It's criminal that Oklahoma and Nebraska no longer play in football. They will never have that type of rivalry with anyone in the Big X.

(08-12-2020 03:10 PM)Sicembear11 Wrote:  They are obviously a Big 8 school who should be playing Big 8 teams in the Big 12. Honestly, the only reason everything started to fall apart was due to their departure and Texas’ ambitions. Things have settled now, and the end they feared never came to pass. Nebraska should realign themselves with their historic and academic peers. If Nebraska is back in the fold, the Big 12 can start looking seriously at teams that make geographic sense for the conference. Maybe Missouri or Colorado come back, maybe Arkansas decides that they want to compete without being the whipping boy of a very prestigious but very tough SEC West. If you could back 12 with those schools, and WVU finds a way into the ACC or the SEC and has geographic and historic rivals, then suddenly everyone is winning and benefiting.

There is a plenty of bad blood from realignment, but sensibly aligning ourselves moving forward makes sense. Especially if cable revenue continues to decline and the BTN stops being a money maker, and especially if there are plans for elite conferences to start a new NCAA and breakaway. At that point, the new organization will likely do a collective bargaining agreement with the networks like the NFL rather than keep it up to each conference.

Big Red should come on home.

I'm sorry, but when did it start to decline?

(08-13-2020 02:54 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(08-12-2020 03:10 PM)Sicembear11 Wrote:  They are obviously a Big 8 school who should be playing Big 8 teams in the Big 12. Honestly, the only reason everything started to fall apart was due to their departure and Texas’ ambitions. Things have settled now, and the end they feared never came to pass. Nebraska should realign themselves with their historic and academic peers. If Nebraska is back in the fold, the Big 12 can start looking seriously at teams that make geographic sense for the conference. Maybe Missouri or Colorado come back, maybe Arkansas decides that they want to compete without being the whipping boy of a very prestigious but very tough SEC West. If you could back 12 with those schools, and WVU finds a way into the ACC or the SEC and has geographic and historic rivals, then suddenly everyone is winning and benefiting.

There is a plenty of bad blood from realignment, but sensibly aligning ourselves moving forward makes sense. Especially if cable revenue continues to decline and the BTN stops being a money maker, and especially if there are plans for elite conferences to start a new NCAA and breakaway. At that point, the new organization will likely do a collective bargaining agreement with the networks like the NFL rather than keep it up to each conference.

Big Red should come on home.

I'm sorry, but when did it start to decline?

the longer this pandemic is, the more people are cutting the cord. Everyone seems to be streaming on each other's Hulu, Netflix, Amazon accounts. For sports people are just buying a jailbreak fire stick. This continues, the big forecasted bumps for the next TV deals may not be as we once thought it was going to be

(08-13-2020 03:24 PM)Thiefery Wrote:  

(08-13-2020 02:54 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(08-12-2020 03:10 PM)Sicembear11 Wrote:  They are obviously a Big 8 school who should be playing Big 8 teams in the Big 12. Honestly, the only reason everything started to fall apart was due to their departure and Texas’ ambitions. Things have settled now, and the end they feared never came to pass. Nebraska should realign themselves with their historic and academic peers. If Nebraska is back in the fold, the Big 12 can start looking seriously at teams that make geographic sense for the conference. Maybe Missouri or Colorado come back, maybe Arkansas decides that they want to compete without being the whipping boy of a very prestigious but very tough SEC West. If you could back 12 with those schools, and WVU finds a way into the ACC or the SEC and has geographic and historic rivals, then suddenly everyone is winning and benefiting.

There is a plenty of bad blood from realignment, but sensibly aligning ourselves moving forward makes sense. Especially if cable revenue continues to decline and the BTN stops being a money maker, and especially if there are plans for elite conferences to start a new NCAA and breakaway. At that point, the new organization will likely do a collective bargaining agreement with the networks like the NFL rather than keep it up to each conference.

Big Red should come on home.

I'm sorry, but when did it start to decline?

the longer this pandemic is, the more people are cutting the cord. Everyone seems to be streaming on each other's Hulu, Netflix, Amazon accounts. For sports people are just buying a jailbreak fire stick. This continues, the big forecasted bumps for the next TV deals may not be as we once thought it was going to be

Yeah, I doubt thats the case the the amount of people sharing passwords for apps that don't carry live sports has anything to do with the sports rights money.

I’d like to make the case that the Big Ten is the better fit on the grounds that they are historically on par with the likes of Ohio St, Penn St, and Michigan.

The Big 12 is not the Big 8. It’s a Texas dominated league. They won’t run the Big 12 like they did the Big 8—1996-2010 is proof of that. The Huskers will not have a dominant voting block.

(08-13-2020 03:41 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(08-13-2020 03:24 PM)Thiefery Wrote:  

(08-13-2020 02:54 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(08-12-2020 03:10 PM)Sicembear11 Wrote:  They are obviously a Big 8 school who should be playing Big 8 teams in the Big 12. Honestly, the only reason everything started to fall apart was due to their departure and Texas’ ambitions. Things have settled now, and the end they feared never came to pass. Nebraska should realign themselves with their historic and academic peers. If Nebraska is back in the fold, the Big 12 can start looking seriously at teams that make geographic sense for the conference. Maybe Missouri or Colorado come back, maybe Arkansas decides that they want to compete without being the whipping boy of a very prestigious but very tough SEC West. If you could back 12 with those schools, and WVU finds a way into the ACC or the SEC and has geographic and historic rivals, then suddenly everyone is winning and benefiting.

There is a plenty of bad blood from realignment, but sensibly aligning ourselves moving forward makes sense. Especially if cable revenue continues to decline and the BTN stops being a money maker, and especially if there are plans for elite conferences to start a new NCAA and breakaway. At that point, the new organization will likely do a collective bargaining agreement with the networks like the NFL rather than keep it up to each conference.

Big Red should come on home.

I'm sorry, but when did it start to decline?

the longer this pandemic is, the more people are cutting the cord. Everyone seems to be streaming on each other's Hulu, Netflix, Amazon accounts. For sports people are just buying a jailbreak fire stick. This continues, the big forecasted bumps for the next TV deals may not be as we once thought it was going to be

Yeah, I doubt thats the case the the amount of people sharing passwords for apps that don't carry live sports has anything to do with the sports rights money.

I must be a weirdo. I have some streaming services - Hulu, Netflix, and the Disney bundle - but I don't share my passwords with anyone, even close family. It's just me and my wife watching them.

(08-13-2020 05:25 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(08-13-2020 03:41 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(08-13-2020 03:24 PM)Thiefery Wrote:  ...Everyone seems to be streaming on each other's Hulu, Netflix, Amazon accounts. For sports people are just buying a jailbreak fire stick. This continues, the big forecasted bumps for the next TV deals may not be as we once thought it was going to be

Yeah, I doubt thats the case the the amount of people sharing passwords for apps that don't carry live sports has anything to do with the sports rights money.

I must be a weirdo. I have some streaming services - Hulu, Netflix, and the Disney bundle - but I don't share my passwords with anyone, even close family. It's just me and my wife watching them.

It's not weird. It's called HONEST. Rare today, true, but not "weird".

(08-13-2020 05:25 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(08-13-2020 03:41 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(08-13-2020 03:24 PM)Thiefery Wrote:  

(08-13-2020 02:54 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(08-12-2020 03:10 PM)Sicembear11 Wrote:  They are obviously a Big 8 school who should be playing Big 8 teams in the Big 12. Honestly, the only reason everything started to fall apart was due to their departure and Texas’ ambitions. Things have settled now, and the end they feared never came to pass. Nebraska should realign themselves with their historic and academic peers. If Nebraska is back in the fold, the Big 12 can start looking seriously at teams that make geographic sense for the conference. Maybe Missouri or Colorado come back, maybe Arkansas decides that they want to compete without being the whipping boy of a very prestigious but very tough SEC West. If you could back 12 with those schools, and WVU finds a way into the ACC or the SEC and has geographic and historic rivals, then suddenly everyone is winning and benefiting.

There is a plenty of bad blood from realignment, but sensibly aligning ourselves moving forward makes sense. Especially if cable revenue continues to decline and the BTN stops being a money maker, and especially if there are plans for elite conferences to start a new NCAA and breakaway. At that point, the new organization will likely do a collective bargaining agreement with the networks like the NFL rather than keep it up to each conference.

Big Red should come on home.

I'm sorry, but when did it start to decline?

the longer this pandemic is, the more people are cutting the cord. Everyone seems to be streaming on each other's Hulu, Netflix, Amazon accounts. For sports people are just buying a jailbreak fire stick. This continues, the big forecasted bumps for the next TV deals may not be as we once thought it was going to be

Yeah, I doubt thats the case the the amount of people sharing passwords for apps that don't carry live sports has anything to do with the sports rights money.

I must be a weirdo. I have some streaming services - Hulu, Netflix, and the Disney bundle - but I don't share my passwords with anyone, even close family. It's just me and my wife watching them.

I have cable with everything (fios) and i subscribe to Hulu, Netflix, amazon, Dazn, etc. I let my friends and family members use mine..however they are already using someone else's. My friend has a firestick and it shows live events..20 min behind.. not too bad of a price to pay if you aren't trying to live tweet it