Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="ScottVib, post: 4134796, member: 694"] The P designation was never really intended to designate the best.. it was designed to consolidate power. Without Oklahoma & Texas the Big XII lacks that program that the major schools/tv networks feel like they can't live without. You'll start to see a change in narrative as soon as neither OU nor Texas are in the conference... they'll start to get the AAC trreatment with comments about their overall strength of schedule trumping otherwise strong metrics/performance. It's much the same way the standards to maintain an auto-bid were introduced to the BCS after Miami & Virginia Tech left the Big East. The Big East able to maintain performance at those standards, but it was not a given, and you saw the same change in narrative. [/QUOTE]