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.

[Al Bundy]

Sources: USC and UCLA have been notified that their application to join the Big Ten has been accepted. The schools will begin play in 2024.

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) June 30, 2022

[TribalElder]

USC and ucla are dumb as hell

Travel will kill them

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by TribalElder

Is that some kind of XXX pride month video, typical KU stuff

Lmao

Epic roast just epic

[BWillie]

Yeah if true I don't see what other options Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado have....or even Oregon and Washington.

Big 12 might have to add more.

[displacedinMN]

stunned I tell you--stunned.

This is what happens when I am not on the computer all day and leave town.

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

I care about UK basketball, just not as much as UK football.

I went to road games for both this season and stayed an entire game for football when they lost by 60 to Alabama on the road in 2020.

You are an oddball. KU & UK fans are just alike.


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[displacedinMN]

This makes life a lot tougher for Iowa.


Almost takes Minnesota out of the Big ten race all together.
But PJ will just say everyone poops. (****ing egomaniac)

[Titty Meat]

Originally Posted by TribalElder

USC and ucla are dumb as hell

Travel will kill them

Teams will have to travel there too. The billion dollars split among 16 schools and being able to recruit the west coast certainly outweighs all of that

[lawrenceRaider]

Originally Posted by TribalElder

Is that some kind of XXX pride month video, typical KU stuff

Ah, I see your mistake. Moo doesn't know what winning looks or feels like.

[Titty Meat]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

stunned I tell you--stunned.

This is what happens when I am not on the computer all day and leave town.

You talking about the 5* kid you guys got today? Congrats Iowa has really been crushing it with recruiting lately

[alpha_omega]

That certainly changes things.
Don’t like it, but oh well.

[KChiefs1]

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[Hoover]

The only travel that’s problematic will be Basketball.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by Titty Meat

Teams will have to travel there too. The billion dollars split among 16 schools and being able to recruit the west coast certainly outweighs all of that

Maybe. But it may also cause less viewers during live primetime if say Ohio State has to go to USC and play at a 7:00pm PST game. That's 10:00pm in Ohio.

But if they go towards the NFL model and place that game at 3:20pm or a 6:00pm time frame, that'd probably work.

Plus with all that milage, got to imagine that might increase USC's and UCLA's travel budget?

Lots of unknown factors at this moment.

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by Titty Meat

You talking about the 5* kid you guys got today? Congrats Iowa has really been crushing it with recruiting lately

didnt know about that either. I was outside all day. Painting parts of the new deck. then traveled to the cabin.

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