“Whether you give some of these athletic directors 25 million 50 million or $100 million in media money a year, they're going to spend 10% More than that. That might be the only way to keep Notre Dame away from the Big 10 in this process. So, I think you're right in the fact that they need to combine forces but not with a wounded Pac-12 but with an entirely healthy ACC that also still, at this moment, is aligned with Notre Dame. They're gonna challenge that to try to take your best football programs out of your conference and add them into what they're dreaming of. "They've got Fox and ESPN money behind this. I don't care what your (media) contract is," Fitzgerald said recently during a radio interview. Kansas State is in good position, notes, and the Big 12 could be best-suited to partner with the ACC in expansion before that league is gutted. (Photo: Kansas State Athletics Media Relations) If we do those things really well, I just feel really good about where Oklahoma State will be in the long run." We just have to keep focused on controlling the things that we can control and that is what we've done over the last almost two decades and what we're going to have to continue to do moving forward. I mean, there are so many things right now that are in flux or fluid and changing. "We just have to continue to do those things. "So, I feel really good about where we are in the big picture of the college athletics landscape. "As far as Oklahoma State is concerned, I would go back to what we talked about 11 months ago when this happened, (which) is that I feel like we've done a lot of things really well here, made a lot of really good decisions, had a lot of really good investment put in place through the past 16, 17, 18 years to position Oklahoma State to be in a great position competitively to win a lot of games in football and all of our other sports," Weiberg said.
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Via GoPokes247, Oklahoma State athletic director Chad Weiberg recently joined The Blitz 1170 in Tulsa to speak on the Big 12's intended expansion from an Oklahoma State perspective, saying this could be "just the beginning of the next series of ripples." Here's how an expanded Big 12 could look should the league welcome more teams to its growth plan in the coming seasons:
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CLICK HERE to download the CBS Sports Mobile App and get the latest on your team today. Get the fastest scores, stats, news, LIVE videos, and more. The other four conference games would be split with two coming from each other pod to end with a nine-game conference slate. This news comes on the heels of USC and UCLA leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten by 2024 and last summer's bombshell seizure of Texas and Oklahoma by the SEC.ĮSPN's Bill Connelly mentioned this week scheduling for a possible 18-team league would be rather simple - there would be six centrally-located teams, six in the West and six in the East that could all play five opponents from their respective pod. The Big 12 Conference is reportedly in "deep discussions" to add up to six teams from the Pac-12, expanding the college football realignment with the potential of a third super conference that falls in line with the SEC and Big Ten's recent additions.
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