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Message: [QUOTE="NYUConn, post: 1582644, member: 6274"] [LIST] [*]Feel the Burn What are your thoughts on Cincinnati being considered a candidate for B12 expansion? I'm not so impressed by it. New TV market but that's really it. thoughts? [*]Feb 16 2016 12:15 PM Cincinnati has some positives, but it also doesn't do much for the TV marketing, which is really the most important thing. Cincy's positives are good academics, solid football and a neighbor for West Virginia. [/LIST] Big Ben what are your thoughts on expansion and the big12? I just don't see it happening. The 8 others don't want to give up their home games with OU or texas everyother year, (I mean osu's ticket policy is based on the OU or texas game) and the 8 others don't want to give up the piece of the money pie [LIST] [*]There's a lot of truth to what you say. There is not a consensus for expansion right now. Nothing has changed. Eric Conference expansion question. Is the Big 12 trying to put a bandaid on. Boise, BYU, Cinci, Memphis - teams like that don't add a whole lot of value to the league in my opinion other than allowing for a conference title game. It seems like it is all TV related. If Texas wants to roll the Longhorn Network into a Big 12 Network then maybe it would be a good thing, if not it seems like conference expansion and title game are putting lipstick on a pig. Would OU be better off jumping for a more stable conference (SEC, Big 10, Pac 12?). Honestly, I don't see how the Big 12 survives long term. The league does zero to help the image of OU football in recruiting. My question is do you think the Big 12 is worth saving or should OU jump ship? [*]Berry Tramel I think the Big 12 is worth saving, but there's no doubt that it's harder to recruit now for schools like OU. So you can jump out of the conference or try to change the perception of the conference. I would vote for the latter. I think OU would lose a lot of its status with a conference and a lot of its identity. What schools that have changed leagues have been benefited? Not A&M or Mizzou or Colorado or Nebraska. You could argue that not Rutgers or Syracuse or Pitt. Not West Virginia. The only schools that have prospered came up from less prestigious leagues. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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