The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[Applejack]

http://sportsminorityreport.blogspot...1_archive.html

Great article, down to the typo (or was it?) announcing "Byu is not the best non-power conference team." But I'll keep the sports minority report blogspot in my list of frequently cited blogs for this gem:

Private Universities tend to do less research. Religious privates tend to do even less. BYU has actively chosen to be on the low end of even that scale.
It is like BYU has put up the finger to doing research. They will never get into the PAC-12 or Big Ten.

[TripletDaddy]

[Jeff Lebowski]

Great article, down to the typo (or was it?) announcing "Byu is not the best non-power conference team." But I'll keep the sports minority report blogspot in my list of frequently cited blogs for this gem:

Go back and re-read the title to the article.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Great article, down to the typo (or was it?) announcing "Byu is not the best non-power conference team." But I'll keep the sports minority report blogspot in my list of frequently cited blogs for this gem:

Another gem!

BYU saw their little brother Utah picked for the Pac-12 over the Cougars. Utah is about 60% of what BYU is

[Commando]

Great article, down to the typo (or was it?) announcing "Byu is not the best non-power conference team." But I'll keep the sports minority report blogspot in my list of frequently cited blogs for this gem:

If you liked that gem, you'll love this one:

8) BYU has already maxxed out.

This is a shit-ball crazy concept that BYU haters have pushed to support their line of thinking.

Total Fucking Bullshit. I have no vested interest in BYU, but this is an unsupportable smear campaign.

BYU saw their little brother Utah picked for the Pac-12 over the Cougars. Utah is about 60% of what BYU is...with one exception. Research. From the PAC perspective, BYU doesn't give a crap about research and Utah does.

*jinx

[TripletDaddy]

Applejack getting destroyed now!!!!

[Commando]

With UT and OU potentially visiting in-conference, a $25 Million annual TV check, and the LDS’s desire to stick it to the PAC-12 and the fans of the University of Utah, I would not be surprised to see BYU evolve into 90-100K stadium football king.

[Applejack]

Go back and re-read the title to the article.

That is why I posed the question ("or was it"). Turns out it was a triple negative!

[Applejack]

Applejack getting destroyed now!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! [Must find a blog that says BYU sucks.]

[old_gregg]

That is why I posed the question ("or was it"). Turns out it was a triple negative!

[myboynoah]

Looks like research is overvalued.

[Omaha 680]

Religious privates tend to do even less.

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[Flystripper]

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[Blueintheface]

An insanely informative article for all P5 prospects. I dig it.

[wally]

http://www.vanquishthefoe.com/2015/1...future-tv-deal

This article really mostly talks about the BYU-ESPN TV deal amidst ESPN financial issues that led to the recent layoff announcement.

Really, my main reason for posting it here is that it makes me wonder if ESPN is over-leveraged on existing TV deals and if so, how that would affect future TV deal negotiations for Big 12 expansion, or whether TV money (or lack thereof) would actually drive the Big 12 to postpone expansion until such time as the money is right? The TV sports market is an interesting one, and there seems to be a poor understanding of it generally.