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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 1746170, member: 3850"] It appears to me that the Big 12 plan may be somewhat like a reverse auction.... Who will take the least money for the longest period. The media contract with Fox/ESPN appears to hook them into paying a proportionate share for any new expansion team...but the twitterati are saying that the networks are balking at extending that contract beyond the current eight years. They appear that they will increase the media contract portion of the pie proportionately but slice the whole pie more...(no real increases in football playoff money, BB distributions, bowl money since these have two more mouths to feed). The Big 12 can keep current members whole, or even see a small increase...if they bring in new members who will take less for a longer period. [/QUOTE]