Posted on 06/09/2010 5:11:45 PM PDT by C19fan
The Big 12 appears to be dead.
A source close to the Nebraska Board of Regents told Orangebloods.com the regents informally agreed Wednesday to move to the Big Ten and that a formal announcement Nebraska is leaving will come Friday.
Sources close to Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech have suggested to Orangebloods.com over the last week that if Nebraska leaves, the Big 12 can't be saved.
Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds and president Williams Powers gathered UT coaches today at 2 p.m. CT to tell them they did everything they could to save the Big 12 but that they were unsuccessful.
Just as Orangebloods.com was first to report last Thursday, the Pac-10 will invite Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Colorado.
And it appears those invitations will be accepted.
According to sources, Colorado will also opt out of the Big 12 and accept an invitation to the Pac-10.
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I hate that this is happening but am resigned to it. Maybe our new overrated coach can do something other than wear his suit and parade around telling how wonderful he is...but I don’t hold out much hope for that either. I may have to find a hobby in the fall other than Saturday football....
and invite ND
never going to happen.....the big 10 may need N.D. but N.D. doesn’t need the big ten. They have such a lucritive football deal, that a conference could never touch it
According to Orangebloods.com, Cal-Berkeley doesn’t want Baylor to join the conference because of their Christian background. Puh-leeze! Bunch o’ crybaby lefties.
Pathetic.
Well, I tried dating for a few months and that didn't work out all that great. :(
Notre Dame has already had their chance a number of years ago when they were invited to join the Big 10. There are 2 reasons why Notre Dame will not join the Big 10 or any other conference right now for football.
1. Their $50 Million per year contract with NBC.
2. Their deal in the BCS. If Notre Dame makes a BCS bowl, they are guaranteed $10 million. If they do not make a BCS bowl, they still get $1.5 Million.
With the exception of Football and hockey, Notre Dame is a member of the Big East. Football, they are an independent. Hockey, they are a member of the CCHA.
Unless the Big 12 gains the majority of the Mountain West members, I would like to see Iowa State and Missouri in the Big 10. Kansas and Kansas State also might be interesting.
Why are the Texas Schools joining the PAC 10? It’s not a match geographically, historically or culturally. It’s stupid and I will call UT tomorrow. (As if it will do any good.)
And the same thing goes for the Oklahoma Schools.
Not to take your thread off topic but I did some digging around in regards to the NCAA infractions committee ruling on USC and Reggie Bush (due out tomorrow) and I found some of the Investigation Documents that the NCAA will use as proof of Reggie receiving improper benefits, oh man
Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech can always move to the Big East! ;O)
Most if not all of the 2010 football schedules have already been released. Basketball conference schedules usually don’t come out until later in the calendar year.
Do away with the silly conference system! Structure college competition the same way they do high schools. Have classes with the bigger and more competitive schools competing against each other. That will end the ridiculous sacrificial lamb games where big schools get to beat up on weaker opponents so they can get an easy win and the lesser school gets some TV money. With different classes (or tiers), then there could finally be a playoff system at the end. The current structure doesn’t work.
the Big Ten will never invite Cincy. Cincy would never be approved by the university presidents.
The talk about adding Rutgers or Maryland or Syracuse are about expanding the BTN geographically. And I see the need for some of that.
But, along the way adding Pitt and (ideally) WVU gives the Big Ten the whole enchilada in the football market in this area. Having lots of eyeballs in a football hotbed is better (IMO) than having the state of Maryland or New Jersey.
It's stupid that Pitt and Penn State don't play. So I welcome advances to restore that rivalry.
Agreed. Add politically to that list as well. Aside from UT, the rest of the schools (especially A&M) are generally conservative.
Long time!! Yep it does suck for Baylor cause I can’t see the Big 12 surviving without raiding the WAC or MWC....
I was thinking that this might free up Nebraska to play Oklahoma every year. Since the Big 8 became the Big 12 and Oklahoma and nebraska are in seperate divisions they only play each other every other year. Now that Nebraska will be in the Big Ten maybe Nebraska can play Oklahoma as part of their non-conference schedule. Maybe a September matchup or maybe a late November game after the conference schedule is done.
Word here in the south is that the SEC is preparing to counter the Pac-10 with an offer to the 4 Texas schools - Texas, Texas tech, Texas A&M, Baylor.
If the Pac-10 gets them, the fall back is Florida St, Miami, Clemson, Ga Tech
This is sweet.
Can’t wait to watch Pelini shut out Ohio State.
That I'd like to see more than the 16-Pack [sic]. Add OU and OSU to that list and the SEC would indeed be mighty.
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