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B12 Spring 2022 meeting & update on expansion transitions
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
JULY 1, 2023 - The target date when independent Brigham Young University (for certain) and American Athletic Conference programs University of Houston, University of Central Florida, and the University of Cincinnati join the Big 12.
si.com: Acquired Big 12 Conference Members are Nearing a Settlement
No sign yet of OUt leaving the Big 12 ahead of schedule. If they don’t, the Big 12 will exist as a 14 program conference for two full academic years, AY2023-24 and AY2024-25.
With the AAC looking to add its six new members (Charlotte, FAU, North Texas, Rice, UAB and UTSA, all coming from Conference USA) in 2023, expect the negotiations between the AAC and the departing schools to be successfully concluded. As of today, it looks as if the negotiations have been set to resume after the conferences hold their respective spring business meetings (Big 12 meeting wrapped up this week, see links below)
the athletic.com: AAC officially adds six schools: Charlotte, FAU, North Texas, Rice, UAB, UTSA (October 21, 2021) (pay site)
big12sports.com: Spring Meeting 2022 summary
espn.com: Big 12 boasts $426M revenue; new commissioner expected to be hired in mid-July
si.com: Acquired Big 12 Conference Members are Nearing a Settlement
No sign yet of OUt leaving the Big 12 ahead of schedule. If they don’t, the Big 12 will exist as a 14 program conference for two full academic years, AY2023-24 and AY2024-25.
With the AAC looking to add its six new members (Charlotte, FAU, North Texas, Rice, UAB and UTSA, all coming from Conference USA) in 2023, expect the negotiations between the AAC and the departing schools to be successfully concluded. As of today, it looks as if the negotiations have been set to resume after the conferences hold their respective spring business meetings (Big 12 meeting wrapped up this week, see links below)
the athletic.com: AAC officially adds six schools: Charlotte, FAU, North Texas, Rice, UAB, UTSA (October 21, 2021) (pay site)
big12sports.com: Spring Meeting 2022 summary
espn.com: Big 12 boasts $426M revenue; new commissioner expected to be hired in mid-July
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
With the NCAA no longer requiring conferences to have a division infrastructure in order to hold a football conference championship game (no more 12-0 losing to a 6-5 division winner), I see no reason to have any sort of division setup.
For football, figure out a 9 game rotating schedule and go from there.
For basketball, keep the round robin scheduling.
Yes, the latter will mean two seasons of 26 game conference schedules unless OUt leave early, and 22 game conference schedules once they are gone (each team playing the other 11 twice, with 9 non-conference games in each schedule), but when you are by far the strongest men’s basketball conference, and the additions of the four new programs only looks to boost that (only UCF is not considered a solid to great hoops program), so be it. I like the current brag that the Big 12 is the only conference where everybody plays everybody in football and basketball, and would love to keep it that way.
Won’t happen in football unless the NCAA okays expanding the season to 14 games, but it is definitely doable in hoops.
For football, figure out a 9 game rotating schedule and go from there.
For basketball, keep the round robin scheduling.
Yes, the latter will mean two seasons of 26 game conference schedules unless OUt leave early, and 22 game conference schedules once they are gone (each team playing the other 11 twice, with 9 non-conference games in each schedule), but when you are by far the strongest men’s basketball conference, and the additions of the four new programs only looks to boost that (only UCF is not considered a solid to great hoops program), so be it. I like the current brag that the Big 12 is the only conference where everybody plays everybody in football and basketball, and would love to keep it that way.
Won’t happen in football unless the NCAA okays expanding the season to 14 games, but it is definitely doable in hoops.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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