Well, if we get Louisville that sort of cancels each other out.

Exactly

Fascinating stuff from the Tulsa World - OU's emails during the conference realignment saga.

Shows how Beebe and Boren and many Big 12 admins were emailing each other links to media pieces based on speculation...such as Beebe emailing a report from OrangeBloods.com about OU leaving the Big 12 to David Boren asking him to call him about it...just amazing stuff. Boren even emailed Pete Thamel at the NYTImes once to dispute Thamel's view of OU's academics. Goes to show how much these guys had no idea what was going on and was relying on media speculation to get info...the same info we were all using.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/webextra/c.../OU_emails.pdf

:LOL:ROFL

http://espn.go.com/college-football/rankings

Fascinating stuff. Shows how out of touch some of these AD's and university presidents are. Did not read them all, just skimmed them, but it does provide an interesting picture.

From: Aaron Brandt
To: Boren, David L.
Subject: Leaving the Big 12

Date: Monday, September 05, 2011 8:13:30 AM

David,

I hate the University of Oklahoma. Really, I do! I'm a University of Missouri fan, however the thought of the Big 12 disbanding is something I hate even worse. You control this. Your the most powerful man in College Athletics right now. If you decide to take the University of Oklahoma to the Pac-12, it will leave Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas State, Kansas, and MU out in the cold. Now, I'm a business man, I understand business. You could care less what happens to these other colleges. Hell I would care less too if I was the President of the University of Oklahoma, but would moving to the Pac 12 be a great move for OU? Yeah money money money, a new start, but also more competition longer flights and
less chance of making the BCS. Why don't you let this Big 12 (with 10 teams) play out a few years. GET DAN BEEBE FIRED. Try to recruit Notre Dame Football, BYU, and Arkansas. I personally don't think the SEC wants to expand, maybe they could just switch out A&M for Arkansas (far fetched but still a maybe).

Again, I HATE OU. That won't change if OU heads west in the GOLD Rush of the Pac-12 or stays in the Big 12. Obama got elected on his promise of "CHANGE". America voted and made a change. What has that "Change" done for us this great country? He promised America the grass was greener on the other side and we found out its just as brown as it was before. I emailed Mike Alden before he hired Frank Haith, you can email him ask. I told him my opinion. After he hired Frank Haith, I sent him another email about how much of a mistake he made. I said the hiring of Haith will be Quinn Synder all over again, and sure enough scandal has engulfed him before he has even coached a game. Maybe it was luck, maybe it wasn't. My gut says OU will regret making the move to the Pac 12. Guess we will see if I keep batting a thousand.

Good Luck,

Aaron Brandt

If change is must, fire Dan Beebe and see what happens.

Who is Aaron Brandt, and why do we care about this letter?

So Louisville coaches have been telling recruits they will be in the Big12?

You were a lot more fun when you were making predictions. Why did you stop? Who is it that wrote this letter?

Big 12 administrators are expected to talk about future expansion during the trip to NYC for Hall of Fame dinner next week.

Probably going to be Louisville and Houston.

Lets shock the nation and pull in LSU.

KK said get Arizona State.

He also said Arizona St. is where all the big coaches would want to go cause they are an easy school to win the NC at.

:hmmm:

Is this your new "Iowa St is going to be good this year."

No, but Iowa State is good this year.. unless you think Mizzou sucks, because they are the worst team ISU has lost to. And they are lucky they played ISU when they did instead of now that they are starting to click. They were also a better team last year than they were the year before when they won their Bowl game.