A Case For Michigan To Join The BIG12

The author is 59 days late for April Fool's Day.

Lol. We are leaving the Big Ten and joining the Ivy League.

We all deserve to wave bye to time we won't get back...

I graciously turn down their offer but would gladly give them Rutgers. And somewhere Jim Delany's head just exploded at the mere thought of that.

Hey, there's one way this could work out: 

Michigan, OSU, MSU, Indiana, Purdue, Northwestern, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota join the Big 12. Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Oklahoma State, and Oklahoma join the Big 10. The B1G invites Colorado to join. Texas, Baylor, TCU, and Texas Tech invite SMU, Houston, and Rice to start a new conference, which they call the "Southwest" conference. Texas A&M and Arkansas, disgusted with the bloat of the SEC, join as well. 

Meanwhile West Virginia also jumps ship and joins an ACC splinter group featuring Virginia Tech, Boston College, Syracuse, Louisville, and Pittsburgh, along with UConn to form an Eastern conference. Penn State and Rutgers decide that the ethical standards of a conference with Louisville in it is a good fit for them and joins as well. The ACC, now short in numbers, recruits Maryland to join.

The "Big 12" then enters into a business agreement with the "Big 10" in which the Big Ten trades its name, television package, and championship deals to the Big 12, while renaming itself the "Big 8" and keeping Jim Delany.

In return for making such sensible moves, each conference involved is given an autobid in the new 8-team playoff.

I think this works out for everybody.

The only thing dumber than that article are the people responding to it like its real and not just a terrible attempt at trying to be funny

Good things: playing Oklahoma and Texas every year.
Ok Things: Playing Oklahoma State and TCU. Expanded footprint which Harbaugh is trying to get.
Bad things: everything else that I haven't listed.

I don't think this writer understands one bit about how the economics of CFB work. He doesn't mention that the Big 10 Network is massively profitable, while the Big 12 Network doesn't exist. Why the hell would Michigan leave a conference that is geographically relevent, profitable, and very academic oriented.

It was obviously click bait, but I was bored.

noter dame and byu need to create their own Conference.

 

 

The Big2DoucheSchools

 

Other than that, at least the article killed five more minute before CMH makes his decision on Thursday.

would approve though. He loves to coward away from a battle every year against OSU

As in, never. 

I think the article is intended as a satirical jab at Michigan's reputation for arrogance. The Big 12 angle is secondary. 

um no.

....with chunks.


That is all.

go phork yourself

actually if we're going to be stuck facing rutgers/marlyand/indiana/pedo st every year, i'd rather leave to join any conference *except* the big12. That conference is on life support and it's clearly possible to schedule home and homes with the only 2 teams it has that are worth scheduling

edit: but now that i read it, it seems to me a nice shot at the teams that whore themselves to texas, and not at all serious...."for the first 3 years of membership, all Michigan conference games would occur at the Big House", that is exactly the kind of thing kansas would offer for texas in order to maintain its own P5 privelege

but thought I ought to read the article first.  After doing so, I upvoted you... for the article was right on.  We won't go of course, but still the points are all valid.  I'm surprised by the level of insight by the author as he surely is from the XII.

I knew that it was click bait begin with.