Nebraska, Missouri Given Ultimatim By Big 12
Per the WWL, the presidents of the Big 12 have given Mizzou and Nebraska until Friday (with a possible extension) to declare they are headed to the Big 10. This is a very odd turn of events, considering there's no official invites on the table.
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not all that odd . . .
I’ve long thought that the Big Xi’s attitude — “we’re going to take about eighteen months to decide in a really public way how to best screw college football over” — was a bit ludicrous. Other conferences aren’t just going to sit around and wait for Delaney to decide how best to screw everyone as much as possible. Even if it did make sense for people to wait and see if they were invited to the Big Xi first, we live in an immediate-gratification culture — University presidents and conference commissioners need to be doing something in response to the Big Xi or they’ll be viewed as incompetent.
So of course the Pac10 tried to snag Texas under our noses. Of course the Big 12 is issuing ultimatums. It ain’t the 1920’s anymore; the 24-hour news cycle is driving this story, not Delaneys’ 18-month timeline.
That said, an ultimatum, by definition, has consequences attached. I really hope Nebraska and Missouri coauthor the following press release:
To: Big XII member institutions,
Or what?
Sincerely,
the University of Nebraska
the University of Missouri
Exactly
I fully expect them to each release statements Friday that say they are fully committed to the Big 12. And I expect those statements to mean exactly as much as a coach saying that they are fully committed to their team right before bolting to a new team.
If there aren’t any consequences, then this isn’t even a line in the sand. It’s posturing, and everybody knows it.
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Jun 6, 2010 2:00 PM CDT up reply actions
Nobody
is going to get snagged from under Delaney’s nose. If the PAC 10, or whoever, extends an offer to a school the BXI wants, the BXI will extend an offer as well. Then the school gets to choose.
The big deal about the loyalty oath, or whatever it is they want, is that the TV contract is getting closer to re-negotiation and the more solid the conference, the better the deal they can push for. Demands can backfire though. Mizzou & Nebraska could use this to try and push for some changes in their favor. Even if there wasn’t a possible raid on the Big 12, why should any school lock themselves into the conference even harder than they are now if there wasn’t some sort of benefit to them to do it?
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. - Werner Herzog
Take the U.N.'s lead
“Or else” statements always remind me of Team America. Not Ameristanzi’s team, the OTHER Team America. The one with the puppets.
Kim Jong Il: Or else what?
Hans Blix: Or else we will be very angry with you… and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.
by KinnickNorthHawk on Jun 7, 2010 12:10 PM CDT up reply actions
The problem with the ultimatum
is that it will probably be accompined by a contract with penalties for withdrawal if Mizzou or Nebraska decides to come over
effectively commiting them to the Big XII… or else
by theonewith(out)theanswers on Jun 6, 2010 3:23 PM CDT reply actions
Is that even legal?
Plenty of law guys around here to answer that question for me (or at least attempt to). Unless this “contract” is issued to every single big 12 team aren’t the kind of single out two universities when it was supposedly the pac-10 that was being more aggressive last week?
Wouldn't most conferences...
have a contract, at least for a year, for all members? If not, I’m amazed we haven’t seen more programs jumping around to other conferences.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 6, 2010 5:18 PM CDT up reply actions
The only one I know of off the top of my head is the Big East
They put every member school under contract after the ACC raid. Until recently, I’m not sure many schools had reasons to bolt. I don’t have numbers, but it seems like the revenue disparities between schools and between conferences have been increasing lately.
Conference loyalty contracts may be the future, but I don’t think they are the present. That being said, I can’t imagine Texas agreeing to signing a contract, so if all schools have to sign one, it may be a non-issue. This could actually end up as the proverbial camel backbreaking straw. If TX, CO, NE, and MO all refuse to sign any such contract, it is the death of the conference. Then again, they could all sign them and still bolt, the Big East contract doesn’t seem to be a major stumbling block when courting their teams. They would wait a year to triple their television revenue.
Considering what they're getting paid now
the penalties would be massive, in the $10 million range, in order to actually work. Anything less than that and they’d make it up in a year or two.
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Jun 6, 2010 10:25 PM CDT up reply actions
I just posited this over at Rock M Nation
and was wondering if anyone else had heard anything mentioned about the BXII continuing on even if it loses 6 teams…..
But even if the Tejas and OK teams left for the Pac10 wouldn’t the BXII technically still exist as a BCS AQ conference with the remaining schools? And from here grab some of the better MWC teams to get back up to 12 and voila (pro: voy-la) you are once again the BXII with a makeover. Maybe not as prestigious as when you had TX and OK but i wouldn’t think they could take away the BCS Automatic Qualifier tag.
Just something i haven’t seen brought up at all. As a B11 honk i hope we get both Mizzou and Neb but who the hell knows what’s gonna happen.
I just wanted to say ‘Good Luck. We’re all counting on you.’
I threw in some Mizzou love for good measure but i would actually be OK with us just ending up with Neb from the BXII.
This says all you need to know about the BigXII
Osborne told the Journal Star there was an agreement put in place at the Big 12 meetings in Kansas City, Mo., last week that “[conference commissioner] Dan Beebe and [Texas president] William Powers would do the speaking.”
Maybe Beebe should just stay out of the way and let Powers do the talking.
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