I predict in the end, the Texas schools will join the SEC.
Don’t fix what isn’t broken.
The PAC-10 is one of the most perfect conferences by geographic makeup, culture, and history.
Adding 6 schools east of the rockies is idiotic. Plus 16 teams each year vying for one of the Rose Bowl invites? Ugghhhh.......
I would never believed that the Big 12 would collapse before the very weak Big East.
horrible move....
And many of those schools were part of the Southwest Conference, which fell apart in the early '90s.
What's the common denominator in the failure of the SWC, and the difficulties with the Big 12? At some point you have to start wondering whether those schools have something to do with the problem.....
The Pac-10 would be foolish to associate itself with them.
The Big 12 is done for. Not big enough to feed Texas ego and not in the big TV markets which is what’s driving all of this. Texas will go where they want, and bring along whomever they want - probably to PAC 10.
The future will be 4 16-team conferences, all with TV network deals. That will be the new Division I, everyone else will be Division II whether they are called that or not.
I used to think that Frank Broyles made a big mistake when he took Arkansas to the SEC. I thought that Arkansas would be much better off playing Big 8 schools like Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Missouri, and of course the Texas schools when the SWC folded. Its now looking like old Frank made the right choice.