![]() "The Big 12 needs to go to USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon and Washington and say, 'are you tired of not getting any money from your league? Are you tired of not getting any money out of your third-tier rights? Well, come join us because all together as 16-team league we would command a huge primary television package, we would command a huge secondary television package, you then would then be able to sell your third-tier for whatever you want," Staples said. Staples said what the Big 12 needs to do is raid the Pac-12. The year before the Big 12's TV deal expires, the Pac-12's TV deal expires. Even Kansas and Iowa State have pretty good deals, so, the Big 12 is just sitting there with 10 schools and a really good TV deal and they have a TV deal coming up. Texas has the Longhorn Network, Oklahoma has its deal with Fox. "The Big 12 is not as poorly run as people outside of Big 12 country think," Staples said on the Andy Staples Show podcast. "The Big 12 is actually pretty well run and it has a pretty good set of TV deals, not as good as the SEC and the Big Ten, but pretty good and then the bigger you are the more you make off those third-tier rights. ![]() He brought up the idea of USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon and Washington joining the Big 12 (which actually only has 10 teams). The Athletic's Andy Staples discussed the topic on his latest podcast. Well, what if the Big 12 returned the favor and poached some teams from the Pac-12? ![]() Before Colorado and Utah joined the Pac-10 to form the Pac-12, there was talk of the Pac-12 poaching Oklahoma, Texas and some other Big 12 schools to form a super-conference in what could have been known as the Pac-16.
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