will be forced to partner up with the Pac-10 to make sure they don't fall behind.



So video killed the Big 12...

 

[Atomic Frawg]

QUOTE(halfwaytoheaven @ Jun 6 2010, 11:25 PM) [snapback]570000[/snapback]
If all of this goes down, I think it will be the Big Ten Network that killed the Big 12. The Big 12 doesn't have the population base to support a network that can bring in that sort of revenue, so Texas and company will be forced to partner up with the Pac-10 to make sure they don't fall behind.

When Lubbock is the second biggest city in your conference, what did they expect?

 

[TopFrog]

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When Lubbock is the second biggest city in your conference, what did they expect?


Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio markets are among the biggest in the nation ...

 

[Atomic Frawg]

QUOTE(TopFrog @ Jun 7 2010, 08:54 AM) [snapback]570126[/snapback]
Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio markets are among the biggest in the nation ...

They certainly are, but they only cater to two schools - Texas and A&M. When you look at the remaining teams you can see where the Big 12 has market issues in an increasingly TV driven landscape: OU (Norman/OKC), OSU (Stillwater/OKC), Nebraska (Lincoln/Omaha), Kansas (Lawrence/KC), K-State (Manhattan/KC)...and so on.

Some of the schools don't even pull as much in their larger cities as they'd like. Then look at how difficult it is to get to some of the locations - to fly to a game. They have great sports, but horrible locations of the schools.

TV Markets by population/percentage