Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC

[CarrollCyclone]

Damn.....Bowlsby has grown a pair it appears. I love it.

 

[JM4CY]

Yep me too, but I'm sure he is pretty pissed off. I'm sure he doesn't like being called an idiot for being blindsided by this.

I still don’t completely buy he was totally blindsided and didn’t know anything.

 

[CloneGuy8]

 

[BigJCy]

 

[BigJCy]

LOT of billable hours are coming.

 

[iowastatefan1929]

well lets see what the fbi and federal judges think of that

 

[Hestia_Abnegation11]

 

[Gonzo]

Huh. Wouldn't have seen that coming.

 

[tim_redd]

Why would WVU or KU say something? If it's ACC obviously both would stand to benefit by joining. Someone didn't want this to happen and reported it to the Big 12. Makes me wonder...obviously could be a lower tier person in those universities but I don't know.

Maybe KU doesn't want to go to the ACC? It's a double (triple?) cross to get to the big 10.

 

[jbhtexas]

Because the bylaws require you to inform the other members within 12 hours and they don't want to be caught up in a lawsuit like Texas and OU will be over the same thing?

And if one of the schools did immediately report, it also indicates that the schools are unified.

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

 

[jbhtexas]

LOT of billable hours are coming.

If there is proof of all this, The Big 12 will have no trouble getting lawyers on board working for a portion of the settlement, because the potential payout could be huge...it could dwarf the GOR buyout.

 

[iowastatefan1929]

we need to get these espn execs to sing like canaries, do they want to serve federal time to protect espn?

 

[MeanDean]

McMurphy doesn't like ESPN at all since he was laid off by them but though this was pretty good:

Guessing Texas is in the P pod. P for *****

 

[Cloneon]

I'll pat myself on the back when the evidence is irrefutable.

 

[Rods79]

Psssst……linking an espn article will probably give them clicks.

Yeah, I’m fully boycotting them now

Kansas has to notify its regents before engaging in realignment talk. I’d bet that they did so with ESPN trying to connect them and WVU to the ACC and the news got to someone affiliated with K-State, who told Bowlsby immediately.

the fact that the Big 12 sent this only to ESPN, and not ESPN and FOX, probably means this is about the ACC and not the B1G or Pac-12.

Or SEC

 

[iowastatefan1929]

even jp morgan was like wtf we didnt expect that after all hell broke in europe, the biggest bank in the world

 

[Hestia_Abnegation11]

Bowlsby going hard. This is the American poaching definitely.

 

[tim_redd]

So they want to breakup the big 12, and put the remaining teams with any value to the AAC where ESPN also owns the rights (for much less money). They do this to keep them away from fox or even cbs?

 

[cyIclSoneU]

Would love to know what the offer was here that would convince Big 12 schools to basically waive their OU and UT buyout money all for the privilege of playing in the AAC.

I have a bad feeling that it was more stick than carrot - something like an implied “there are four spots here and eight of you - first come, first serve, and the rest are on your own”