Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

[NewEnglandBull]

8 hours ago, Roaming Bull said:

If KU goes to B10 that would make things interesting.

Aresco better not screw this up. Watch them try to add Fresno, SDSU, Nevada, and UNLV or some similar arrangement 

Going west would be the optimum move but why would these schools do it? 

[Roaming Bull]

1 hour ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Going west would be the optimum move but why would these schools do it? 

Money? If we can deliver money no one is coming

[NewEnglandBull]

1 minute ago, Roaming Bull said:

Money? If we can deliver money no one is coming

Tough for that to happen unless espn sees that value. After the defections the MWC will be making more than us. 

[ArmyBull]

12 hours ago, Brad said:

Our administration of Athletics has been horribly poor after Griffin/Selmon/Leavitt years.

So true, but there is a also a bit of bad luck involved.  I keep thinking if we had won that 2017 ucf game, which was entirely possible, how different would things be right now?  Maybe a lot, maybe not at all.    

[BullsFanInTX]

TCU and Houston will probably end up in Pac 12 in new TV contract, opening up 2-4 schools in the Big 12.

 

TCU and Houston were the Pac-12’s preferred schools | Fort Worth Star-Telegram

 

 

 

TCU will again be a conference member with Houston, Cincinnati, BYU but before the Big 12 announced plans to expand the Horned Frogs were close to earning an invite to another league.

Some might say painfully close.

According to sources close to this latest conference round of major conference re-alignment, the Pac-12 targeted both the University of Houston and TCU as its preferred expansion candidates.

Although the Big 12 has formally extended invitations to Houston, BYU, Central Florida and Cincinnati, the prevailing thought is that both TCU and U of H would/will drop everything to run west to join the Pac-12.

There is a reason why Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt said the Big 12 may not be done expanding. It’s a preemptive strike against the potential of more subtractions.

The Pac-12 is thought to be in a better position in the college football playoff, and as a Power conference, than the new look Big 12.

The Pac-12’s formal extension of the invitation to Houston and TCU may simply be a delayed formality.

The Pac-12’s media rights deal with ESPN and Fox Sports expires in the summer of 2023.

It is expected that new Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff will want to do something to increase the value of the league for a bigger media right’s package; that would include expanding the conference into major TV markets located in the central time zone.

Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States, and Pac-12 officials regard TCU covering all of the Dallas-Fort Worth market.

DFW is the fifth-largest media market in the U.S., and Houston is eighth.

Edited September 11, 2021 by BullsFanInTX

[Rocky Style]

So if everyone in the AAC joins the BIG 12 - Its the AAC.

[Roaming Bull]

36 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Tough for that to happen unless espn sees that value. After the defections the MWC will be making more than us. 

No conference west of the Mississippi, except to the Pac12 is worth any money to the talking heads. I think valuation is going to funny with the players being who they are. We either find value elsewhere or we try to strip their best schools.

[BullsFanInTX]

Weighing pros, cons of conference expansion for Big 12 contenders - Sports Illustrated

South Florida (16). The Bulls have had their football moments but haven’t been able to sustain them like their rivals in Orlando. The current product is bottoming out, going 5–27 in its last 32 games. There are some in the Big 12 who would still like to see South Florida get serious consideration alongside UCF, giving league schools more opportunities to play (and recruit) in Florida. But for now, that constituency isn’t large or persuasive enough.

[Rocky Style]

3 minutes ago, BullsFanInTX said:

The current product is bottoming out, going 5–27 in its last 32 games.

Well when you put it that way...

[NewEnglandBull]

5 minutes ago, Rocky Style said:

So if everyone in the AAC joins the BIG 12 - Its the AAC.