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Message: [QUOTE="Win5002, post: 2474181, member: 8495"] Keep in mind you would play the other basketball only schools also each year so if that was 4 teams that would provide 3 games and if it was 6 teams it would provide 5 games. If its a 10 team Big 12 in football they would need to get the next tv deal to be 8 conference games. If the 8 teams other than OU & Tx. played 2 games against the bball only schools that is 16 games available and add 2 for 1 game each from OU & Tx. You might ask why only 1 from OU & Tx.? Matchups against an Ohio St. or USC or ND are too valuable to the contract to give up, so I'm just being realistic. That is 18 games, If you have 4 bball only schools you could provide 4 games, 5 or 6 bball only schools 3 games. As an overall fan of the Big 12 I really liked the idea of a UCONN and either BYU/Houston or Cincy addition, but when you dive into the tv ratings of football it unfortunately doesn't support adding 2 schools. I just came up with the idea because getting a conference network was important to OU it seemed when they looked at realignment, and I can see where UCONN can carry its weight with a conference network that provides a lot of basketball games and lesser viewed football games but creating enough football value to cover $30M of T1/T2 football revenue is another thing. As delivery methods of content change maybe they could show that kind of value or possibly conferences find a way to monetize basketball content better in the future. UCONN, BYU, Cincy, Houston, Memphis, New Mexico would be the ones I would look at and probably in that order. You might ask why Houston? One the football games against Texahoma schools are pretty good ratings when Houston is involved. Also, even bball games against the Texas schools would probably drive up value for a network in a wide area of the conference and content may be more important than a gaining a team in a new area that has a hard time capturing its market. Houston does as a member of the AAC but playing Big 12 schools especially the Texahoma schools would give it better success. Everyone outside of Houston is a pretty solid basketball addition. [/QUOTE]

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