Interesting read from a Northwestern Message Board: PURPLE Book Cat Post #902 Chicago Tonight, the University of Texas president Bill Powers co-authored a letter of intent with the Big Ten conference. The key terms include: - the University of Texas will in good faith conduct discussions with the Big Ten conference and no other conference related to its post-2012 conference affiliation - the Big Ten will not invite any other institution to join the conference without the prior approval of Texas - before joining the Big Ten, Texas will have assurances that it can schedule four non-Big Ten conference football games per season - the requirement that any final arrangement be designed to increased revenues among all Big Ten conference schools, with no discrepancies in distributions unrelated to television network distributions among conference institutions - Texas will become a full CIC member - Texas and the Big Ten will jointly approve any third party media arrangements related to Texas athletics moving forward - the goal that Texas participates as a full member of the conference beginning in the fall of 2014 Texas' intentions with regard to the Big Ten will remain without official announcements until a specific group of universities, including the current Texas' Big XII schools, solidify their own conference affiliation status. Neither the Big Ten nor Texas wishes to be seen as the primary driving force in conference realignment. The decision of Syracuse and Pittsburg to join the ACC came unexpectedly to the Big Ten. Certain leaders of the conference remained uncertain that a similar unexpected action could take place on the heels of the meeting of the Texas Board of Regents, particularly given the lack of uniform communications between Texas stakeholders and the conference. These individuals no longer have such uncertainties. This post was edited on 9/22 3:09 AM by PURPLE Book Cat ---
I've seen nothing in the news about this. I find it hard to believe that the first person to reveal news of this magnitude would be a poster on a Northwestern message board. It very well may be true, but I'll wait to see if the story has legs.
I haven't seen anything about this, and I believe the B12 has a new agreement that gives them all the Tier 1 and Tier 2 rights to broadcasts even if a school bolts to another conference New Deal I think they call that a poison pill in the corporate world.
If you look at the history Purple Book Cat has broken a number of stories first and has some kind of inside information...whomever he is.
Good luck going to the B10 if tu comes to the negotiations with the same deal they "offered" the PAC.