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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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MarkDavis'Haircut 11:28 AM 08-05-2023
Originally Posted by Titty Meat:
With Arizona in the conference KU gets bumped to #2 in bball
Now this is a grand return post. :-)
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Pablo 11:34 AM 08-05-2023
Originally Posted by Titty Meat:
With Arizona in the conference KU gets bumped to #2 in bball
Interesting thoughts billiam

Welcome back to the thunderdome, don't go doing anything stupid like goin' and gettin yourself banned again.

Counterthought, with the addition of all the west coast football teams in the B1G where's corn at now? #10?
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MarkDavis'Haircut 11:36 AM 08-05-2023
Originally Posted by Pablo:
Interesting thoughts billiam

Welcome back to the thunderdome, don't go doing anything stupid like goin' and gettin yourself banned again.

Counterthought, with the addition of all the west coast football teams in the B1G where's corn at now? #10?
In line for the Foster Farms Bowl.
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Pablo 11:40 AM 08-05-2023
Originally Posted by MarkDavis'Haircut:
In line for the Foster Farms Bowl.
You talkin bout bowl games?????

Shit that's like 7-8 years ago for corn. Losing to Iowa every year is their bowl game.
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displacedinMN 11:45 AM 08-05-2023
cant believe how crazy fast these decisions are being made
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Pablo 11:49 AM 08-05-2023
Originally Posted by displacedinMN:
cant believe how crazy fast these decisions are being made
When the ship is sinking you hold on to the first thing that floats
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ROYC75 12:14 PM 08-05-2023
Originally Posted by Pablo:
Interesting thoughts billiam

Welcome back to the thunderdome, don't go doing anything stupid like goin' and gettin yourself banned again.

Counterthought, with the addition of all the west coast football teams in the B1G where's corn at now? #10?
17 or 18, depending on how many more Pac 12 teams B1G takes in.
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ROYC75 12:17 PM 08-05-2023
Originally Posted by Titty Meat:
With Arizona in the conference KU gets bumped to #2 in bball
Says the guy tooting his own horn and whistle while his own head stuck up his own ass!

Now there is one you can take to the bank!
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Pablo 12:20 PM 08-05-2023
Originally Posted by ROYC75:
Says the guy tooting his own horn and whistle while his own head stuck up his own ass!

Now there is one you can take to the bank!
Have you met bill? He'd be stoked to have a head, horn and whistle inside his ass.
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ROYC75 12:26 PM 08-05-2023
Originally Posted by Pablo:
Have you met bill? He'd be stoked to have a head, horn and whistle inside his ass.
It's always been my understanding that he has always been this way.

BTA, That is just heresay from the horses mouth himself.
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Chiefspants 12:47 PM 08-05-2023
Originally Posted by Titty Meat:
With Arizona in the conference KU gets bumped to #2 in bball
It’ll be nice to finally have a rival in the conference.
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Pablo 12:50 PM 08-05-2023
Big 12 basketball will be a must watch
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ForeverIowan 12:51 PM 08-05-2023
Basketball in the Big 12 is going to be downright ridiculous. Especially if they add Gonzaga and UConn for basketball only. You could make a genuine argument the below teams are top 30 programs in the country currently. All of them with extremely passionate fan bases.

Kansas, Arizona, Baylor, Gonzaga, UConn, Houston, Texas Tech, Iowa State, Kansas State, West Virginia
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MarkDavis'Haircut 12:56 PM 08-05-2023
Originally Posted by displacedinMN:
cant believe how crazy fast these decisions are being made
These decisions have been discussed for months.
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BWillie 12:56 PM 08-05-2023
Originally Posted by ForeverIowan:
Basketball in the Big 12 is going to be downright ridiculous. Especially if they add Gonzaga and UConn for basketball only. You could make a genuine argument the below teams are top 30 programs in the country currently. All of them with extremely passionate fan bases.

Kansas, Arizona, Baylor, Gonzaga, UConn, Houston, Texas Tech, Iowa State, Kansas State, West Virginia
I really think getting Gonzaga and UCONN for basketball only and then in the next media contract separate out the basketball to make more money. I think Yormark is onto something and basketball is going to suddenly get EXTREMELY valuable when the SEC, Big Ten, and Big 12 secede from the NCAA and make their own post season basketball tournament.
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