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Craziness afoot. One school in B12 VERY upset at networks and certain conference mates due to recent pressure to expand.
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This school feels no current targets warrant expanding. They feel it will water down the B12 needlessly and cost us big in the future
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Recent push by networks to expand to 16 with 3 in the west and 3 in the east were embraced by most in the B12 but not all.
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This school feels that the B12 is selling itself short by not going after bigger fish and shouldn't settle for "leftovers"
MH3@MH3
The statement was made that a GOR is a paper tiger as long as you're not going to a competing network.
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Mind boggling is the fact that its this very same school that cost the B12 FSU and CU
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From what I'm told the whole thing was weird and came out of left field. There wasn't even a huge interest in adding 6,some schools were(1)
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Simply wanting to do some research on the scheduling possibilities and revenue increases. Nothing concrete
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the networks were proposing to increase the contract amount by 30% and get these "lesser" schools to join at half the rate(1)
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Which would've been a huge financial boon to the " lesser" schools at 1/4. 1/2 would be like pacman making it rain
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Bowl money split would kill the shares on that though. Even if they could add 4-5 more bowls it kills the playoff/sugar split
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The schools floated by the networks were BYU, UNLV, SDSU, Cincy, USF, and UCF
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Memphis was also bandied about recently in place of Cincy. Networks wanted 2 in Florida though.
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Last thing tonight: Crazy Rumor of the night! PSU didn't get booted from B10 for their crimes against humanity but might another school(1)