Good point.

That conference has no stakeholder. It'll be blown up next.

Yeah, true enough.

Probably a case of me having tunnel vision in my desire to get the **** away from Longhorn cack; it's big.

Gimme Cincy and Louisville outta that Conf and we'll call it good.

This option sucks... no one will be able to point and laugh at the teams left behind.

I admire those of you who are able to take that with a grain of salt. Perhaps a tube of anal-eze with every diluted check would help.

every conference can't just be blown up ... even with Mega Conferences there has to be so many left.

so the Big 10,Pac-10,ACC,SEC are going to be only BCS conferences left and have 30 teams each?

correct

as a ku fan, it provides the platform for KU to operate it's crown jewel - the bball program...which routinely fists UT....

missouri seems to believe it would be a major power but for UT...to which I say....lol....go for it

i'm quite happy to give UT a cut

Other conferences would exist, they just wouldn't get Championship consideration.

Disagree.

Missouri's position seems to be: we think we can be viable without Texas. Major power? Nah. Viable? Yes.

the big east would suck ass...i'd much rather play ou, osu, ut, ksu, mu

and ku football is screwed without texas to recruit

great...see yah

And Stockholm Syndrome begins to settle in.:D

fyp

i haven't seen evidence you have the first clue what's going on....

Some of the North schools are quite content, apparently, to play Ginger to Texas's Lester Diamond.

Where are you at? Tell me where you're at.
I'm here, baby! I've always been here.

Some of Iowa States best recruites this year were from states we didn't play in this year... Your coaches don't suddenly loose their recruiting ties when they switch conferences..

Whatever happens, I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that it won't be good. I have no faith whatsover in MU's management, and believe that they will be unable to get us a fair deal anywhere. As I said earlier, these reeruns couldn't sell C4 to terrorists.

Maybe they'll surprise me. But they haven't yet.

so now that we're putting a Band-Aid on this gunshot wound, the North schools have a little more time to figure out a solid landing spot. maybe this time they'll keep their mouths shut.

Why whateva' do you mean? Did you not see the article suggesting if UT stays they will demand a larger cut of the $ and rights to their own network?

Yep, it's a big ol' clusterCassel.

KU's best option is to stick with UT, as much as people might hate it. It's been that way since the beginning of this nonsense.

ROFL Perfect!

welcome to the club. Practice this term: KITN. Kick In the Nuts.

There is no better option out there compared to the Big 12 and sticking with Texas, as far as I can tell.

Is there any lithium in the Flint Hills? I bet we could become a much bigger player if we found some lithium there! :D

if KU really does have a offer to join the Pac 10, then i would take it run with it.

Yeah, they have the same offer from the Pac-10 that MU has from the Big-10.

ku doesn't have an offer without UT....

I've definitely got that part down.

In hindsight, how the hell could any of us have actually believed it? ESPN REPORTS THAT CHARLIE BROWN IS ABOUT TO KICK THE FOOTBALL! Yeah, sure he is.

Utah has an invite to the Pac-10.

I have no issues with KU making 17mil while Texas makes 25mil. This isn't ****ing communism.

And failpussy needs to shut the **** up. Nobody cares about Iowa except for Iowanians and never will. Gee whiz, you got geographically placed in the B10, your superiority to everyone is simply overwhelming. Go back into obscurity you stupid ****ing troll. :)

Sweet! **** you guys then!! We are OUT! Pac-16 baby!! Enjoy the Mountain West... Oh, er... um... cool. I guess we are staying in the Big 12! woo hoo!! ROFL

Wait three years, you'll get another chance.

Exactly.

Pretty well sums it up.

Same here. I'll take the money that was going to be split between UNL and CU and go shopping at the basketball practice facility store.

Pretty much.

GabeDeArmond Sources tell PowerMizzou.com Mike Alden will meet with Tiger coaches this afternoon at 4 p.m.

"Texas ****stick Conference"

Print it.

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Thats big.

Yes (but in what way?) What do you figure?

Good stuff.

Because I am a member of this message board.

gkketch

Source from one of the North schools tells me that their coaches have been told their school has been saved. Big 12 minus 2 living it seems. 2 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

So who moves north?

Nobody. It's round robin. play everybody. No CCG.

So what has happened today? Anything?

http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com...6132101-01.jpg

We finished...all over your schools.

If you have a ten team league, why do you have to have divisions?

And they'll give us all a warm towel to clean up with.

not so fast, still talk of maintaining the CCG for tv and revenue....NCAA waiver to allow it.

WhitlockJason Paging Joe Schad. Please report to the white courtesy phone and bring your playbook and ESPN photo ID... If Texas stays, Schad must go.

ROFL

so the Deal is Done?

Put dollar signs in that white area. They will be coughing it up if this deal goes through.

Keitz is loving the idea... me thinks he's a Texas stroker...

what idea?

The proposed deal.

He's a KSU fan, now saved from the MWC. Of course he loves the new Big Texas.

Apparently, we all should love it, too, because it's all we got.

Which is? When I came into the thread there were over 400 new posts since yesterday. I'm not going through all of them to find it.

hahaha, Nebraska is going to not only going to make less money in the big 10 but now they're gonna have to pay a penalty for leaving the big 12.

Lazy.

Damn straight.:D

I just spoke with a friend in the A&M Athletic Department, and he said while nothing is "official" the talk in the office is that 10 team Big 12 is going to happen.

This. I thought you had to have 12 to have divisions/conference championship game.

In essence...

The proposed deal will keep the remaining 10 Big XII schools together.

Texas would get a lot of money.

The rest of the schools would not get as much, but more than they are currently getting.

ESPN.com has switched to the Texas is staying rumor. That'd be great because then the Big 10 will have 12 teams and the Big 12 will have 10. Mass hysteria.

Isn't the Big 10 making about $20M per school? With all the screaming and regret over the Big 12 shackled to a paltry contract, I'd think we'd be really happy to see us suddenly making very close to what the Big 10 schools make. A school like KU would likely be making more than almost every Big 10 school when looking at all revenue sources combined.

Why is this a bad thing? Yeah Texas gets a few measly extra million, but we're talking the other 9 losing out on roughly half a million each. If anything, this locks up Texas since they wouldn't get more elsewhere.

The continued talk from Texas schools of additional "research opportunities" is a little dumbfounding.

Any opportunities that are there with schools outside of the Big 12 are there now, since research has absolutely ZERO to do with NCAA conference affiliation. Most serious researchers at the university level would probably struggle to even tell you WHICH freaking NCAA conference their school is a part of. As someone who works for the A&M System, Bob Dole can call up anyone, in any NCAA conference (or NAIA, or whatever the hell else, for that matter), and propose collaborative research projects.

And Bob Dole finds it difficult to believe that joining the Mega-Whatever 26 is going to provide any additional connectivity/bandwidth benefits beyond that which every Texas Big 12 school already has with LEARN. The continued mention of such is approaching the point of being insulting.

Nothing is written in stone. Some big 12 coaches actually prefer not having a FB championship game, but if they want one, the conference can probably get a waiver from the NCAA.

Thanks Saul. So really nothing much will change for the other 9 schools other than a little more money.

Wonder what the name of the conference will change to. Something tells me the Big 10 will keep that name even if they expand to 14.

I would be all for losing that stupid game.

Absolute Rumor Warning: If you don't like them don't read it.

Call it the Texas Counter Strike

Conference is saved (although still wary about intentions of Mizzou and A&M, more Mizzou now than A&M). Big XII counter by going after the Arizona schools and capturing the Phoenix market to guard against possible loss of KC and St. Louis markets. Eyes later expansion toward USC and UCLA as PAC continues to lose out on viewership in western time zone, mediocre teams, and crippled USC sanctions.

Generally, it'll work like this.

Texas will finish 11-1, the one loss coming against Kansas State.
Oklahoma will finish 11-1, the one loss coming against Texas.
Kansas State will finish 1-11, since they can't beat anybody but Texas.
Kansas and Missouri will finish with identical 7-5 records, but Missouri wins head-to-head. Nevertheless, Missouri gets relegated to the Poinsettia Bowl and loses by three touchdowns to Ball State.

FML

The research opportunity is a piece of that CIC fund that the Big Ten has. Just more cash graping.

Making Wickedson right all along. :)

ROFL