Opinions: Expanding Big12 with UConn and Cincinnati...

[sanguinetti]

I don't want to expand. I like that we play every other conference team in football and I like even more that we play every team home-and-away in basketball. I hate giant conferences where they don't even play every team in the conference. That's beyond absurd, in my opinion.

When the Big 12 had a championship game in football but other big conferences didn't, no one gave a hoot about conference title games. Now that those other conferences do have title games and the Big 12 doesn't, it's supposed to be a big deal? Screw that.

As for basketball, I don't think there's anything to gain by going to 12 teams. Not a thing. I hated it when we played teams from the north division just once. Heaven forbid we go back to that.

i agree with all this. home-homes in hoops, let's milk it for all we got. way it ought to be. who isn't waiting for the KU return game? truth is i think OU ends up in the SEC....once the SEC realizes that OSU is a pretty good hoops/football mix with outstanding "spring sports" like golf and baseball. Pokes don't add much in terms of media markets but we do....in Dallas and ATM in Houston the SEC can't foothold when basically they are a low population density "marketplace".

 

[NickZepp]

I don't want to expand. I like that we play every other conference team in football and I like even more that we play every team home-and-away in basketball. I hate giant conferences where they don't even play every team in the conference. That's beyond absurd, in my opinion.

When the Big 12 had a championship game in football but other big conferences didn't, no one gave a hoot about conference title games. Now that those other conferences do have title games and the Big 12 doesn't, it's supposed to be a big deal? Screw that.

As for basketball, I don't think there's anything to gain by going to 12 teams. Not a thing. I hated it when we played teams from the north division just once. Heaven forbid we go back to that.

Fact is Big 12 fell behind when they lost a big population bases in Colorado and Missouri and a team with a big reputation nationwide for football in Nebraska. A&M wasn't as big a loss as but the damage was done and we never replaced those losses. We may prefer playing every team twice now but fact is we'll see the conference not gain as much revenue without expansion and a conference network now.

 

[WTSooner]

Fact is Big 12 fell behind when they lost a big population bases in Colorado and Missouri and a team with a big reputation nationwide for football in Nebraska. A&M wasn't as big a loss as but the damage was done and we never replaced those losses. We may prefer playing every team twice now but fact is we'll see the conference not gain as much revenue without expansion and a conference network now.

aTm might have been the biggest loss. In part b/c of where they went. Nobody misses Colorado, and to a lesser extent Mizzou. Only OU fans really miss Nebraska, b/c of our history. We'd be in a better place had none of them left, obviously, but you won't convince me that after a few years of being in the Big 12 a team like Cincinnati couldn't be on par with what Mizzou was when they left.

 

[NickZepp]

If Big 12 got Louisville and say BYU a few years ago they woulda been close to getting back to what they lost. But it's all about getting revenue back now. Cincinnati is on par with a Colorado. Although probably slightly better. TAMU is no different from TCU.