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

[Trainer]

Anyone want to start a thread that only allows tweets, press releases, or actual news to be reported? No opinion or conjecture. No offense to you guys, but I don't want to spend the time wading through all your comments looking for something that actually could be official. Oh and if said thread does get created, mods watch like a hawk?

 

[iahawkhunter]

Anyone want to start a thread that only allows tweets, press releases, or actual news to be reported? No opinion or conjecture. No offense to you guys, but I don't want to spend the time wading through all your comments looking for something that actually could be official. Oh and if said thread does get created, mods watch like a hawk?

You can have any two of those three, but not all. Kind of like being able to manufacture something high-quality, on-time, and inexpensively.

 

[RayShimley]

Anyone want to start a thread that only allows tweets, press releases, or actual news to be reported? No opinion or conjecture. No offense to you guys, but I don't want to spend the time wading through all your comments looking for something that actually could be official. Oh and if said thread does get created, mods watch like a hawk?

Here you go:

Running Realignment Blog: Days go by... | Cyclone Fanatic

 

[Trainer]

I don't really care, I am just tired of coming to this thread and hearing for the 15th time how the Big east is a great idea, or This is how I think it will all go down. Looks like I will have to put my hip waders back on.

 

[BigBake]

The only good thing to come out of all of this is the @DanBeebe Fake Dan Beebe tweets. Seriously, if you aren't following him you are truly missing out on some great comedy.

 

[brett108]

Anyone want to start a thread that only allows tweets, press releases, or actual news to be reported? No opinion or conjecture. No offense to you guys, but I don't want to spend the time wading through all your comments looking for something that actually could be official. Oh and if said thread does get created, mods watch like a hawk?

CW has the running realignment blog, but he pretty much relies on real sources, not tweets from unnamed insiders. These tweets are just the opinions of media folks being presented as real information anyways, so I wouldn't get too worked up about it.

 

[UNIGuy4Cy]

In other words, as many as four teams would be left to fend for themselves without the sort of jumbo TV money and ready access to big-money BCS bowl games that confer prestige and help schools land the best recruits.

The CBS story the other day referenced that government intervention was all but assured if teams are left behind. Would Baylor, ISU, Louisville, BYU, Cincy, South Florida, and TCU have enough clout to force the hand of more college expansion to include these teams?

 

[ISUAgronomist]

Running Chip Brown inside information/prediction list:

A&M to SEC is bunk
A&M to SEC is legit
A&M to return to the Big XII via convincing
A&M to return due to lawsuits
A&M will pay $30M in exit fees
A&M goes to the SEC
Texas holds together the Big XII
Texas loses A&M, adds ND
Texas loses A&M, adds Arkie
Texas loses A&M, adds BYU
Texas loses A&M, adds ND, Arkie AND BYU
Texas loses A&M, adds Pitt & ND
Texas doesn't add ND, but schedules them every year on Thanksgiving
Texas legally forces A&M to play on T-day
A&M legally forces Texas to play on T-day
Texas goes B1G
Texas goes ACC alone
Texas goes ACC in non-Football, indy in football - alone
Texas goes ACC w/ Tech
Texas goes ACC in non-Football, indy in football, Tech goes ACC in all sports
OU goes PAC alone
OU goes PAC with OSU
OU goes PAC with Tech and OSU
OU goes PAC with Texas, Tech and OSU
BU sues A&M
BU sues SEC
BU/Texas sues A&M
Politicos get involved
Politicos stand down
A&M and Texas never play again
A&M and Texas play every year in OOC
SEC in contact with Tech

 

[BigBake]

Running Chip Brown inside information/prediction list:

Dear Lord...is that actually for real? Cause it's it's funny as **** if it is.:twitcy:

 

[ISUAgronomist]

Dear Lord...is that actually for real? Cause it's it's funny as **** if it is.:twitcy:

That is a list of every prediction he's made in the past ~month.

 

[CtownCyclone]

Running Chip Brown inside information/prediction list:

Perfect example of why Chip basically knows nothing. Just like the rest of us. With all of those predictions, he is guaranteed to have one of them be correct. He'll then write another self-serving article at Orangebloods telling everyone how connected he is and how much he knows.

 

[ISUAgronomist]

Perfect example of why Chip basically knows nothing. Just like the rest of us. With all of those predictions, he is guaranteed to have one of them be correct. He'll then write another self-serving article at Orangebloods telling everyone how connected he is and how much he knows.

He already has. See on the list where he mentions the ACC. Yep, "I was the first source to say the ACC would move". He had a tweet pretty close to that. Granted the ACC didn't touch anyone on his list but those are only details.

 

[CtownCyclone]

He already has. See on the list where he mentions the ACC. Yep, "I was the first source to say the ACC would move". He had a tweet pretty close to that. Granted the ACC didn't touch anyone on his list but those are only details.

Hence my use of "another". He's got to do something to get people to pay for his stuff, right?

 

[cykadelic2]

That is a list of every prediction he's made in the past ~month.

You (as well as other Aggies who hate Chip) are unable to determine the difference between "predictions" and "reporting what he is hearing from his sources". The vast majority of that list (which you likely cut and pasted from an Aggy board) is based on what his sources have told him, not his personal predictions. Big difference.

 

[Clonefan32]

You (as well as other Aggies who hate Chip) are unable to determine the difference between "predictions" and "reporting what he is hearing from his sources". The vast majority of that list (which you likely cut and pasted from an Aggy board) is based on what his sources have told him, not his personal predictions. Big difference.

I'm pretty sure one big part of journalism is deciding when a source is a credible source...

 

[iahawkhunter]

I'm pretty sure one big part of journalism is deciding when a source is a credible source...

Crap. I figured all it took was seeing how fast I could regurgitate informational gold from twitter.

 

[buf87]

I would not want to be in JP's shoes. Some predict we could be left in the cold. The best thing is the Big 12 stays together (TU and TT stay) and add. The Big12/BigEast merger. Things are in the works and as options play out and we sit and wait for something else that might not happen. I not sure if we should take the merger and be happy to not be left in the cold or sit and wait for everybody else to decide our future.

 

[ISUAgronomist]

You (as well as other Aggies who hate Chip) are unable to determine the difference between "predictions" and "reporting what he is hearing from his sources". The vast majority of that list (which you likely cut and pasted from an Aggy board) is based on what his sources have told him, not his personal predictions. Big difference.

1. I'm not an Aggie.

2. Chip Brown is still a *******.

I'm pretty sure one big part of journalism is deciding when a source is a credible source...

This.

 

[00clone]

I'm pretty sure one big part of journalism is deciding when a source is a credible source...

Little known fact, I'm a source for Chip. I'm "sore throat". I gave him the tip about Mount Mercy petitioning for inclusion in the SEC.

 

[buf87]

To me the remaining 5 need to sit down together and decide what we want to do. If the Texas thing to Pac 12 could take a month, it could be over in a month.