Big 12 no more....

[ForHuskers]

  Shripe said:

Though they're saying that officials are trying to get 2 automatic BCS bids for the top 2 teams in the conference.. presumably top of each division? Might not lead to a championship game.

I think NCAA rules are that any conference with 12 or more teams must have a conference championship game.

[Meddle]

  jetsknicks1 said:

I'm not quite sure how all this happened, why the mass exodus? Do schools have contracts with their conf?

My understanding is that it all started with the Big 10 saying they wanted to expand to at least 12 teams, but maybe 16 teams and create a "super conference" which would dominate the sports landscape. With that domination would come lots of $$$ for the Big 10 network and would threaten other conference's profits. So other big conferences decided they needed to expand too, and one of the first targets for acquisition was Texas. While Texas was talking to the Big 10 and Pac 10, they were (and still are) telling the other teams in their conference that they were going to stay. Colorado and Nebraska read the writing on the wall, and bail on the Big 12. Texas, Texas Tech, Ok and OK St. will follow suit to the Pac 10 in a package deal, expanding the Pac 10 to 15 teams. Right now the Big 10 is at 12 teams, and the Mountain West, the other big player in all this, is at 10 teams. The Big 12 will be left with 6 teams; the Mountain West is interested in some of them, like Missu, Kansas and K State, and I've heard the SEC may be interested in Missu as well.

[ForHuskers]

  Meddle said:

I think Kansas and Kansas State will end up in the Mountain West, making it 12 teams for them and the Big 12 automatic bid should be transfered to them. The real question is where will Baylor, Rice, Iowa State, and the other leftover teams from the Big 12 go.

Rice isn't in the Big 12. The teams on the outside looking in will be Kansas, Kansas St., Iowa St. and Missouri. Although I think at least Kansas and Missouri will go to the Mountain West.

[Meddle]

  ForHuskers said:

Rice isn't in the Big 12. The teams on the outside looking in will be Kansas, Kansas St., Iowa St. and Missouri. Although I think at least Kansas and Missouri will go to the Mountain West.

You're right, my bad. I've heard in different places that K St and Kansas won't separate and are a package deal. Also, in the Albuqerque paper today they said TCU would object to Baylor going to the Mountain West, so who knows where they'll end up. Maybe in the WAC.

[jetsknicks1]

  Meddle said:

My understanding is that it all started with the Big 10 saying they wanted to expand to at least 12 teams, but maybe 16 teams and create a "super conference" which would dominate the sports landscape. With that domination would come lots of $$$ for the Big 10 network and would threaten other conference's profits. So other big conferences decided they needed to expand too, and one of the first targets for acquisition was Texas. While Texas was talking to the Big 10 and Pac 10, they were (and still are) telling the other teams in their conference that they were going to stay. Colorado and Nebraska read the writing on the wall, and bail on the Big 12. Texas, Texas Tech, Ok and OK St. will follow suit to the Pac 10 in a package deal, expanding the Pac 10 to 15 teams. Right now the Big 10 is at 12 teams, and the Mountain West, the other big player in all this, is at 10 teams. The Big 12 will be left with 6 teams; the Mountain West is interested in some of them, like Missu, Kansas and K State, and I've heard the SEC may be interested in Missu as well.

If that happens it looks like the Big 12 would turn into a mid major conf. Asa Gator fan it wouldn't bother me to see Mizzou. join the SEC. Especially since I have a good buddy who's a Mizzou fan and it gives us something else to argue about.

Btw, love the avatar.