Texas: What a a bunch of greedy, arrogant creeps

ChosenChildren

ChosenChildren

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The Big Ten shares revenue equally. All 11 (now 12) teams share TV revenue equally. The commissioner makes moves that are in the best interest of all of the teams in the league.

Now, compare this to what Texas just did. The difference is truly startling:

1. They invite (or at least entertain) offers from the Big Ten and Pac 10 because they are not getting enough revenue. This forces one of their biggest rivals, Nebraska, to seek the stability of the Big Ten, and another great school, Colorado, to join the Pac 10.

2. Texas then uses their leverage to increase their share of Big 12 revenue at the expense of smaller schools like Iowa State, KU, Baylor, KSU and Mizzou.

This is not a conference. If I'm Iowa State, I'm not feeling very good right now about where I ended up. Your neighbor just bolted to the Big Ten because they do not trust Texas. Texas dumps on its weaker conference members. Yes, you dodged a bullet, but can you really feel good about it?

Ouch.
 
When the alternative is complete irrelevance I would assume they feel more than pretty good about it. Wouldn't you let someone take a dump on you for millions of dollars?
 
clicheusername3 said:
When the alternative is complete irrelevance I would assume they feel more than pretty good about it. Wouldn't you let someone take a dump on you for millions of dollars?
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Agreed. They had no other choice but to follow. It was either grab on to Texas' tailcoats or risk not landing in a BCS conf. After all the jokes I made at ISU's expense, I'm happy for them and their fans.
 
...it's good for the near future....looking down the road....probably not very good for anyone but texas. but, schools like ISU dont care about being competitive they just want the extra bit of money...I'm sure they will miss chanting "F-Big Red " when the Huskers come to town:rolleyes:
 
How is ISU getting $10 million more a year, and staying in a premier football and basketball conference a bad ending?
 
cytech said:
How is ISU getting $10 million more a year, and staying in a premier football and basketball conference a bad ending?
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Well, for starters, nobody is convinced you're going to get that much more.

And two, the Big 12 is not as 'premier' as it was two weeks ago. You don't just lose two schools like Colorado and Nebraska and get better.

And unless the Big 12 invites two schools, they lose the Big 12 Title game and the whatever millions that generated. So scratch that $1 mil per school (if Texas didn't get 80% of the revenue already) off the books.
 
cytech said:
How is ISU getting $10 million more a year, and staying in a premier football and basketball conference a bad ending?
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Because you are still at the mercy of Texas, what happens if Texas decides to leave in say 5 years? Isu is ****ed again, that is what.
 
We're not getting a nickel from Texas. In fact, unlike the Big Ten, the schools in the Big 12 DON'T share revenue. So if anyone's being subsidized, its Iowa. And the word from the meetings is that very steep penalties are being put in place to ensure conference stability...so if someone leaves, it will be at great cost to themselves and great profit to the remaining conference teams.
 
Mesaclone said:
We're not getting a nickel from Texas. In fact, unlike the Big Ten, the schools in the Big 12 DON'T share revenue. So if anyone's being subsidized, its Iowa. And the word from the meetings is that very steep penalties are being put in place to ensure conference stability so if someone leaves, it will be at great cost to themselves except for Texas and great profit to the remaining conference teams.
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I fixed it for you. If you don't think Texas won't have some type of "out" clause your crazy.
 
I assume Pollard will not take the extra money since he put on a dog and pony show just a few days ago about this being a money grab.
 
Mesaclone said:
We're not getting a nickel from Texas. In fact, unlike the Big Ten, the schools in the Big 12 DON'T share revenue. So if anyone's being subsidized, its Iowa. And the word from the meetings is that very steep penalties are being put in place to ensure conference stability...so if someone leaves, it will be at great cost to themselves and great profit to the remaining conference teams.
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Not entirely true 50% of the TV revenue pot is split evenly then the rest is dived out based on what appearance's a school makes.
 
God it feels good to be a graduate of a university that isn't another university's little b****.

ISU will make more money, but they'll still be slaves. There are two winners in this drama: Nebraska and Colorado. Nebraska is the ultimate winner. They not only got to tell Texass to rot in hell, they also got to join the most prestigious, stable, accomplished conference in America. Osborne should have a statue outside Memorial Stadium pronto.
 
One minute the clones are griping about money ruining college football -- then they have a sniff and bed down faster than a horny chick in a porno.
 
So... Texas is greedy... Okay I get. The first conference to setup their own TV network that was only about money... isn't greedy. Ok. Thanks.
 
Yes, the Big Ten is greedy too, but at least it is a real conference where revenue is shared equally.

Texas is all about Texas... period.
 
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