Monty just makes shit up and always has. He got ran out of Utah, but unfortunately not out of the business.James you should know not to listen to monty being a fellow Utahn
Big 12 CCG was already approved and will happen next year unless something changes, even if they don't expand, which it looks like they won't. This conference is stupid. Everyone wants basically the same thing but has a different way of getting there. I think in the end, no expansion will take place at least for the foreseeable future, and once the GOR is close to being up, several schools, OU probably being the first, will attempt to leave and the Big 12 in its current form will die. It sucks because there needs to be a power conference in the middle of the country but it doesn't seem to be in the cards, at least right now. I just want the original Big 12 back.
Nor should they.They aren't leaving over BYU
So basically the Big 12 is willing to give up almost any chance at a national title for more money.
Those 8 plus the rest of the Big 12 is not a bad athletic conference, or at least a pretty decent one in football most years, but there's more to this than just footbaw prowess.
We also have to remember that Houston would have to raise their admission requirements for atholetes if they were admitted to the Big 12, which would surely affect their recruiting and thus their success on the field.
You know what else would effect recruiting? Being in a P5 conference.
Seriously, we heard the same "wait until they have to raise their admissions standards" BS prior to joining the SWC. I think we did ok.
I think Houston would be fine because they're in one of the most talent-rich areas in the country. Maybe not right away, but eventually (see TCU in the Big 12). Then again, no one else benefits from having Houston in a P5 conference.
I guess now it's just negotiations to see who will have a spot in the Power 4 conferences when the Big 12's GoR is up or close to being up (2025). Anyone not named Texas, Oklahoma, and possibly Kansas should be pretty nervous.
Eh, not expanding now doesn't mean that the schools left behind can't get together in 2022 or whatever and try to create a new new Big 12 with whomever they want. I guess it depends on who leaves. I'm still not sure how that will happen, if it even does.
This is the reason not expanding didn't make sense to me. I would have thought that having more teams would make the conference stronger in case any more teams left. As I posted before, the remaining teams plus the expansion teams wouldn't be too shabby of a conference. Maybe not P4 level, but in name at least better than the other non-P4s. Perhaps they all think they will be part of the P4 when/if that happens? Or maybe I'm just not smart enough and I'm missing something? But right now it looks like the presidents were only looking at $$$ and how much they can make right now. Do they not realize they are the laughing stock of the other P5s? Do they not realize how tenuous their situation is and they need to be more forward thinking? Oh well, they got what they wanted. And who knows what TV and college football will look like when the GoR is up.
Well, we don't know the full details right now, but I don't think this was entirely up to the Big 12 schools.