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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
Notre Dame will not move until/unless it becomes clear the super conference is coming.
I think the writing is on the wall with that.
My favorite thing in all this... Texas' "Ultimatum" is just going to work in Missouri and Nebraska's favor. Best thing that could happen for those schools:
1) Friday "Ultimatum" deadline comes and goes, and the Texas 6 depart as a result.
2) THOSE schools are the ones that get nailed for leaving the league on short notice. (LOLZ)
3) The Big Ten, in response to the Pac-16, goes to 16 (or possibly even 18). Notre Dame, seeing the super conference movement pick up speed, agrees to join the new Big 16 (rather than get left behind. All that NBC money dwindles if all the rest of the good football schools take their balls to a new league)
4) Missouri, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Rutgers and Syracuse join the Big 16.
5) kansas, kansas state, Iowa State and the loser of the Baylor/Colorado feud for the Texas 6's final spot join the MWC (which likely gains BCS status in a year or two... and then sees the BCS disappear when the fourth super conference is formed).
This is extremely beneficial for Missouri and Nebraska recruiting (both in KC, Missouri in St. Louis).
And I'll wish ku good luck recruiting Josh Shelby's when they are playing in the MWC and not on national TV weekly...
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I just can't see those 6 going to the Pac-10 for multiple reasons:
1. This hot shot new Pac-10 commish may have bitten off more than than he can chew with his words Sunday. Rumor now is that the Academia wing of the Pac 10 (Cal, Stanford, etc.) are not so sure about schools like Ok St, Texas Tech and Baylor... Athletics do not mean everything to millions of college people in this country.
2. Everyone is ignoring the time difference and travel distance issues. Collegiate athletics is not all about football no matter how much these media talking heads are trying to make it out to be. Washington State to Southern Cal is one thing... Washington State to Texas is another.
3. So Texas is just going to give up all it has to deal with playing Oklahoma every year in a division title game and then having to end up playing USC for the title? I'm not so sure. For what? The prospects of a $20 million share of a TV contract? A lot of which will have to go back into funding the crazy travel and scheduling of the smaller sports? Why not just stay where they are?
I can believe MU wanting to go to the Big 10, the question is whether or not they end up asking. NEB I think will be more likely to be asked, but more unlikely to accept than MU.
If they're both ask, they both go. But I don't think Texas reacts because of those two schools leaving. If they go it will be their own decision.