Sportsfan101
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"Texas A&M turned down invite to join P10 in mtg today with P10's Larry Scott and Kevin Weiberg in College Station, a Big 12 AD confirms."
Hello, Utah.
I love the Pac 12 lineup:
Colorado
Utah
Arizona
Arizona State
USC
UCLA
Cal
Stanford
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington
Washington State
Let's "zipper" this bad boy into two divisions and call it a day unless there's a game-changing opportunity (i.e, UT).
South plus Utah. Minus aTm and Baylor
South plus Utah. Minus aTm and Baylor
Am I the only one who thinks Chip Brown is full of sh*t? I put as much creedence in what he says as I do in what Mark Jizla says.
Am I the only one who thinks Chip Brown is full of sh*t? I put as much creedence in what he says as I do in what Mark Jizla says.
Chip retracts statement.
"Cook said A&M has not turned down the Pac-10 and denied Orangebloods.com's report to that effect, citing a Big 12 AD's confirmation."
Let's go Aggies! This is almost too good to be true. No way Big 12 stays together(not that it was anyway) with aggies gone. We get the Texas paycheck and recruiting in the Pac 10 without the Texas voting block thanks to Baylor and aTm being out. Now they will only make up a quarter of the overall Pac 16, assuming OU and OSU vote with them. Bring on Utah, or even KU is fine and we got ourselves the best damn conference in the country.
Pulled this from Texags.com - Larry Scott's jet has apparently filed a flight plan for KCINTL - Take it for what its worth
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N228PK/history/20100614/0110Z/KAUS/KMCI
Scotts plane was also in Utah on the 3rd and on Friday. Good amount of smoke that it's Utah too.
Who knows where it ends up. There has been some talk that without A&M, Texas pretty much loses any leverage with regards to the legislature forcing Tech along as well. Maybe Utah replaces Tech and KU replaces A&M.
I was wondering about this. I don't see what Tech gets anyone besides being a lackey for UT. Be awesome if we could get UU and KU along with UT, OU, and someone else.
When you look at the media markets that Bevo brings, it's literally like snagging at least 4 Denver markets in 1 shot. Throw in the national ratings they can deliver, the likelihood that they'll pull a bowl appearance and a NCAA tourney appearance for the conference every single year, and them being #1 in merchandising... and they really do draw enough water to choose what 3 friends they want to bring to the club.
And, honestly, if one of those 3 friends just happens to be the #1 program in the history of college football (Oklahoma), the other 2 schools will get rubber stamped as long as they're not small religious schools in the middle of nowhere that bring nothing to the party in football or university research. But even that profile was borderline. That's how valuable Texas is to a conference.
Mizzou?
sacky,
I believe UT can be controlled in the Pac X. My reasoning is that the Los Angeles tv market is 5.7 million households and all the revenue that represents. Dallas-Ft. Worth (2.5 million) and Houston (2.1 million) combined still fall over a million viewer homes short. How big is 1.1 million households? Well, that's the San Diego market that the LA schools also bring.
And the impressive 2.5 million number from DFW? That's only the equal of the Pac's current #2 market of San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose.
Also, Phoenix with its 1.9 million households and Seattle-Tacoma with its 1.8 million households aren't going to be pushed around either. The next most sizable market that Bevo brings is the 830k households in San Antonio. Austin's another 680k. And that's roughly equal to another California market I hadn't even mentioned... the 1.4 million households in the Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto market.
Basically, there is nothing that Bevo can bring to this party that makes it able to dominate the conference.