(02-06-2014 09:57 AM)BIgCatonProwl Wrote: I guess that why he ran off A&M, Mizzou, Nebraska and Colorado because of his great grasp of $$ numbers? Ok. Hmmmmm
Not defending Dodds but get your facts straight:
Colorado- When they left they assumed UT was coming too, not exactly "running them off".
Nebraska- Left primarily because of the combined instability that started with Mizzou chirping about the Big Ten, which daisy chained to CU looking at the PAC (who approached them in the mid-90's FYI and the CU AD specifically mentions the MO Gov as the reason he started moving), which in turn reached out to UT, who in turn said not without a group.
As for NU's stance? Their chancellor was pretty blunt with:
-"While some schools complained about the league's unequal distribution of revenue from network TV contracts, Nebraska wasn't among them. It joined Texas as a strong proponent of giving big-time football schools — those most appealing to the networks — a bigger slice of the pie. "
-“Nebraska was getting largely what it wanted,'' Perlman said.
-"While many have blamed Texas and its plans to start its own Longhorn TV network as the reason a Big 12 network never got off the ground, Nebraska wasn't on board with a conference network, either. Nebraska's support was conditional on the high-profile schools taking a larger cut of that revenue, too — a condition some schools strongly opposed. "
"Perlman said NU was on track to have its network running by the fall of 2011 — actually ahead of Texas' timetable. "
-"[When the B1G announced consideration of expansion] [t]here truly was no thought of going to the Big Ten.
Nebraska shared a lot of history with Big 12 schools. Plus, when you get right down to it, Perlman says, Nebraska had no major beefs with the way the Big 12 was run. "
Then it broke the other way:
"In a hallway of the Hyatt Regency on Jan. 15, Perlman ran into a good friend — someone he describes only as a well-connected “sports insider.''
...
"If things didn't break right, the friend said, even a traditional power like Nebraska could find itself on the outside looking in.
The friend said things were moving fast. Perlman decided he needed to move quickly, too.
The next day, as he was sitting in the convention's general assembly, he pulled out his BlackBerry and punched out an e-mail to Jim Delany. "
Read the article below, arguably as solid of a writeup on any move thus far.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20100830/BI...8309872/-1
Missouri- Basically they had almost been left out the year before and any thought of staying went out the window when OU's David Boren flirted with the PAC. If anyone gets the blame for that one it's the okies.
A&M- LHN concerns over HS programming is often cited but even the Texags guy Liucci quoted some of the A&M higher ups as saying they knew it wouldn't end up happening in a radio interview from the time. Fact is they looked like everyone else in 2010, fanbase had a love affair with the SEC, and over the final year in the Big 12 they moved to elevate their brand and competitive advantages.
Really the only one of the four you can pin on Dodds is maybe A&M.