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[QUOTE="Charley Horse, post: 1754734, member: 6990"]
But think about it another way.  What if this temporary money grab actually enhances the conference?

What if UConn, Cincy, Houston and whomever (BYU bleh?) make the most of their Big 12 windfall?

It wouldn't take 8 national championship in three different sports.  Reputations are made on less tangible things than that.  Oregon's respected now and when exactly did they win their championship?  Look at Texas A&M.  The only thing they ever did was upset Alabama six years ago but they're still dining off of it.

If the invitees, along with some of the other Big 12 team like TCU and Oklahoma State pull some of those upsets, the entire image of the Big 12 could change.

And if the image changes and dollars follow, Texas and Oklahoma might just have no reason to leave in eight years.

Think that's impossible?  Eight years ago, college football was all about Colt McCoy, Sam Bradford and Tim Tebow.  Saban's Tide was without a title and lost to Utah.  Didn't UConn beat Baylor?

Nobody knows what 2024 will bring but it's rather fatalist to assume it will simply be an unchanged extension of 2016.
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