The Blue Board

Our last debate was Mizzou/WVU...and it was pretty much a stalemate. A&M isn't really a debate in my opinion, but I'd much rather have WVU around than A&M based on personal hatred/disdain for Aggy.

Also, when dealing with markets...I think you all need to realize that a place like Birmingham is a better market than say, NYC...when dealing with college football/sports.

FSU let the ACC put them in this bad contract. Honestly they should have demanded more money. FSU drives the ACC's tv market and has one of the high viewer shares and viewer ratings. TV markets is important to ESPN contracts because it gets money from commercials based on who is watching what. The more a team/conference is watched the more money they make off of it and the more they are willing to pay to keep them. FSU being in the ACC is beneficial to ESPN because they own all 1st and 2nd tier rights. Which means they can show all FSU's games whenever they want to if they want to. In the big twelve they lose this as 2nd tier rights are owned by FOX sports. This is a large brand to lose considering FSU is usually one of the most watched sports teams even when they are in a down period. And losing this school pretty much makes the ACC as a football conference a dud. No disrespect to VTech and others. With that being said its FSU's fault they were not happy. And its the ACC's fault they gave up way more for less money. Adding teams will force a renegotiation of the contract and if its ND that comes aboard the TV deal would probably be higher than the current Big 12. ND holds a lot of power right now. Too much in my opinion considering they are courting both Big 12 and ACC.

If we added FSU & ND, this board gets a lot more interesting conference talk wise.

Damn have I hated the past couple of years.

I don't like this for FSU...but add in miami or UCF/USF (yeah I know but they are both programs on the rise...) and it doesn't suck as much for FSU...take out BYU...

ND is not going to the acc. They would be stupid to give up their 3rd tier rights.

Switch BYU for UCF

Yea BYU is way to far west, a lot of eastern people think BYU is close to Texas but it is not at all. Also they refuse to play any sports on sundays and it makes scheduling a b$%#h

I am always in favor of adding UCF to any league my team is in because I live within a easy drive to their games

Can 1 of the Big 12 fans(Rivver/MM) please tell me, using some type of factual basis, why after losing Mizzou, TAMU, Colorado, and Nebraska and adding WVU(slightly better than MIZZOU, at best equal to A&M) and TCU, they now stand to negotiate a comparatively better TV contract(comparatively better as in in comparison to the B1G, SEC, PAC, not compared to older contracts as it will obviously be better seeing as the value of college football in its entirety has increased).

Except that you kept most of the dead weight teams while losing a national brand