I have no idea what to think. After reading all these posts and threads and then reading other blogs I am more confused then every. IMO I think we will be OK. I don't give two rat ***** where Iowa State goes I will still root for them no matter where they end up.
Bad Bad Bad News... 6 Big 12 Teams Potentially to Pac Ten
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I don't believe for a second that UT and A&M would split up and never play each other in any sports. There's too much politicking/money involved when those schools compete. Though, I do get the feeling that A&M is the one that is clutching their relationship with UT more than the other way around; UT is quickly evolving into an alpha-god that won't have any shame in leaving its brothers behind.
I'll start to believe it when I see it on on a major sports site. I'm more inclined to believe kg's theory of a 20 team Big 12 before this guy's theory.
At least I know kg is right every once in a while.
At least I know kg is right every once in a while.
I know the guys who run OrangeBloods and they would not have run this story unless they were absolutely sure of its legitimacy. This is NOT fluff journalism..
I'm assuming that you would get to 20 by Nebby and Mizzou going to the Big 10, then the remaining 10 Big 12 teams merge with the 10 Pac 10 Teams for the Big Pac 20 or whatever you want to call it.
CycloneErik
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Actually, journalism without acknolwedged sources pretty much is fluff journalism. So it's fluff journalism.
At this point, the stuff I've thrown around in this thread is just as substantial in terms of journalistic value, and it's not published anywhere until I make it up and throw it up on the Interweb.
The author spent years with the main Dallas newspaper as a key member of their sports division. He is a respected journalist. Now, having said that, most of these things have been in the jumping the gun category. But earlier this week the Cal chancellor said the Pac 10 was on the verge of revolutionizing college athletics.
Been saying it for months, everyone gives me crap, but in the next 3 years Utah will be a conference opponent not an out of conference opponent.
Just because they're inviting teams doesn't mean the teams have to accept.
So basically all the talk of the Big XII/Pac 10 Network was smoke and mirrors?
I just want all this **** to be over with.
So basically all the talk of the Big XII/Pac 10 Network was smoke and mirrors?
I just want all this **** to be over with.
I can see ISU, KU, KSU, Baylor, Houston joining up, joining up with MWC..maybe adding a Memphis...not bad
So if I start a thread saying the Big XII is getting 30 more schools from around the nation does that mean its going to happen?
...looks like I'm going to be gone for a while writing the first post for this new thread then.
...looks like I'm going to be gone for a while writing the first post for this new thread then.
My sources, close to the situation, are telling me that new conference (the Pac 16) would be broken up into 2 groups, characters and critters.
Characters:
USC
UCLA
ASU
Stanford - tree as mascot
TT
OU
OSU
Texas AM
Critters:
AZ
CAL
Oregon
OSU
Wash
Wash St
Texas
Colorado
==>This explains why the Pac 16 would take a school like TT over Baylor (a Critter). Not sure where a potential Cyclone would figure into this. Cy is more like a critter, but a Cyclone would qualify as a Character. We'll have to wait and see how all this unfolds.
Characters:
USC
UCLA
ASU
Stanford - tree as mascot
TT
OU
OSU
Texas AM
Critters:
AZ
CAL
Oregon
OSU
Wash
Wash St
Texas
Colorado
==>This explains why the Pac 16 would take a school like TT over Baylor (a Critter). Not sure where a potential Cyclone would figure into this. Cy is more like a critter, but a Cyclone would qualify as a Character. We'll have to wait and see how all this unfolds.
