Funny Stuff New Conference re-alignment thread - Page 554

**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.

mnchiefsguy · 01-24-2012, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by baitism

I accidentally had the radio on 810 when I started my car this morning and heard about 30 seconds of KK before I wanted to puke and changed it to 610. Dude really believes Clemson is going to come to the Big 12. LOL.

Yeah, KK was all hot and bothered thinking FSU and Clemson would be coming to the Big XII. Made me laugh.

**KcMizzou** · 01-24-2012, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by |Zach|

And have Rust "hey you guys, this is the year ISU is gonna be good" Shack post it.

You have to admire his persistence. That dude just keeps throwing it out there.. "One of these days..."

RustShack · 01-24-2012, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by |Zach|

And have Rust "hey you guys, this is the year ISU is gonna be good" Shack post it.

We've been better every year since I started saying that. And next year isn't going to be any different. Your school bitched out at the right time.

**KcMizzou** · 01-24-2012, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by RustShack

We've been better every year since I started saying that. And next year isn't going to be any different. Your school bitched out at the right time.

RustShack · 01-24-2012, 11:57 PM

Trevo_410 · 01-25-2012, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by RustShack

Bambi · 01-25-2012, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by baitism

I accidentally had the radio on 810 when I started my car this morning and heard about 30 seconds of KK before I wanted to puke and changed it to 610. Dude really believes Clemson is going to come to the Big 12. LOL.

lol, anyway...what story is he referring to? I heard him talk about it too.

Is he using that blog and CP as his sources??

|Zach| · 01-25-2012, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by RustShack

We've been better every year since I started saying that. And next year isn't going to be any different. Your school bitched out at the right time.

Sucks not having that automatic Cyclone win each year.

Pitt Gorilla · 01-25-2012, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by RustShack

We've been better every year since I started saying that. And next year isn't going to be any different. Your school bitched out at the right time.

My Panthers did you guys in your house. Mizzou did as well.

Pitt Gorilla · 01-25-2012, 10:48 AM

New Logo inside the athletic complex.

duncan_idaho · 01-25-2012, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

New Logo inside the athletic complex.

Wow.

I think conference pride is stupid (will never chant SEC, will never brag about how tough conference is, will never root for another conference school, just like I treat the Big 12), but that is a pretty badass logo, I must admit.

**Saul Good** · 01-25-2012, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by baitism

I accidentally had the radio on 810 when I started my car this morning and heard about 30 seconds of KK before I wanted to puke and changed it to 610. Dude really believes Clemson is going to come to the Big 12. LOL.

I love listening to him talk about realignment.

He called the Gators a nothing team and said they dropped from champions to obscurity or something along those lines.

He also promised that Mizzou would wish we were back in the Big XII within 10 years.

Neinas was on the show late and proved that he had no understanding of how the conference network would work nor does he have any clue how much the B1G network charges per household (said it was $0.40 per household). It did sound like the conference wants to expand, though.

DJ's left nut · 01-25-2012, 11:04 AM

Okay, that is freakin' awesome

kepp · 01-25-2012, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by |Zach|

Sucks not having that automatic Cyclone win each year.

Cyclones, Commodores...tomato, tomahto

kepp · 01-25-2012, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good

Neinas was on the show late and proved that he had no understanding of how the conference network would work nor does he have any clue how much the B1G network charges per household (said it was $0.40 per household). It did sound like the conference wants to expand, though.

I heard some of that interview. They spent the entire time (that I heard) trying to "prove" that Mizzou would gain nothing from the move and that we had miscalculated everything.

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