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.

[KingPriest2]

Well utah accepted. They overcame their man elitism complex to the Big 12

https://www.youtube.com/live/RXEglczV2GI?feature=share

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by KingPriest2

Lol again I posted that above

Dude you gotta figure out the embed. I'm just ****ing with you

[FloridaMan88]

Originally Posted by KingPriest2

Well utah accepted. They overcame their man elitism complex to the Big 12

https://www.youtube.com/live/RXEglczV2GI?feature=share

The Holy War with BYU-Utah will now be a Big 12 conference game.

[KingPriest2]

Originally Posted by Pablo

Dude you gotta figure out the embed. I'm just ****ing with you

Lol love it

How do you do embed?

[RustShack]

Originally Posted by KingPriest2

Lol again I posted that above

Yeah but you don’t know how to properly post tweets.

[RustShack]

Originally Posted by KingPriest2

Lol love it

How do you do embed?

That was posted a few pages back.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by BWillie

All of the four corner schools are coming to the Big 12 once Colorado ditches the Pac.

All of them.

Write it in stone.

The great sorcerer BWillie at it again. I can predict the future. That was from early June.

[KingPriest2]

Originally Posted by RustShack

That was posted a few pages back.

Can you show me how please?

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by KingPriest2

Can you show me how please?

If you know then you know.

Its very sciency.

[Jerm]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

The Holy War with BYU-Utah will now be a Big 12 conference game.

The most underrated rivalry in all of college sports…glad it’s sticking around.

BTW what’s the dumbest matchup everyone is looking forward to with all this stupid shit? Can’t wait for that USC/Rutgers tilt lol…

[Coach]

Embedding - See attached thumbnails.

Capture - You will see 3 dots on the right of the tweet. Click on that.

Capture 2 - Drop down occurs, click on Embed Tweet.

Then likely an open new window will occur. Click on the blue copy code button.

Then paste on here and submit reply.

Should work.

Not my best work, but eh....#Pac #Big12 #CFB pic.twitter.com/ST47Ex0qrw

— Swede������ (@CarlsonSwede) August 4, 2023

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Coach

Embedding - See attached thumbnails.

Capture - You will see 3 dots on the right of the tweet. Click on that.

Capture 2 - Drop down occurs, click on Embed Tweet.

Then likely an open new window will occur. Click on the blue copy code button.

Then paste on here and submit reply.

Should work.

Not my best work, but eh....#Pac #Big12 #CFB pic.twitter.com/ST47Ex0qrw

— Swede������ (@CarlsonSwede) August 4, 2023

That is fantastic

[Raiderhater]

Originally Posted by Coach

Embedding - See attached thumbnails.

Capture - You will see 3 dots on the right of the tweet. Click on that.

Capture 2 - Drop down occurs, click on Embed Tweet.

Then likely an open new window will occur. Click on the blue copy code button.

Then paste on here and submit reply.

Should work.

Not my best work, but eh....#Pac #Big12 #CFB pic.twitter.com/ST47Ex0qrw

— Swede������ (@CarlsonSwede) August 4, 2023

On a computer. I can’t do it from my phone.

[Al Bundy]

Big 12 Conference Adds Arizona, Arizona State and Utah pic.twitter.com/Or4ypfW7d8

— Big 12 Conference (@Big12Conference) August 5, 2023

[Coach]

Hope y'all didn't come here to play school pic.twitter.com/sYLzPbNpGS

— CowpokeU���� (@cowpoke_u) August 4, 2023