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Will KU, K-State Go Separate Conference Ways?
KANSAS CITY, Kan. --
Kansas University and K-State University may not share the same fate if the Big 12 conference were to disband, according to the vice chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents.
"It is not automatic," said Gary Sherrer in an interview Monday with KMBC's Micheal Mahoney. "I think everybody would be disappointed if those two schools weren't in a regular league together."
The Board of Regents is the governing body for Kansas universities. The board discussed the Big 12's future in a conference call this afternoon.Both Sherrer and board Chairwoman Jill Docking said they are "unwavering in our belief that the best course of K-State and KU is continued affiliation in the Big 12."
As the Big 10 and Pac10 consider raiding the Big 12, neither Kansas school has figured in any of the scenarios based on media reports.
Sherrer said the regents could support KU and K-State taking different paths if that was in the best interest of each school.
Media reports Monday said the PAC 10 is ready to offer Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State slots. And other media reports have indicated the universities of Missouri and Nebraska are in talks to join the Big 10 conference.
KMBC's Nick Griffith reports that Mizzou and Nebraska have until Friday to decide their future.
If the raids were to succeed, that would leave KU, K-State, Iowa State and Baylor University as the only Big 12 schools, likely forcing it to dissolve.
Sherrer blasted the state of things in college sports."What do you think it says, when traditional rivalries that built up over all those years, with all the alums, are just kind of tossed out the window? For one reason: the buck."