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Not A Greedy Money Grab
Posted on: July 15, 2023 at 14:19:14 CT
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During the spring and summer of 2011, Texas proposed to the PAC that it, Tech, OU & OState join the Pac. The proposal was considered by the PAC Presidents.
Reports of the meeting indicated it looked like it would pass until the President of Stanford noted the Pac had just entered into a new tv deal and perhaps the conference should let the dust settle on it before considering adding four more schools. His logic prevailed.
As an aside all of the Longhorn Network issues had been resolved.
OU President David Boren subsequently held a press conference (a week or so later and addfesssd the issue. He suggested that it was entirely possible that a some point in the not to distant future, the cream (my word, not his) of the Big 12 wouldd bail the Big 12 and form a new conference for TV reasons.
At that time (late summer of 2011), Deaton was the chairman of an informal group consisting of MU, KU, KState and Iowa State organized to keep the BIG 12 intact.
After Borden’s press conference, Mizzou became concerned it would end up in a lesser conference getting less TV money than it was getting from the BiG XII. Deaton then dispatched Alden to look for alternatives. That lead to Mizzou joining the SEC.
Deaton went public with the foreging in a news letter the SID sent to Alumni Assoc members regarding Tiger Athletics about four times a year. It was in the late fall edition of the 2011/2012 academic year (if memory serves).
Deaton’s motivation to send Alden looking (also negotiated with B1G) was to avoid ending up in a lesser conference with a worse TV deal than Mizzou then had in the Big XII.
Edited by ScottsdaleTiger at 21:01:55 on 07/15/23
Reports of the meeting indicated it looked like it would pass until the President of Stanford noted the Pac had just entered into a new tv deal and perhaps the conference should let the dust settle on it before considering adding four more schools. His logic prevailed.
As an aside all of the Longhorn Network issues had been resolved.
OU President David Boren subsequently held a press conference (a week or so later and addfesssd the issue. He suggested that it was entirely possible that a some point in the not to distant future, the cream (my word, not his) of the Big 12 wouldd bail the Big 12 and form a new conference for TV reasons.
At that time (late summer of 2011), Deaton was the chairman of an informal group consisting of MU, KU, KState and Iowa State organized to keep the BIG 12 intact.
After Borden’s press conference, Mizzou became concerned it would end up in a lesser conference getting less TV money than it was getting from the BiG XII. Deaton then dispatched Alden to look for alternatives. That lead to Mizzou joining the SEC.
Deaton went public with the foreging in a news letter the SID sent to Alumni Assoc members regarding Tiger Athletics about four times a year. It was in the late fall edition of the 2011/2012 academic year (if memory serves).
Deaton’s motivation to send Alden looking (also negotiated with B1G) was to avoid ending up in a lesser conference with a worse TV deal than Mizzou then had in the Big XII.
Edited by ScottsdaleTiger at 21:01:55 on 07/15/23
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