[Here is where the Big 12 leftovers will end up]

1 minute ago, greenjoe said:

Could we start a baseball program this afternoon ?

Was also thinking that might hurt the school from Highland Park move to the B12. Only difference is they could probably have 100 boosters write the check to cover the startup today - and cover the corresponding women's team(s)

[Here is where the Big 12 leftovers will end up]

41 minutes ago, MrAlien said:

why would they move to the B12, if they all stay in the AAC they would be in the better conference...   especially knowing that every school left in the B12 is looking for a better conference. 

 

 

If these teams moved the AAC would not be a better conference. OSU, BU, Tech, Iowa State, and TCU are not bad schools. If you pull Cin/UCF/Memphis then all of the sudden the AAC is not near what it has been. Add those 3 plus BYU and you probably have a conference from top to bottom as strong as the PAC12

[AAC wants to try to poach at least some remaining Big 12 teams, cites TV deal: “We’ve already got ESPN at the table.”]

6 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

KU is a yes, but I’d be shocked to see OSU get invited up there. They aren’t in the AAU academic research group like everyone else is (except Nebraska, who got kicked out of the AAU shortly after they got Big Ten membership). 

KU football in the B10 could see some historic losses

[Here is where the Big 12 leftovers will end up]

44 minutes ago, MrAlien said:

I dont see the left overs in the B12 being a stronger conference then the AAC going forward.  1. Every school left in the B12 is going to be looking to jump ship.  2. I don't see many conference games with bit TV ratings left in the B12.  3. Not playing those big TV games against Texas and OU will hurt the recruiting of the remaining schools. 

If the AAC picks up one or two schools from the B12 then they will look like an even better conference

It depends if the B12 can add some quality teams. If they can add, for instance, Cincinnati and UCF, or Memphis they are ahead of the AAC

[TCU to PAC 12 ?]

5 hours ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

THIS HURTS!  •••THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO is now ahead of us for the MWC & if they had similar across the board athletic facilities as UNT (& they are not even close) they’d get the first call over any of us IMO.

 

@PlummMeanGreen What is working in their favor is the "potential" of San Antonio. UTSA just happens to be the name of the school fielding the team.

[TCU to PAC 12 ?]

8 minutes ago, Rudy said:

And greatly reduce interest.

You DO realize who the CUSA commissioner is, right?

Yes, that is why I would hope we go with the Belt's commissioner. I think the longer Judy stays around the more every fan in CUSA knows their school is not serious about football

[Could there be another endgame for Texas and OU?]

Could they be planning on staying if the B12 gives them a larger share of revenues? Probably not, but how long will their fans be willing to put up with the losses the SEC is sure to bring?

[AAC wants to try to poach at least some remaining Big 12 teams, cites TV deal: “We’ve already got ESPN at the table.”]

32 minutes ago, bstnsportsfan3 said:

I am sure Judy, who can’t even negotiate a decent TV deal, is already working to add Big 12 teams! 🙄

Judy still thinks there are 10 teams in the Big 10

[Green Glasses and Jealously]

1 hour ago, NorthTexasSportsNetwork said:

2 things:

1. That game was the downfall of the Seth Littrell era.

2. We are a basketball school, and it’s time to embrace it.

How are we a BB school? We had a great year and won our first NCAA game. Does that qualify us as a BB school? If GM leaves after next year does this change?

 

[SEC will one day poach best of ACC, Big 12 as football money gap grows]

27 minutes ago, wardly said:

So if the Big Ten takes Kansas and Iowa State, the ACC takes West Virginia , that leaves the Big 12 with 5 football programs and the AAC with 11. RIP Big 12.Unless I am missing something I don't see where UNT benefits from any of this realignment.

From SI
Or Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby and AAC commish Mike Aresco meet in the Metroplex—where both leagues have their offices—and hatch a plan to combine forces. A mashup of 19 schools isn’t going to work, which could lead to some bloodletting (sleep with one eye open, East Carolina, Tulsa, Temple, Tulane). But a combination of the best of what’s left might have some viability beyond an eight-team tweener league.

[Green Glasses and Jealously]

SMU to their credit has done a tremendous marketing job on fan and players. They have done a good job keeping their "name" in the mix, and they have done a tremendous job selling transfers on the vale of an SMU degree (would be interesting to look back in a few years and see how many of these transfers end up graduating. It also does not hurt that the have boosters with deep pockets.

[SEC will one day poach best of ACC, Big 12 as football money gap grows]

49 minutes ago, wardly said:

ESPN will cut the Big 12 revenue in half and pass it on to the SEC

It depends on who they are able to add and who else they might lose. There could be more surprises if anyone else leaves to join the SEC. If the SEC plucked a couple of schools from the B10 or ACC they would be in the same shape as the B12

[For 2021 realignment simplicity let's look at it this way]

5 minutes ago, greenjoe said:

Are we in anyone’s conference re-alignment discussion ?  Is North Texas being mentioned in some boardroom with conference decision makers ?  I hope so but I haven’t heard so.  I’d like to hear of XYZ school wondering if NT would come aboard.  We are 30 minutes from on of the busiest airports in the country.  Easy to get in and out via I-35E and I-35W.  Good academics and pretty good attendance numbers.  Are we on anyone’s radar ?

Hopefully somewhere. Best case might be a replacement in the AAC is smu left or an addition to the MWC. I do not see us on any P5 radar, or going to the AAC if they get raided unless the ponies move leagues. A lot may depend on the SEC stopping at 16. Once the UT and OU becomes official things will get crazy

[SMU is beating the football team on and off the field]

53 minutes ago, GrandGreen said:

The article was good and accurate.  

A lot of the Daily sports articles are error filled and just poorly written, this was not one of them. 

Though I have been part of the recent flood of comments about SMU, I am now ready to move on to other topics.  You would think SMU is a national sports juggernaut with all the attention we are giving them. 

 

Facts or not, wonder if there are any other schools in the FBS where their school's paper writes articles in support of rivals.

[For 2021 realignment simplicity let's look at it this way]

26 minutes ago, MrAlien said:

With out Texas and OU would the Big 12 still be a P5 conference?  knowing that those schools that are left might all be trying to leave it, why would any AAC schools then want to join it?  The AAC would certainly look like a stronger conference. 

Unless the B12 picks up BYU, UCF, Cincinnati, and Memphis and then they are as good as the P10. 

[TCU to PAC 12 ?]

2 hours ago, Mike Jackson said:

No, except on paper to collectively negotiate media rights packages and bowl tie in packages.  The “little guys” need to stop stabbing each other in the back and throwing up their skirts every time a blue blood flirts with them using sexy lines like “we will tolerate your existence on the field with us or even as a conference whipping boy”.   SMU, TCU, UNT, Houston, and Rice should have been a conference together when the SWC dissolved.  Those 4 together could have added teams like, UTEP, Tulsa, Tulane, Arkansas State, La Tech, UAB, Troy and Southern Miss.   The goal is that you want be able to pitch media rights packages with the selling point of having interest (albeit secondary)  in medium to large cities throughout Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.  Maybe if the conference  efficient and effective even Texas Tech would have come on board this round when the Big 12 dies. 
 

Geographically Sun Belt and CUSA East teams are in a different boat.  Just like schools in the state of Texas anchors that’s conference I proposed in the previous paragraph, schools in Florida and Georgia should anchor their new conference Sun Belt, CUSA, and AAC refugees.   ECU, ODU, FAU, MTSU, Western Kentucky, Charlotte, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, App-State, Cincinnati, Memphis, UCF, USF, FAU, FIU.  That is a 15 team conference already.  I don’t know what you do with Temple and UConn.  Any conference East of the Mississippi would gladly take their basketball programs but their football 🤷🏽‍♂️.  Would this new 16 team football conference just  begrudgingly take Temple in all sports and tell UConn all their programs are welcomed except football?   Temple, UConn and Cincinnati make more sense in a 16 team MAC.  (Memphis would need to go with them to make it 16 and that make that Florida/Georgia anchored conference 14 which is perfect)

AAC, CUSA, Sun Belt need to have a summit to figure this out and the schools need to approach the whole thing like they are equals.  We are stronger together.

This make sense. We (UNT) need to be proactive and realistic and try and force CUSA to come up with a survival plan. A CUSA merger with the Sun Belt and dividing the teams in East/West divisions could dramatically cut down on cost. If the AAC loses teams they will have the pick of other G5 conferences and who knows where that will lead as they are probably more interested in MWC schools than CUSA, Belt, or MAC schools. If the eastern CUSA teams decide to go the route of the MAC or Belt, the Texas schools might be left with few choices. If SMU does not move up we are not going to the AAC. Perhaps UNT and UTSA should make a package deal and approach the MWC. We might hate UTSA but they have a large potential market. Not sure how UTEP and NMSU survive this and stay in FBS. They have both been trying to get in the MWC conference for years and there has been no interest.

[TCU to PAC 12 ?]

12 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Time for the Belt and CUSA to merge?

Why are people against a merger? Conferences could regionalize and greatly reduce cost?

[AAC wants to try to poach at least some remaining Big 12 teams, cites TV deal: “We’ve already got ESPN at the table.”]

16 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

Let’s call this what it is.  This is “let’s bring them to us (unlikely) before they take the best of us (far more likely)”  

 

Still, I gotta commend the American Airlines Conference for trying to be proactive as opposed to the CUSA’s “let’s hope for decent leftovers” approach.  

All the AAC did by going public this soon was to make sure the B12 would contact the schools it was interested in ASAP. Either a stupid move, or a well planed move to get the B12 to take some of their teams and Aresco wants to be the next B12 commissioner

[TCU to PAC 12 ?]

After the next right there will be little to no TV tights for G schools as it will go more and more to streaming. G5 schools need to work together to regionalize and reduce or they will fail (or force more fees on to students)

[SEC wants more]

8 minutes ago, southsideguy said:

do you think Vandy will get the "it is not you its me call"?

Nope, there needs to be a win or two on the schedule. You would think most of the 2nd level SEC teams will be looking for OOC games they fill they can win to get to 6

[TCU to PAC 12 ?]

Time for the Belt and CUSA to merge?

[SEC wants more]

If Clemson and Ohio State were to agree how quickly would ND be on the phone? 

[Mason Fine and Roughriders UPDATES]

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Isaac Harker was good on five of eight pass for 48 yards.

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Mason Fine was good on six of 10 pass attempts for 48 yards.

Tom Flacco connected of four of six passes for 29 yards and was intercepted by Gates.

[SMU one of the top candidates to join the Big 12 if Texas, Oklahoma jump to SEC]

5 hours ago, DeepGreen said:

I think about this and cringe.  Liberty just moved to FBS a few years ago.

What's the saying about "if you throw enough money at an issue"? These two schools are prime examples

[SEC wants more]

15 minutes ago, MeanGreenTeeth said:

If the SEC gets those schools, they pretty much have things wrapped up.  They then have all the leverage to pick up 8 or so more schools worth having and then they have their own post-NCAA league.

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