He can neither confirm or deny that they may or may not be staying or leaving.

Got it covered. :thumb:

So Colorado will be the first official domino. Not surprising; the Pac-10 has been known to covet the Denver media market for years.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5271438
Source: Colorado moving to Pac-10
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<!-- end mod-article-title --> <!-- begin story body --> Colorado is poised to announce as early as Thursday that the school is leaving the Big 12 to join the Pac-10.

Colorado's conference move was first reported by The Sporting News.

Colorado's impending move might spell the end for the Big 12 conference. Nebraska is also poised to announce its move from the conference to the Big Ten.

A Big 12 football coach, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach on Wednesday night that if Nebraska left the Big 12 the conference would dissolve, according to his athletics director and university president. The coach said Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Colorado would join the Pac-10, leaving Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and Iowa State behind.

"Nebraska is the key," the coach said.

The coach said the Pac-10 favored Colorado over Baylor because of the Buffaloes' presence in the Denver TV market.

Another Big 12 coach said Wednesday night that an anticipated Nebraska announcement of moving toward the Big Ten Thursday would indeed trigger the death of the Big 12 and a mass migration west.

"If Nebraska leaves," the coach said, "everyone has to look."

The new conference would be split into divisions with Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Colorado forming an Eastern Division with Arizona and Arizona State opposite the former Pac-8 (USC, UCLA, Stanford, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington and Washington State) in the Western Division.
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The coach said it's possible the Pac-16 would push for two automatic bids to the BCS, one for each division champion. That potential bonanza could open the possibility of the two division champs from one league playing for the national title, and it would eliminate the need for a conference championship game.

"The Pac-10 doesn't believe in a championship game," the coach said. "And coaches in the Big 12 don't like it anyway."

If this is true, then Baylor is officially ****ed.

Then again, most figured they'd be left out anyway.

Thoughts?

http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/2...cesfor2012.jpg

Douchebags? I don't know about that. Stupid? Quite likely. I've become a Buckeye fan. I will say that a lot of OSU fans give beating Michigan greater importance than a national title.

http://www.mutigers.com/sports/acad/...060910aab.html

Mizzou Ranks Second In Big 12 For APR Report

Tigers Lead The Conference In Seven Sports

June 9, 2010

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The 2009-10 season has seen a lot of success for the University of Missouri on the field, with a Big 12 Conference soccer championship, to go with a Women’s College World Series appearance by the softball team, as well as a first-ever NCAA Gymnastics Championship team appearance. Throw in a school-record fifth-consecutive bowl game in football and a second-straight appearance in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, as just a couple more of the team highlights which have kept Tiger fans proud this year.

The season just got even more successful, however, as the NCAA has released its Academic Progress Rates for all sports, and the University of Missouri is once again near the top of the Big 12. Seven of Mizzou’s 20 sports led the Big 12 in APR, which is second-most in the league, trailing only Texas (nine leaders). Missouri had 11 of its 20 programs rank among the Big 12's top three overall, and all but two of Missouri’s sports ranked above the All-Division I national average.

The seven sport leaders for MU included women’s golf (APR of 1,000 for the second-straight year), women’s basketball (1000), women’s swimming and diving (996), women’s gymnastics (991), women’s indoor track and field (989), women’s outdoor track and field (989) and men’s swimming and diving (980). The highest APR score possible is 1,000.

Here’s the Big 12 rankings of schools with the most APR leaders in their respective sports:

1. Texas (9)
2. Missouri (7)
3. Kansas (3)
4. Nebraska (2)
Baylor (2)
6. Iowa State (1)
Oklahoma (1)
Oklahoma State (1)
Texas A&M (1)

The APR was developed by the NCAA in 2004 to measure the academic progress and performance of athletic programs at member institutions. The multi-year average for the latest Academic Progress Rate Report spans the last four years and institutions are awarded points when a student-athlete remains academically eligible for competition and when he or she either returns to the institution the following semester or graduates. A maximum of two points per student/per semester is awarded.

In addition to the seven Big 12 leaders, the Tigers ranked second overall in football, men’s indoor track and field, and men’s cross country, while the Tiger men’s basketball, softball, wrestling, baseball, soccer, men’s golf, men’s outdoor track and field and women’s cross country teams each ranked in the top five within the conference. The football program finished just four points out of the Big 12 lead (Oklahoma – 962) with its score of 958.

All 20 of Mizzou's sports met or exceeded the APR requirements for the 2007-08 academic year, as well as the multi-year average. Two sports, women's golf and women’s basketball, recorded a perfect score for the 2008-09 academic year and earned public recognition from the NCAA.

“Our student-athletes continue to do an exemplary job in the classroom,” Senior Associate Athletic Director for Student Services Bryan Maggard said. “This is certainly a testament to them, our coaches, academic support staff, and faculty. These accomplishments are something the entire University can take great pride in,” Maggard said.

The NCAA does not penalize an institution for student-athletes who remain academically eligible but did not return to the institution due to circumstances beyond the student and/or institution's control. Examples of this include student-athletes who leave to pursue professional athletics, suffer from incapacitating physical or mental illness, or experience extreme financial difficulties as the result of a specific event such as a death in the family. Complete information on the APR Report can be found at the NCAA's website, www.ncaa.org.

See? Perfect Beaker Happiness is just a penstroke away...

BREAKING NEWS:

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You could air a "Mega-16" conference basketball tournament on primetime network television. Damn.

ok. that's funny.

Its basketball TV deal would be insane....

ROFL

But I would still watch most of the conference football games like I do now.. I would watch all of KU games, IF they would still be on here in OKC. Like I do now... Nothing would change from a fans prespective...


Now from a dick showing contest on CP? Well that conference would be middle of the road in football and Tops in basketball.... So not much would change from that stand point.