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.

[RustShack]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

The Pac-12's TV deal has more $$$ involved than the B12's currently.

https://www.on3.com/news/conference-...lege-football/

No it doesn’t.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by RustShack

Still waiting?????

Was hoping you'd show back up. I posted because my son was given 2 tickets to the game last Saturday as part of his recruitment. He doesn't like either team, although he has several cousins that attend (or have attended) okie state and a group of around ten friends that attend isu.

Both teams looked pretty brutal, but he was glad that isu got the win.

[RustShack]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

Was hoping you'd show back up. I posted because my son was given 2 tickets to the game last Saturday as part of his recruitment. He doesn't like either team, although he has several cousins that attend (or have attended) okie state and a group of around ten friends that attend isu.

Both teams looked pretty brutal, but he was glad that isu got the win.

Hey that’s pretty exciting and glad to hear it. Hope he does well wherever he goes.

[WhawhaWhat]

Source: USC and UCLA are planning to leave for the Big Ten as early as 2024. Move *has not been finalized* at the highest levels of power.

— Jon Wilner (@wilnerhotline) June 30, 2022

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by Coach

How my ass taste now, haters?

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...postcount=8991

UCF, Houston, and Cincinnati are in (BYU is a good get, better than Memphis).

Remember when Mike Aresco and the AAC was going to poach existing Big 12 members?

It isn't just that they were unable to do that, but they couldn't even coax schools from the Mountain West or Sun Belt to join their league. In fact, the AAC just made themselves worse, considering they had to poach schools from C-USA.

This aged well.

[duncan_idaho]

PAC-12 and Big 12 leftover merger has to happen as a result, I’d think.


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[lawrenceRaider]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

PAC-12 and Big 12 leftover merger has to happen as a result, I’d think.


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24 team league?

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider

24 team league?

Yes, but I think it’s more likely P12 goes after Boise St., SDSU, other western schools with the best of the rest in the B12.

[Titty Meat]

Well dayum the NYC, Chicago, and LA market. B1G gonna eat

[KC_Connection]

2 massive super conferences on the way. Leftover B12 and P12 schools will likely have to band together to stay even close.

[Titty Meat]

Hopefully Lincoln Riley turns into Mike Riley in the B1G but I doubt it

[Sassy Squatch]

Welp, SEC calling up Clemson and FSU now prolly.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

Source: USC and UCLA are planning to leave for the Big Ten as early as 2024. Move *has not been finalized* at the highest levels of power.

— Jon Wilner (@wilnerhotline) June 30, 2022

The travel for the non FB sports will be brutal

If there were any holdouts left who oppose players being paid on the grounds it’s “amateur sports”, they should see themselves to the door

[Kiimo]

As a Jayhawk living in Los Angeles I would gladly join the Big 10 and then take a trip to see UCLA slaughter KU in Lawrence with Bruin friends.

Half kidding but also seriously that would be amazing.

Also KU basketball in Los Angeles twice a season minimum sounds equally fun.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by Superturtle

Welp, SEC calling up Clemson and FSU now prolly.

That ACC GOR goes through 2036 or some such shit. That would a bit costly