Funny Stuff New Conference re-alignment thread - Page 479

**Saulbadguy** · 09-12-2011, 07:57 AM

The old one has AIDS.

Anyways, Chip Brown from Orangebloods.com reports OU may apply to the Pac-12 by the end of the month.

Oklahoma will apply for membership to the Pac-12 before the end of the month, and Oklahoma State is expected to follow suit, a source close to OU's administration told Orangebloods.com.

Even though Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said Friday the Pac-12 was not interested in expansion at this time, OU's board of regents is fed up with the instability in the Big 12, the source said.

The OU board of regents will meet within two weeks to formalize plans to apply for membership to the Pac-12, the source said.

Messages left Sunday night with OU athletic director Joe Castiglione and Oklahoma State athletic director Mike Holder were not immediately returned.

If OU follows through with what appears to be a unanimous sentiment on the seven-member Oklahoma board of regents to leave the Big 12, realignment in college athletics could be heating back up. OU's application would be matched by an application from Oklahoma State, the source said, even though OSU president Burns Hargis and mega-booster Boone Pickens both voiced their support for the Big 12 last Thursday.

There is differing sentiment about if the Pac-12 presidents and chancellors are ready to expand again after bringing in Colorado and Utah last year and landing $3 billion TV contracts from Fox and ESPN. Colorado president Bruce Benson told reporters last week CU would be opposed to any expansion that might bring about east and west divisions in the Pac-12.

Currently, there are north and south divisions in the Pac-12. If OU and OSU were to join, Larry Scott would have to get creative.

Scott's orginal plan last summer was to bring in Colorado, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State and put them in an eastern division with Arizona and Arizona State. The old Pac-8 schools (USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington and Washington State) were to be in the west division.

Colorado made the move in June 2010, but when Texas A&M was not on board to go west, the Big 12 came back together with the help of its television partners (ABC/ESPN and Fox).

If Oklahoma and Oklahoma State were accepted into the Pac-12, there would undoubtedly be a hope by Larry Scott that Texas would join the league. But Texas sources have indicated UT is determined to hang onto the Longhorn Network, which would not be permissible in the Pac-12 in its current form.

Texas sources continue to indicate to Orangebloods.com that if the Big 12 falls apart, the Longhorns would consider "all options."

Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe held an emergency conference call 10 days ago with league presidents excluding Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M and asked the other league presidents to "work on Texas" because Beebe didn't think the Pac-12 would take Oklahoma without Texas.

Now, it appears OU is willing to take its chances with the Pac-12 with or without Texas.

There seemed to be a temporary pause in any possible shifting of the college athletics' landscape when Baylor led a charge to tie up Texas A&M's move to the Southeastern Conference in legal red tape. BU refused to waive its right to sue the SEC over A&M's departure from the Big 12, and the SEC said it would not admit Texas A&M until it had been cleared of any potential lawsuits.

Baylor, Kansas and Iowa State have indicated they will not waive their right to sue the SEC.

It's unclear if an application by OU to the Pac-12 would draw the same threats of litigation against the Pac-12 from those Big 12 schools.

Stay tuned.

Pants · 10-25-2011, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Bowser

Bullshit. We've won the "Get the **** Out From Under Texas' Thumb" race.

Did you commission a trophy for that yet?

**Bowser** · 10-25-2011, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Pants

Did you commission a trophy for that yet?

It's under construction. We're making it out of chapped Jayhawk asses and Keitzman's rage. Should be huge.

**Saul Good** · 10-25-2011, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Stewie

I've always said MU has never won anything.

Care to toss some more hillbilly smack while celebrating the addition of West Virginia?

Stewie · 10-25-2011, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Know know, puddin', I wouldn't want to bore the rest of the board with all that.

It's findable if you feel like doing the legwork, but this thread isn't about me.

Please - tell us more about airspeed vs. groundspeed.

Wait! What? You're suddenly a physicist?

Stewie · 10-25-2011, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good

Care to toss some more hillbilly smack while celebrating the addition of West Virginia?

One hillbilly team is acceptable. Half the league? Not so much.

DJ's left nut · 10-25-2011, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Stewie

Wait! What? You're suddenly a physicist?

Nah - just stayed at a Holiday Inn last night.

Stewie · 10-25-2011, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Nah - just stayed at a Holiday Inn last night.

Thanks Einstein.

**notorious** · 10-25-2011, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by KC native

I have no problem with Mizzou bolting. It would have been nice if they would have stayed because I have a lot of friends back home that I would have enjoyed talking trash to.
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I was referring to the "We would rather lose 4 in a tough conference then have a shot at the BCS in an average conference" take. That is the going theme for Mizzou fans in the discussion.

DJ's left nut · 10-25-2011, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Stewie

Thanks Einstein.

We can all aspire to your level, but few can ever truly hope to reach it.

Please sir, tell us all about that time that Ann Richards made sure Texas Tech got included in the Big XII.

**Saul Good** · 10-25-2011, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Stewie

One hillbilly team is acceptable. Half the league? Not so much.

So the guy from the state of 2 million people and no major pro sports teams is calling a state with 6,000,000 people and 5 teams hillbilly? Sounds right. It's amazing that every resident in Kansas seems to be magnetically attracted to the state of Missouri. I mean, your largest population base is a suburb of a Missouri city yet the irony of your comments is completely lost on you.

**KcMizzou** · 10-25-2011, 04:38 PM

Mojo Jojo · 10-25-2011, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

We can all aspire to your level, but few can ever truly hope to reach it.

Please sir, tell us all about that time that Ann Richards made sure Texas Tech got included in the Big XII.

Ann Richards made sure Baylor was in the Big 12...it is her Alma Mater...Big 8 schools wanted Houston, but Ann wouldn't let it happen without Baylor...Tech was always involved.

**notorious** · 10-25-2011, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good

It's amazing that every resident in Kansas seems to be magnetically attracted to the state of Missouri.

Not out West, just the East. But nearly all of the residents east of Hutchinson doesn't even know the west side of the state exists.

Al Bundy · 10-25-2011, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by notorious View Post
Find a Stewardess to finish.

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Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

Now we are talking!

Here ya go.

Trevo_410 · 10-25-2011, 04:40 PM

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