Funny Stuff New Conference re-alignment thread - Page 638

**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.

Kiimo · 09-04-2021, 01:07 PM

Or let kids do whatever the **** they want and don't try to gatekeep fun

Chiefspants · 09-04-2021, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by TribalElder

Kansas has stormed the field to celebrate their first win since 2019 pic.twitter.com/t0pW9kN6y3
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) September 4, 2021

Just let us have this.

louie aguiar · 09-04-2021, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by TribalElder

Kansas has stormed the field to celebrate their first win since 2019 pic.twitter.com/t0pW9kN6y3
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) September 4, 2021

Haha - that’s great

Eleazar · 09-04-2021, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by TribalElder

Kansas has stormed the field to celebrate their first win since 2019 pic.twitter.com/t0pW9kN6y3
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) September 4, 2021

Storming the field after beating an FCS team that hasn't had a winning record in 4 years

Prison Bitch · 09-04-2021, 01:35 PM

Aaron Rodgers is a huge KU football fan

Kiimo · 09-04-2021, 01:57 PM

When I saw him wearing a man bun and getting engaged to a hippy actress who eats clay and suntans her vagina I knew he was one of us

KChiefs1 · 09-04-2021, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Eleazar

Storming the field after beating an FCS team that hasn't had a winning record in 4 years

I laughed but Jayhawks are pretty funny at football.

Prison Bitch · 09-04-2021, 02:27 PM

Prison Bitch · 09-05-2021, 01:03 PM

RustShack · 09-05-2021, 01:18 PM

They won’t be waiting much longer.

Prison Bitch · 09-05-2021, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by RustShack

They won’t be waiting much longer.

Hey man, awesome pic of your fam at the game yesterday

RustShack · 09-05-2021, 01:39 PM

Lol my family and I aren’t quite that old. Or big.

Sassy Squatch · 09-05-2021, 01:46 PM

Can't even imagine how patronizing that was for the players after the fact. Having an extremely competitive game against an FCS team be treated like it's a championship win.

Al Bundy · 09-05-2021, 02:28 PM

USF fans are taking it pretty hard that UCF has left them in the dust.

KChiefs1 · 09-05-2021, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

This week?

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