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DMN: Is Big 12 in danger? Chuck Neinas, man who once saved conference, gives his take
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<blockquote data-quote="Virginia Frog" data-source="post: 3161675" data-attributes="member: 4959"><p>"By the time Neinas handed the reins to <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/baylor-bears/2022/05/06/big-12-never-seemed-the-fittest-yet-bob-bowlsbys-legacy-is-one-of-survival/" target="_blank">Bob Bowlsby</a> in 2012, the league had been stabilized. <strong>Neinas got everyone to sign a grant-of-rights through 2025</strong> that kept anyone else from leaving, because if they did, it meant forfeiting their TV revenues to the league."</p><p></p><p></p><p>This is the single best thing CN did for the B12 (from TCU's point-of-view.) IMO.</p><p></p><p>I'm just loving it to see UT have to be humble towards us (TCU and all the other "lowly" B12 members) on their exit journey. Otherwise, without the GOR, they'd shoved it and spit on us on the way out. Yea, they could pay us off and roll but IMO they just can't stand to part with the cash. ( I hope they are stuck in the Twelve through the entire term of the GOR.)</p><p></p><p>Largely, I can't wait for the new 12 team conference without the Longboys. For football especially, it's going to be a competitive league with anyone-can-win-any-game (save Kansas.) No longer will TCU have to bow to the del Contees forever and ever.</p><p></p><p></p><p>All the chatter about SWC and the what-if about "if" A&M, Cornhuskers, UM and U Colorado continued in the B12 is correct but we, TCU Nation, would have short sheeted if that had not occurred. It's worked out great for us!</p><p></p><p>UT is really a conference cancer. In another 10-15 years, there'll be a movement to force-out the SEC "lessers" - MissSt, Vandy, USouCar, etc. - so they can increase their payday disproportionate to everyone else. And UT will be right in the middle of it.</p><p></p><p>I hope I'm around to see that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Virginia Frog, post: 3161675, member: 4959"] "By the time Neinas handed the reins to [URL='https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/baylor-bears/2022/05/06/big-12-never-seemed-the-fittest-yet-bob-bowlsbys-legacy-is-one-of-survival/']Bob Bowlsby[/URL] in 2012, the league had been stabilized. [B]Neinas got everyone to sign a grant-of-rights through 2025[/B] that kept anyone else from leaving, because if they did, it meant forfeiting their TV revenues to the league." This is the single best thing CN did for the B12 (from TCU's point-of-view.) IMO. I'm just loving it to see UT have to be humble towards us (TCU and all the other "lowly" B12 members) on their exit journey. Otherwise, without the GOR, they'd shoved it and spit on us on the way out. Yea, they could pay us off and roll but IMO they just can't stand to part with the cash. ( I hope they are stuck in the Twelve through the entire term of the GOR.) Largely, I can't wait for the new 12 team conference without the Longboys. For football especially, it's going to be a competitive league with anyone-can-win-any-game (save Kansas.) No longer will TCU have to bow to the del Contees forever and ever. All the chatter about SWC and the what-if about "if" A&M, Cornhuskers, UM and U Colorado continued in the B12 is correct but we, TCU Nation, would have short sheeted if that had not occurred. It's worked out great for us! UT is really a conference cancer. In another 10-15 years, there'll be a movement to force-out the SEC "lessers" - MissSt, Vandy, USouCar, etc. - so they can increase their payday disproportionate to everyone else. And UT will be right in the middle of it. I hope I'm around to see that. [/QUOTE]
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