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We believe the move by Texas and Oklahoma strengthens our unique position as the only Power 5 conference with teams in the Mountain and Pacific time zones No. PAC-12 Expansion 2021 Version tech1978 May 15 2021 1 2 3 4 Next tech1978 Matador Gold Member Mar 26 2008 5081 18425 113 66 Southlake TX May 15 2021 1.

The Big 12 Conference Should Expand To 16 Teams

Why Pac-12 Would Be Wise to Take Kansas Rather Than Texas Tech.

. Until then the Pac-12 will examine if an Oklahoma State TCU Baylor or Texas Tech and the rest are good additions. If Texas Tech makes sense for the Pac-12 which is open to debate it does so because it has. San Diego State is not in the Big XII.

The basketball and baseball programs would enhance the conference the football program needs to catch up to compete with the rest of the new look. The conference would then be split into two eight-team divisionsthe north and south. With Texas establishing its own little collegiate hegemony in Austin the Big 12 has begun to crumble at its foundation.

TCU is in Texas which as mentioned before would be a massive addition to the Pac-12 footprint. The Big 12 is safe for now at least because Oklahoma and Texas the two most powerful teams in the. Yes we know.

From a revenue sports athletics perspective the Pac 12 is viewed nationally as a joke. Yes it was part of a package deal with UT but Tech was still invited. Texas Tech by itself will not make Pac-12 football coaches or players excited to travel to Lubbock.

By not agreeing to terms the Pac-12 announced that it would no longer pursue expansion. The Horned Frogs lack of success on the court three mens March Madness appearances since 1971. The latest breaking news in the ongoing conference realignment saga is that the Pac 12 has finally confirmed that they will not be expanding at this time.

The initial reaction from a lot of Texas Tech fans is that the lifeboat is gone for the Red Raiders and athletics as we know it in Lubbock is dead. KSU does not bring the major Texas-based media markets offered by Texas-based schools particularly Houston and Texas Tech. Please subscribe to view.

27 media market in the country and would be No. The Pac-12 media rights deal with ESPN and Fox. Texas Tech TCU and Baylor had reportedly already reached out to the league while others have proposed a potential 20-team Super Conference with all eight Big 12 teams heading west.

Kansas Baylor TCU and SDSU are the four schools that I would look to add to change this. And its opened the. Before we go any.

If each Pac-12 school has to share revenue 14 or maybe 16 ways in an expanded conference instead of only 12 but the overall revenue pie becomes so. This is premium content. Yahoo Sports put together a piece on 10 teams the Pac-12 will target for expansion and four Big 12 teams made the list.

6 in the conference behind Los Angeles San Francisco Seattle Denver and Portland. -- The Pac has invited Tech to join before in 2010. There are many obstacles to this happening but this round of expansion is about money.

South Division USC UCLA Arizona Arizona State Oklahoma State TCU Texas Tech Baylor. So the Pac is already familiar with Tech and Tech has made great. Whether they would be competitive in the league right away.

San Diego is the No. Nonetheless in one proposal on Twitter the Pac-12err Pac-16adds TCU Texas Tech Boise State and BYU. In an interview this week in the Las Vegas Review-Journal new Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff was asked about conference realignment and he said I think.

But if the Pac-12 is considering expansion the Aztecs have to be considered. Thats the final destination. Following consultation with our Presidents Chancellors and Athletic Directors the Pac-12 Conference has made the decision to not pursue expansion of our membership at this time.

Kansas State has had its moments as a football school. The Red Raiders were part of the original proposed package to the Pac-10 before Texas squashed the whole idea and remained in the Big 12. When considering Kansas State as a possible new member of the Pac-12 one is struck by a simple fact.

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Texas Tech makes the final piece giving the Pac-12 16 teams. But still those rumors of the Pac-12 going after the Big 12 is back. By adding Texas Tech you are adding a middle of the pack football team and a middling basketball program.

The problem is program architect and savior Bill Snyder is no. This alignment allows the PAC 12 to expand its footprint into Texas Oklahoma and Idaho. The Pac-12 is now by far the fifth of the Power 5 Conferences especially in college football.

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