That looks ****ing stupid. The Big 10 and 12 need to swap names, also. ****ing reeruns. LMAO

LMAO Corny. They should just go with East and West.

I prefer Least and Worst.

I want to see the media use "1G" for "Big Ten." Pentagram = ****ing reeruns.

The Big 12 issued a release earlier this afternoon which stated that “commissioner Dan Beebe will be available to the media via teleconference to provide an update on the latest news regarding the Big 12 Conference” at 4 p.m. ET. Based on the word coming from a writer for the Sports Business Journal, at least some of the latest news will involve a sizable new television contract. The SBJ‘s John Ourand sent out a tweet shortly after the release stating that the Big 12 will announce a new multi-year deal with FOX Sports. The SBJ had reported last month that the two sides were putting the finishing touches on what would be a 13-year, $1.17 billion deal for the second-tier rights to football games; apparently, the deal that’s expected to be announced today will be somewhere in the neighborhood of the numbers first reported in March.
The new deal would represent an increase of roughly 350 percent over the previous contract. However, the previous deal was sliced up amongst 12 schools; with the departures of Colorado and Nebraska for other conferences, each member of the conference will get an even larger slice of the new financial pie. Not each member of the conference will get an equal slice, however, as Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M will receive a greater share than the other seven schools, a stipulation that resulted from their threat to bolt for the then-Pac-10 in the summer of 2010.
The conference’s first-tier TV rights run through 2016, with ESPN and ABC paying a total of $60 million annually.
That $150 million-per-year total falls well short of conference financial behemoths the Big Ten ($214 million) and SEC ($205 million), but is on par with the $155 million the ACC is expected to bring in with their newly-minted deal. All of the BcS leagues could be looking up to the Pac-12 in the very near future, however, as that conference is expected to sign new deals that would bring in a rumored $222 million annually.
FOX is also believed to be one of the two frontrunners for the Pac-12′s new TV package.
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CHA-CHING! :thumb:

So you're on par with the ACC but not the SEC or Big 10? Lawlz congrats!

10 teams and for most schools much smaller enrollments.

pwnt

Tier-one contract is about up, so this information is damn near dated. And, as others have said, dividing the money between fewer teams certainly helps.

If you're a school like Nebraska that only cares about football the move to the Big 10 was a great one. They'll still be making more than what they would have made had they stayed in the Big 12 plus they will be on TV everyweek now where as 1/3 of the games in the past weren't televised.

Every Big 12 game now televised.

Hey if I was a Nebraska fan I'd be thrilled with moving.

If you can't win anything in the Big 12 you might as well try somewhere else.

Yea they were never going to win the Big 12 ever again despite almost winning it the last 2 years with Zac ****ing Lee and an injured freshmen QB.

That will be nice. I can watch the 'Hawks lose instead of listening on the radio. :)

You'd think they would make more money if there was a playoff system...