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Message: [QUOTE="jostar1, post: 1711347, member: 1737"] Guerin Emig ‏@GuerinEmig · 12h12 hours ago From Big 12 meetings: Better day for David Boren and OU not enough to guarantee happy ending. [URL="http://m.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/ousportsextra/guerin-emig--a-better-day-for-david-boren-and-the-big-12-not-enoug/article_acd2c533-1d14-56cd-b0b8-00333467de89.html"]Guerin Emig: A better day for David Boren and the Big 12 not enough to guarantee a happy ending[/URL] Cue those Big 12-commissioned studies undertaken by research firms, and the figures they are presenting to CEOs at these meetings. “I want to see all the data first,” Boren said. If Boren takes home information and decides the Big 12 can hold its economic own with the SEC and Big Ten — via expansion, the formation of a league-wide media network, the re-installation of a football championship game or any other potential pot-sweetener — odds improve that OU will settle into the Big 12 for a longer haul. “We don’t have to be dollar for dollar or penny for penny what somebody else is making,” Boren said, “but we have to be in the neighborhood where we’re not extremely disadvantaged. If the gap gets too large, you really have a disadvantage in terms of your ability to fund programs that are competitive.” There is also the possibility Boren plops down on his couch this weekend, studies the data and realizes live streaming of games is cutting into traditional networks’ ability to pony up for a potential Big 12 Network. “I would have to say there have been a lot of developments in the marketplace in technology that are even more clear to us today than they were six months ago,” he said somewhat ominously. [/QUOTE]

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