(08-01-2013 01:10 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  I guess the issue I have with dividing up the B12 is that I don't think you could get the 4 remaining conferences to determine equal value. The drop-off from TX and OK to the other eight schools is just too great. And if FOX and ESPN are willing to increase the revenues to the other four conferences to accept teams they really don't want, then why not just promise to keep the distribution levels the same for B12 teams if they expand the conference?

For instance, let's consider KSU-->SEC and ISU-->B1G. FOX and ESPN might give both conferences enough to where current distributions don't decrease plus a kicker for taking teams with marginal value. We're talking about $42-47 million for both schools in such arrangement. With those kind of numbers I just think it would be more cheaper if the networks just got together and told the B12 that the cost of inclusion into the new division would be to pick 4-6 more teams.

I thought that way for a while, but then I realized, as He1nous has been saying, that Iowa State, Texas Tech, Kansas State and Oklahoma State all pay for themselves in the PAC. They don't do that as brands, they do that as 4 shots at games in the central time zone that the PAC doesn't presently have. They offer venues in a time slot the PAC hasn't been able to capitalize on. Now, sure the PAC would rather have Texahoma to do it, but without Texas or Oklahoma, 4 new states as opposed to two does offer a bit of a buffer against the loss of the national brands. If they sell 24 games in those slots during the course of the year and expand the PAC network into those states it is still a win for the PAC. Now with those four taken care of, and Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia, and Kansas you have the 8 votes necessary for dissolution.

I too think that the best brands will be divided up. At first I thought that might happen between the surviving 4 conferences with each of them taking 2, one brand & one state school (except the ACC), and the PAC taking 4, 2 brands and two state schools. Now I think the division will be between the networks (Texas and West Virginia to ESPN = Oklahoma and Kansas to FOX). How it plays out there will be up to the networks.