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 KChiefs1:
Mike Kelly just openly mocked Texas in the radio broadcast! Hilarious!
Really? That's crazy! Because MU is the Overlord of all things big-time football! Texas doesn't give a shit about MU... and as far as I can tell the SEC will let the little unknown sister in. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Stewie:
Really? That's crazy! Because MU is the Overlord of all things big-time football! Texas doesn't give a shit about MU... and as far as I can tell the SEC will let the little unknown sister in.
KU fans really don't care about Mizzou. No inferiority complex to see here. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Saul Good:
KU fans really don't care about Mizzou. No inferiority complex to see here.
Why would KU fans have an inferiority complex about Mizzou? In Mizzou's best football season in a half-century, KU ended up going to a better bowl. Are we supposed to be in awe of all of Gary Pinkel's current mediocrity and partial success?
That, of course, isn't even mentioning Mizzou's failings in basketball, which is really the only sport anybody cares about at KU. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
Why would KU fans have an inferiority complex about Mizzou? In Mizzou's best football season in a half-century, KU ended up going to a better bowl.
I thought that year, the best season in KU football history, Mizzou beat KU's asses and finished the season ranked higher while KU finished third in the conference. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Spott:
That's one way to word that. Another is that in the best season that KU football ever had and ever will have, they still lost to MU, finished in 3rd place behind MU, ended the season ranked behind MU just like every other season. And that extra money they got from the Orange Bowl? That was spent buying out Mangino's contract and the football program is back to being a complete joke and won't even win a conference game this year.
... there's a silver lining in even the darkest of clouds. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Saul Good:
I thought that year, the best season in KU football history, Mizzou beat KU's asses and finished the season ranked higher while KU finished third in the conference.
Orange Bowl.
Originally Posted by :
Speaking of bowl games, will this be your 5th straight season not making any or just your 5th?
Don't know, I don't worry about it. KU is a basketball school.
Originally Posted by SPChief:
FYP
I'm just wondering what KU fans should feel inferior about. If anything, I've noticed there's a major complex the other way. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Saul Good:
KU has the worst team in D-1 in the most popular sport in the country. You should feel inferior to every other team because you are.
This is like bragging that the Toronto Blue Jays are better than the Kansas City Royals. Who gives a shit? [Reply]
