The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[ERCougar]

If I were ND, I'd jump at the chance to own the B12N. Even if they couldn't beat the S division champion, they'd still be likely to land a BCS bid.

Weren't OU and Texas complaining about having to play each other to get to the championship? Why not split them up?

[Babs]

Right! You don't even have to win the Big 12 to play for the BCS championship.

Don't even have to win your Big 12 division either; although, I doubt we'll ever see that occur again.

It will never happen again. They changed the formula to preclude it.

[Uncle Ted]

Weren't OU and Texas complaining about having to play each other to get to the championship? Why not split them up?

I thought they were complaining that they would potentially have to play each other twice because they play each other each year in the red river game.

[Babs]

Weren't OU and Texas complaining about having to play each other to get to the championship?

NAFAIK. In the beginning, OU and Oklahoma State did complain about being split from the other Big 8 teams and essentially relegated to what was left of the SWC. After OU began to dominate the conference you didn't hear it anymore.

[byu71]

I am quite calm in this whole thing knowing God will not let his team become irrelevant.

[SoCalCoug]

SoCalCoug getting the blanket party from Jacob, Color Me Badd Fan and LiveCoug! :box:

There's room for one more - I'm talking about you, UteStar!

[TripletDaddy]

There's room for one more - I'm talking about you, UteStar!

We are talking about a bunch of testosterone filled men jumping on each other, blankets, fists, sweating, tackling, etc. Why would UteStar care about that?

[SoCalCoug]

Jimmermania started because he was routinely hitting bombs from 10 feet behind the three point line, crossing over supposed future NBA guys like Kawhi Leonard, and dropping something like 36 points in a half against New Mexico and Utah.

ESPN didn't cause Kevin Durant and the guy from Counting Crows to tweet about Jimmer. I just don't think ad-libbing Sportscenter anchors had a memo to pimp Jimmer because ESPN was going to show a few of BYU's football games in the Fall.

And how did we learn about those tweets? They were all over sportscenter.

I don't think anyone can really know the answer to this, and I'm not saying I really know, either, but you have to consider that Jimmermania was created by ESPN, and BYU had just become an exclusive ESPN broadcast partner.

That goes away if BYU joins the Big 12.

[Blueintheface]

And how did we learn about those tweets? They were all over sportscenter.

I don't think anyone can really know the answer to this, and I'm not saying I really know, either, but you have to consider that Jimmermania was created by ESPN, and BYU had just become an exclusive ESPN broadcast partner.

That goes away if BYU joins the Big 12.

Why would I have to "consider that Jimmermania was created by ESPN"? I thought you were just showed examples of how that wasn't the case?

Your concern with BYU's future as it relates to ESPN is unfounded and I really thought the others did a very good job of helping you to allay those fears but I guess not.

[Paperback Writer]

Big 12 North Divisional Championships and Big 12 championship games in Dallas every year!

every other year.

Almost certain the Big 12 CCG will be held in Cowboys stadium every year. Although it hasn't been made official. There's no longer a rotation between North and South...which occurred before there was no longer North and South divisions. Just another in the list of Nebraska grievances against the Big 12 Texas...or as they say in Austin: "just another thing those Aggie Husker cry babies whine about - glad they are gone".

Edit: Forgot there is no longer a Big 12 CCG with 10 9 teams.

[TripletDaddy]

Does anyone know or follow Sports Guy Utah on twitter? I dont but this just came to me in the past few minutes which tells me it is being read or at least passed around and posted by hundreds of folks (dont ask)

@SportsGuyUtah Some MAJOR unexpected news is about to break in conference realignment.

[Surfah]

Does anyone know or follow Sports Guy Utah on twitter? I dont but this just came to me in the past few minutes which tells me it is being read or at least passed around and posted by hundreds of folks (dont ask)

No clue but given he's BYU's feature columnist on Bleacher Report I am not buying a word he says.

[Jacob]

Though I'd be very happy if BYU goes to the B12, BYU and Utah should really be in the same conference. Damn the P12! Would Ute fans prefer both teams in the same conference? Would you want to leave the P12 if it meant you joined a stable B12 with BYU?

[TripletDaddy]

No clue but given he's BYU's feature columnist on Bleacher Report I am not buying a word he says.

I just checked his twitter page. Looks like tdawgcoug has even tweeted back to him. Where has tdawg gone to? he is a good dude.

[Uncle Ted]

The joint partnership between TAMU and UT on a shared network wasn't a rumor...

This entire Texas A&M-to-SEC situation might well have been avoided if Texas and A&M had been able to reach an agreement on a proposal three or four years ago that would have created a joint television network that would have broadcast the two flagship schools' Olympic sports like volleyball, women's basketball, track and field, and swimming and diving but only within the state's boundaries. Was to be called the Flagship Network. "It never went very far," A&M athletic director Bill Byrne said Sunday after returning from France where the Aggie men's basketball team was touring with exhibition games. "We had a real interest in it, but they had other interests."