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True ColorsWell, the good news is that the Big 12 is going to survive for at least a while longer.
The Big 12 has taken several concrete steps to guarantee that it stays alive(this will still be true even if Missouri does leave). The Big 12 has already hammered out some agreements on TV rights and other things which will keep the conference alive.
I am hoping that we can get up to 12 members. As best I can tell, most of the Big 12 schools seem to want this too. However, Texas seems to be against it, and they pretty much get to run roughshod over everyone else. So we may be capped at 10 members.
My goal would be to bring in BYU, Louisville, and then if Missouri leaves go ahead and add West Virginia or South Florida.
I don't know why we did not get BYU in already. We get so many conflicting reports about things it is hard to know what to believe. I do not think that the BYU rule about playing on Sundays is a problem for the Big 12. The only thing that I have heard about BYU which kind of makes sense, and maybe you can clear this up for me, is that BYU supposedly wants to keep the media rights for everything and replay them on BYUtv. Is that true?
The main Big 12 TV contract is with ESPN and the secondary TV contract is with Fox. I could see them possibly having a problem with BYU wanting to take their broadcasts and re-air them on your channel.
Anyway, I hope that things do get ironed out eventually and that you can come join us. If it were up to me then I would take BYU in a second.
TC
The Big 12 has taken several concrete steps to guarantee that it stays alive(this will still be true even if Missouri does leave). The Big 12 has already hammered out some agreements on TV rights and other things which will keep the conference alive.
I am hoping that we can get up to 12 members. As best I can tell, most of the Big 12 schools seem to want this too. However, Texas seems to be against it, and they pretty much get to run roughshod over everyone else. So we may be capped at 10 members.
My goal would be to bring in BYU, Louisville, and then if Missouri leaves go ahead and add West Virginia or South Florida.
I don't know why we did not get BYU in already. We get so many conflicting reports about things it is hard to know what to believe. I do not think that the BYU rule about playing on Sundays is a problem for the Big 12. The only thing that I have heard about BYU which kind of makes sense, and maybe you can clear this up for me, is that BYU supposedly wants to keep the media rights for everything and replay them on BYUtv. Is that true?
The main Big 12 TV contract is with ESPN and the secondary TV contract is with Fox. I could see them possibly having a problem with BYU wanting to take their broadcasts and re-air them on your channel.
Anyway, I hope that things do get ironed out eventually and that you can come join us. If it were up to me then I would take BYU in a second.
TC