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Post by jgrout on Jan 19, 2011 21:35:24 GMT -5
With the announcement of its new television deal, the University of Texas seems headed for Division Zero status... where all they have are privileges and all its fellow Big 12 and NCAA members have are responsibilities.
Is this the BCS mindset run rampant? The trouble is that the NCAA can't do anything about this... they've been busted in a series of anti-trust lawsuits over the years... the same ones that led to the BCS.
Too bad the other Big 12 members don't tell them "share the wealth or get the hell out". I guess Nebraska more or less did, and then had to get out itself. I'm sure glad that the 'Horns didn't end up in the "Pac-16".
P.S. This new network may be where the 2011 Nike Big Four (hosted in Austin) will be televised nationally... to those few folks who have the channel.
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Post by NebraskaVBfan93 on Jan 20, 2011 1:16:20 GMT -5
I think Texas very well would have wen to the "Pac-16" except for the fact that they weren't going to allow Texas to complete this TV package.
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Post by mikegarrison on Jan 20, 2011 1:25:41 GMT -5
I think Texas very well would have wen to the "Pac-16" except for the fact that they weren't going to allow Texas to complete this TV package. Exactly. The Pac-10/12/16 told Texas they would not be allowed to do this, which is why that deal fell through. |
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Post by truffleshuffle on Jan 20, 2011 3:03:51 GMT -5
Too bad the other Big 12 members don't tell them "share the wealth or get the hell out". for one thing, texas already generates way more for the conference than it receives. their attitude is, why should we share with bottom-feeders like iowa state and baylor who do very little for the conference? texas is the best school academically and the best school athletically. second, if the other big xii members tell them to "share the wealth or get the hell out," they will gleefully take the option of getting the hell out and find a conference where they can make more money (big ten, sec, pac 10) and, in the case of the pac 10 and big 10, have more peers academically. |
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Post by NET2 on Jan 24, 2011 16:01:32 GMT -5
Very few Division I programs are sucessful financially. UT is one of the successful ones.
The issue is not about conference affiliation, it is all about making enough money to be sucessful & to continue enough non-revenue sports to be in compliance with Title IX. Volleyball is one of those non-revenue sports at most univesities except Hawaii.
Also, a little-known fact: most colleges that played in football bowl games this year lost money on bowl particpation because they had to eat a considerable expense when they were not able to sell their allotment of game tickets.
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Post by OverAndUnder on Jan 25, 2011 9:57:26 GMT -5
I hope it is the first step to Division Null -- the point at which the NCAA completely dissolves, and athletics programs are spun off into the solely prestige-generating crown jewels they are in nearly every other country on the planet.
Let people who want to be professionally compensated athletes, be athletes, and people who want to be students, be students. The "student-athlete" is a poorly conceived fiction that perverts both the academic mission of a university and limits the professional/financial opportunities for the athletes.
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