[Blade6119]

Originally Posted by cartman

I never said it was the best option, but again, the conference members agreed to it, and also knew that if they wanted to change it in the future it would take 9 votes.

Now i can honestly say i dont know the inner-workings of the original agreement, so ill defer to your judgement on the matter. But im guessing schools like Mizzou, Kansas, and Iowa State were not giddy about it then either. It was likely forced upon them by the bigger more popular schools that now make up the south. Most likely, they north schools made concessions to make the conference work...and then when that was required of the south schools recently, they didnt budge. Maybe im wrong, maybe the North schools were ecstatic to be getting disproportionately less money then their counterparts. But i really dont believe it would have taken too much to keep NU or CU around, especially not if the Fox TV offer was as good as speculated. Offer up equal revenue sharing, talk about expansion, get a TV deal on par with those of the other power conferences, and im betting the Big 12 wouldnt be facing these current problems. But that was too much for everyone to agree on sadly.