New Conference re-alignment thread

[Saulbadguy]

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.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider

I realize it really burns all y'all's asses that KU's basketball program is a bigger draw than your football programs, but that's the reality.

Sad truth is KU's football can't get worse, but our basketball program will continue to bring in more viewers than probably both your football programs combined.

JFC....You have some serious jilted lover stuff going on. The question is, where are you going to? If that's too difficult for you to answer, then so be it.

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider

I realize it really burns all y'all's asses that KU's basketball program is a bigger draw than your football programs, but that's the reality.

Sad truth is KU's football can't get worse, but our basketball program will continue to bring in more viewers than probably both your football programs combined.

I am actually glad KUs basketball program is great. I was born and raised in KC and them having a good program is good for KC.

[RustShack]

Originally Posted by tredadda

Apparently the B1G. It's all but set in stone at this point according to unnamed rumors.

When’s the announcement?

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by RustShack

When’s the announcement?

No clue. I am not a KU fan. I am just basing off of what is said here.

[BryanBusby]

Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider

It is likely more people in KC watch KU basketball than watch MU or KSU football

There are nearly 3 times as many basketball games.

Well the conferences will be rolling out the red carpet for KU. Any day now. Just you wait and see.

[sedated]

Originally Posted by RustShack

Max Olson on Twitter-

The Big 12's current preference in expansion discussions is adding four members, sources tell @TheAthletic.

BYU, UCF, Cincinnati and Houston are considered the leading contenders. Still a lot of work to be done.

I just don't see how a conference call have schools in Utah/Idaho (Boise St), Florida, and West Virginia.

Those are some long flights, and the Big 12 already made scheduling concessions for WV so they could play 2 teams in the same week without having to go all the way back to WV in between.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by BryanBusby

Well the conferences will be rolling out the red carpet for KU. Any day now. Just you wait and see.

It will clearly be KSU's fault for holding us back if such a scenario plays out.

[TribalElder]

KU fans still trying to hate on MU and it's a decade after they left the Big howevermany

Looks like the smartest decision ever now

uncertainty makes you cranky, try a snickers

[Sassy Squatch]

Originally Posted by TribalElder

KU fans still trying to hate on MU and it's a decade after they left the Big howevermany

Looks like the smartest decision ever now

uncertainty makes you cranky, try a snickers

To be fair, it's mostly just Lawrence Raider that brings any actual hostility. Even PB is doing it for the lulz at this point.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by TribalElder

KU fans still trying to hate on MU and it's a decade after they left the Big howevermany

Looks like the smartest decision ever now

uncertainty makes you cranky, try a snickers

Mizzouche sports is too irrelevant to hate.

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Mizzouche sports is too irrelevant to hate.

And yet your last 4 posts in this thread, dating back a week, have nothing to do with conference realignment, rather referencing ‘Mizzouche’ as you like to say.

You may not ‘hate’ them, but you do seem a little obsessed with them . . . . .

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

It will clearly be KSU's fault for holding us back if such a scenario plays out.

[Mr. Plow]

Originally Posted by RustShack

When’s the announcement?

Next year.

[lawrenceRaider]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Mizzouche sports is too irrelevant to hate.

The rivalry with KU was all they really had.

Of course without MU, KU football has been abysmal.

Hmm, it is a conundrum.

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider

The rivalry with KU was all they really had.

Of course without MU, KU football has been abysmal.

Hmm, it is a conundrum.

Mizzou obsession.