The thing is, KU is a great hoops program and I have respect for the school. It's hard to disassociate the school from him but I'm sure he doesn't represent the average beaker fan.

That's the thing he's pretty common for a beaker fan.

NFW. That can't be.

Oh wow what? Why don't you list B1G and B12 team by team and show us all how B1G is better? Or where you disagreeing with him on a different part of his post?

You can certain talk real good.

This should be good.

Let's see it.

Greener Pastures.

Oh look Pants comes to save the day with rage.

Making fun of you =/= being angry, brah.

B10, B12, Pac12,SEC are all power conferences. They differ in some ways that make them unique. The statement was that the teams that left did so for greener pastures which, for them, was the case. Geography, revenue shares, academics, stability, UT, all played a part in their decisions.
That goofy bastard negson can't get his arms around this and so launches into senseless rants for which he is being roundly mocked.

I think he agrees with you on the greener pastures, man. No team would leave if they didn't think it was a better situation for them.

No Pants. Nebraska left because they couldn't beat Texas.

I certain talk like it, don't I?

They could have left with a bit more class then the way they spoke about their 100 year old partners, KU, KSU and MU.

Did you read his nonsensical blathering post? I don't give a shit what he agrees with; I just find his butthurt funny.

When it comes to what conference Kansas plays sports in then yes, sports is the number one focus.

Is that really that hard to understand?

Wiped their dick on your curtains then snuck out huh?
It happens.

Don't be a vagina.

Threads like this are great. What will we do when KU and K-State are in the Mountain West?

I'm sure you'll still be posting here constantly about them because you just can't quit 'em.

IMHO we will soon have 4 power conferences of 16 teams each at which point those conferences will tell the NCAA to go **** themselves. Playoff football using the bowl games will arrive and all will be well with the world.

Enjoy life.

LMAO

Conference affiliation is about more than sports.

You're right it's just too addicting watching you menstruate in every thread.

That and the fact that MU and NU fans all hump goats when they think nobody is looking.

Common Ground ... feel the love.

Wait a second..

I thought it was because I was a KU homer where everything in Kansas life is all good?

Now it's because I'm so upset by everything that happens to KU?

I'm confused.

"Frazod stop neg-repping me man"

keep going frazod ... i'll help

ROFL

Girl, flex-ah
Time to have sex-ah

/mad cobra

Perhaps you missed the quotations Laz.

zzzzzzzzzz........


Welcome to last month, try n keep up

WTF is this thread doing back on the front page?

KU and Mizzou fans uniting?

UNPOSISBLE!1!1!

Looks like objective Bravo's ours now...

Texas A&M is going to the SEC.

billay is an idiot, but you can't hate him for it, man. I'm good with him, really, it's just that sometimes laughing at him is irresistible.

You didn't see my penis pics did you?

Oh really? I thought all those rumors were just being perpetuated by Nebraska fans.

:(

Way to be on top of things :)

I hadn't yet heard that it was official.

ChipBrownOB Chip Brown
Sources tell Orangebloods.com Texas would seek to replace #TAMU with Notre Dame on Thanksgiving night if Aggies leave #Big12. #hookem

It's not but the president of Texas A&M or something "declared" that the Aggies were looking to join another conference.

That's why the thread was brought back to life as they say.

SMU expresses interest in Big 12
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SMU To BCS Conference?

College football analyst Craig James discusses the news that SMU wants to compete in BCS conferenceTags: college football, SMU, Craig James


SMU athletic director Steve Orsini believes his school is ready to join an automatic-qualifier BCS conference and has made his case to certain Big 12 officials.
"We feel it's time. We're ready," Orsini said Thursday, shortly after Texas A&M announced it has informed the Big 12 that it's looking at other conference options. "The college landscape is shifting. We're already a top academic institution and with the re-commitment of the university already in place, we can be a top athletics program nationally."
While the Big 12 makes the most sense, SMU president R. Gerald Turner said late Thursday afternoon that he believes the Mustangs, which currently compete in Conference USA, are ready to join any AQ conference interested in getting into the Dallas-Fort Worth market.


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Orsini touted SMU's alumni base, which he said numbers about 40,000 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. And he noted the school has the facilities to play in a BCS conference.
Gerald J. Ford Stadium seats 32,000 but could be expanded to 40,000 by filling in the lower bowl, and even could increase to as much as 60,000 with an upper deck (and possibly suites) on the east side.
SMU averaged 23,515 fans in 2010, a 52 percent increase in the past five years. Much of that is owed to the arrival of coach June Jones.
SMU formed the "Circle of Champions," a group of 20 major donors willing to commit $100,000 each for five years to help attract Jones and his staff. Jones has led a resurgence of the program, taking the Mustangs to two consecutive bowl games and finishing runner-up in Conference USA last year, falling to Central Florida in the title game.
Before Jones arrived, SMU had one winning season since resuming football in 1989, after the NCAA handed the program the "death penalty."
Orsini said that SMU is happy in Conference USA and would be pleased if that league somehow could gain automatic qualifying status. But he stressed that the school also would prefer to rekindle its regional rivalries, and believes the best way to do that is to play in a conference with more nearby teams, such as the Big 12.
"We want the best regional conference we can get in this part of the country," Orsini said. "Strength is in expansion, not minimalism, like having 10 members in the Big 12, when four of the BCS conferences have 12 members. Let's add to it."
Orsini knows the biggest argument against SMU is that adding it won't help the conference's television footprint with such a large alumni base in the Metroplex already. But he believes SMU would increase the interest in the Dallas area, noting that Austin, Lubbock, Fort Worth, Waco and other cities have automatic-qualifying schools.
"Why not Dallas?" Orsini said. "We would solidify the presence of whatever conference we're in for an AQ status in the fifth-largest market in the country. This is a very important market."
Turner said that he's reached out to Dallas city officials, and they'd like to see Dallas represented in an AQ conference.
Orsini said the school did a study of the TV ratings in the Dallas-Fort Worth market the past two football seasons and discovered the average ratings for Big 12 and SEC games were at best a draw, despite the SEC having no team in Texas, much less the Metroplex. That's why he believes SMU could help put more eyes on the Big 12 in this area.
Orsini wants more weekends such as Labor Day, when a handful of former Southwest Conference foes will faceoff -- TCU vs. Baylor, Rice vs. Texas, SMU vs. Texas A&M.
"Our fans are jacked like they have not been in a long time," Orsini said. "Not only because we're playing an old rival, but we have optimism now. We expect to be competitive."
The Dallas Morning News first reported SMU reached out to the Big 12.
Richard Durrett is a reporter and columnist for ESPNDallas.com.
Follow Richard Durrett on Twitter: @espn_durrett

More of this for the Big12 ROFL

It's basically aTm officially filing for divorce.

SMU? *sigh*

They will fit right in the new SWC. If your not cheating your not trying.

Had they stood with Nebraska on a few votes ( Conference offices, Championship game sites ect. ect. instead of bending over for Bevo money and giving Texas every thing they wanted this thread probably would not exist. :shake:

link?

LMAO Geek rep.

Numerous instances of 11-1 votes where Nebraska is the lone dissenter. Conference offices moving to Dallas and the Football championship game being played in Jerry world for years on end in exchange for KC keeping the basketball tourney is a couple others.

The Basketball tourney in Kansas City has been a tremendous boost for the area. Could they have worked out a rotating schedule between the two areas? I suppose, but you have the best football facilities down there and the best basketball facilities up here.

I don't really see that as a reason to break 100 years of tradition.

In the end I don't really have the interest in Nebraska as I do the three local schools so them leaving isn't making the sky fall. I do a lot of jabbing back and forth but I wish them luck in the Big 10... life's too short to get hung up on those things.

Now if KU-MU or KU-KSU were to ever "break up" it wouldn't go so smoothly for the area. Sure in time it would just be different but from my perspective I do not ever want to see that happen, nor do I think that will ever happen.

Actually the big one was back when the Big 12 was formed and OU, OSU, and Colorado sided with Texas schools in moving the headquarters to Dallas. OU is the one to blame for alot of this, they could have kept the Big 8 voting block together but they chose Texas instead.

Can you provide details on a few of these "numerous instances"? For example, did Nebraska ever vote against unequal revenue sharing, considering they were one of its largest benefactors?

It's hilarious watching the Nubs try and act all high and mighty; you guys loved the unequal system up until you were passed up by UT and OU, then you ran for the sweet comfort of Big Ten's shared system.

Hell, if you stayed in the Big 12, we would be seeing Corncob TV start up this season alongside the Longhorn Network.

http://thegazette.com/2011/07/29/the...ision-network/

KSU would love to take the open invitation to the Ivy League, but since we're tied to the equivalent of The University of Sanford-Brown at Lawrence, we have to stay.

Thanks ****heads.

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Saul,

That's f'ing hilarious. LMAO

Wickedson can't see anything that isn't right in front of his face. The shifting NCAA landscape is going to hit you like freight train.

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Of course you are a front runner so you will just act like you aren't into sports as much. You pretty much have already laid the groundwork for that bitch move.

I'm ready for A&M to shit already or get off the pot.

If the Big 12 is successful in convincing Notre Dame (very unlikely IMO) or BYU (probable?) to replace A&M as the 10th member, I think the Big 12 could stick around for a bit. If ND is the 10th member, then I think that completely turns the tables on conference expansion, and makes the Big 12 a net consolidator in the superconference process.

If the Big 12 has to add a team like SMU or Houston as its 10th member, then the conference is toast and every program will be working behind the scenes to get into a new conference.

Stick with what you know.ALL STAR WRESTLING
We were not passed by. Huskers were light years ahead of the rest of the Big12 when it was formed. & the rest of the schools voted in ways that reeled the Huskers back in.

Any examples?

Jesus you are hilariously clueless.

Yeah - such as wanting to allow partial qualifiers to play when the Big XII wanted to improve it's academic reputation. That is the vote that really began the Nebraska butthurt.

They never want to talk about that aspect.

Ya partial qualifiers was a 11-1 vote. & the biggest set back for Nebraska
Keeping the Big12 championship game in Dallas was an 11-1 vote.



Then there were the 11-1 votes, with Nebraska in the minority, on having a football championship game and on initial eligibility standards.

Texas had threatened to leave if the eligibility vote didn't go its way. The night the votes were final, I was about to leave the office for our sports department Christmas party when the news broke.

So I sat back down for a long night of phone calls. But Joan Leitzel, NU's interim chancellor at the time, made it worthwhile.

When I asked if Nebraska would bolt from the Big 12 after losing that vote, she strongly replied: “We won't play it that way. Nebraska has been a strong builder of the Big 12.''

But things change

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110702/SPORTS/707029821

Hey dumb dumb. How the **** do you think Bill Snyder turned the worst football team in America around.

Partial qualifiers and steroids.

Thank you

I love Lee Barfknecht. Honestly i'm surprised the guy is still alive.

Yeah how terrible to vote against partial qualifiers, even though the conference you just joined has never allowed partial qualifiers. Good point.

You mean voting to share the championship game with Dallas and KC? That really caused enough butthurt to move conferences? Why would the Nubs care - don't you have the best fans in the world?

What about unequal revenue sharing? Did Nebraska ever vote against that?

This was my point asshat/ Texas had threatened to leave if the eligibility vote didn't go its way.

The only thing I will say is you can completely count Notre Dame out, at least in football. They have their own network, and why would Texas want to be number 2 in their own conference?

link?

JFC go watch fake wrestling dude

While I agree with your conclusion on ND, why would having their own network be the reason they would not join the Big 12?

ND, just like every school, likes $$$$$. Their NBC contract is less than what most BCS conference teams receive now. If they joined the Big 12, they could increase their annual revenue by $15-20MM.

nice counter bro.

I'm telling you, Nubbs don't care about the Big 12. They left a year ago. They absolutely don't care.

I think Notre Dame might see the writing on the wall, and I don't think they want to be left in the dust. They, like Nebraska, are becoming more and more irrelevant in football, so it would behoove them to join a conference before ULTIMATE CONFERENCE ARMAGEDDON.