{"id":584,"date":"2011-10-11T01:19:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T06:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2011-10-11T01:36:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T06:36:45","slug":"the-big-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/the-big-9\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big 9&frac12;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2011\/10\/10\/3434310\/frogs-to-start-play-in-12.html\">TCU is joining the Big 12.<\/a> The first actual realignment news! With something that makes geographic sense! <a href=\"http:\/\/aggietraditions.tamu.edu\/symbols\/gigem.html\">A&amp;M won&#8217;t be able to gig &#8217;em, though.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not official: Missouri <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-sports\/story\/_\/id\/7084900\/missouri-tigers-study-outlines-sec-revenue-advantage\">thinks it can get big money<\/a> and no whammies in the SEC. (Aside from football never sniffing the top half of a conference again.) I don&#8217;t know whether this study took into account the actual income from a new Big 12 contract vs. potential income from an SEC contract that isn&#8217;t up for renegotiation until 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very not official: The SEC presidents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secdigitalnetwork.com\/NEWS\/tabid\/473\/Article\/228571\/sec-statement-on-presidents-and-chancellors-meeting.aspx\">made no move<\/a> Monday toward expansion. Missouri could drag this out for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Big East is getting desperate and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/sports\/college\/knights\/os-ucf-conference-realignment-1011-20111010,0,426192.story\">going after Central Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Name h\/t: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/longhorns\/nine-things-and-one-crazy-prediction-1904573.html\">Kirk Bohls<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>PS: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2011\/oct\/10\/sdsu-courting-big-12-membership\/\">San Diego State?<\/a><\/em> Huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: TCU is joining the Big 12. The first actual realignment news! With something that makes geographic sense! A&amp;M won&#8217;t be able to gig &#8217;em, though. It&#8217;s not official: Missouri thinks it can get big money and no whammies &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/the-big-9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}