Maybe the SEC?

More than the SEC and that is without counting the new Pac12 network starting up next year. Unlike the LHN, the Pac12 network already has contracts with Time Warner, Cox, Brighthouse and Comcast. They have 40M homes under contract and are expect to add at least another 20-25M before they start next season. The year four revenue projection is $12-15M per team, add that to the $21M from ESPN/Fox and we are talking some big dollars. Since it’s built on the Big10 model, those revenues go up as they continue to build out. Keep in mind, the Pac12 owns 100% of the network too, something that shouldn’t be taken lightly.

The travel is a bigger issue in the non revenue sports than it is for football. The track teams’ travel budget would probably triple.

I like your comment about ‘whats the difference if they can make the bcs title game if they are in the pac 12’ anyways. Its well respected and not such a gauntlet like the SEC. I enjoy watching the Cowboys do well now too, Blackman is a beast and its a fun offense to watch. If okla state moves, i hope its to the pac 12

But I also know where we stand as far as attractiveness goes. We did not have an invite from the SEC or the Big 10 for pretty obvious reasons. We do not have the biggest state populous and we do not have the majority of TV sets or giant fanbase. These are just the facts.

Please tell me how trips to Colorado, Utah, or Arizona are any worse than trips to South Carolina, Alabama, or Florida.

I’m fairly sure TV contracts are renegotiated in the circumstance that more national map is covered. How else would the newly added teams be broadcasted?

And again, how does any other conference benefit us more than the PAC? Do you really want to see OSU slip back into mediocrity in the SEC? How is the Big 10 any better geographically? We go with the Sooners because we want to keep the rivalry and state partnership in tact. I’m not really sure why you consider the PAC 16 a cliff. If anything, that conference is going to be a safety net when the Big 12 comes crumbling down. Would you rather end up in the WAC, Mountain West, or Conference USA?

There’s an escalator clause that allows for renegotiation if the conference expands.

Based on the markets the PAC is in right now, they have the largest network television contract at $20+mil/yr per school and SOLE ownership of the Pac12Network, which is expected to bring in up to another $15mil/yr per school once it’s established. Those numbers go up if the DFW, Houston, SA/Austin, and Tulsa/OKC markets are added.

You also need to look at what the conferences are looking for in their expansions. The B1G is even more “snobbish” about academics than the PAC has been. The SEC is looking to add major markets in their expansion. They may be willing to take oSu as a precondition of Oklahoma joining, but they likely won’t take oSu by itself if Oklahoma is on the table.

The PAC has demonstrated a desire to take oSu as part of preserving the in state rivalry and travelling partner system we’ve had for decades (with the very recent exception of CU and UU). And depending on who else comes in, the majority of the Big12 South could be coming together, and either CU or UU, and one of the Arizonas would be the furthest you’d travel for division play, in addition to ONE trip per year to the coast for an inter-division game. The additional costs would be more than made up for in increased television revenue.

Which is redneck trash that cares more about their starting QB than their first born child.

As a graduate of OSU, I really do not want to be lumped in as an “SEC fan.”

Now does this stereotype apply to every SEC fan? Of course not. But like you said, the perception is out there and hundreds of thousands of fans chanting “S-E-C! S-E-C!” make it hard to debate otherwise.

The point is that OU and OSU wouldn’t even be looking at different options right now had A&M not thrown a temper tantrum because their big brother gets to play with all the cool toys.