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Since we have an official realignment thread, would love to see Central Florida and USF in the big 12. I know they haven’t been around long but UCF seems to have it figured out. They look like a TCU program 10 years ago.
Since we have an official realignment thread, would love to see Central Florida and USF in the big 12. I know they haven’t been around long but UCF seems to have it figured out. They look like a TCU program 10 years ago.
Realignment will probably bring 4 super conferences of 16 teams each. One of these 3 (ACC, PAC 12 and BIG 12) will disappear. Based on prior actions (no expansion, willingness of Texas to jump, related greed of the teams) I'm afraid it will be the BIG 12 and not all of the current members will be invited to those other leagues.
There is discussion out there about the coming new TV deals the Big Ten and Pac 12 conferences are currently being worked on.
New TV Deal effective year:
Big Ten: 2022
Pac-12: 2023
Big XII: 2024
SEC: 2033
ACC: 2036
As a fan and a business person, I think now would be a good time to have Chris Del Conte and our burnt orange "friends" and an OU contingent go kick the tires over at Colorado and Arkansas and see if they both don't want to come home.
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Since we have an official realignment thread, would love to see Central Florida and USF in the big 12. I know they haven’t been around long but UCF seems to have it figured out. They look like a TCU program 10 years ago.
I’m just not convinced that TCU is able to handle the week-in-week-out grind of the Big XII.
Pac schools are going broke. They are nearly on their knees already and UT and OU will have them begging to get into the Big12. It will be dealers choice.
I highly doubt many CU people care what conference CSU is in. I think their answer to that ultimatum would be "go for it and enjoy Fort Collins."Colorado ought to be a no-brainer. Better money, better travel, more visiting fans. Its administration and faculty congress is the barrier. They barely tolerate athletics at all--remarkable that Rick George (former Texas Rangers exec) has managed to build a decent program in Boulder.
The faculty objection to the Big 12 is the academic reputation of its institutions. The CU faculty would rather forego conference revenue, visitor revenue, and travel savings to be aligned with UCLA, USC, Berkeley and Stanford. The Big 12 is viewed as academic slumming.
I still think they could be persuaded, though, if an invitation came with an ultimatum that the Big 12 would extend an invite to Colorado State if Colorado declined. The idea of CSU gaining Power 5 status would be viewed as a real threat in Boulder, and would put pressure on the admin/faculty to consider how much of a better financial deal the Big 12 would be.