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Nzoner's Game Room>New Conference re-alignment thread
Saulbadguy 07:57 AM 09-12-2011
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.
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Mosbonian 04:50 PM 10-04-2011
Originally Posted by Wickedson:
Why would he cover the SEC?

KC is a KU town anyway.
You really are in denial....the Kansas side of KC is all KU.

The only KU fans in KCMO are the interlopers that somehow escaped across the river.
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eazyb81 04:50 PM 10-04-2011
Originally Posted by Rams Fan:
40/40/20 split.
Dude he would know, he lives in Harlem.
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Bambi 04:50 PM 10-04-2011
Are we really going to get into a discussion about whether KC has more KU or MU fans??
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Mr. Plow 04:51 PM 10-04-2011
Originally Posted by Mosbonian:
You really are in denial....the Kansas side of KC is all KU.

The only KU fans in KCMO are the interlopers that somehow escaped across the river.
This was proven as fact this past weekend at Worlds of Fun.
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MoreLemonPledge 04:52 PM 10-04-2011
Kietzman is about to cry.
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Sassy Squatch 04:53 PM 10-04-2011
Originally Posted by Mr. Plow:
This was proven as fact this past weekend at Worlds of Fun.
:-)
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eazyb81 04:54 PM 10-04-2011
KK just said the Big 12 is more stable than the SEC.

:-):-):-)

Dude is losing his shit live on air.
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Mr. Plow 04:55 PM 10-04-2011
Originally Posted by eazyb81:
KK just said the Big 12 is more stable than the SEC.

:-):-):-)
If by stable he means "Likely to collapse in the next 2-4 years" then yes....the Big 12 is more stable than the SEC.
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Al Bundy 04:55 PM 10-04-2011
Furthermore KK doesn't know anything about the SEC. 6 OU's!!!!111
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Crush 04:55 PM 10-04-2011
The BOC is now just cockteasing us.
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Saul Good 04:55 PM 10-04-2011
Originally Posted by Mr. Plow:
If by stable he means "Likely to collapse in the next 2-4 hours" then yes....the Big 12 is more stable than the SEC.
FYP.

And yes, the WOF test never lies.
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Mosbonian 04:56 PM 10-04-2011
Originally Posted by Wickedson:
Are we really going to get into a discussion about whether KC has more KU or MU fans??
Only if we know it is really going to piss you off....
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Bambi 04:56 PM 10-04-2011
KK, "I'm a simpleton"
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Al Bundy 04:56 PM 10-04-2011
Wicked.. sorry bro. Overland Park is KU, Kansas City MO is MU.
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Mr. Plow 04:56 PM 10-04-2011
Originally Posted by Saul Good:
FYP.

And yes, the WOF test never lies.
:-)

You are correct.
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