The SEC & Big 10 are on the clock, according to...

[Bobby Burton]

Ross Dellenger of Yahoo! Sports.

The SEC and Big 10 have both been given a deadline of 9am tomorrow to give their support or not.

As I wrote earlier today, some of the compromises made recently by the senate bill are moves in the right direction. But they are not complete concessions, which I believe is necessary to move this bill forward.

What is the difference between a compromise and a concession?

Forcing Texas to play Texas Tech or any other team, for example, is something that never should have been addressed in the bill in the first place. But somehow meaningful legacy pieces of it remain because of the idiocy of putting it in there in the first place.

In other words, the start of this bill was so bad and so lopsided at the start that getting to any sort of real agreement was far fetched.

Now, we wait to see the SEC and Big 10 response.

 

 

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[Hix Green made the Catch]

Sometimes, I wish you had an anger emoji option beneath your articles, lol.

[Tuco Ramirez]

By all means, give an ultimatum to the two conferences whose support you must have. Arrogance created this bill and arrogance will kill it. 

[HudGar1922]

let it burn, or break off.  no one is interested in a Texas Tech vs North Carolina national championship game.    break off and have a big 10  vs SEC champion every year.  have programs like the sunbelt, Mac, and Wac agree to play the SEC and Big 10 for revenue and call it a day

[alrightalrightalright]

[GoHorns1]

Tell the congressional committee to take a long walk on a short  pier!

[SueVide]

Even if you want to give the other side a deadline to respond or support, that timeline is ridiculous! They've been revising it as they go along. It's been a moving target. 

Maybe more importantly, what is the leverage for the threat? The Big 10 and SEC don't support, they threaten to pass it?! They support and it passes. OK!

[charlie990]

I hope this doesn't pass but if it does I would hope the people voting on it actually know what's in it lmao. The local broadcast thing seems like a non-starter for just about everyone. Enshrining the big 10 and SEC into law that they can't expand beyond 19 teams is also completely ridiculous  

[Rocky P]

I thought DEI was bad?

[Paul Jespersen]

Just say no.

🤘

[General Grant]

Nope.  No pooled media rights .  No Forced scheduling.  No moratorium on conference expansion 

[MBHORNSFAN]

Kill it 

[HookedOnTF]

58 minutes ago, General Grant said:

Nope.  No pooled media rights .  No Forced scheduling.  No moratorium on conference expansion 

What forced scheduling concept is on the table? Yuck.

[TTown]

I have a feeling even with changes both conferences will withhold support. To get a better bill. We will see. But Congress is notorious for slipping things in a Bill  last minute. Or amendments  oted on the floor etc.  Don't blame both Conferences to say give us more time. They can't pass without their support anyway.

[Arch2025]

By Ted Cruz   All the Aggies will never vote for him now.  They don’t want to give up the $$ advantage.. dude better go to Supreme Court 

[GoHorns1]

12 minutes ago, Arch2025 said:

By Ted Cruz   All the Aggies will never vote for him now.  They don’t want to give up the $$ advantage.. dude better go to Supreme Court 

Supreme Court?

[Migas & Fajitas]

2 hours ago, Rocky P said:

I thought DEI was bad?

[TTown]

 Not encouraging comment by Big 10 Commish. Good luck to them without Big and SEC support.

https://x.com/RossDellenger/status/2082241725423055183?s=20

[Rivalrygameblock]

Sankey and Petitti are playing this well after the turd sandwich opening draft. Stroke the congressional ego by negotiating in good faith and blame the inevitable rejection on your presidents and their constituents.

Petitti talking up the obvious TV merits of a super league was an eye-opening tell. Once the Big Ten and SEC get the individual conference governance worked out, and they will, the next step is much easier.