Bob Bowlsby: Big 12 and ESPN back away from last week’s brinksmanship as Texas Senate holds hearing
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Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports
A traditional Fourth of July fireworks typically builds up to the grand finale, the final massive explosions before sending the assembled patriots on their merry way.
If last week’s dustup between ESPN and Bob Bowlsby and the Big 12 was a fireworks show, it was the computer glitch that caused a large city’s entire fireworks show to launch at the same time a wasteful type of spectacular dysfunction that lasts a whole 15 seconds.
By Monday, the fireworks were long since complete after Bowlsby’s courageous act of brinksmanship in loud defense of his conference last week, which he is most certainly doing everything he can to keep together now that he’s figured out what’s actually happening to him, at least.
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I hope to write more extensively about what I interpret as a shrewd and aggressive power grab by ESPN to add more football and specifically college football to their portfolio of live rights, but for now, let’s focus on this week’s big news.
Oklahoma and Texas are heading to the SEC. It’s essentially a done deal.
The SEC currently is hoping to vote to offer invitations to Texas and Oklahoma as soon as sometime next week, an SEC source tells me. The vote will be 13-1.
In less than 48 hours we went from all quiet on the conference realignment front to total chaos. It’s the first domino to fall, and it’s unclear when and where this will end, as there are now dozens of offshoots of legitimate hypotheticals that suddenly have relevancy.
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