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Originally Posted by Blade6119
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.
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Nebraska was one of those schools who voted against revenue sharing. Nebraska's problems with the Big 12 were the moving of the headquarters to Dallas (MU and CU both voted for this) and the hiring of Hatchell as commissioner (again MU and CU both voted for this).
I'll be the first to say that if Texas and Texas A&M wanted to save the Big 12 conference they could easily do so. They are probably asking themselves the same question we are though...is the Big 12 worth saving? I think it's only worth saving if they broker an alliance with the Pac 10. If that's not possible then we'll have the same problems we've always had in the Big 12; too much of the power (TV) is in Texas.