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<blockquote data-quote="WVBlue" data-source="post: 129683302" data-attributes="member: 1481689"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Big 12 Expansion: Fateful decisions for Texas, OU and Hateful Eight</strong></span></p><p>Posted October 17th, 2016</p><p>By Kirk Bohls</p><p></p><p><strong><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Story highlights</span></em></strong></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-size: 15px"> One point of view is the Big 12 doesn’t need to grow </span></em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-size: 15px"> The pool of viable candidates is desperate to get in a Power 5 conference </span></em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-size: 15px"> One source at a Big 12 school says an expansion candidate offered to pay the Big 12 a whopping $50 million for an invitation</span></em></li> </ul><p></p><p>Expansion for the Big 12 is dead.</p><p></p><p>Or so it seems.</p><p></p><p>Some might say the same for the Big 12; that its demise will be linked to its instability and indecision and lack of out-of-the-box thinking. All of that will come to a head Monday when the Big 12’s presidents and chancellors deliberate and probably announce they’re standing pat.</p><p></p><p>“I’m not expecting expansion,” said one school administrator with a vested interest in the process. “I don’t see that it’s going to happen. I think on Monday everybody’s feeling it’s all coming to a screeching halt.”</p><p></p><p>If that’s true, and it probably is, the Big 12 becomes the Little 12 once more. Or Little 10. It will probably gain more money from television partners ESPN and Fox for <em>not</em> expanding. At least, that’s how they would sell it. But it has tooled around at least 20 schools that wanted admission and cost them upwards of $100,000 in materials, manpower and resources each to go through this unwieldy process.</p><p></p><p>And the Big 12 once again gave itself a black eye. How many is that now?</p><p></p><p>One point of view is the Big 12 doesn’t need to grow. Its 10-school makeup is perfect because it allows for round-robin play or double round-robin play in basketball, allows for bigger slices of the financial pie, provides middle-of-the-country time-zone play (with all due respect, West Virginia) and features very direct (and easier) paths to the Final Four in football and basketball because of lesser competition. All of that is probably true.</p><p></p><p>Then there's the other point of view.</p><p></p><p>The Big 12 makes the Kardashians look mature. It can’t get out of its own way. It can’t decide if it wants to expand or not. It will be swallowed up by the Big Ten and SEC.</p><p></p><p><strong><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">LINK</span></em></strong> to continue (Austin American Statesman - Hook'em)</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.hookem.com/columns/big-12-expansion-fateful-decisions-texas-ou-hateful-eight/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255)"><strong>http://www.hookem.com/columns/big-12-expansion-fateful-decisions-texas-ou-hateful-eight/</strong></span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WVBlue, post: 129683302, member: 1481689"] [SIZE=6][B]Big 12 Expansion: Fateful decisions for Texas, OU and Hateful Eight[/B][/SIZE] Posted October 17th, 2016 By Kirk Bohls [B][I][SIZE=4]Story highlights[/SIZE][/I][/B] [LIST] [*][I][SIZE=4] One point of view is the Big 12 doesn’t need to grow [/SIZE][/I] [*][I][SIZE=4] The pool of viable candidates is desperate to get in a Power 5 conference [/SIZE][/I] [*][I][SIZE=4] One source at a Big 12 school says an expansion candidate offered to pay the Big 12 a whopping $50 million for an invitation[/SIZE][/I] [/LIST] Expansion for the Big 12 is dead. Or so it seems. Some might say the same for the Big 12; that its demise will be linked to its instability and indecision and lack of out-of-the-box thinking. All of that will come to a head Monday when the Big 12’s presidents and chancellors deliberate and probably announce they’re standing pat. “I’m not expecting expansion,” said one school administrator with a vested interest in the process. “I don’t see that it’s going to happen. I think on Monday everybody’s feeling it’s all coming to a screeching halt.” If that’s true, and it probably is, the Big 12 becomes the Little 12 once more. Or Little 10. It will probably gain more money from television partners ESPN and Fox for [I]not[/I] expanding. At least, that’s how they would sell it. But it has tooled around at least 20 schools that wanted admission and cost them upwards of $100,000 in materials, manpower and resources each to go through this unwieldy process. And the Big 12 once again gave itself a black eye. How many is that now? One point of view is the Big 12 doesn’t need to grow. Its 10-school makeup is perfect because it allows for round-robin play or double round-robin play in basketball, allows for bigger slices of the financial pie, provides middle-of-the-country time-zone play (with all due respect, West Virginia) and features very direct (and easier) paths to the Final Four in football and basketball because of lesser competition. All of that is probably true. Then there's the other point of view. The Big 12 makes the Kardashians look mature. It can’t get out of its own way. It can’t decide if it wants to expand or not. It will be swallowed up by the Big Ten and SEC. [B][I][COLOR=rgb(255, 0, 0)]LINK[/COLOR][/I][/B] to continue (Austin American Statesman - Hook'em) [URL='http://www.hookem.com/columns/big-12-expansion-fateful-decisions-texas-ou-hateful-eight/'][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 255)][B]http://www.hookem.com/columns/big-12-expansion-fateful-decisions-texas-ou-hateful-eight/[/B][/COLOR][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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