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Originally Posted by Saul Good
It does, and it doesn't. I mean, no other conference's teams have their hands tied the way the Big 12 members do. What might have been an easy sell to Iowa State, Baylor, Texas Tech (leaving out local teams to avoid derailing the topic), etc. isn't going to be so easy when it comes to Florida State, Duke, etc.
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Your mistake is that they are not "selling" anything to those schools. The B12 has a certain business model. You either want to participate or you don't. We're not recruiting. The extra payout isn't that much more by expanding. We make more than the ACC. You get to keep your 3rd Tier rights to sell as you please. You either find that attractive or you don't. Its not like we're competing against the other conferences. They are in a position to offer a more for a variety of factors, but financially, there's not much difference.
You don't look to join a country club but then demand they change their benefits before you do. They are the potential applicants, not the other way around.