UNI to join a conference with Kansas and ISU?

[Newsbreaker]

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Iowa State and the B12 rejects are now rumored to be talking to the Big East now. 12 team FB conf and a 20 team BB conf.

Oh wow. That's not a basketball conference, that's the NCAA.

[SteinPizza]

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Iowa State and the B12 rejects are now rumored to be talking to the Big East now. 12 team FB conf and a 20 team BB conf.

Of the several possible outcomes, that could be the best thing to happen to both ISU and Kansas. One thing though...The Mayor had his work cut out for him trying to compete in the Big 12. His task will be that much harder trying to compete in the Big East.

[cydave]

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http://iowastate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1093163

All rumors at this point, but I am seeing this possible scenario thrown around, no realiable source of course. But, I would be very happy if this played out:

West
KU
K-State
Mizzou
Iowa State
Cincy
Louisville
Depaul (No FB)
Marquette (No FB)

East
WVU
S. Florida
Cuse
Rutgers
Pitt
UCONN
Villanova (No FB)
Georgetown (No FB)

[Scrambler]

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http://iowastate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1093163
All rumors at this point, but I am seeing this possible scenario thrown around, no realiable source of course. But, I would be very happy if this played out:

West
KU
K-State
Mizzou
Iowa State
Cincy
Louisville
Depaul (No FB)
Marquette (No FB)

East
WVU
S. Florida
Cuse
Rutgers
Pitt
UCONN
Villanova (No FB)
Georgetown (No FB)

talk about the best case scenerio!! that would be awesome for the clones. Plus it would ensure UNI can still get paid for a couple instate football games from time to time...

[UNIpanther99]

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talk about the best case scenerio!! that would be awesome for the clones. Plus it would ensure UNI can still get paid for a couple instate football games from time to time...

Excellent point... That's something I hadn't considered.

[UNI83]

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http://iowastate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1093163
All rumors at this point, but I am seeing this possible scenario thrown around, no realiable source of course. But, I would be very happy if this played out:

West
KU
K-State
Mizzou
Iowa State
Cincy
Louisville
Depaul (No FB)
Marquette (No FB)

East
WVU
S. Florida
Cuse
Rutgers
Pitt
UCONN
Villanova (No FB)
Georgetown (No FB)

FWIW Nova and Georgetown both have football. Hell, Nova is the defending NCAA Division 1 champion.

[cydave]

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FWIW Nova and Georgetown both have football. Hell, Nova is the defending NCAA Division 1 champion.

I believe what they meant was BCS level football.

[Blue42]

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Actually, I am pretty sure that Iowa State's problems are going to draw attention to UNI.

We are now a one trick pony...There isn't going to be much if any room left for UNI and Iowa State...They will be forced to sacrifice for the U of I now more than ever, and that will have massive impacts on the budgets of those two schools.

We have Marvin Pomerantz's dream that he worked very hard to acheive.....Uof I is the only major university in the state....

I'm not sure I'm connecting the dots here. Care to elaborate?

[TH1974]

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I'm not sure I'm connecting the dots here. Care to elaborate?

You'll need a tinfoil hat to figure that one out.

[TravelingPanther]

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Now ESPN is reporting that Texas and A&M want to keep the Big 12 together

[SteinPizza]

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Now ESPN is reporting that Texas and A&M want to keep the Big 12 together

I had heard that Texas is the 800 lb. gorilla in that conference. The revenue sharing is skewed to favor them, at the expense of the other members. Some talking head speculated that they might want to keep their current situation since it's such a sweetheart deal. If they joined the Pac 10 or Big 10, they're just another member, with no special treatment.

I honestly don't follow the Big 12 much. Can someone elaborate as to whether the above is true? If so, how in the hell did they pull it off, and/or who were the suckers at the other schools which allowed it?

[UNI83]

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I have a feeling that Texas is trying like crazy to get Utah, TCU, or BSU to join the B12 so they can keep the B12 and keep the movement to a minimum

[cydave]

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I had heard that Texas is the 800 lb. gorilla in that conference. The revenue sharing is skewed to favor them, at the expense of the other members. Some talking head speculated that they might want to keep their current situation since it's such a sweetheart deal. If they joined the Pac 10 or Big 10, they're just another member, with no special treatment.

I honestly don't follow the Big 12 much. Can someone elaborate as to whether the above is true? If so, how in the hell did they pull it off, and/or who were the suckers at the other schools which allowed it?

Yes, it is true, there isn't "equal" revenue sharing in the Big 12. I believe they take all of the tv generated revenue, split it in half and divide one half equally, the second half is then divided accordingly as to how much you were on tv.

Not sure who all voted for this type of revenue sharing.

And there are soo many rumors and speculation going on at this point, its hard to decide who to believe and what is legit or a rumor. I do think, though, that tomorrow will be a big day. Knowing whether teams are staying, going, and where they are going if they are leaving.

[96' Alum]

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I'm not sure I'm connecting the dots here. Care to elaborate?

OK, I will admit that I haven't been paying attention to what has happened since I left work earlier....

As far as the dots....It's really pretty simple....The BoR in the spirit of Marvin Pomerantz (who has a special place in hell for what he did to any public university in this state that is not the Uof I) decreed that the athletic departments in the state of Iowa need to become self sufficient.

Now remember that Iowa State took out a bunch of bonds for facilty upgrades....That was borrowed against the idea that they were going to be in a BCS conference with BCS revenue to repay the loans...

IF Iowa State is relegated to a mid major conference...Then their revenue stream is going to diminish, making it harder for them to repay what they borrowed....

Because of this, the crumbs that UNI get are going to diminish, especially as the politicians try to make up for Iowa State's short fall...Who the hell is going to care in this state about UNI....

Iowa would be fine with UNI going non scholarship in football...And they may refuse to play us in basketball now(because that are going to suck something fierce for a while, regardless of the coaching change)....Iowa State has too many of their own problems to worry about to care what happens to us as well...

The crumbs that UNI gets from the state now, will be coming from a completely smaller piece of bread....As for our Hawk fan friends that want to make believe that all of the politics aren't completely rigged in Iowa's favor, all they really have to remember is the BoR forcing Iowa State to sell WOI because in Pomerantz estimation it wasn't fair that Iowa State had a TV station and Iowa didn't...

Remember about that POS Pomerantz that there is a large wing at the U of I hospitals built with his donations...Then remember that he was appointed the head of the BoR by the idiot Branstad....Where did loyalties lie....NOT WITH IOWA STATE NOR UNI...

[ubuntuCAT]

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I had heard that Texas is the 800 lb. gorilla in that conference. The revenue sharing is skewed to favor them, at the expense of the other members. Some talking head speculated that they might want to keep their current situation since it's such a sweetheart deal. If they joined the Pac 10 or Big 10, they're just another member, with no special treatment.

I honestly don't follow the Big 12 much. Can someone elaborate as to whether the above is true? If so, how in the hell did they pull it off, and/or who were the suckers at the other schools which allowed it?

Even with the sweatheart deal Texas gets in the Big12 they would likely get double the money in the Big10.

Honestly I always thought the revenue thing was skewed so bad that Texas got like 3x the money as ISU, but that isn't true. The last numbers that were out had Texas on top with around $10 million and ISU 2nd from the bottom at around $7.5 million.

Iowa makes over $20million in the big10.