Most people don't want to think of others as bigots. We don't want to think that

Oct 25, 2016
7:37:09am

BamaCoug All-American

... either. But Occam's Razor leaves us little other conclusion. They were bullied by bigots and thereby chose to pass on the only viable option.

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With the ESPN restructured big 12 deal, those that touted it was all about $$

idacoug

10/24/16 7:58pm

I still think it was a lack of consensus on #12

Spocougar

10/24/16 8:04pm

They said NO team got a majority.

coldcoug

10/24/16 8:22pm

They said a lot of unbelievable, obviously not-true things.

CosmoK

10/24/16 8:33pm

Pardon me for not

JKLCoug

10/24/16 8:33pm

technically they said no team was voted on

cougarstolz

10/24/16 8:35pm

Doubt it

I'mBatman

10/24/16 8:36pm

Teams got what a million each. I wouldn't put it past a few of those

kotacoug

10/24/16 8:05pm

They would have gotten a lot more if they expanded

I'mBatman

10/24/16 8:41pm

a million each over the next 8 yrs ... not per year

ManicBlue

10/24/16 8:44pm

$10 million TOTAL. Spread out over 8 years. Divided by 10 teams.

cougarstolz

10/24/16 8:46pm

which is exactly what I wrote .. no?

ManicBlue

10/24/16 9:49pm

$10MM/year. No way they took $10MM total.

wapiti

10/25/16 12:08am

They did per the article. Again, that was just ESPNs portion of buying out pro-

BamaCoug

10/25/16 6:17am

I don't think this anywhere close to being over.

Superman21

10/24/16 8:12pm

Can you link to new deal details? I haven't read them or seen them reported yet

CarolinaCoug

10/24/16 8:17pm

front page link

Cougar TD

10/24/16 8:21pm

They have always seemed against expansion.

ochobeeguy

10/24/16 8:24pm

This is what TNT thought as well

TNT

10/24/16 8:32pm

That seems really unlikely based on how this all transpired.

Y'zFan

10/24/16 8:45pm

I think your partially right

I'mBatman

10/24/16 8:45pm

I just think they didn't see a compelling reason to expand

YIsForBrigham

10/24/16 9:08pm

Maybe the conference didn't want to make enemies of the network.

mudpupper

10/24/16 9:13pm

I stand by it. The deal, however small, is still no evidence of this "hot button" issue being the deciding factor.

MMCougIII

10/24/16 10:27pm

Most of my friends in OK think the HB Issue was virtue signalling and

gingi

10/24/16 11:30pm

Their master plan netted 10 million over 8 years?

BYU '80

10/25/16 6:58am

Most people don't want to think of others as bigots. We don't want to think that

BamaCoug

10/25/16 7:37am

super embarrassing; either we're worth little $ or they really didn't want us

insidebyu

10/25/16 5:42am

Byu is worth more than 10 million over 8 years

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