By "media rights deal", I am pretty sure he's referring to the contract that would prevent a team from taking its media rights with it if it left. He's right that would prevent any team from leaving...
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By "media rights deal", I am pretty sure he's referring to the contract that would prevent a team from taking its media rights with it if it left. He's right that would prevent any team from leaving...
The WAC still does exist! It just goes by a different name. (I know, I know, ask Idaho and NMSU if the WAC still exists...)
Seriously, though, some of the discussion I think depends on what we...
It's pretty apparent that a lot of members aren't content *now*. So they'll be less content. But it'll still be better than the other options.
As I've said elsewhere, there are 5 worthwhile...
Whenever anyone talks about the demise of the Big East, they have to ask themselves what the alternative is? For most of the schools, the alternative is less attractive than soldiering on. They could...
This all has me feeling pretty good. This means that the Big 12 is aiming for the stars again. They did this last time, too, flirting with ND, Arky, and BYU before being brought back down to earth...
The extent to which academics matter depends on the conference and the team. Missouri's flirtation with the Big Ten, for instance, was very much about academics. The ACC's spurning of West Virginia,...
Harris,
The academics factor is not about money, it's about institutional pride. If it were about money, the Pac-10 would have invited BYU and not Utah. But BYU was simply not the sort of...