Memphis Really Wants Into the Big XII

[WasatchRanger]

Tweet from Ross Dellenger

This is wild if true. I thought it was an error and they wanted into the Big Ten

[UteBacker]

Before the BigXII agreed to this, I’d be curious to see if Stanford, Cal, Oregon St, and Wazzou would ante up.

[Tony (admin)]

That’d be nice.

[OffensiveLineEnthusiast]

I don’t think Cal and Stanford want the B12, and I don’t think the B12 wants Cal and Stanford.

Cal/Stanford care about a conference’s academics and B12 academics are just not good enough.

The B12 might be more open, but that’s a lot of new travel to introduce for two not very good football teams who don’t match the character of the conference.

I don’t think Oregon State or Washington State have the cash.

I wouldn’t hate Memphis, but I like the Big 12 as is. I could use a few years of the same before more realignment.

Also, 17 is a bad number. If they add Memphis, I hope they add Boise State, too. Not many eyes from Boise but the Broncos would contend.

[Tony (admin)]

Gawd. If being in a conference with TSPP isn’t enough, make it worse by adding Boise State. 🤮🤮🤮

[UteThunder]

So a one time payment of $11.7 million per team (assuming the conference HQ keeps an equal share for itself), and then what value would they bring to the future TV contracts? I can’t imagine it would be enough to increase the per team payout.

Pass.

[Chasqui]

They aren’t really having to “pay” the $200 million. They just aren’t going to take any distributions from the big 12 for the next 5 years. I bet Oregon State and Wazzu would jump on that. It’s essentially what SMU did.
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