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Above all else, they value the money they receive via media-rights agreements. That's beyond dispute, because Arkansas, Nebraska and Missouri have won less — and Oklahoma and Texas will win less — in their new environments than they have in the past.

Oklahoma and Texas gave the Big 12 its worst shakeup yet when those two recently accepted invitations to the SEC, effective July 1, One by one since then, all escape routes have been closed for Texas Tech and the other seven abandoned members for other power-five destinations. The Pac said it has no interest in expansion at the moment. The logistics of travel make any thought of Tech being an Atlantic Coast Conference member impractical and a disservice to the athletes it serves.

The Big Ten has no incentive to take any of the remaining Big 12 schools, to say nothing of its resistance to those it perceives as its academic inferiors. That's simply not happening. So the folks demanding Tech leadership engineer a way to bolt the Big 12 and do something unilaterally Fiesta Bowl - L. Scott Frost Peach Bowl - W. Cure Bowl - L.

George O'Leary Petersburg Bowl - L. Fiesta Bowl - W. Beef O'Brady's Bowl - W. Liberty Bowl - W. Liberty Bowl - L. Hawaii Bowl - L. Mike Kruczek , Alan Gooch Mike Kruczek Gene McDowell And I can feel a change in the wind right now. We have seen the school and program go through ups and downs, all the while growing from 30, students to over 70, I was witness to seeing Akron get beaten into oblivion after dancing on the logo at midfield.

I had to sit through an , as a member of the Marching Knights. I was busy playing the fight song as a deluge of fans rushed the field and tore a goal post down.

I watched from the stands as a missed extra point in overtime robbed UCF of a potential first bowl victory.

I witnessed multiple conference championships and the fall back to zero. UCF athletics in Division 1 has always been a step behind. The Knights joined the Sun Belt Conference right after a mass exodus of programs in due to a merger with their home conference, the American South.

A few of those departed programs became the founding members of Conference USA. Ironically, the commissioner of the American South and post-merger Sun Belt was none other than Craig Thompson, the current commissioner of the Mountain West , but I digress.

For football, it was a long span of being an independent. UCF missed out on winning the East division on a couple of occasions and then the wheels fell off in and Boston College would join later. Recruiting provides the talent for a program, and there will be other areas impacted by the Big XII affiliation that allows recruiting to prosper.

Landing nationally ranked defensive lineman like Keahnist Thompson from Lakeland Fla. With the extreme level of amplified revenue that will be coming to UCF by being a part of a Power Five conference, the Knights will now be able to brand themselves much differently with almost every circumstance.

Advanced revenue streams coming from more high-profile televised games leads to better facilities, and better facilities leads to better recruits.

According to the Associated Press in May of , the ten members of the Big XII split million dollars in football revenue for With The difference between where UCF stands financially now and where the Big XII Conference will elevate the program financially, certainly changes the Football program's trajectory.