FWST: Big 12 invite may not come with long-term stability for new members
BY JIMMY BURCHÂ [email protected]
Case in point: Tuesday’s announced plans for Commissioner Bob Bowlsby to sound out potential expansion candidates with an eye toward having a two- or four-team influx of newcomers in the mix to try to earn berths in the resurrected 2017 Big 12 football championship game.
The announcement triggered celebrations from school administrators at Power Five conference wannabes from coast-to-coast, all with visions of dollar signs and long-term stability in college football’s ever-changing landscape dancing in their heads.
The money, without question, will be there for BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, Central Florida,Connecticut or any other school the Big 12 chooses to include in its version of the cool-kids club. But long-term stability? There’s no guarantee of that in the nation’s most dysfunctional major conference.