DALLAS — The Big 12, the conference spurned the worst during the selection of teams for the inaugural College Football Playoff, will conclude two days of meetings Friday. It will have formal discussions on bountiful topics, but those topics will not include expansion, which happened to be the topic that recently caused a hubbub about this conference.
“I think our CEOs and our athletic directors are very heavily of the mind that 10 is the right number for us,” Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said. “And I was proud of our athletic directors for not overreacting. There was no knee-jerk to it. They were very thoughtful.”
Where 10 feels warm, it also satisfies the cold. Ever since the early 2010s when the country shook and the Big 12 lost four schools but gained two to make 10, the Big 12-minded have repeated the economic lesson that it’s better to divide profits among 10 than among more than 10.
“We’re distributing about 25 million [dollars] per school, which is going to ramp up over the next 13 years to 40 million per school,” Bowlsby said at a table in his office in the prim but unassuming building hugging a highway near the airport. “Anybody we add that doesn’t bring pro-rata value is going to cause them to take a haircut, and most are not going to be willing to do that even if they could afford it.”
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“I think our CEOs and our athletic directors are very heavily of the mind that 10 is the right number for us,” Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said. “And I was proud of our athletic directors for not overreacting. There was no knee-jerk to it. They were very thoughtful.”
Where 10 feels warm, it also satisfies the cold. Ever since the early 2010s when the country shook and the Big 12 lost four schools but gained two to make 10, the Big 12-minded have repeated the economic lesson that it’s better to divide profits among 10 than among more than 10.
“We’re distributing about 25 million [dollars] per school, which is going to ramp up over the next 13 years to 40 million per school,” Bowlsby said at a table in his office in the prim but unassuming building hugging a highway near the airport. “Anybody we add that doesn’t bring pro-rata value is going to cause them to take a haircut, and most are not going to be willing to do that even if they could afford it.”
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