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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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Sassy Squatch 12:23 PM 08-04-2023
Originally Posted by KingPriest2:
Wow!!!! You got to be kidding me. Crow said this??!?!! He’s horrible

ASU's Crow told Robbins to "go without us" and he just did!! #BearDown #Utes #Big12

https://twitter.com/gswaim/status/16...n6FHKMqlrjZx2w
Wut?
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tredadda 12:31 PM 08-04-2023
Originally Posted by Mecca:
The Pac is dead and nothing can save it no one will care about a conference that no longer has traditional power schools made up of a few names and a bunch of scrubs.
Exactly. If UW and UO and UA leave then I can’t see how ASU and Utah (not a traditional PAC-12 power) save the conference. Outside of SDSU, who could that conference even add?
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Bearcat 12:33 PM 08-04-2023
3 little dots on the top right of tweets... embed... copy code.
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Mr. Plow 12:35 PM 08-04-2023
:-)

Source: Arizona State president Michael Crow believes the corpse of the Pac-12 is “cooking up something special” and wants to wait and see how it plays out.

— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) August 4, 2023

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lawrenceRaider 12:37 PM 08-04-2023
Originally Posted by Mr. Plow:
:-)


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Pablo 12:38 PM 08-04-2023
Is KU still Mountain West bound????
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tredadda 12:39 PM 08-04-2023
Originally Posted by Mr. Plow:
:-)

Must feel like that his university will get an invite if things don't work out. Or publicly trying to say the right things while planning on an exit. If the PAC loses the Seattle, Portland, Denver, and a portion of the Phoenix market after losing LA, there is zero chance they get any sort of significant deal. What markets would they even still control? SF? SLC (although that's probably as much BYU as Utah)?
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KingPriest2 12:40 PM 08-04-2023
Originally Posted by Mecca:
The Pac is dead and nothing can save it no one will care about a conference that no longer has traditional power schools made up of a few names and a bunch of scrubs.
This guy is just as bad as George
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lawrenceRaider 12:44 PM 08-04-2023
Originally Posted by KingPriest2:
This guy is just as bad as George
Isn't that the guy people kept posting here as if he had facts?
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KingPriest2 12:45 PM 08-04-2023
Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider:
Isn't that the guy people kept posting here as if he had facts?
Yeah. And the Tom Adelmore guy
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lawrenceRaider 12:48 PM 08-04-2023
Originally Posted by KChiefs1:
Stupidity reigns supreme in the now defunct Big 12.
Golden one right here.
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MarkDavis'Haircut 12:49 PM 08-04-2023
Originally Posted by Pablo:
Is KU still Mountain West bound????
Big West
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Mr. Plow 01:00 PM 08-04-2023

SEC poaches Texas A&M from Big 12
B1G poaches Nebraska from Big 12
SEC poaches Mizzou from Big 12
PAC poaches Colorado from Big 12
SEC poaches Texas & OU from Big 12
B1G poaches USC & UCLA from PAC

Media: WHY IS THE BIG 12 TRYING TO DESTROY COLLEGE FOOTBALL?!?!?!

— Iowa Everyjer (@clonesjer) August 4, 2023

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lawrenceRaider 01:10 PM 08-04-2023

BREAKING: #Utes and #SunDevils will only get partial shares, if they even get a #Big12 offer at all and that's being decided in a meeting right now. #StayTuned pic.twitter.com/fzzRVOZ7rU

— THE SWAIM SHOW (@GSwaim) August 4, 2023

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BWillie 01:13 PM 08-04-2023
Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider:
Hahahahhahaha
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