Big 10 Report: Conference Realignment

[Mr. Laz]

A source in St. Louis familiar with the situation told NewsCenter 16 Thursday afternoon that Missouri will leave the Big XII and soon join the Big 10. Other schools expected to follow the Tigers are Syracuse, Pitt, Rutgers and Nebraska.

Many have speculated that such an expansion would include Notre Dame but ND athletic director Jack Swarbrick told me today that the Irish prefer to stay independent in football and in the Big East for other sports. Swarbrick said maintaining football Independence is such a part of what Notre Dame is.

He went on to say the Big East is a great partner for the University in other sports.

"We do have to monitor what is going on," Swarbrick said. "There will be significant shifts. "Hopefully we can navigate them by keeping our football independent and keeping our Big East affiliation because that is what we care about."

The move of Syracuse, Pitt and Rutgers to the Big Ten from the Big East could categorically change the landscape of the Big East itself. Thus, what Swarbrick is referring to when stating the University must continue to monitor what is going on.

The interview with Swarbrick was done before the late afternoon announcement.

http://www.wndu.com/sports/headlines/92447574.html

[Pants]

I think it's time we let this elephant die.

[bowener]

Originally Posted by frazod

http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/201...ontent=Twitter


Meet the Texas Longhorns: The Biggest Coward Program in College Football

Holy hell, that was an awesome, astute, and accurate article on the state of Texas football in the Big 12. I really wish this was a world where a school like that would get left out of realignments somehow, and royally ****ed over by every other school in the NCAA.

[vailpass]

Texas would **** the Pac10 up. Putting aside your hatred for the evil overlord UT who beside SC would give UT a challenge?

[the Talking Can]

UT would Rapelburger the pac 10....

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by frazod

http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/201...ontent=Twitter


Meet the Texas Longhorns: The Biggest Coward Program in College Football

Beautiful content/can't beat OSU when it counts; think you could have whipped USC's ass under Carroll?

HAHAHAHAHAHA@Texass


Oh, and Rep.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by ROR

Beautiful content/can't beat OSU when it counts; think you could have whipped USC's ass under Carroll?

HAHAHAHAHAHA@Texass


Oh, and Rep.

Didn't read the article, but did Texas not beat USC and Carrol head to head.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Didn't read the article, but did Texas not beat USC and Carrol head to head.

It's a whiner's article written by a hater. As if you can blame UT for working out a deal where they are king, earning immense revenue and running their own network.
Why would you want to be an employee in the Pac10 or SEC when you can be the boss in the B12?

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Didn't read the article, but did Texas not beat USC and Carrol head to head.

No one should talk shit on Texas. We help support this institution, after all.

[AustinChief]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Didn't read the article, but did Texas not beat USC and Carrol head to head.

yeah, let's look at the ACTUAL record..


2007- W over Az St
2005- NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP W over USC
2003- LOSS to Washington St
2001- W over Wash
2000- LOSS to Stanford
2000- LOSS to Oregon
1999- W over Stanford
1998- LOSS to UCLA


That concludes the Mack Brown era... seems like 4-4 record with the wins coming more recently... I don't think Texas would DOMINATE the Pac-10... but they would be a favorite for sure.

[ArrowheadHawk]

An anual USC vs UT game would be the shit. there is still an alliance with the conference. Make it happen.
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[patteeu]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

That is great news, thanks!

Two additions to what was already said:

1) The money that KU, MU, KSU, et al are "giving up" to Texas and the other bigs is really in the form of a guaranteed floor meaning that if the upcoming TV revenues get those big schools to that floor on their own, the little boys won't have to really give up anything.

2) As far as scheduling is concerned, the word is that in football, everyone would play everyone else once (9 games) leaving 3 non-conference opportunities and in basketball, everyone would play a home and home with all 9 conference opponents (18 games).

Edit: Oops, I thought I was on the last page, but I was way behind. Sorry if this has already been clarified.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Cornhusker fan sounds off:

http://www.whotv.com/videobeta/5a734...ion-6-13-2010-

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

Cornhusker fan sounds off:

http://www.whotv.com/videobeta/5a734...ion-6-13-2010-

You know, that guy does have more than a passing resemblance to Bugeater.....

[DaKCMan AP]

OU prez says Sooners, A&M got invite from SEC

By MURRAY EVANS
Associated Press Writer

ARDMORE, Okla. -- The president of the University of Oklahoma said Wednesday that his school and Texas A&M both received invitations to join the Southeastern Conference during the last round of conference realignment.

Although Oklahoma ended up remaining in the Big 12, university president David Boren said the Sooners had offers from both the SEC and the Pac-10. Boren spoke with reporters after a regents meeting for almost 40 minutes about the conference realignment process.

"I'll put it this way - we were well positioned for whatever worked out," Boren said.

SEC spokesman Craig Pinkerton said he was "not in a position to comment" on what Boren said. Boren declined to say who in the SEC issued the invitation, only that that person had the authority to do so.

Boren said the Pac-10 offer was for five Big 12 schools - Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech - to join as a group. Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott visited the schools earlier this month to extend the invitations.

"The invitation was really to the group," Boren said. "It had to be, because you couldn't have our teams all flying to the Pacific coast every week to play games. There had to be an eastern division of schools."

Boren said the SEC extended offers only to Oklahoma and Texas A&M, both of which opted to stay in a slimmed-down Big 12 after Colorado left for the Pac-10 and Nebraska left for the Big Ten. Because the SEC offer didn't include two of the Sooners' key rivals, Oklahoma State and Texas, Boren said he didn't consider it a good option.

"There was a time when A&M thought they were going to the SEC and they very much wanted us to go with them," Boren said. "Oklahoma, in the whole thing, we were positioned in a way where virtually we could not have lost."

Last Friday, Oklahoma State president Burns Hargis confirmed that his school "never had an offer" from the SEC, "so it was never anything to consider." Both he and Boren expressed a strong interest in sticking together through any future conference realignment.

"Had the Pac-10 thing fallen apart, had the Big 12 minus two not been put back together, we would have probably ended up having much more serious conversations with the SEC, and (asked) would they take OSU and Texas, for example," Boren said. "It never got to that."

Boren characterized the Pac-10 offer as one that obviously had been researched and planned, while the SEC's offer was "more of a reaction to the situation. When they saw that the Big 12 might be no more, that all the schools might go somewhere else, they then started thinking about 'Who would we want?'"

Scott said the Pac-10 offer went nowhere because Texas decided against it. Boren said it "basically fell apart because of the difference of opinion in Texas" regarding Texas A&M's interest in the SEC.

"One school doesn't like the other one to tell them what to do," Boren said, referring to Texas and Texas A&M.

Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin was out of his office Wednesday. In a June 14 letter posted on the school's website, he said that by remaining a member of the Big 12, "We were able to more than double our financial return to the levels being offered by other conferences."

Loftin added that another consideration in staying in the conference was maintaining Texas A&M's "strong foothold" in the state and preserving longtime rivalries.

Big 12 athletic directors met this week in Irving, Texas, to discuss the conference's future. Commissioner Dan Beebe said the Big 12 has "no interest in expansion" and that it was "not a consideration" at the meeting.

"There is a great deal of excitement about the future of the conference," Beebe said in a statement. "Our member institutions look forward to the continuation of excellent competition and providing outstanding experiences for our student-athletes. The 10-school model is one that is extremely attractive and provides the opportunity for continued long-term success."
AP Sports Writers Chris Duncan in Houston and Jeff Latzke in Oklahoma City contributed to this report.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/2...#ixzz0rmHr06UY

[Sam Hall]

1. I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one in the paper, but I do know several attorneys and they tell me they don't expect Nebraska and Colorado to have to pay the entire exit fee, or damages, or whatever you want to call it, to the Big 12.

First, there's the word "damages.'' The remaining Big 12 schools must prove that NU and CU damaged the league by leaving. That might be hard to do in light of the (reckless) rhetoric last week, with Big 12 commish Dan Beebe and others talking about how the league was now better without NU and CU, how the remaining schools stood to make more money, how it would be a much better basketball league (Frank Martin and the Missouri governor both weighed in on that), etc. Those statements can and will be used against the Big 12 in proving that the league has been lessened or damaged.

Also, one attorney friend of mine said he expected NU to request emails from each Big 12 school to other conferences in the past year, to see who was saying what to which league. The attorney said he suspected some schools, including UT, might not want those emails made public in court.

Finally, a word about Harvey Perlman's "shots'' at Mizzou and Texas at the NU Regents meeting 10 days ago. A lot of folks got their dander up over that. It was clear then, and now, that Perlman was merely laying out his case for a future financial tussle with the Big 12. In other words, Perlman was stating that NU had to leave because Missouri was strongly hinting it wanted to leave, and Texas and others would not commit to staying in the league if both MU and CU left. It was a classic legal play, two moves ahead, by Perlman, nothing personal.

My attorney friends expect NU to have to pay something, but nowhere near what is being reported by media types in Texas, and more than likely half of that. We'll see. But the Big 12 case certainly looks like it has holes in it. It will be interesting, considering both Perlman and Beebe are attorneys.

http://www.omaha.com/article/2010062...second-guesses