*****The Super, Mega, Huge Big 12 Expansion Thread*****

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From Barking Carnival:

Mondays In the Humidor | Barking Carnival

Realignment Update
We talked to the Big Cigar about the situation here and nothing has happened as of now that has soured him on the information he’s passed along. He reported that the penalty to withdraw for A&M would be between $20-$40 million, and reports are out there now indicating that the number is $28 million and would be paid in withdrawn TV revenue. Check. He reported that the going would get a lot easier for the Aggies once Texas placated Baylor’s litigious appetite with some assurances behind the scenes. All’s quiet on the lawsuit front after some furious bluster earlier in the month from our friends in Waco. Check. The drop dead date for the Aggies to leave without incurring further penalties was September 1st. We hear that’s a check as of yesterday.
So far the report has been eerily accurate despite what you may hear from other sources. The only hole in the information seems to be Notre Dame and BYU joining or affiliating with the conference in some form but don’t be fooled by preliminary reports. BYU and ND are still very much in play.
We’ve heard the only problem for both schools aligning with the Big 12 is the other sports scenarios in the short run. ND is kicking around the idea of coming as a football only affiliate and leaving basketball in the Big East. This creates a problem for the Big 12 because BYU wants to honor its other sport commitment to WCC for the next three years, leaving the Big 12 in lurch as far as hoops goes in the short term because they’ll be one team short. If there’s a Big East implosion, then all of these issues become moot because Texas, UND, and OU will just start picking the like-minded crème de la crème programs around the country, but that won’t happen this year.
In fact, none of this is going to happen overnight so ignore the AD’s and talking heads for now. BYU, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, and Texas are VERY much in this together and have been contingency planning for over a year. Stay tuned.

I wouldn't be surprised to have Notre Dame and BYU join as football only right now and add one full member. And then in a few years, both of them will join as full members when BYU's full 3-year commitment to WCC ends and Big East either blows up or kicks out non-football schools.
 

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Been doing this for over a year? So what about last years Big 12 reaffirmation? This just seems like total BS.

You can't really blame them. I'm sure ISU has been making contingency plans as well. At least I hope to God they have been, even though this whole situation is out of our control.
 

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It is Tuesday. TAM still sitting on the pot. Beebee should soon start charging to use the pot.
 

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I'm sitting here wondering what the hold up is? Maybe there is some back room negotiations going on to get the needed 9 votes from the SEC???
 

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After finding out about the "jar" there is no way we should let them back into the conference.

That thing is real?


If that is the case, maybe we should just have college station declared a biological disaster area and quarantine them. Although, I suppose 'the jar' would be a really good way for them to get out of the conference without anyone complaining, but if a news story broke about it, I doubt any conference would want them.
 

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That thing is real?


If that is the case, maybe we should just have college station declared a biological disaster area and quarantine them. Although, I suppose 'the jar' would be a really good way for them to get out of the conference without anyone complaining, but if a news story broke about it, I doubt any conference would want them.

I don't know if it is actually real, but I think earlier Boomer confirmed that it was.
 

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Is there a necessity for TAMU to be out before September 1st (2011), or am I just making that up from some random post in this monster thread? If that is true, something should be going down tomorrow. I am starting to feel like the chances they leave are lowering as time goes on.
 

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That thing is real?


If that is the case, maybe we should just have college station declared a biological disaster area and quarantine them. Although, I suppose 'the jar' would be a really good way for them to get out of the conference without anyone complaining, but if a news story broke about it, I doubt any conference would want them.

From a journal article studying the culture of Bonfire:

It was said that only women who had had sexual intercourse
with a Red Pot were allowed on, or even near, the stack.
By one account the Red Pots placed a jar containing their
mingled semen atop the stack just before it was ignited
(Burka 2000).

Red Pots were the Corps member who lit Bonfire. Burka 2000, is an article from Texas Monthly, which I doubt would publish that account unless there were some truth to it.


From Texas Monthly:

The redpot traditions exemplify RA culture. One is that no woman may set foot in a certain area of the stack site unless she has slept with a redpot; an Aggie who described herself as weighing 95 pounds wrote a letter to the student newspaper two years ago protesting that a redpot had shoved her when she breached the boundary to avoid a mud puddle. A wide-ranging witness statement given by a female member of the corps told how each group of redpots fills a jar with ejaculate and sets it atop the stack to burn.
 
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