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[QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4695911, member: 71"]
Yeah, that's an interesting strategy by the P-12; if they don't get a TV deal, nobody will leave.  It's kind of like in [B][I]No Time for Sergeants[/I][/B] when the father of Andy Griffith's character kept throwing away letters from the draft board thinking if they didn't open them, his son wouldn't get drafted.

At some point, soon (at worst a couple weeks after their football media day) something has to be announced.  They cannot go on without some media agreement and at some point member schools are going to either demand answers or look elsewhere.  Sadly, this delay could cause more chaos than we would like and hurt us on many levels.  If half (or more) of the remaining P-12 is on the open market the rush to the B-12 could resemble the California gold rush.  Additionally (with the BE being our permanent home if this happens), if a conference like the P-12 couldn't get a fair media deal, who's to say the BE won't also get low balled when the next contract is negotiated.  Our largest problem there would be that half the conference would be satisfied with a cut raate deal.
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