breaking news headline on espn from pac 12

[ISUAgronomist]

I thought it was 6 members that had to remain, but I haven't looked at the bylaws since before Nebby and CU left.

Bylaws have not been updated (online) to reflect Nebby an CU being gone. At that time it took a majority vote to dissolve.

[shagcarpetjesus]

Looks like they have a deal in the works to have Texas, Texas tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma state join then and Texas gets to keep their network. Looks like it all really going to happen now.

Assuming the Pac12 still needs a unanimous vote from it's members to expand further, I still have yet to see a reasonable explanation for why schools like Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, and Colorado would ever vote for expansion. Larry Scott better have an awfully big bone to throw to those schools if the plan is to throw them in a new 8 team division with the poached Big 12 teams. I have a very strong feeling that ASU and UofA especially would fight tooth and nail against any PAC expansion that involves effectively severing them from their Cali recruiting ties.

[awd4cy]

The Kansas regents have stated that Kansas and K-State are not a package deal. And even if they were, the Big 10 would turn down Kansas before taking in K-State.

This is why I think Kansas State should be panicking way more than us. They are in a way worse position than us becuase of this and are way more likely to be left out of all of this.

[fwiw]

Assuming the Pac12 still needs a unanimous vote from it's members to expand further, I still have yet to see a reasonable explanation for why schools like Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, and Colorado would ever vote for expansion. Larry Scott better have an awfully big bone to throw to those schools if the plan is to throw them in a new 8 team division with the poached Big 12 teams. I have a very strong feeling that ASU and UofA especially would fight tooth and nail against any PAC expansion that involves effectively severing them from their Cali recruiting ties.

And I don't see how 2nd tier academic schools like TT and OSU get in with stances Cal and Stanford have taken in the past. This whole ESPN reports smells fishy, but we'll see.

[aauummm]

Looking like the only way this works out good for us...

PAC: +OU/OSU/UT/TT
ACC: +PIT/Syracuse/UCONN/Rutgers
SEC: +A&M/Missouri/WV/Baylor
BIG : +Kansas/KSU/ISU/ND

left out: TCU/USF/Cincy/Louisville

Maybe the BCS forces the big 4 to each take a leftover and we move on with all 68 teams in place.

What about BYU?

[leroycyclone]

Pac 12 offices are in the Bay Area.

Correct. I meant CA.

[mganzeveld]

I tell ya, if this all turns out to be legit and done by the time we play Texas, I say the band either marches dollar signs like Rice did or just stands there in silence. Pac 12(16), here is your warning...watch your wallets cause those southern states are like a deadbeat boyfriend. They are gonna mooch off your money and leave when the grass is greener.

[awd4cy]

I tell ya, if this all turns out to be legit and done by the time we play Texas, I say the band either marches dollar signs like Rice did or just stands there in silence. Pac 12(16), here is your warning...watch your wallets cause those southern states are like a deadbeat boyfriend. They are gonna mooch off your money and leave when the grass is greener.

I like this idea A LOT!

[CYKOFAN]

I think it's nuts for the Oklahoma and Texas schools to join the SEC and Pac whatever and open up Texas recruiting to SEC and attractive west coast schools. I can especially see the California, Oregon and Washington schools reaping big benefits at the expense of Texas, TT, OU and OSU, but they won't find out until it's too late.

[CyDude16]

Hey Guys Im leading the Charge to Jack Trice to jump off the stadium. you guys are more than welcome to join

you are a freakin' moron.

[leroycyclone]

And I don't see how 2nd tier academic schools like TT and OSU get in with stances Cal and Stanford have taken in the past. This whole ESPN reports smells fishy, but we'll see.

We'll see if the idea that academics matter will mean anything in the end.

From the Denver Post:

"I believe that we should have a robust academic atmosphere among all schools in the league," Benson said. "What schools have cinch courses or gut courses? We don't have any and never will. The Pac-12 doesn't. Some Big 12 schools do."University of Colorado president Bruce Benson said this morning he is wary of further Pac-12 expansion, particularly if Colorado is placed in an "East" division with former rivals from the Big 12 such as Oklahoma and Texas.


"One of the reasons - and there are a lot of reasons - we got in the PAC 12 is to play regularly on the West Coast," Benson said. "When I hear things like East-West divisions, we're going back to the Big 12 again. I don't know who's possibly going, but I sure don't want to get shorted out of the West Coast."


Benson and DiStefano always maintained a major reason for CU joining the Pac-12 was that the schools matched Colorado's academic mission. While Oklahoma and Texas are on a par with CU academically, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State may not be.

[CYKOFAN]

If it still takes a majority to disban the conference, seems like there's still a lot of incentive for the 5 remaining to stick together for the big payday.

[shagcarpetjesus]

I tell ya, if this all turns out to be legit and done by the time we play Texas, I say the band either marches dollar signs like Rice did or just stands there in silence. Pac 12(16), here is your warning...watch your wallets cause those southern states are like a deadbeat boyfriend. They are gonna mooch off your money and leave when the grass is greener.

Maybe somebody in the band dept. can quickly work up an arrangement of "Mo Money Mo Problems" for the band which they can play while they march around in $$$ formations. Then they could have somebody dressed in burnt orange cowboy gear and chaps stand at midfield making it rain.

[HFCS]

What about BYU?

A 4 conference, 4 team playoff would be LAWSUIT CITY and they would easily win.

It needs to be an 8 team playoff with 4 auto bids and 4 at large to give the illusion of access to everyone. Actually Boise State really would have access as of now, but in the long run the non-AQ teams would slip from where they are now.

[cytech]

Maybe somebody in the band dept. can quickly work up an arrangement of "Mo Money Mo Problems" for the band which they can play while they march around in $$$ formations. Then they could have somebody dressed in burnt orange cowboy gear and chaps stand at midfield making it rain.

This must be done