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.
Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish:
But on the other side, MU has ROYrunn and CoMo agreeing with them. So the three horseman of the idiotpocalypse are torn on MU leaving.
That's the kind of endorsement that kills a campaign.
You believe some strange shit Bill... Very strange... [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pants:
Your school is the definition of futility when it comes to Athletic Department success. Your state has 6,000,000 people living in it and only one BCS school, it takes a special dedication to suck as bad as your school does. Don't take someone saying MU is a land whale covered in zits so personally, though. You're a wanted a school. Happy?
What would Turner Gill think if he heard you speaking to me so discourteously? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pants:
Your school is the definition of futility when it comes to Athletic Department success. Your state has 6,000,000 people living in it and only one BCS school, it takes a special dedication to suck as bad as your school does. Don't take someone saying MU is a land whale covered in zits so personally, though. You're a wanted a school. Happy?
I had to put on my glasses to make sure this wasn't a Wickeddumb post. [Reply]
Actually, when I joined Chiefsplanet in 03, my family was living in MN. That is where my wife is from. We have since moved back to KC.
I don't really care what insults people want to hurl. Just made a comment about ed being full of crap, which he is.
I am a Mizzou and fan and think the SEC is a good move for them. I think it will help realize some of the potential that I always heard analysts spout off about over the years. Mizzou has been called "a sleeping giant" more than once, and I hope someday the giant truly awakens. I think it can. [Reply]
Originally Posted by mnchiefsguy:
At least you are not in denial like Wickedson, I will give you that. Most of your points in this thread have been realistic.
WTI and I dont really care much for each other. Actually there isnt anything but pure hate between us... So no love loss between him and I. [Reply]
Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish:
ROYrunn, you suckball sack in so many ways, that NOT sucking Texas ballsack makes you even more of a ballsack sucking ballsack.
Originally Posted by ReeTodd_KC:
I guess not sucking the ball sack of Texas is strange, then I admit I am guilty.
I deserve to be called out on that.
I really like you as a person so I've been trying to just ignore your posts, but you say some of the dumbest shit, man. I mean, nobody fucking wants Kansas at this point. The only reason MU is not "sucking the ball sack of Texas" (whatever the fuck that even means) is because they might actually have options. What in the world do you want KU to do? Go independent? Jesus Christ, man. [Reply]
Originally Posted by mnchiefsguy:
At least you are not in denial like Wickedson, I will give you that. Most of your points in this thread have been realistic.
lol. He's traded washing the ballsack of UT for washing the ballsack of MU...of course you think his points have been realistic. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish:
But on the other side, MU has ROYrunn and CoMo agreeing with them. So the three horseman of the idiotpocalypse are torn on MU leaving.
That's the kind of endorsement that kills a campaign.
