June 15, 2010

Well just too much to talk about with whats gone on in the media...

THE HOT LIST:

The Big 12 Conference Remains....but for how long???


Well if your living in a hole the past few days, Texas announced yesterday that they would affirm themselves to the Big 12 conference to keep it going. They were offered an invitation from the Pac-10 conference which the Commissioner confirmed that Texas had turned it down. Clearly with Texas staying put in the Big 12, Oklahoma, OSU, Texas Tech, and A&M all announced yesterday that they too would stay in the conference. A desperate Dan Beebe outlined a new television plan that is suppose to pay Texas 20 to 25 million dollars a year and allow Texas to start up its on TV network that they wouldn't have been able to do in the Pac-10. If you look at the winners and losers of this deal...clearly Texas wins by getting more money and their own network. Beebe talked about each team receiving more TV money but there is no deal currently in place for this league. Interesting how teams in the Big 12 are now to make more money without Nebraska and Colorado...

Heres what I think, Dan Beebe simply put some cloth on a burning fire...yes it will stop the fire at first but with the intense heat that the politics of this league has its only a matter of time before the fire burns again and is outta control to the point it can't be handled. I think it'll come down to simple xxx's and ooo's with dollars. If this new TV deal that Dan Beebe claims doesn't produce the money he's promising, teams like Oklahoma, Texas, and A&M could be publicly back on the market looking for a new home to keep their mouths and wallets happy. I think its also very dangerous that you are giving more power to Texas. Yes, they are staying in the league and getting more money and their own network, but clearly the conference officially runs through Texas...which is scary. Texas has become the richy brat child you have to keep making happy or else they'll ruin everything that you want to happen in the league...like staying together....

Its also scary that this league really has no real direction at all... Dan Beebe just jumped through hoops like a puppy to make the big boy happy...when you do that...historically it ends badly for you...

I still think that this league will fall at some point but not at the hands of Texas but at the hands of those smaller schools still in this league...Teams like Missouri and A&M could get sick of Texas' crap and decide to jump ship and leave thus bringing us back full circle to where we were just a few days ago. I can guarantee that the SEC and the Pac-10 would still be waiting with open arms if these schools decided to bolt away from Texas. If you look closely Texas will slowly kill this league from the inside out thus creating an even larger rift in the Texas and non-Texas line that exists in College Athletics.

Really funny to see that Nebraska leaving officially ends a Big 12 title game in Dallas that was penciled to remain there for the next five years...thats a subtle way of us sticking it to Texas and the Big 12 South...After the Big 12 was staying together under these new parameters...Nebraska is still sitting high and should still be very excited to be joining the Big 10 next season...Good Riddens....I won't miss it...