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Originally Posted by HolyHandgernade
Wow, I remember it differently. Seems to me UT did make concessions and MU chose to leave anyway. Either way, I'm not too concerned with it. To me, it always stinks of non B12 fans wanting to rattle the cage and hopefully trigger instability. Its not the same monster it once was.
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There isn't going to be instability in the Big 12 for about the next 7 years or so, maybe longer. As the GOR clock starts to count down to five years or fewer, that's when things could get interesting again. I don't think it ever gets that far, though. IMO, the GOR will be dissolved or neutered before then as the conference brings new teams into the fold.
In the end, I think we see a Big East/ACC/Big 12 merger of sorts. It will all fall under the Big 12 umbrella, but it will essentially be a different conference.
Failing that, I think the clock runs out on the GOR, and Texas leaves for any one of the other conferences or even goes independent. I just don't see Texas standing pat in a conference where they don't have TLN and equally share revenue with Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Baylor, TCU, Iowa State, Texas Tech, and West Virginia. Why in the hell would they? They could walk into the Mountain West with Oklahoma, demand 50% of the revenue, and it really wouldn't feel that much different.