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  1. It’s hard for me to see how adding KU brings in enough additional revenue to justify an invitation to the Big 10. The Big 10 is paying out almost $60M per school and that is only going to go up. Is adding KU worth another $70-80M a year to a media contract? I may be missing something. While you might get a few more viewers for KU-Purdue in on a Feb weeknight that Iowa vs Nebraska, it’s only in the “tens of thousands”.
  2. Can someone help me here? Some guy named Cujo who claims to be a Texas Insider has posted on the Orangeblood paid forum that KU is getting an invitation to the Big 10. It has whipped some of the Phog.net posters into a frenzy. I continue to state that while I would love for KU to get a Big 10 invite, I don’t see how they add enough value to get an invitation. I get trashed and called. K-State fan when I post this ! Anyone know if Cujo has credibility. Is this an elaborate ploy to get desperate KU fans to pay for an Orangebloods subscription?
  3. I think it’s going to be tough for the “Other 8” conference members. The PAC 12 and Big 10 do not have to add more members. Some people seem to think there will be a scramble for the other conferences to expand. The Big 10 is not a charity organization and it would be hard for it to justify financially adding KU or ISU or any other Big 12 school. How is the Big 10’s media contract going to grow by adding any of these schools. I guess it is possible for the PAC 12 could benefit by expanding to new markets in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas or Iowa. But, it can’t be that great given that none except KU are flagship schools. It’s hard imagine that any combination of schools would expand the pie enough to benefit the other members of the PAC 12. I guess there is the option of replacing OU and UT to maintain the Big 12. That conference would be lucky to get half the media payout the Big 12 currently gets.
  4. You realize that the other eight school not named UT or OU gave up its Tier 3 rights for next to nothing when the conference agreed to its deal with ESPN and ESPN+ a few years ago to broadcast Big 12 conference championship games.
  5. Wouldn’t a more likely scenario be that since both the GOR for both conferences end at about the same time in a couple of years, UT, OU and USC and any other power broker in the Pac-12 get together with ESPN or Fox or Amazon, or whoever, and determine whether or not there is value in a Western Conference. The assumption that the Big 12 remains stable if a USC or some other power programs wants to join is not necessary a correct one.
  6. Probably a good bet to meet in Big 12 tournament
  7. And still, it wouldn’t surprise me is OSU beats KU next week.
  8. No foul was called. DeSousa got a T for taunting after the play. Now that there has been time to digest this, a couple of things have come out. 1. Bill Self is get more scrutiny regarding whether he has control of the program. That had sort of died out as the season was progressing, but this becomes one more incident in a series of incidents over the last few years that are a bad look for the program. There seems to be some tension between Bill Self and the AD. 2. I do find it interesting that KU and DeSousa have put out multiple statements apologizing and taking responsibility for the incident, but we have heard nothing from KSU. DeSousa issued a very contrite apology and I think had he not raised the stool over his head, the narrative of the fight would be much different. 3. I don’t know how the team will respond emotionally, but the suspension should have very little effect on the team. DeSousa only played a few minutes a game and has really struggled this year. McCormack was a starter, but KU would start two big men and struggle in the first half and played better with only one big man. This will force Self to play a line up that has been more productive. 4. Long term are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the Self era. It may depend on NCAA punishment . I get the perception of the program by other schools and I get that many view KU fans as arrogant, but what Self has accomplished is pretty remarkable and there is no home run hire to replace him.
  9. Not really, the NCAA originally suspended him through this year, but was reduced on appeal.
  10. $5M buy out does not seem that unreasonable. In general, I would think that most coaches would not want switch jobs to another team in the same conference. I really can’t think of many examples where that has happened. Bruce Pearl was fired at Tennessee and ended up at Auburn which is different than voluntarily leaving. Houston Nutt left Arkansas for Mississippi. Some KU fans who believe Bill Self is plateauing or may be forced to leave because of pending NCAA investigation thing Chris Beard and/ or Brad Stevens would take the KU job in a second, which is quite delusional in my view.
  11. Found this link. Interesting how much higher the teams of the past are rated. https://www.tidefans.com/forums/threads/all-time-sagarin-ratings.305346/
  12. Having these games on ESPN+ indicates how little power KU has when it comes to media rights decision and probably other major decisions affecting the conferences. Bill Self has even been very candid of the negative aspects of having ten KU basketball games played on ESPN+. Jeff Long tries to spin this as a positive, but this deal with ESPN also included KU’s (and all other schools except OU and UT) Tier 3 rights for several million dollars per year than what had been reported in the past.
  13. No. I never thought the Big 12 saved the SWC. The Big 8 was getting into an increasingly perilous position, so the formation of the Big 12 made sense and I liked the make up except for including Baylor.
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