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I was looking forward to Big 12. While some say it’s not ideal fit, I thought it would set up perfectly for next round where ACC could be target.
And the Big 12 has momentum. Not because it plays the best football or basketball, but because the teams that are there want to be there. Tex/Ok gone remove the drama. Now the focus is on the field. Was looking forward to being part of that.
We heard markets, we heard ‘we want schools that want to be here’, we heard basketball, we heard eastern time zone, blah blah blah….
After all that, Big 12 goes back to the stale well and MAY potentially take three schools within the same redundant markets of the glorious mountain time zone, two of which are athletic dead weights, and two of which up until yesterday are still reluctant to join.
It doesn’t make sense. Maybe this whole thing was a sham to shake these schools out. Maybe BY really wanted UConn in eastern push. At the end of the day, the presidents of these schools are the ones making decisions.
You now have cornered the Utah market along with Arizon and Colorado.
You’ve done it with schools that have consistently looked down on the league previously, and consider joining a demotion.
You’ve alienated your eastern flank and basically said go screw.
Essentially you’ve added a potential crack into the conference that didn’t have to be there. I hope that little crack grows in the coming years. I hope the ACC can get it’s crap right and peel off a couple of those eastern schools and maybe add UConn. Admittedly, Big 12 seems more exciting, but a P5 is a P5 or P4.
Going in a different direction when everyone says it has to be this way is tough. It’s what was making BY sound so visionary with BB and taking Big 12 East.
Ughhhhh…..
And the Big 12 has momentum. Not because it plays the best football or basketball, but because the teams that are there want to be there. Tex/Ok gone remove the drama. Now the focus is on the field. Was looking forward to being part of that.
We heard markets, we heard ‘we want schools that want to be here’, we heard basketball, we heard eastern time zone, blah blah blah….
After all that, Big 12 goes back to the stale well and MAY potentially take three schools within the same redundant markets of the glorious mountain time zone, two of which are athletic dead weights, and two of which up until yesterday are still reluctant to join.
It doesn’t make sense. Maybe this whole thing was a sham to shake these schools out. Maybe BY really wanted UConn in eastern push. At the end of the day, the presidents of these schools are the ones making decisions.
You now have cornered the Utah market along with Arizon and Colorado.
You’ve done it with schools that have consistently looked down on the league previously, and consider joining a demotion.
You’ve alienated your eastern flank and basically said go screw.
Essentially you’ve added a potential crack into the conference that didn’t have to be there. I hope that little crack grows in the coming years. I hope the ACC can get it’s crap right and peel off a couple of those eastern schools and maybe add UConn. Admittedly, Big 12 seems more exciting, but a P5 is a P5 or P4.
Going in a different direction when everyone says it has to be this way is tough. It’s what was making BY sound so visionary with BB and taking Big 12 East.
Ughhhhh…..