This is precisely why I was surprised there is even a mention of it. But I’m just saying they have people willing to step up and fund the difference. When you consider donors at schools all over the country are shelling out $30, $40m a year for football roosters annually, covering $20m in TV...
I don’t understand this mindset. Do you think Texas Tech last year really wished they had played Georgia, Texas, etc and gone 8-4 and missed the playoffs? Heck no
I’m not trolling in any way lol it’s not like I’m being negative towards MSU? I was just saying this would be a very surprising move and might make some teams including us think differently about conferences.
It’s just not guys I know. Take a look at their 247 board if you’re subscribed there’s been multiple threads over the past several weeks with one of the staff writers saying it is on the table.
That’s exactly what I said. But group of guys I was talking to countered that yes the current SEC TV deal pays out about $70m annually per school with the Big 12 TV getting $40-45m per school annually. But they said their megadonors (which is not just the Walton’s btw, includes the Tyson’s...
Big 12 would be better. The main guy I was talking to, who is not even a big Hogs basketball fan, was all for this move. He was like “besides a little bit of extra TV money, what’s so great about being in the SEC? So you can go 7-5 but beat your chest about how you got skulldrug by Georgia...
Those were all 60+ years ago lol the landscape has changed drastically. I’m not saying I would like it if I was an Arkansas fan, but it’s not some sort of catastrophic move. You would be putting Calipari in the best basketball conference, while also giving yourself a much easier path to the...
I live in Arkansas and am friends with a lot of reasonably well connected alumni, not like megadonors but donors. Multiple people over the past several months have told me that the higher ups at Arkansas are considering moving to the Big 12. There’s also a lot of chatter on their board about it...
We are are only going to be favored in 2 games this year. That means we will be dogs in 10 of them. To get to 7-5 Lebby would have to have 5 upset (by point spread) wins, along with 4 conference wins + Minnesota. The schedule is much harder this year with 9 conference games and P4.
I think this...
We have GOT to put together a competent 7-8 win team this year that will be at the least a single digit point dog to them, and hang with them if not win. If we sputter to a 3-5 win season and they make the playoff again I just think that the degree of separation will be too much for us to bear.
I think they’ll fall off substantially in ‘27. I just cannot see how with Trinidad coming back that they are going to suck this year. Bracing myself for it
19 power 4 coaches are new this year. All of them took more than 12, with some being 20+, transfers to their new team. Kiffin got 4.
If anyone on here has convinced themselves the wheels are about to just fall off at Ole Miss with Trinidad and Kewan Lacy coming back of their playoff run...