Sorry...it's on Orangebloods and also on Cougarboard .....too lazy to go get the links though
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Sorry...it's on Orangebloods and also on Cougarboard .....too lazy to go get the links though
Obviously our commitment to the Big XII is in the best interest of the ISU.
My concern is that unless the OU's and UT's of the world don't make that same commitment, we aren't going to be able to attract the kind of teams we need to so OU says goodbye.
I feel that's a reasonable concern and I know the Big East is likely an option for us if things blow up. I'd prefer stability, which I don't think we get in the Big East, but the days of stability in college athletics are likely over for a team like us anyway.
My concern is that unless the OU's and UT's of the world don't make that same commitment, we aren't going to be able to attract the kind of teams we need to so OU says goodbye.
I feel that's a reasonable concern and I know the Big East is likely an option for us if things blow up. I'd prefer stability, which I don't think we get in the Big East, but the days of stability in college athletics are likely over for a team like us anyway.
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If all this conference talk has taught me anything it is the poor state of what passes for journalism anymore. Reporters no longer report, they speculate and comment. Hard to know the facts versus the reporters bias.
Plus anyone who tweets false reports "according to anonymous sources" should lose a finger when they are wrong.
Plus anyone who tweets false reports "according to anonymous sources" should lose a finger when they are wrong.
I am sort of glad we don't have people blabbing to the media like some of these schools. Some of these people conduct themselves like whors.
Boren is a politician. They like to hear themselves speak and like other people to listen to them, a lot of times when they really have nothing to say. He really said nothing of importance that most people couldn't figure out themselves; that OU is looking at contingency plans. Probably every school is.
What is distressing to me is that isn't he suppose to be on the conference search committee? (or was it the AD?) When you are in the middle of discussions with other schools via that committee making public comments would seem to interfere with your search. If you were really in heavy discussions and negotiations, wouldn't you just say nothing or very little? Maybe this is a signal to a negotiating school or maybe to a conference school? IMO, something doesn't feel right about this......
Ok, last year Pollard had an agreement with the Big East until the Big 12 was saved at the 11 th hour. If you think, he is just sitting on his ***, and not doing anything this year then you are crazy.
He will not tell ANYONE in the media what he is doing, so there will be no links, but logic says if he was doing it last year, he is doing it this year.
I agree, I think this is a change. Not panicked, I just think he chose to speak, he could have said nothing. Some politics going on, but something has changed and I think this is an inflection point.
Google it. Tons of confirmation out there on this one. The big east was going to take us, KU, KSU, MU.
I can't believe that this is not common knowledge, but here you go.
http://college-football.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/26163006
I guess I took his comment that pollard was doing everything possible as common sense. JP was working back channels last year to secure ISU's future. One would assume he would be doing the same this year. He has worked too hard and sacrificed too much to get us where we are to sit back now and let fate take over.
Well I don't see it on Cougarboard or Orangbloods, so as far as I'm concerned it doesn't exist.
The smoke seems to be trending negative lately. Not many credible or multiple sources reporting anything about BYU, Pitt, or Notre Dame lately. I think there was and is a lot of circular reporting going on where journalists are reporting on each others opinion blogs. Really the only real information is verbatim complete transcripts of presidents and AD's public comments.
I've heard rumors and seen blog posts, but nothing sourced to Pollard or officials at Iowa State
Correction, last year KU, MU, ISU, KSU had an agreement with the Big East. You are grossly over-estimating the amount of pull Pollard had in that agreement.
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