BarleyMcDougal said:
TellMeYouLoveMe said:
CHP Bear said:
Per Barking Carnival, Fox will not pick up 2019, 21 and 23 games. Reasons are money and competing with ACC and SEC games. Further in the article, "This appears to be yet another Canary in the Coal Mine for the long-term survival of the Big 12. The league is a mile wide and 6 feet deep, in terms of being a media draw." "That's what can happen when almost 70% of all the TV households in your conference reside in one state."
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Other than an easy win, there is no need to have two teams each from Oklahoma and Kansas. That was a flaw of the Big8 that was never fixed. Force them to play one another and they can play us, but we would be better off playing Arizona, USC, or a team in the South.
They could say the same thing about having 4 teams from Texas. No other conference has population issues like the Big 12. Nobody watches football on the west coast, but they do have the numbers.
Football needs to blend scheduling to fix the longterm problem. We'd benefit from a basketball-like "showdown" with the SEC. Or, we need to go get Nebraska and another team back in the fold.
Some combination of Nebraska/Missouri/Arky wouldn't be bad. But right now we have five teams that simply don't put eyeballs on the TV sets and that's why the game is being dropped. They simply don't carry their weight. There are enough eyeballs on TV sets in Texas to carry Baylor. We need to play relevant teams in the eyes of the network. Four teams with a collective population of 30 million easily beats 5 teams with a collective population of 8 million.
The simple truth is we get nothing financially out of playing: Okla, Okla St, Iowa St. Kansas, Kansas State. Just not enough market share in those markets to carry an advertiser.
I say we pick two of those that are best and play them each year.