ESPN: With network off the table, Big 12 expansion focus could narrow
Jake Trotter ESPN Staff Writer
IRVING, Texas — On any other day in the Big 12, the announcement would’ve made big news.
Sandwiched between proclamations that the Big 12 would be bringing back the championship game and that it would continue to examine expansion,Oklahoma president David Boren slipped in that the “boat had sailed” on the opportunity for the league to form a traditional conference network.
“The marketplace,” Boren said, “has decided that issue for us.”
The drive to create a network had previously complicated expansion. But with the network debate now obsolete, the expansion picture could begin to crystallize — in a way that could be good for BYU and Houston. And not so good for Central Florida and South Florida. …
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