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Big Twelve restructuring is G7 on a very large level


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Very interesting details coming out about what went down to keep the Big Twelve from completely dissolving. To keep ten team in the league Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma are going to split the $20-million combined buyout from Nebraska and Colorado (who are leaving the league). Television money is being re-divvied so that the big boys, Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M will be guaranteed $20 million per year. The seven remaining schools will collect between $14 million and $17 million in TV revenue. They did this to save the league and the smaller schools really had no choice in the matter as they had no where comfortable to land.

Take a few zeros off of the numbers and you basically have the G7 proposal.

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Very interesting details coming out about what went down to keep the Big Twelve from completely dissolving. To keep ten team in the league Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma are going to split the $20-million combined buyout from Nebraska and Colorado (who are leaving the league). Television money is being re-divvied so that the big boys, Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M will be guaranteed $20 million per year. The seven remaining schools will collect between $14 million and $17 million in TV revenue. They did this to save the league and the smaller schools really had no choice in the matter as they had no where comfortable to land.

Take a few zeros off of the numbers and you basically have the G7 proposal.

It appears that there ARE some similarities ( as well as some differences )

For instance, it appears that the 14-17 million dollars that in effect would more than double the revenue projected from TV revenues to teams like Baylor, Iowa State, are a pie in the sky as could be. Turns out the TV " deal " is no " deal " at all at present, as initially reported. It is based upon a " hoped for " result if a future network somewhere was so incompetent as to ante up such dough to a B12 league that has football teams that may not be quite the " TOP ACTS " as the league seems to think that they are.. Since the financial numbers are pie in the sky, and the distribution revenues are as cooked up numbers as could be.... in this respect, the B12 television revenue projections sound exactly like the G-7 proposal as to what financial benefits may be derived.

Secondly, Texas, Texas AM and Oklahoma collectively will not be hand picking the referees for their football games, while the other B12 teams will have no say in the referee selections of their games. This is unlike the G-7 proposal, where the power grab scheme proposes to allow some "teams" at the top to hand pick the refs ( judges ) for their "games" ( competition )... but not allow the other " teams " ( corps ) any say at all in the " ref " ( judge ) selections.

The B12 league has one vote per school. This is unlike the G-7 proposal that wants to double the votes of some, and eliminate the votes of others. In order for this analogy to work, it would be like Texas, Texas AM and Oklahoma deciding to put forth a proposal to double their votes in the B12 league, give 1 vote to Oklahoma State and Kansas, and to eliminate the votes altogether of Iowa State, Baylor and some others.... and tell them that they were doing so for the " sustainability of all the B12 teams ( corps ) "

Also, the B12 league would have to change it's schedule to benefit Texas, Texas AM and Oklahoma. For instance to follow the G-7 's model, Baylor would play 2 games at Texas, then 1 game at Baylor when these 2 teams matched up in the future. The advantage would be to Texas, the disadvantage on time and dates of the schedule would be to Baylor.

Texas, Oklahoma, and Texas AM would also be allowed to feature their players on TV in which the other B12 teams would be expected to finance the marketing venture as a league. This would be good for marketing and recruiting for Texas, Texas AM and Oklahoma. However, Iowa State, Baylor, Oklahoma State, and the other B12 schools would not be featured at all on the TV marketing and recruiting features. Keep in mind that this B12 scheme would have had to be cooked up in secret and behind closed doors over a period of months and then sprung on the other B12 colleague teams, in order to make the B12 and G-7 schemes somewhat alike. It appears that the B12 teams kept in contact with on another, for each others input on a lot of the things going on. As far as we know, the B12 was trying to keep the league together and not subdivide it, whereas, the G-7 appears to be attempting to rewrite the entire " league "bylaws, governance procedures, revenues streams, game scheduling, ref selection, equipment changes etc and so forth.... and doing so behind closed doors and in secrecy.

So as we can readily see, there are some similariies for sure. But also some stark contrasts as well. While what Texas , Texas AM and Oklahoma did can be seen as benefitting them in the long run, the biggest dfference was that they did not try a secret plan meant to essentially kill off some" teams" ( corps ) as ( quote G-7 proposal ) " providing no real service " to the players, coaches, fans, alums, students, of that school, nor to college football ( Drum Corps ) in general. The B12 stayed togther because they found a way to work together for their collective common good. The G-7 proposal doesn't even allow input and discussion from the others. That is why it is so outrageously appalling to long time observers of the activity. In this analogy, the Texas Longhorns might be viewed as greedy, while The Cadets look waaay, waaaay beyond " greedy " with such a disgusting plotted scheme. My guess, it might come to the point where The Cadets becoming the " Colorado " of the B12... where they decide to go off to join another" league ". The chief difference here might be that they don't just join another football league... but an american rugby league, where the ball ( instrumetation ) is different than what was allowed in the B12 football league. In that sense, the analogy and similarity might work here too. Especially if some in the B12 ( DCI ) are finally happy to see them go when they seemed so unhappy in the B12 ( DCI ) for so long and felt the B12 ( DCI ) football had no future. And finally, I'm not sure that DCI has a financial exit penalty for Corps that decide to leave DCI to compete elsewhere as do all the other college football leagues ( including the B12 ). If that's the case, that's a shame. Maybe DCI should look into this for the future. Especially given that some Corps now want to financially shake down the other " teams " in their G-7 scheme in the future .

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