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<blockquote data-quote="champaignchris" data-source="post: 1238241" data-attributes="member: 26283"><p>The Big 12 had one unsexy nuts and bolts candidate in Cincinatti. They would have been sort of the Big 12's equivalent to the Big 10's Rutgers. </p><p></p><p>After that, there really weren't any good, let alone great options. Houston would have been like the Big 10 adding Pitt or Iowa St. Perfectly fine schools and athletic departments that wouldn't add one single television set to their tv deal. BYU would have been like the Big 10 adding Notre Dame, with all the negatives (different type of institution, history of doing things their own way, etc.) but without any of the positives (geography, mutual history, east coast following, etc.). </p><p></p><p>Anyone else and you're talking about a lot of non-entity schools and football programs that the TV networks were simply not going to pay the additional $25 million a year to televise, and would have caused Texas and Oklahoma to start exploring their options elsewhere. </p><p></p><p>To me, this all just underscores how badly the Big 12 misread the landscape in failing to get Louisville and Cincinnati at the same time they took West Virginia. </p><p></p><p>So the Big 12 didn't make the Big East mistake of (repeatedly) expanding just to expand regardless of fit to the ultimate detriment of the long term stability of the conference. But the Big 12 is still in a sort of limbo as the least of the "Big 5" and the most likely to be pillaged the next time the PAC 12, SEC or Big 10 gets the expansion itch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="champaignchris, post: 1238241, member: 26283"] The Big 12 had one unsexy nuts and bolts candidate in Cincinatti. They would have been sort of the Big 12's equivalent to the Big 10's Rutgers. After that, there really weren't any good, let alone great options. Houston would have been like the Big 10 adding Pitt or Iowa St. Perfectly fine schools and athletic departments that wouldn't add one single television set to their tv deal. BYU would have been like the Big 10 adding Notre Dame, with all the negatives (different type of institution, history of doing things their own way, etc.) but without any of the positives (geography, mutual history, east coast following, etc.). Anyone else and you're talking about a lot of non-entity schools and football programs that the TV networks were simply not going to pay the additional $25 million a year to televise, and would have caused Texas and Oklahoma to start exploring their options elsewhere. To me, this all just underscores how badly the Big 12 misread the landscape in failing to get Louisville and Cincinnati at the same time they took West Virginia. So the Big 12 didn't make the Big East mistake of (repeatedly) expanding just to expand regardless of fit to the ultimate detriment of the long term stability of the conference. But the Big 12 is still in a sort of limbo as the least of the "Big 5" and the most likely to be pillaged the next time the PAC 12, SEC or Big 10 gets the expansion itch. [/QUOTE]
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