The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[lambdacoug]

What is a "quality control coach"?

Going out on a limb here, but my guess is someone that coaches people in quality control.

[Uncle Ted]

Chip Brown turns on Texas AD.

http://www.scout.com/college/texas/s...on-facing-heat

Texas band director Rob Carnochan just quit to take another job (at Miami) after Patterson cut $250,000 out of the band budget last year, resulting in less travel for the full band and a first-ever $132 fee charged to members to pay for their own practice and travel gear.


The full Texas band used to go to every in-state football game. But under Patterson, the full band no longer goes to Texas Tech, a longstanding rival of the Texas band. UT now sends only a “pep band” of section leaders. In 2015-16, the full band will go to the Texas-OU game and to either TCU or Baylor – but not both.

Hopefully they go to the Baylor game so there will be more tickets to the TCU game.

[Paperback Writer]

What is a "quality control coach"?

It's a way for coaching staffs to supplement the NCAA rule of 9 ACs and 2 GAs (graduate assistants or general authorities). It's also a way for young coaches to break into the coaching profession if they can't get a GA position or want to get paid unlike a GA (wait a minute LDS GAs get paid-now I'm confused). But quality control staff can't directly coach players or review film with players or the school gets in trouble with the NCAA like what happened at Michigan. They typically break down film of the team or of the opponent, determine play calling tendencies, help with planning practices, make sure players attend class, etc. Some programs have other names for quality control coaches like staff interns which seems a better description, imo, since they can't actually coach.

[wapiti]

http://newsok.com/boren-big-12-should-strive-for-12-team-league/article/5429694

The OU President is firmly in favor of expansion. He says if they add two schools the primary media contract automatically increases in value to pay for the new additions.

[lambdacoug]

http://newsok.com/boren-big-12-shoul...rticle/5429694

The OU President is firmly in favor of expansion. He says if they add two schools the primary media contract automatically increases in value to pay for the new additions.

Is this the big news TuxedoYoda, or someone on twitter, was telling us we'd get by the end of June?

[TripletDaddy]

Bowlsby sez: huh? first ive heard of this...

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/bob-bowlsby-no-indication-that-a-majority-of-big-12-presidents-currently-favor-expansion.html/

“We talk about membership at every meeting,” Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Wednesday afternoon. “I think our presidents individually have their own opinions on things. President Boren expressed his today.
“I have not got the indication that the majority of our presidents feel that way. I get the feeling that nothing has changed since we last discussed it.”

[Omaha 680]

Bowlsby sez: huh? first ive heard of this...

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews....xpansion.html/

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[SandYFan]

We need to start a betting pool on how long this thread will last. Into 2020? 2040? Will football as we know it even be around then?

Could BYU fans be talking about getting into the Big 12 until the end of football?

[TripletDaddy]

Cincinnati coach Tuberville tries to win favor with B12...by predicting its demise

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[TripletDaddy]

Forget it, not happening

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2015/06/26/stop-trying-to-make-expansion-happen-big-12-its-not-going-to-happen/

BYU would get eyeballs but doesn’t play on Sundays. Cincinnati football is an afterthought in a pro-sports town. Central Florida has a rapidly growing alumni base and is well situated in a recruiting hotbed but is far from a national draw. Boise State has a good program but a tiny TV market. Houston? The Texas schools don’t want to share Texas. Memphis? The thought alone of Memphis upsetting Texas in the Big 12 title game — should they ever make up their mind about having one — sends everyone involved with the conference to their fainting couchesSo Boren is out on an island as far as his fellow Big 12 presidents are concerned (except for maybe West Virginia, which would like somebody —anybody — that isn’t a four-hour plane ride away). “It’s my sense that the majority are either unsure or not supportive of expansion at this point,”Bowlsby told CBSSports.com on Thursday.
At least until 2027, when the ACC grant-of-rights deal ends and all hell breaks loose again.

[TripletDaddy]

So you're telling me there's a chance.....

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/06/25/door-more-ajar-for-big-12-expansion-than-previously-thought/

“The elephant in the room remains the network south of us that has struggled and has in a way as long as it’s there,” Boren said, referring to the LHN. “And we have done quite well with our network and if anything ever changed, it has value to it which we see. But someday, maybe we’ll get past that other problem as well. It’s a problem.”And there you have it. Again.
“… other problem…”
“… a problem…”
“Austin, we have a problem.”
Once the LHN “problem” is resolved — and it’s been a problem in the minds of most non-UT folks in the conference since its inception, including the commissioner — the Big 12 might be able to get its actual membership number to match its name. But getting past that “problem” could prove to be the biggest hurdle of all, even given the OU president’s revenue revelations.
Still, Boren’s quotes stating that the TV revenue would grow with additions, not the same revenue split 12 ways instead of 10, is significant news.
In other words, BYU — and some current AAC/Conference USA schools — we’re telling you there’s a chance…

[DrumNFeather]

Here you go, friends: http://www.foxsports.com/college-foo...podcast-062615

[TripletDaddy]

Here you go, friends: http://www.foxsports.com/college-foo...podcast-062615

didnt care for this link, sorry.

[DrumNFeather]

didnt care for this link, sorry.

Well it does a picture of Hill...that has to be a good sign.

[TripletDaddy]

Math don't lie

http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2015/6/26/8846289/big-12-conference-expansion-realignment-revenue

A few things that could offset that:

• If a new team were to have hoops success. For example, Cincinnati's made five straight tourneys; duplicating that going forward would earn each Big 12 member about $110,000 for a year.
• More teams likely means more bowl ties. If a new team makes bowl games, those payouts go into the conference pot. Last year, the average power-conference haul for a non-New Year's Six bowl meant about $180,000 for each school in a 12-team league.
• A Big 12 championship would make money. The Big Ten's reportedly makes about $24 million in TV revenue per year; a $20 million deal for the Big 12's could mean about $1.67 million per school.

Add those up, and all 12 Big 12 schools could break even at worst.
And if that's not enough to offset, would any remaining cost be worth it to open up two recruiting markets, add a conference championship without needing NCAA rule changes, expand the brand footprint, and possibly pick up two decent TV markets?