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The CBS Sports guy (I want to say his name is Mike McCourcy, but not positive) tweeted, earlier today, that the Big East's presidents had voted to invite Missouri, Kansas, Kansas State, and Iowa State last Summer. I'm not sure how that has changed with TCU since joining, but I'd assume Missouri, Kansas, and Kansas State would still have a standing invitation (and likely Iowa State, along with one other school like UCF/Houston/Memphis/etc.). He also indicated that the Big East would have gone with a 12/20 model (football/basketball)
He also said that the Big East turned down ESPN's offer of 9-years/$1-billion that would have paid the football schools between 65-75% and the basketball schools 25-35%. The Big East's deal with ESPN ends after next season and ESPN had an exclusive windown to renegotiate.
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