The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[TheBYUGuy]

I have to admit. At this point even if we get an invite, I've soured some on the thought of playing in the most dysfunctional conference ever. I hope the teams stick together, but I really have serious doubts OU and Texas will be in the Big 12 3-4 years from now. The good part is that if they can add the rest of the Big East football schools (and keep Kansas for basketball), it will still be a mildly respectable (low end BCS) conference.

If Texas and OU bail in 3 years, BYU will get to collect about $4 mil/year for the next three years for UT's and OU's televised games. That would be nice. Then they can go independent again if the conference is crappy. Win-win.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I have to admit. At this point even if we get an invite, I've soured some on the thought of playing in the most dysfunctional conference ever. I hope the teams stick together, but I really have serious doubts OU and Texas will be in the Big 12 3-4 years from now. The good part is that if they can add the rest of the Big East football schools (and keep Kansas for basketball), it will still be a mildly respectable (low end BCS) conference.

I think the instability we have seen this year and last can't go on forever. Things have to stabilize at some point.

[byu71]

I have to admit. At this point even if we get an invite, I've soured some on the thought of playing in the most dysfunctional conference ever. I hope the teams stick together, but I really have serious doubts OU and Texas will be in the Big 12 3-4 years from now. The good part is that if they can add the rest of the Big East football schools (and keep Kansas for basketball), it will still be a mildly respectable (low end BCS) conference.

Disfunctional can be code word for a lot of Chiefs or a number of pretty girls.

Take the PAC12. They aren't disfunctional because no one is courting any of them. Do you think the BIG12 would like Colorado back, how about Wazzou. Maybe they would want Cal or Stanford, but I sure as hell wouldn't.

Arizona???????? I do think Utah is actually one of the pretty girls, at least right now.

[Uncle Ted]

I think the instability we have seen this year and last can't go on forever. Things have to stabilize at some point.

Yes, like after ND joins.

[Flystripper]

Disfunctional can be code word for a lot of Chiefs or a number of pretty girls.

Take the PAC12. They aren't disfunctional because no one is courting any of them. Do you think the BIG12 would like Colorado back, how about Wazzou. Maybe they would want Cal or Stanford, but I sure as hell wouldn't.

Arizona???????? I do think Utah is actually one of the pretty girls, at least right now.

Utah discovered Proactive and just finished a cycle of black market Phen-Phen. I wish they all could be California girls...

[Viking]

Utah discovered Proactive and just finished a cycle of black market Phen-Phen. I wish they all could be California girls...

GO UTES

[Blueintheface]

GO UTES

Man that picture just gave me the 3rd down jump!

[TripletDaddy]

Man that picture just gave me the 3rd down jump!

The third down jump I assume is stolen from wisconsin's jump around.

I also noticed that they are doing the U hand gestures in sync with music now. Is that a result of playing at ND last season or SC this season?

[Scorcho]

CULTURE: Brigham Young is hard to deal with. That’s what people from the Mountain West say. They say Texas overflows with the milk of human kindness in conference talks, compared to dealing with BYU. I don’t know why West Virginia, Louisville or Cincinnati would be any trouble. Edge East.

No, that's impossible!

http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2011/09/30/big-12-football-big-east-merger-would-mean-what/

[Blueintheface]

No, that's impossible!

http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2...uld-mean-what/

The ufn-ism notwithstanding, we are a particularly difficult bunch.

[WashingtonCoug]

So, worst case scenario is that the conference implodes after a few years and we are, at worse, right back where we started? I'm in!

That's assuming we can keep our contract with ESPN and the WCC will let us back in.

[TheBYUGuy]

No, that's impossible!

http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2...uld-mean-what/

Yes, that's why BYU was able to get unequal TV revenue sharing in the MWC when they brought 75% of the viewership to that channel.

[Blueintheface]

The third down jump I assume is stolen from wisconsin's jump around.

I also noticed that they are doing the U hand gestures in sync with music now. Is that a result of playing at ND last season or SC this season?

Can't we put all of this tradition stealing in the Clemson graveyard once and for all? I'll take my ball and Tennesse walk home, I swear!

[Green Monstah]

So, worst case scenario is that the conference implodes after a few years and we are, at worse, right back where we started? I'm in!

That's exactly where I stand as well.

[byu71]

No, that's impossible!

http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2...uld-mean-what/

You don't have to ask MWC people, just ask BYU's own fans. They will tell you BYU is difficult to work with.