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This whole concept gets tossed around every summer in the days and weeks leading up to the start of a new season, but it is just idle banter.
If Oklahoma was going to leave, it would have happened already. Now that money is rolling in, there is even less reason to leave. The difference between total payout to the Big-12 members and the SEC and Big Ten is a very small one. The difference is not enough to offset being the annual champion in football for the Big-12 and representing the conference in the bowl season as OU has done 4 of the last 6 years.
I agree that Texas is going no where, they have it all and if they aren't leaving no one else is, probably not even WVU. I do not believe a P4 is ever coming. If anything, I could see a P6 before a P4. There are those that say, the large conferences are unsustainable and may shed some members. The ACC could easily drop 3 or 4 schools and be better for it.
As for who will vote, it is not as you say, a small group but rather a very large group. The board backed by donors determine how things go in every university. The Big-12 is no different. They each a president and that president works with the commissioner that the board hires. But, in the end it is those boards that will decide and those board members are influenced by the source of the money.
There is no money in breaking up the Big-12 or shifting conferences for any of the current members, not even WVU who has travel concerns.
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Posted: 08/15/2018 at 12:44PM