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What does this mean?
I probably did a crap job of laying out the hypothetical sceneario because I'm typing fast. My hypothetical, involves the 9 members of the big 12, other than Texas - doing the homework and legwork, and backroom work to find out that by expanding the conference, if they can make at least the same money now in a variety of circumstances - most importantly - how much could be made - by NOT including Texas in the conference picture.
I honestly don't know if it would be possible or not, and all my bullsh-t ends right there - if it's not - but I don't know that to be the case, so it's play time on the internet to let the thoughts go forward.
So playing along, going through as many scenarios as possible - the conference decides expansion is in the best interest, and they're able to present Texas with an offer they can't - or shouldn't refuse. Drop the longhorn network, and void the contract with ESPN, or get out of the conference, and play the dice with their ESPN contract and independence in scheduling football - like BYU and Notre Dame.
That certainly wouldn't be ideal for everybody - but if the money is right, and it would be possible - then you do it for the other 9 schools to preserve their best interests.
But in all this hypothetical, there would be one school - no matter what - that is left out. It would be either Texas pushed out - in favor of the schools chosen for expansion. Or the schools chosen for expansion minus one - because TExas stays.
I wouldn't want UCONN to be the one with the least votes, that ends up being that minus one.
It's all hypothetical baloney. Tooliing around on the internet.
The reality - is that sooner or later, another vote is going to come up regarding conference membership and changing conference membership - and I don't want UCONN to be left on the beach in Caribbean -
(see what I did there?)
I'm out on this. Enough playtime on the internet today.
And again - it's all bullsh----t.
I know nothing, and even if I did - I do NOT leak.
It's pretty clear - that