July 8, 2025 • 10 mins
Andrew breaks down The Big 12 commisioners statements about expanding the conferance
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Beautiful Tuesday afternoon. Hope things are going good for you.
We have a ton to get into dog days of
what doesn't even matter anymore because we are full go,
just like Dak Prescott is for Tranny Campbell. Talk about that.
We will talk about Kirk Cousins getting bamboozled and misled
by the Atlanta Fox or Falcons. Who is to say
(00:22):
that you want a full deal if you're an NFL quarterback? Well,
he spoke on the Netflix documentary Quarterbacks, and he was
saying that, you know what, I thought I was going
to be here long term. Maybe not. And of course
this is a very special anniversary. We'll tell you what
that date is as well. But I got to introduce
our guy called Dixon on the ones and two is
making a sound pretty in Austin.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Call.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
How are you doing today, buddy? Long time no talk? Yeah, man,
I'm doing good. How are you? I am doing very
very well? All right, speaking of long time no talk,
let's get it right into it. It is Big twelve
media day happening in in Big d Dallas. It is
a big deal. What the Big twelve commissioner Brett you
(01:06):
or Mark was saying. So we are in a new
era of college football. Obviously, we are in the wild
wild West. If you've got things for wild in the
seventies and eighties, this has nothing compared to that. This
is nothing compared to what we have today, where you
guys have anil money coming in from boat boosters and donors.
Now it's all above table, well kind of. Some of
(01:29):
it's still going underneath the table to some guys, but
most of it's going over the table. You are officially
able to give guys their compensation for name, image and likeness,
something that we wanted from day one in college sports.
We always wanted these guys to be properly compensated. Right
from the inception of the idea that college players could
get money, we wanted it done the right way. We
(01:51):
wanted to have the ability for guys to get their money,
not have to sit out seasons, not have to worry
about the NCAA stepping in and mucking it all up.
We wanted these guys get paid. Okay, so now we've
done that, and then with the invention of that, we
now have conference realignment. We went from having geographical conferences.
(02:13):
The SEC used to mean the Southeastern Conference, the ACC
used to mean, the Atlantic pac twelve was the Pacific,
and now you have teams all over the map in
all of these different conferences. All right, I can kind
of deal with that. The Big Twelve was almost left
in the dust. The SEC in the Big Ten, we're
getting together, all right. The Big ten's gonna go poach
(02:34):
USC Washington, UCLA, Oregon, these big name West Coast brands.
The SEC said, you know what, we see what you're doing.
We'll go get the money machine of the University of
Texas in Oklahoma, the greatest rivalry in the sport. We'll
go get those two teams, bring them into our conference.
And the Big Twelve got left kind of in the dust.
(02:54):
You didn't know where they were gonna go or if
they were gonna be able to rebound. Thankfully, Versila State
last year was a darling team. They make the College
Fowl Playoffs. They were an exciting team. Kenny Dilleham is
a great coach. It was exciting. Texas Tech now has
a ton of new money into the program. So again
things are kind of turning around for the Big Twelve.
(03:16):
And then, by the way, you have Deon Sanders, maybe
the largest lightning rod of college athletics since Dick Saban
coaching the Colorado Buffalo. People love to talk about Dion.
People love to hate on Dion, and if you're the
Big Twelve, you have to love that as well. But
ratt Yorkman had his opening remarks for media Day, two
things caught my attention. Let's go with number one, talking
(03:39):
about his idea of a global conference for the Big Twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That I want this conference to be a global conference.
I think we can win globally big time. Playing in
Ireland obviously is that first step. Will return there next year.
As I said in my opening comments, there's a good
chance we'll be in Mexico City next spring for baseball
Baylors kicking off the women are the basketball season at
(04:07):
Paris this year, and we're having conversations with other countries
throughout the world that are very interested in bringing the
Big Twelve to their marketplace. So I think the game
in Ireland is an impetus, if you will, for future
global expansion and them allment on it. I think it's
critically important for our conference.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Now this will get the headlines that his other comments have,
and we'll play some of those a little later. About
the five to one college football playoff format. What that
means for the Big Twelve? That won't that quote won't
get as much attention as the playoff expansion quotes. Well,
but I do think that it's interesting that the Big
Twelve is looking at where we are in college football.
(04:51):
The SEC is dominating, winning the national championship after national
championship across the board, not only in football, but other
sports as well. That the Big Ten has turned into
a monster as well. With Ohio State and Michigan and
now they have USC in Oregon. They have said, okay, well,
what can we do. How can we bring in some
of those dollars that you might not get domestically, So
(05:12):
they said, let's go over to Europe. Let's look for
other places to play. And you mentioned here he mentioned
Mexico City. Will we have an expansion game in Mexico City,
probably in the near future for football, probably in the
near future for baseball as well. If I had to
take a guess, but I wonder when people talk about
(05:33):
that Ireland game, you want it? Okay? Are we getting
the two biggest brands of the Big Twelve? Are we
getting a Texas Tech Arizona game in Ireland? Are we
getting a Baylor TCU game in Ireland. These are games
that people are excited to go see. These are the
games I would turn on the TV excited to watch,
but instead the Big Twelve opted to go the way
of the NFL. The NFL throws these London games on
(05:56):
and it's never a very good game. I'm waking up
at ten am to watch Jets and Jaguars. I'm gonna
get up at ten am to watch Bears and Vikings. Okay,
I'm not seeing the Krim, Devila Kreme. I'm not seeing
Kansas City in Philadelphia in England. That's not what we're
turning the TV onto when the NFL goes to Europe.
And if you're turning on the TV in the Big
Twelve expecting to see two brands to power brands fight
(06:18):
over the Emerald Islands, then you're gonna be disappointed because
on August twenty third, it's gonna be Kansas State in
Iowa State. Kansas State, Iowa State. You want me to
get excited for that, Brett Yorkman, you want me to
get excited for expansion in Ireland by playing Kansas State
and Iowa State. People outside the state of Kansas and Iowa.
(06:39):
Don't care about that game. That kid's gonna be a
two thirty kickoff on FS one. All right, I'm not
even gonna have this on my cable subscription. And you
want me to get excited for that game, I'm sorry,
I'm not going to. I refuse to be tricked by
the commissioner of the Big Twelve to get excited for
global expansion this way. Now, what I'm excited for is, Hey,
(06:59):
are you gonna University of Mexico to your Big Twelve?
That's what I want to know. Are you going to
try to go ad schools outside of the United States?
Is the NCAA? Is that going to be the next
hurdle for them? Are we going to see football schools,
baseball schools, men's basketball, women's basketball schools outside of the
fifty States? That is what I would be more excited for.
(07:21):
That I could get you dig my teeth into. But
you're trying to get me excited to watch Kansas State,
HIWA State in Ireland. It's not happening. I'm sorry. That
quote to me said everything I need to know about
where the Big Twelve is that while the other conferences
are looking to ad teams are looking to add TV
(07:41):
contracts to try to draw as much attention when it
comes to sponsorships, when all these other conferences are trying
to fight their way like crabs in a barrel to
be the number one. Where the ACC is adding teams
like Stanford and SMU not necessarily the greatest programs when
it comes to football athletics, but they know other athletics,
(08:02):
other sports, the non revenue sports they do great in.
And oh, by the way, their donors are very very wealthy,
so they can go out and go to these games
and get excited to go to a bowl game. The
AEC is looking at it, Okay, where can I add
the most money? Not necessarily the best teams with the
best money. The Big ten and SEC said, let's go
get the best teams who have the best money, who
(08:23):
have the most money, those legacy brands, and the Big
twelve is saying we're gonna go play in Ireland with
two of our middle of the road teams, like Kansas
State's gonna be fine, Iowa State's gonna be fine. But
it's it's Texas techas year to lose. It's Baylor, it's
Arizona State, it's even I would even put Colorado in
a conversation as a dark horse to potentially make some
(08:46):
moves and make some noise in the Big twelve. You
want me to get excited for an Ireland game with
the Wildcats and Cyclones, a game I barely would get
excited for domestically. I just cannot believe that. And then
we'll hear a little bit more from Brett Yorkman later
in the show. He goes on to talk about the
five and eleven model gained some support this past year
(09:09):
in the SEC meetings. The Big Tens focus more on
model that have four automatic bids for the Big Ten
in the SEC, leaving two for the Big twelve and
ACC Right now it is the five highest ranked conference
champions and eleven at large bids for the Conference committee. Now,
Yorkman and a fellow ad of Notre Dame they both
(09:31):
like the current format. The Big twelve says it's better
to play and try to make the long term investment
to have those games played on the field, to be
making the conference championship, to win the conference, win the
conference championship, make it to the College Wable Playoff, to
have all of that done on the field, I don't
(09:52):
want a team who missed their conference championship to have
an automatic bid or a team that lost in their
conference championship to miss to make the playoffs. That's the
Yorkman's contention, and that's where I will agree with the
Big twelve commissioner. I will agree that the idea that
a team that missed their conference championship or playing their
conference championship and lost should then automatically get into the
(10:15):
College Ball playoffs because they have a Big ten or
an SEC patch on their jersey. I cannot get behind that.
If we're going to do it this way, if we're
going to have the expanded playoffs, if we're going to
have sixteen teams, then the way to do it I
think would be the five highest conference champions plus the
eleven at large bids. Okay, when we come back. Kirk
(10:38):
Cousins says he was misled by the Atlanta Falcons, and
Dak Prescott says he's all in on training camp. We'll
have more of that next Andrews and will fill in
for Craig on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone
Beautiful Tuesday afternoon. Hope things are going good for you.
We have a ton to get into dog days of
what doesn't even matter anymore because we are full go,
just like Dak Prescott is for Tranny Campbell. Talk about that.
We will talk about Kirk Cousins getting bamboozled and misled
by the Atlanta Fox or Falcons. Who is to say
(00:22):
that you want a full deal if you're an NFL quarterback? Well,
he spoke on the Netflix documentary Quarterbacks, and he was
saying that, you know what, I thought I was going
to be here long term. Maybe not. And of course
this is a very special anniversary. We'll tell you what
that date is as well. But I got to introduce
our guy called Dixon on the ones and two is
making a sound pretty in Austin.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Call.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
How are you doing today, buddy? Long time no talk? Yeah, man,
I'm doing good. How are you? I am doing very
very well? All right, speaking of long time no talk,
let's get it right into it. It is Big twelve
media day happening in in Big d Dallas. It is
a big deal. What the Big twelve commissioner Brett you
(01:06):
or Mark was saying. So we are in a new
era of college football. Obviously, we are in the wild
wild West. If you've got things for wild in the
seventies and eighties, this has nothing compared to that. This
is nothing compared to what we have today, where you
guys have anil money coming in from boat boosters and donors.
Now it's all above table, well kind of. Some of
(01:29):
it's still going underneath the table to some guys, but
most of it's going over the table. You are officially
able to give guys their compensation for name, image and likeness,
something that we wanted from day one in college sports.
We always wanted these guys to be properly compensated. Right
from the inception of the idea that college players could
get money, we wanted it done the right way. We
(01:51):
wanted to have the ability for guys to get their money,
not have to sit out seasons, not have to worry
about the NCAA stepping in and mucking it all up.
We wanted these guys get paid. Okay, so now we've
done that, and then with the invention of that, we
now have conference realignment. We went from having geographical conferences.
(02:13):
The SEC used to mean the Southeastern Conference, the ACC
used to mean, the Atlantic pac twelve was the Pacific,
and now you have teams all over the map in
all of these different conferences. All right, I can kind
of deal with that. The Big Twelve was almost left
in the dust. The SEC in the Big Ten, we're
getting together, all right. The Big ten's gonna go poach
(02:34):
USC Washington, UCLA, Oregon, these big name West Coast brands.
The SEC said, you know what, we see what you're doing.
We'll go get the money machine of the University of
Texas in Oklahoma, the greatest rivalry in the sport. We'll
go get those two teams, bring them into our conference.
And the Big Twelve got left kind of in the dust.
(02:54):
You didn't know where they were gonna go or if
they were gonna be able to rebound. Thankfully, Versila State
last year was a darling team. They make the College
Fowl Playoffs. They were an exciting team. Kenny Dilleham is
a great coach. It was exciting. Texas Tech now has
a ton of new money into the program. So again
things are kind of turning around for the Big Twelve.
(03:16):
And then, by the way, you have Deon Sanders, maybe
the largest lightning rod of college athletics since Dick Saban
coaching the Colorado Buffalo. People love to talk about Dion.
People love to hate on Dion, and if you're the
Big Twelve, you have to love that as well. But
ratt Yorkman had his opening remarks for media Day, two
things caught my attention. Let's go with number one, talking
(03:39):
about his idea of a global conference for the Big Twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That I want this conference to be a global conference.
I think we can win globally big time. Playing in
Ireland obviously is that first step. Will return there next year.
As I said in my opening comments, there's a good
chance we'll be in Mexico City next spring for baseball
Baylors kicking off the women are the basketball season at
(04:07):
Paris this year, and we're having conversations with other countries
throughout the world that are very interested in bringing the
Big Twelve to their marketplace. So I think the game
in Ireland is an impetus, if you will, for future
global expansion and them allment on it. I think it's
critically important for our conference.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Now this will get the headlines that his other comments have,
and we'll play some of those a little later. About
the five to one college football playoff format. What that
means for the Big Twelve? That won't that quote won't
get as much attention as the playoff expansion quotes. Well,
but I do think that it's interesting that the Big
Twelve is looking at where we are in college football.
(04:51):
The SEC is dominating, winning the national championship after national
championship across the board, not only in football, but other
sports as well. That the Big Ten has turned into
a monster as well. With Ohio State and Michigan and
now they have USC in Oregon. They have said, okay, well,
what can we do. How can we bring in some
of those dollars that you might not get domestically, So
(05:12):
they said, let's go over to Europe. Let's look for
other places to play. And you mentioned here he mentioned
Mexico City. Will we have an expansion game in Mexico City,
probably in the near future for football, probably in the
near future for baseball as well. If I had to
take a guess, but I wonder when people talk about
(05:33):
that Ireland game, you want it? Okay? Are we getting
the two biggest brands of the Big Twelve? Are we
getting a Texas Tech Arizona game in Ireland? Are we
getting a Baylor TCU game in Ireland. These are games
that people are excited to go see. These are the
games I would turn on the TV excited to watch,
but instead the Big Twelve opted to go the way
of the NFL. The NFL throws these London games on
(05:56):
and it's never a very good game. I'm waking up
at ten am to watch Jets and Jaguars. I'm gonna
get up at ten am to watch Bears and Vikings. Okay,
I'm not seeing the Krim, Devila Kreme. I'm not seeing
Kansas City in Philadelphia in England. That's not what we're
turning the TV onto when the NFL goes to Europe.
And if you're turning on the TV in the Big
Twelve expecting to see two brands to power brands fight
(06:18):
over the Emerald Islands, then you're gonna be disappointed because
on August twenty third, it's gonna be Kansas State in
Iowa State. Kansas State, Iowa State. You want me to
get excited for that, Brett Yorkman, you want me to
get excited for expansion in Ireland by playing Kansas State
and Iowa State. People outside the state of Kansas and Iowa.
(06:39):
Don't care about that game. That kid's gonna be a
two thirty kickoff on FS one. All right, I'm not
even gonna have this on my cable subscription. And you
want me to get excited for that game, I'm sorry,
I'm not going to. I refuse to be tricked by
the commissioner of the Big Twelve to get excited for
global expansion this way. Now, what I'm excited for is, Hey,
(06:59):
are you gonna University of Mexico to your Big Twelve?
That's what I want to know. Are you going to
try to go ad schools outside of the United States?
Is the NCAA? Is that going to be the next
hurdle for them? Are we going to see football schools,
baseball schools, men's basketball, women's basketball schools outside of the
fifty States? That is what I would be more excited for.
(07:21):
That I could get you dig my teeth into. But
you're trying to get me excited to watch Kansas State,
HIWA State in Ireland. It's not happening. I'm sorry. That
quote to me said everything I need to know about
where the Big Twelve is that while the other conferences
are looking to ad teams are looking to add TV
(07:41):
contracts to try to draw as much attention when it
comes to sponsorships, when all these other conferences are trying
to fight their way like crabs in a barrel to
be the number one. Where the ACC is adding teams
like Stanford and SMU not necessarily the greatest programs when
it comes to football athletics, but they know other athletics,
(08:02):
other sports, the non revenue sports they do great in.
And oh, by the way, their donors are very very wealthy,
so they can go out and go to these games
and get excited to go to a bowl game. The
AEC is looking at it, Okay, where can I add
the most money? Not necessarily the best teams with the
best money. The Big ten and SEC said, let's go
get the best teams who have the best money, who
(08:23):
have the most money, those legacy brands, and the Big
twelve is saying we're gonna go play in Ireland with
two of our middle of the road teams, like Kansas
State's gonna be fine, Iowa State's gonna be fine. But
it's it's Texas techas year to lose. It's Baylor, it's
Arizona State, it's even I would even put Colorado in
a conversation as a dark horse to potentially make some
(08:46):
moves and make some noise in the Big twelve. You
want me to get excited for an Ireland game with
the Wildcats and Cyclones, a game I barely would get
excited for domestically. I just cannot believe that. And then
we'll hear a little bit more from Brett Yorkman later
in the show. He goes on to talk about the
five and eleven model gained some support this past year
(09:09):
in the SEC meetings. The Big Tens focus more on
model that have four automatic bids for the Big Ten
in the SEC, leaving two for the Big twelve and
ACC Right now it is the five highest ranked conference
champions and eleven at large bids for the Conference committee. Now,
Yorkman and a fellow ad of Notre Dame they both
(09:31):
like the current format. The Big twelve says it's better
to play and try to make the long term investment
to have those games played on the field, to be
making the conference championship, to win the conference, win the
conference championship, make it to the College Wable Playoff, to
have all of that done on the field, I don't
(09:52):
want a team who missed their conference championship to have
an automatic bid or a team that lost in their
conference championship to miss to make the playoffs. That's the
Yorkman's contention, and that's where I will agree with the
Big twelve commissioner. I will agree that the idea that
a team that missed their conference championship or playing their
conference championship and lost should then automatically get into the
(10:15):
College Ball playoffs because they have a Big ten or
an SEC patch on their jersey. I cannot get behind that.
If we're going to do it this way, if we're
going to have the expanded playoffs, if we're going to
have sixteen teams, then the way to do it I
think would be the five highest conference champions plus the
eleven at large bids. Okay, when we come back. Kirk
(10:38):
Cousins says he was misled by the Atlanta Falcons, and
Dak Prescott says he's all in on training camp. We'll
have more of that next Andrews and will fill in
for Craig on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone
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