I’ve never heard that saying before in Texas or Louisiana.
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SMU = cautiously optimistic but patient
SDSU also optimistic but pinched with that exit fee and being withheld $6M they were probably counting on for cash flow.
Saw these interesting dates on Twitter — googled a bit & they seem to be correct.
- '30 — B10 TV deal ends
- '31 — B12 TV deal ends
- '32 — NCAA Basketball Tournament deal with CBS & Turner Sports expires
- '34 — SEC TV deal ends
- '36 — ACC grant-of-rights expires (not sure about TV deal but probably, too)
https://twitter.com/midtennmtneer/status/1676651789599252504
Edited to add '32 NCAA Tourney expire
Thanks Steve-O.
When I look at this timeline, I am glad the B12 is a year after the B10. The B10 will set the market with its new deal. Although the B12 will not equal what the B10 will make, at least with its current configuration, the B12 will base its negotiation on the market set by the B10. It will be interesting to see if the B10 contracts with new media streams in the new contract that the B12 can tap into.
It is critical that B12 expand both east and west to get a closer comparison to the B10. Interesting that the SEC has no interest going national. Long term, I think that limits SEC’s ceiling.
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If the Pac 12 sticks together, I can’t see them signing a deal that expires after 2030.
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That sounds like something someone from Oregon thinks Texans would say.
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I can’t worry about what may or may not happen 7 years from now. I’m 76 and have had an SVT, 2 heart attacks, and now have AFib; I also have type 2 diabetes. My current goal is to make it through this years football and basketball schedules and then take it from there. A lot can happen in a year or two, much less 7.
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Amen Mike. Sorry you’re going through all that. Fortunately I’m still very healthy at 71.
But with deaths of friends, family, and prominent people I use to know and love, I stopped creating & working on 5 year goal plans.
It’s one year at a time. Wish you the best and hope you enjoy this year.
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SMU Buddy has been silent lately. Calm before the storm of realignment? He’d say so. Last thing he said after SDSU debacle was that his trusted sources may have gotten timeline wrong on media deal and invite but it is still coming. All this is just building up anticipation.
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Amen
Dang Mike! That’s quite a bit to deal with. Respect!
As a 20 year stage 4 cancer surviving 72 year old with an aortic aneurysm, 100% blocked left carotid artery, 80% blocked left arm artery, lung spots with a major stroke in 2019, that can’t keep his weight above 120, I hear you.
Hang in there. 
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Tillman did say the big12 was going to only take 3 and Tillman called and said why not 4 and got us in at the last minute. I recall reading that somewhere. They were going to leave the last spot open for the future.
Tillman made it happen
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Here it is
Why not 4 per Tillman
You too Johnny.
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Abott or Patrick never cared for Houston. Only reason Houston has made progress is due to sheer will and commitment from Dr. Khator and Tilman.
Tilman got us in. Must have cost him some serious cash in contributions to grease the sleaze balls, but he got us in.
That’s why anyone saying Abott and Patrick got us in, is expressing plain ignorance.
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2016 article
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If the Governor of Texas wanted us in the Big12 in 2016, we would have been invited. The only thing Abbot was interested in from Houston was Tom Herman, whom he lobbied personally at NRG to leave for UT. This was the day we played Oklahoma.
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This says they were only going to invite Ucf, Byu and Cincy then Tillman called Dan Patrick etc
Maybe Abbott did that and it was lip service but several articles show Tillman talked to Dan Patrick to help us get in but not Abbott.
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Not this again.
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