Reaching out to the Pac-12 about a potential 20-school merger was discussed during Thursday’s Big 12 leadership call. Such a move seems to be a more favorable alternative for the Big 12 than bringing in new members, which might involve raiding the American Athletic Conference, to lift its membership back into double digits.
“Bringing in a Cincinnati and UCF doesn’t bring any eyeballs,” the AD said.
A second league AD said, “There is no combination of Group of 5 members we can add that will garner our same TV deal, but it’s all on the table right now,” then added, “I don’t think (Texas) A&M has been very successful in blocking this.”
sc just needs to go independent
DC
Zero liklihood of that happening. Not saying I disagree with you. There are positives about going independent but zero chance USC even considers it
The AD who was dissing Cincinnati is an idiot. As long as Luke Fickell is their head coach, UC will be a damn good team, and put them in a Power 5 conference or whatever it will be called, then in 2 or 3 years, he will be bringing in top end talent from Ohio and PA who in previous years were locks to go to Ohio St and Penn St.