*****The Super, Mega, Huge Big 12 Expansion Thread*****
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Chip Brown does have a new piece up saying that is most likely...so everyone else tweets it as their source...
Doesn't it make more sense for OU and UT to just come to an accommodation on the LHN and hold the BigXII together? UT has to know that the LHN is not going to be allowed by ANY other conference in its current form, so why not just allow it be turned into a Big12South network with some kind of content and revenue split?
With renewed commitments from OU and UT, we can pick up Louisville, BYU and a third team acceptable to everyone and still be a big-time conference. Isn't that preferable to the chaos that will commence from this point?
#s 1-4 are facts. #5 isn't worth the paper it (isn't) printed on.
The mistake people are making now is in assuming that logic and reason will govern how this process plays out in all conferences. Thanks to the ACC we're now in scramble mode, where everyone sees everyone else making moves toward superconferences and scrambles to make moves of their own so as not to be left behind.
Geographic/cultural fit, academics, and even to some degree finances are certainly taking a backseat now - they always have but even more so today - to just finding a suitable partner.
It's a lot like trying to hook up at a bar. You may think you know what you want and won't settle, but when the bartender says "last call" suddenly standards are out the window.
Re: Big XII needs a New Commissioner
Beebe, Geoffrey, Deaton and others have been very quiet. That's their style. That's a good style.
The ACC was quiet and look at the earthquake they started.
Beebe, Geoffrey, Deaton and others have been very quiet. That's their style. That's a good style.
The ACC was quiet and look at the earthquake they started.
We might be scramble mode but I doubt the sec or b10 is. The sec could still get Florida State, if they wanted. The new acc isn't about to change that. The acc did this to be proactive in case a team left.
The sec and b10 will move when they are ready. The PAC will probably jump at anyone they can get. Adding Utah and Colorado last year left some egg on Larry Scott's face. If OU or UT were to go east, he would be screwed, as far as expansion goes.
Twitter is really heating up, saying Texas to PAC is done. Always hard to tell if multiple people have confirmed it themselves or if it's just one big media circle jerk.
EDIT: also just saw a report from Andy Katz saying UConn is aggressively seeking entry into the ACC.
Isn't that what this whole thing has been?? Stuff gets re-tweeted so much no one knows where it comes from.
Just like the Big 12 South to the PAC was a done deal last year?
I'm really sick of Twitter.
Just like the Big 12 South to the PAC was a done deal last year?
I'm really sick of Twitter.
I'm just the messenger, gang. Don't shoot.
If people are tweeting Texas to the Pac, I'm going to assume Texas is doing something else entirely.
Interesting. Had they jumped when they had the chance, would we be here today??
Probably would be back here in a year or two, but we might have lived a while longer.
Not directed at you personally benjay...but that is the comment that wears on me! Is ISU's position (geography, financially...others?) so poor that it was inevitable that we might be heading to a lesser conference in college athletics? I would have hoped our AD had built our athletic program to a point where we would be desired by others (realistic that is...knowing we would never be UT, OU or others of that caliber). JP has been here long enough to create an athletic department that meets his vision...and if he has been effective in meeting that vision...this is what it gets us?
That said...I know this whole process is not over yet...hoping for something good/great to happen for us!
Latest story from Kirk Bohls. Texas, TT, OU, OSU to PAC, TX keeps modified LHN, PAC adopts "pod" system.
Smoke turning into fire, it would seem.
Smoke turning into fire, it would seem.
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