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Wesley

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cyman05 said:
Well, unless we get something unexpected, doesn't look like there is going to be too much news come out as we're nearing another weekend of games. All eyes are going to be on Norman on Monday to see what the dentist, theater dude, oil tycoon, and businessmen decide for the fate of college football going forward. I'm just hoping that T. Boone can talk some sense into these folks from his part of the state. Otherwise, it looks like any one of about 17 possible senarios could take place.

I wish that somebody in gov't would step up and stop all this madness by putting a commish in place. Even if college football did get away with 64 teams breaking away from the NCAA to start a new league, who's to say that they won't eventually trim the fat from 64 to cut in down to 32 in another 10-15 years in order to more closely emulate the Pro-Sports model? After a while, they're going to want more money and some former decent programs are eventually going to become weakings because there are only so many wins to go around. They'll probably trim the fat some more to create an east-west 2 conference system of 16 teams.
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Actually if they cut it to the top 12 in the country based on budgets, UT and OU would be memebers.
 
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cyman05 said:
Well, if OU has indeed checked out, when would they get accepted to the PAC? I'm assuming Baylor would sue them just the same if not more than A&M for breaking contract and lying.

1. Would the PAC accept OU and OSU without the same legal conditions that the SEC put on A&M?
2. Would the PAC move to accept them before A&M to SEC even though the PAC has basically said it wouldn't fire the first bullet?
3. When does the legal issue get worked out with everybody?...People have said that getting this thing worked out through the courts could take 1-2 years? Is this thread going to be going a year from now with A&M still not in the SEC?
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I do not think the Pac 12 wants two Oklahoma schools to put up with. It would be like two votes joined. I think they just want OU and UT and KU and MO.
 
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vmbplayer said:
If you didn't it would be a pretty easy tell that you're bluffing. Not saying it's one or the other, but it's not like the lack of the regents meeting when you're threatening to move conferences isn't a huge tell.
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Regents meeting was already set. Realignment just got added to the agenda. It is item #28. It is pretty easy to just add it to a meeting that is already going to be held. I wouldn't read anything into one way or the other.
 
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Exactly, people keep comparing this to the mortgage meltdown but it's more like this. You win the lottery and decide to take that money over a 10 year span. So knowing you have 90 million dollars coming to you over the next 10 years, you start investing your money (With credit) in various things like homes, family and stuff based off that projected income. Then, the lottery contacts you saying they are broke and the guy on the phone along with about 3 employees take whatever money they have and run off to work for a different lottery. Then you look in the paper and the reporter is only talking about how dumb you were to assume a contract has any merrit. Sure, maybe we jumped the gun, but if you look at all the Kansas teams, they are doing the same thing. Trying to raise their stock in case it didnt work out 4-5 years down the road, not before the contract even lasted 1 day.
 
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vmbplayer said:
If you didn't it would be a pretty easy tell that you're bluffing. Not saying it's one or the other, but it's not like the lack of the regents meeting when you're threatening to move conferences isn't a huge tell.
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The regents meeting has many, many items on the agenda. Realignment talk was #28. More smoke.
 
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It seems your Board of Regents and athletic department has already embarked on some capital improvement projects, among them a $20 indoor football practice facility, a $15 million multi-sport complex for track, soccer, and softball, and a $5 million jumbotron video board. All told, ISU has issued $40 million worth of bonds to pay for these new facilities, believing the revenue from the new television deal would help pay for this debt service.
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Whoa whoa....our indoor practice facility only cost $20?? I'd say that's extremely frugal. :jimlad:
 
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Hold on a second guys, a 20 dollar athletic complex is one thing, but the south endzone is probably going to cost somewhere around 100 dollars.
 
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CycloneTony said:
Iowa State: I'm Here Because You Need Me Now - I Am The 12th Man

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People who are writing this crap about our debt do not know wuch about the change in ISU Athletic Department financing since JP got here. Our revenue without the new tier 2 Fox deal has grown from less than $30 million per year to over $45 million. Besides the general increase in revenue, the revenue to pay of the bonds for the improvements is the tier 3 rights with Learfield that will bring in over $50 million, with or without us being in the Big 12.

One person writes an article that is not factual and every blogger in the US starts ripping us for being finacially irresponsible!
 
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