(03-05-2020 01:05 PM)Stugray2 Wrote: The B12 is either going to go to uneven revenue sharing, where Texas and Oklahoma get an extra 1/2 share compare to the little 8 (e.g., a $40m per school pay out would translate to $36.364m for the little-8 and $54.545m for UT and OU) and control of their 3rd tier rights in order for them to keep pace with the SEC and B1G, and for the little-8 to at least stay in the ball park of the ACC in revenue, or else Oklahoma leaves for either the SEC or B1G, and the revenue collapses.
But even for some kind of uneven revenue split to work the B12 cannot afford to add anyone. There simply isn't any more to split. Texas and Oklahoma will get their share, meaning it's the little 8 who would have to fork over money, even if a couple new schools agreed to a 50% share (which is likely the price of admission). The B12 contract already factors in payouts as if their were 12 schools, it will not increase even $1 if schools are added. This is a dead end. No G5 adds anywhere near enough to bother. You have to bring >$40m per year in media value, and nobody does, and nobody is even close, as witness the BYU, AAC and MWC contract levels, which are 1/5th to 1/7th that.
As for Memphis, they are an academic abomination which DQs them every bit as much as it eliminates Boise State from consideration. Both were denied a Rose in the B12 expansion farce, showing that the Presidents and Chancellors of the B12 do have limits on the academic side.
Contraction is more likely than expansion.
Now I COULD see a scheduling agreement between the Big XII and the ACC.
The ACC has 14 teams - but 5 play Notre Dame every year, leaving 9.
The Big XII has 10 teams - up to 9 of them could play the remaining ACC teams.
(I assume that Clemson would opt out, but the other ACC teams might consider it).
Possible matchups:
WVU vs. BC, Syracuse, Pitt, VT in a rotation (duh)
Texas, OU, TCU, OSU, TTech vs. Miami, FSU, UNC, NC State, UVA, VT (when not playing WVU), etc.
Baylor, Kansas, K-State, Iowa St vs. Duke, Wake Forest, Pitt, Syracuse and BC (when not playing WVU)
I'm not sure which group Georgia Tech would want - or if they'd simply opt out too.
Something like this was rumored back in 2013 (with Notre Dame also playing one Big XII team per year):
https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2013/...ement.html
The big question: how well could such a thing be monetized?