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NCAA runs basetball, they do not run FBS. The schools will sell out to where the money is; for research , development or for sport.

The more you post, the more you prove that you have little idea on all of this. Even more than with the 2011-12 NCAA season. Using the USNews listing was easy, yet there are more comprehensive collegiate rankings which you failed to look at and or report to us. Stop being "fire, fire, fire, fire, aim", kiddo No need to be a Bobcat and stop digging big holes for yourself.

The Big East? TLN isn't part of basic cable, is it? If not, it'll probably end up like The Mtn. - unwatched and irrelevant, and more trouble than it's worth. Hopefully, for the sake of college athletics as a whole, Texas cuts its losses sooner rather than later. Unintentional puns, HURRAH! In all seriousness, I would like to see OU, Ok St, TT, and Houston to join. That would not only make the conference much more competitive, but it would also expand the market a bit. The only other option other than Houston would be Nevada or UNLV, and we've discussed that to death. You can 'sports bully' your little HS friends but when here please, please try harder. Houston is not ready to do anything major. Commuter population + no facilities. You might as well add SDSU or SJSU. Vegas loves and bets SC. Cal and Stanford would never allow that to happen. They are trying to stay far away from the Cal State system. Yet they would allow the University of Houston system? Child please!

The Big East? TLN isn't part of basic cable, is it? If not, it'll probably end up like The Mtn. - unwatched and irrelevant, and more trouble than it's worth. Hopefully, for the sake of college athletics as a whole, Texas cuts its losses sooner rather than later. Unintentional puns, HURRAH! In all seriousness, I would like to see OU, Ok St, TT, and Houston to join. That would not only make the conference much more competitive, but it would also expand the market a bit. The only other option other than Houston would be Nevada or UNLV, and we've discussed that to death. You can 'sports bully' your little HS friends but when here please, please try harder. Houston is not ready to do anything major. Commuter population + no facilities. You might as well add SDSU or SJSU. Vegas loves and bets SC.

B.S. Over a year before you joined this board, the idea of Texas having a channel was talked when Nebraska and Colorado decided to leave the Big XII. The fact that they partnered with ESPN and that there was interest to air Texas high school games was the recruiting issue. The games were not the big issue, rather the Texas public school leagues,the UIL, is still a part of the University of Texas. Plus, BYU has had BYUtv since 2000 and no university aligned with them outwardly to the degree of the Big XII schools complained about the revenue from said channel which is available in 60M+ households if they want it.

From SJ Mercury News' John Wilner:

True, but what about ratings? Sure, plenty of servicemen will be watching every week, but how do you convince a general nationwide audience to watch Air Force, as opposed to non-AQ's that have actually won high-profile games and BCS bowls but still might get left out in the cold? Any team can get ratings when they are placed in a situation to garner ratings. Having games on CBS College and The. Mtn., do not garner ratings, period. This is something which Boise State will have to now deal with the rest of their season. They will no longer get the audience which they got from being in the WAC's crazy scheduling or on ESPN/ABC national showcase games. They are not going to get 2M+ viewers anymore this season but for a bowl game. Even the games now shown on FX get double the ratings on where the MWC. The networks which air MWC games do not draw because of where they can be seen. \If you want to track your point that Boise=Ratings, I recommend that you give us monthly updates via The Voice of TV.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!! You illustrate your maturity (or lack of it) once again. Bravo! The conference's official statement tonight is related to the news out of Oklahoma earlier this afternoon. They did not want to play around with OU knowing that the pie would be cut up 14 to 16 ways as opposed to just 12. In this case, Mark Cuban could be right. Now, I also don't believe the B1G will expand either. Those two will stay at 12 as long as they can, and try to keep the Rose Bowl Pac-12/B1G as a separate event.

OU: We will stay in the Big XII if presidents/chancellors agree to fire Dan Beebe (and LHN undergoes changes).

However Rick Pitino already blogged about Memphis into Big East. The 'ville AD had to have given him permission to post that if they did not want that to occur. The courier hub series: Fed Ex. (Memphis) vs. UPS ('ville).

Texas still must agree to equal revenue sharing, something that they did not agree to with the reformed Big XII and LHN is still a sticking point. Either they take a 1/16th share or they kick rocks to the next sandbox.

The same Pitt who wanted to sue the ACC when they took BC, VaTech, and Miami? Heck, they sued BC at that time. The same Pitt whose basketball coach recruited TCU to join The Big East. B1G was correct in knowing that they already had Pennsylvania with Penn State and did not get involved with Pitt.

I think it depends on the specific contract language. If it is literally specified that the Big East's TV deal (not just football, but men's basketball as well) is tied to a particular number of teams for each, then you're right. But if it pertains to just a specific number of games, I think it could be more ambiguous than you're assuming. We'd have to know what's in the contract to be able to tell. The current Big East football contract ends in 2014, while the basketball contract ends in 2012. The Big East walked away from a deal ten year/$1B deal earlier this year. In addition, the Big East reported revenue split is 60% is divided between every member, and the remaining 40% split with the football schools. All in all, whatever happens through the end of the year, a school who feels that they have been "left out" will have their local Congressman/woman (or one who is an alumni) request a hearing with the conference commissioners, Mark Emmert, and the BCS CEO Hancock and ask them various things, but little will probably occur.

...in terms of football, yeah. If they want to stay viable for football, the ACC has to be proactive about expansion. With Clemson and Florida State keeping an eye towards the SEC, the ACC has to give them a reason to stick around. Now there's word that the Big East has contacted the 7 remaining schools in the Big XII (excluding Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and Texas A&M) about joining their conference. Next week could be fun, if not frenetic about expansion and all the rumors that come of it. I read in the espn article about Cuse and Pitt that the ACC has upped their buyout for leaving the conference to $20M which would all but squash any chance of FSU and Clemson heading to the SEC. Any school is one big alumni/donor check away from leaving. S/he may not cover all the costs, but they could cover most of it. Plus, they would still have to be voted in. As for the ACC, their current TV contracts are still larger than the new ones negotiated by the Big XII. If the ACC acts before the SEC does, then all hell does really break loose. It seems that they will since the Baylor lawsuit is still in play. "all hell" being every school from Lubbock, TX and east.

Also, there is the rumor which has not been confirmed after a week. It was that both Texas and Notre Dame went to Chicago to meet with B1G officials to jointly propose their case to join the league and how to split their revenues starting in 2014. I am certain of one thing in terms of realignment. Little, if nothing is certain.

Not quite. Monday matters little as neither OU or the Pac-12 wants to be known as "first official" move. The OU Regents will go to Executive Session and make a decision which will not be made public for a while unless they make a press release as aTm did. When aTm is officially accepted into the SEC with a firm date, then the other dominoes will fall, especially the Pac-12 is not "exploring" to expand again, rather the deal which was on the table last summer is still there for Texas, Tech, OU and OSU.

And who's to say Boise State would accept an invitation to a 5 team conference with Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Baylor, and Missouri. If Texas, TT, Oklahoma and Ok State leave the conference, there won't be any Big XII left to save. Five schools do not equal the NCAA's definition of a conference, thus no automatic bids to NCAA sponsored tournaments.

The Stanford caliber schools will never consort with a jumped-up community college. They've said as much. BINGO! Plus Boise State has an athletic budget of about $25M. That is $14M less than even Wazzu.

Pac-12 has already hired a chief of "Enterprises" which included new media and the new network system. His name is Gary Stevenson, and remember that the Pac-12 HQ is actually outside SF in Walnut Creek, CA. Larry Scott is ready to move on regardless of teams and will give input towards the chancellors and presidents.

Not true. Cox, Time Warner, Comcast, and other have agreed to adding Pac-12 regional channels while LHN was set forth before Pac-12 was announced. The Pac-12 system of cable networks are wholly owned by the conference and they have made agreements with the major cable system carriers.

I assume you're being hyperbolic, but how would the collapse of the Big 12 ruin college football? Perhaps I'm not seeing something obvious, but I see the college football landscape essentially the same after this potential massive realignment. This doesn't just affect the Big 12. Texas A&M is just firing the first salvo in the new chaos of super conferences. If they leave, it looks like it's only a matter of time before Oklahoma and Texas go to the PAC. Then, look for every other major conference to start trying to steal from each other. Of course, prominent mid-majors get left out in the cold just as they start finally getting acceptance as good football schools. We'll be left with a shell of college football's former self, with no parity whatsoever and a :censored:ty postseason to boot. Actually, Nebraska did last year, They were fed up of the four Texas schools coming in, moving the conference HQ from KC to Irving, TX and also interchanging the location of both the football title game from St. Louis/KC to Texas, as well as taking away the Big 12 hoops tournament away from Kemper Arena to the AAC a decade ago and then switching it out every year. Dr. Tom Osbourne was fed up with Deloss Doss and asked the chancellor to make the appropriate move when the time was right for it. Also add Larry Scott, who had no previous academic experience, but knows sports marketing better than any major commissioner before and did not believe in "sacred cows". But they're not. Nebraska withdrew from the AAU. 11 of 12 still are, and another long time possibility Syracuse voluntarily left the AAU at the same time. Both they and the Ivy League have all but one member in the AAU (Dartmouth). Reportedly, Michigan and Wisconsin were the two B1G schools who did not vote to keep Nebraska in and the biggest reason why was that the University of Nebraska's medical school is not in Lincoln, rather in Omaha. Therefore they UNL gets lower federal research dollars. There are other criteria, but it takes away from the conversation even more. Since the AAU is a "secret society" in reality, one could look at the Carnegie Classifications or The Center for Measuring University Performance to measure research dollars and "academic tiers".

If those did not see it over the weekend,Mark Cuban gave his opinion on realignment/superconferences; basically, it may not result in more money for each school.

History illustrates that it has issues working on that level. You can look up the issues with the WAC when they had 16 teams to see the overall problems. The original WAC did not like the format and formed the MWC as a result. Exactly. Besides, the WAC, particularly after this season, is littered with teams no one but the desperate to survive WAC would want. There's not much left for the MWC to want from them. However a conference like the MWC may benefit from some of the larger conferences imploding like the Big 12 and Big East by being there to pick up the pieces. As for Texas, as I said before, it'll be a cold day in hell before they join the Pac-12. They'll never surrender their beloved TV network which the Pac-12 has said is a requirement of admission. So it's a non-starter. Not necessarily. They just have to fold LHN into the Pac-12 cable system, which could actually give them more programming at a lesser cost. What they will give up is the control that LHN gives them regardless of if they are available in households or not. Not being the center of a conference may be much more important.

History illustrates that it has issues working on that level. You can look up the issues with the WAC when they had 16 teams to see the overall problems. The original WAC did not like the format and formed the MWC as a result.

Where would you like the following to occur? Not football, but... The AAU votes by themselves. CalTech = space science and engineering, MIT = science, Johns Hopkins = medicine