OU May Stay In Big 12, Outlines Demands

[gabect]

Good grief. Potential nightmare scenario. Big XII has nothing to do with Big East.

Next question for Big East football schools -- do you leave the Catholics to go back up to 8 or do you just replace Syracuse and Pitt with UCF and someone else and go back to where you were? And would the Catholics go for that? Remember -- we have two and a half years to come up with the replacements.

I will say this -- if our President isn't going tonight, she better either know where we're going already or have a prior commitment of substantial importance. Because with this story things just got a lot more complicated.

Why so worried? It looks like they're blowing smoke. Who in their right mind asks for an interim commissioner to be appointed so they can stay. That's like submitting your job resignation and telling your boss you'll actually stay if they fire themselves. Didn't Beebe just get a raise too? If I was Herbst I would send my admin there, send a message that it's option 3 for us to everyone, not just the Big East.

 

[gioff23]

This is the key line in the story and it applies to the BE and B12

“It's true there's some things in favor of the Pac-12. Plain stability. We don't want to have to do this every year. I don't want our successors having to deal with the drama. ​

Read more: http://newsok.com/source-removal-of-big-12-commissioner-dan-beebe-among-ous-demands/article/3605958#ixzz1YXWBnyfX​

This is the reason dancing w/the BE is a dance we should sit out. Add UCF, ECU, whomever and guess what, you still have the B12, B10 and ACC circling you like a shark. The drama will never end for the BE. Move on, sad as it may be to part with the only conference we have ever known.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

According to this OU's first demand is that revenue is shared evenly among members of the conference. Texas wasn't willing to do this when the B-12 began, there is no way they'll agree to that now. The second demand is that UT become a third party to the LHN. The P-12 has them sharing excess revenues. This is not a situation where it would be the same for UT in either conference.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...-staying-big-12-wants-reform-according-report

If anything, this forces UT's hand and may expedite their move to the P-12 (instead of allowing them to once again negotiate a favorable deal to stay, this time getting everything west of Topeka ceeded to the school in a land grant).

 

[jpm25]

They don't need em, but why would you agree to share revenue with new schools, when you are refusing to share it what old partners?

Again texas could afford to go independent did they really wanted to, but they are finding out they aren't walking into any other conference and dictating terms.

Pretty lucrative market in LA, San Francisco, Phoenix, and they are leaving behind only KC/St. Louis, from an LHN perspective.

 

[noeynox]

Pretty lucrative market in LA, San Francisco, Phoenix, and they are leaving behind only KC/St. Louis, from an LHN perspective.

But how much more money are they going to reap than they were currently making in the Big 12? The fact that they continue to look at every conference on earth, leads me to believe that no one is letting them in and keeping all of their revenue from the LHN. If that is the case, is all this trouble really worth it? Lesser schools in the Big 12 could live with LHN arrangement, A&M told them duck no, I was shocked OU didn't say the same thing much earlier. OU and A&M hold weight.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

But how much more money are they going to reap than they were currently making in the Big 12? The fact that they continue to look at every conference on earth, leads me to believe that no one is letting them in and keeping all of their revenue from the LHN. If that is the case, is all this trouble really worth it? Lesser schools in the Big 12 could live with LHN arrangement, A&M told them duck no, I was shocked OU didn't say the same thing much earlier. OU and A&M hold weight.

I believe the thing with UT is that every time the threaten to leave they get a better deal from the lesser members of the B-12. I think they are expecting KU, KSU, Baylorn and ISU to offer the first 40 cents on every dollar of ticket sales if they stay.