The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[YOhio]

Looks like we're in for football only beginning 2017.

http://www.cougarboard.com/board/mes...ml?id=14272786

[TripletDaddy]

Looks like we're in for football only beginning 2017.

http://www.cougarboard.com/board/mes...ml?id=14272786

Where is seattleute to admit he was wrong?

[Lost Student]

Looks like we're in for football only beginning 2017.

http://www.cougarboard.com/board/mes...ml?id=14272786

Wow, I can't believe this is finally happening. After so many false rumors declaring that it was a done deal. So many tweets and posts with "smoke." How many trolls have we had to endure? It's finally over. What a relief.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Looks like we're in for football only beginning 2017.

http://www.cougarboard.com/board/mes...ml?id=14272786

Why does donut post under a different screen name on CB?

[fusnik]

I still can't get my head around the geography of BYUs inclusion especially if it's more than football.

I'm so happy it's happening though!

[New Mexican Disaster]

Where is seattleute to admit he was wrong?

SU in depositions on a Saturday? Man that guy is hard working.

[Bo Diddley]

Well now that it's pretty much a done deal, when will we start to see B12 signage throughout Provo? I think that'd be pretty sweet. "You're in B12 country!" It's very geographically exclusive.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I think this guy is full of crap, but he did get the scoop on independence.

http://www.cougarboard.com/board/mes...tml?id=5664924

[hostile]

I think this guy is full of crap, but he did get the scoop on independence.

http://www.cougarboard.com/board/mes...tml?id=5664924

And Grand Canyon joining (maybe) the WCC

[YOhio]

And Grand Canyon joining (maybe) the WCC

[TripletDaddy]

Texas Tech AD speaks: "We are financially stable, we’re competitively challenged"

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports...ly-challenged/

“We are financially stable, we’re competitively challenged,” Hocutt said. The Big 12 certainly can afford to remain at 10 members with the record revenue coming in this past year, thanks in part to the launch of the College Football Playoff and the money that came with it. But last season the Big 12 saw both Baylor and TCU, co-champions of the conference with one loss each, shut out of the playoff. The omission of Baylor and TCU in favor of Big Ten champion Ohio State sparked some in and around the Big 12 to push for expansion to regain a conference championship game.


Hocutt’s statements suggested the Big 12 would be unwise to not think about possible expansion moves that could benefit the conference in the future. The stability of any conference is dependant on leadership having not just a one or five-year plan, but a 10-year and a 25-year vision for the conference, so Hocutt’s idea the Big 12 should always be on the lookout for what’s best for the conference is solid advice.

[TripletDaddy]

LOTS of people sending emails to Berry Tramel agree: BYU is the top choice

http://newsok.com/berry-tramel-email...rticle/5432917

Not only that but the Big 12 will have scooped up four schools that, by hook or by crook will someday be in power conferences. BYU for sure, and maybe even CSU, to the Pac-16. Cincy to the ACC. UCF to the ACC, especially if FSU bolts. Get them before they're gone.

[TripletDaddy]

Local West Virginia newspaper SLAMS texas and the LHN! Smackdown!

http://www.theet.com/sports/wvu/coll...63cd192bb.html

We’re talking about a conference that probably possessed two of the four best teams in the country last year and could get neither into the playoff; a conference that has only 10 teams and no championship game against bigger, richer conferences with championship games — and some of them with their own cable networks.

Things are so reversed in the Big 12 that the conference doesn’t have a network, but one of its schools, Texas, does.

Talk about which comes first, the chicken or the egg?

[YOhio]

LOTS of people sending emails to Berry Tramel agree: BYU is the top choice

http://newsok.com/berry-tramel-email...rticle/5432917

Funny because just the other day I had a coworker say to me that the Big 12 needs to "stop pussyfooting around and get BYU and somebody else" and then people will start taking them seriously. He's not LDS so you know the idea is starting gain traction.

[TripletDaddy]

Funny because just the other day I had a coworker say to me that the Big 12 needs to "stop pussyfooting around and get BYU and somebody else" and then people will start taking them seriously. He's not LDS so you know the idea is starting gain traction.

Hence the term "groundswell"