The Big 12 Board of Directors has voted unanimously to admit Arizona State University, University of Arizona, and University of Utah to the Big 12 Conference.
The big challenge is that all of these teams are leaving after the 2023-2024 school year. So, they need these teams next season. The MWC arrangement is that if you want to leave at the end of the current school year, you owe two years of league distributions. With SDSU’s run to the championship game in basketball, the distributions are code the $19 million, so if these schools want to leave, they’d owe close to $40 million to leave to a league with no television deal.
In theory, they could disband the MWC, but I believe that takes 9 votes. So, this league would have to invite everyone but San Jose State, Wyoming and Utah State? (Or maybe no Hawaii?)
Needless to say, that’s not super realistic. (Granted, nothing that happened this week seemed realistic last week)
(Granted, nothing that happened this week seemed realistic last week)
Really? Seems like this result has been obvious for months to me. (That’s easy to say now, I know) The timing, no, but money is undefeated vs college football, and it was clear where the money is.
The big challenge is that all of these teams are leaving after the 2023-2024 school year. So, they need these teams next season. The MWC arrangement is that if you want to leave at the end of the current school year, you owe two years of league distributions. With SDSU’s run to the championship game in basketball, the distributions are code the $19 million, so if these schools want to leave, they’d owe close to $40 million to leave to a league with no television deal.
In theory, they could disband the MWC, but I believe that takes 9 votes. So, this league would have to invite everyone but San Jose State, Wyoming and Utah State? (Or maybe no Hawaii?)
Needless to say, that’s not super realistic. (Granted, nothing that happened this week seemed realistic last week)
Really? Seems like this result has been obvious for months to me. (That’s easy to say now, I know) The timing, no, but money is undefeated vs college football, and it was clear where the money is.