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Message: [QUOTE="Charley Horse, post: 1703857, member: 6990"] I'm not talking $300 over 20 years. You're right. That will never happen again. But I am beginning to suspect that all of this spring's Big 12 rumblings have merely been a ploy for OU to get more money. Ten years ago OU was making 96% of what Texas was making off of television rights and 35% more than Iowa State was making off of television rights. Today OU only makes 72% of what Texas makes off of television rights and only 10% more than what Iowa State makes off of television rights. Everybody's boat has risen in the tide - except for OU. And that's what this is all about. Texas is fat and happy and content with the status quo. Everyone else in the Big 12, besides OU, is probably already making more money than they can hope to make anywhere else. The SEC isn't clamoring for Kansas State. Nobody's knocking on West Virginia's door. Everybody's open to discussion and nobody would turn down the prospect of more money, but OU is the only whining dog. I'm pro-expansion. I think it would be good for the conference and every team in it. But I think we're already seeing signs that OU isn't even really that pro-expansion. They just want more money. And at the end of the day, I think somebody is just going to throw some cash at OU and tell them to be quiet because upfront it would be a whole lot cheaper to do that than to figure out how to create a network that generates enough money to pay for all start up costs, gives everybody a profit, keeps Texas whole and elevates two schools from G5 salaries to P5 salaries. I'm sorry it's an unpleasant scenario. It's not what I want either. It's just the writing I see on the wall at the moment. [/QUOTE]

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