Hey, Jim Delany: You think a 16-team Big Ten is something? How about a 22-team “partnership” between the Big 12 and the Pac-10?
Megaconferences Are So Yesterday. This Is The Era Of The Ginormoconference
↵↵Officials from the Big 12 and Pac-10 examined possible TV alliances as well as scheduling partnerships in football during preliminary talks Wednesday and Thursday in Phoenix. ...
↵Possibilities include working together on TV contracts or perhaps even a shared network. The two conferences feature 22 schools west of the Mississippi with strong bases in Texas and California markets.
↵Non-conference scheduling in football for “meaningful September games,” [Big 12 Commissioner Dan] Beebe said, could enhance future TV negotiations. The conferences already hold a men’s basketball series.
↵↵So teams from the two conferences would play each other and the leagues would work together on TV or possibly even start a network. But let’s be clear here: This is not a merger. It’s just the conferences doing everything together. That’s it.
↵Consider: Most scenarios for conference expansion involve the Pac-10 inviting Colorado and the Big 10 raiding the Big 12 for members. Might this be an olive branch of sorts from the Pac-10 and a survival plan for the Big 12?
↵If so, Colorado fans don’t seem overly impressed. As of this writing, readers of our Colorado blog Ralphie Report had voted 81 percent to 18 percent that they would rather join the Pac-10 outright.
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