Here is how the Big 12 thing went bad 20 and then 10
Posted on: May 15, 2019 at 21:04:04 CT
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For reasons of unknown fear, some of the weaker schools allowed the Big 12 to set up the scaled revenue sharing system. MU voted against it from the beginning based on everything I have ever read or heard on the matter. But schools like ku, ksu, ISU, OSU gave in. And as part of the original setup, for whatever crazy fvcking reason, they also set it up that a supermajority of 9 votes was required to change any bylaws.
Initially, Nebraska and A&M were ok with receiving less money that Texas and Oklahoma because they still got more than everybody else. And Neb and A&M were established enough football powers that the relatively slight difference in payout didn't really affect them.
MU and some of the other schools fought to change the bylaws for years, but Neb & A&N would always side with OU and UT so that they could keep getting more money than the other 8.
Trouble set in when 10-15 years later all of a sudden Mizzou was better at football than they were and even ku had a big year and suddenly NU and A&M were not #3 and #4 in Big 12 payout anymore. The moment that MU surpassed Nebraska in conference payouts, Nebraska started bltching about the inequal payout system. Then the Big 10 started talking about expansion soon after.
But instead of voting with the masses of the Big 12 to fix the Big 12, Nebraska took the junior status offer from the Big 10 while blaming it all on MU for listening to the Big 10 proposal first.
The Big 12 finally took some steps to improve their system, but they never fixed it.