Houston Chronicle exclusive: Texas, Oklahoma reach out to SEC about joining conference.

[Chin Diesel]

Ahhh....I'm over the whole BBC thing at this point. They have a nice hockey program and a football program that that is sometimes competitive. I'll be long in the grave before they ever sniff an ACC championship or playoff appearance.

.......and basketball is something special. Who the heck was president the last time they made the NCAAs......... Eisenhower?

That can be hard.

 

[huskymedic]

Surprise!

 

[huskymedic]

 

[WestCoastHusky]

I cannot fathom that Bowlsby was so overtly public and inflammatory with multiple media outlets (it even made it onto financial news networks) without a shred of hard evidence to use in litigation now or in the future. ESPN has to deny, don't know why I'd expect anything less, but they sure K.I.S.S.'ed it with that letter.

Then again, Bowlsby could just be throwing hail mary's all over the place on his way out the door - nothing surprises me anymore these days.

Either that or Bowlsby got plenty of evidence already. I doubt he would go public putting his entire career and reputation on the line without any evidence just to stick to ESPN. Pretty sure all of this stuff will be out in the open during deposition. I doubt it will get there, but I am hoping for a full litigation with government involved just to see some firework. ESPN hasn't even paid their crime of destroying the old Big East yet.

 

[uchusky32]

Holy !!

That's basically FSU posting a tinder profile saying please swipe right

 

[huskymedic]

 

[uchusky32]

 

[WestHartHusk]

More hot sauce from Twitter...

Everyone is assuming this is referencing football. Is there some other sport where this is true? Feel like ESPN is just trolling B12 now.

 

[John]

Surprise!

Longhorns and Sooners be like

 

[shizzle787]

 

[BlueDogs]

Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered. Media kings got away with a lot of manipulation and thought they were immune. They just couldn’t resist and are going to pay a huge price.

 

[uconnric]

Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered. Media kings got away with a lot of manipulation and thought they were immune. They just couldn’t resist and are going to pay a huge price.

And you know this how?

 

[MilliniumPrince]

Football fans voted with their feet on the American: no thanks, I would rather stay home and watch something else on tv. We created the program to play the old Big East, nobody anywhere cares about the AAC schools.

Fans voted with their feet because we sucked for a decade. If we have maintained our level at the end of RE 1.0, the entire story would have been different.

And this all ends the way Disney and Fox want it to end. If one of them throws $15 million - $20 million per year on the table to those of us on the outside, everyone left out will say yes. It has always been that way. Texas and OU left, because Disney wanted them to do so. Not a coincidence this happens just after Disney gets the SEC rights for a damn decade.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

Um, I am referring to the b12 remnants.

And let’s be real, no way in hell we are invited back.

If Disney or Fox invites us back, it could happen in heartbeat.

 

[BlueDogs]

And you know this how?

Logic. ESPN will pay out big $$ to add two new SEC teams, while stranding the rest in a weakened conference and negotiating a cheaper GOR in 2024 ( or better yet dangling a slightly higher payout from rock bottom to get a long term cheap deal with the weak Big12. The weak Big12 is set up up for an AAC level deal. This is simple arbitrage. They pay up for 2 and down for 8. By trying to take two historical brand Crown Jewels to the SEC, they crossed a line. The BiG12 just got taken to the cleaners and there is no way they going to allow their conference entity to lose a billion or more had it not been tampered with and ESPN was forced to negotiate with Texas and OU in the Big12. My point is the past CRs are similar. The difference is they went to the top of the food chain this time shuffling super brands which crossed a big line. The only way out is they pay up and make everybody happy or they fight it out in court with the prospect of massive liability.

 

[UConn Dan]

the non-keyest tweet in this thread. that guy is a complete troll.

 

[CL82]

Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered. Media kings got away with a lot of manipulation and thought they were immune. They just couldn’t resist and are going to pay a huge price.

Even if everything that was alleged by Bowlsby is true and can be proven how was the Big 12 damaged?

 

[billybud]

Most followed schools...social media

 

[John]

Most followed schools...social media

Where's the Big East schools?

Edit: RIF

 

[Chin Diesel]

Where's the Big East schools?

Umm, the chart is titled as listing 130 FBS schools. There aren't any BE FBS schools.

 

[John]

Umm, the chart is titled as listing 130 FBS schools. There aren't any BE FBS schools.

There's one.

 

[Chin Diesel]

There's one.

Sure. Say it's UConn even though UConn isn't a BE football school.

 

[billybud]

Where's the Big East schools?

The chart is "football" following....for 2020.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]