Posted on 06/09/2010 5:11:45 PM PDT by C19fan
If that is true then why are the PAC 10 and SEC planning to expand?
And why would the Big Ten expand West and not South?
It is about get big or get gone the same as everywhere else in society today.
We will end up four mega conferences.
THats what I see too.
SEC, Big-10 and Pac-10 all becoming 16 team conferences, basically forcing the ACC and Big East to merge in some way.
Agree on OU and OSU, but the SEC is loath to go to 18 teams from what TV and radio says. They really do not want to expand to 16 but will to match the other conference moves.
The Texas offer is an attempt to be more appealing to not just the schools but the state legislature by offering all 4 teams. Unfortunately that made OU and OSU odd-men out as the SEC would have to drop 2 teams to accomodate them and stay at 16, and there is no way they will do that — although there are blog rumors that if they can get all 6 they will ‘offer’ the ACC South Carolina and Kentucky.
The move to the Pac 10 would not be a good thing for the Texas teams. A&M will pitch hard for the SEC, IMHO. If the Texas teams go to the Pac 10, the Pac 10 coastal teams would quickly become the Big 12 North. USC will have a few down years due to the Bush thing, and few of the other schools have a consistently good program. Arizona and Arizona State don't really add anything to the mix for the Pac 10 South Division.
Being in the Waco area, and working the Baylor games, this is the only survival method I see for them. Unless they can tag onto the other schools, they'll never get an offer from a major conference. Kansas, Kansas State, and Iowa State have problems.
Tressel will teach Pelini what real college football is all about, hee hee, and show THE Ohio State University is the true Big Red team.
They could add Houston, Rice and SMU and go back to being the Big-8.
LOL, you do realize that Pelini is from Ohio and was the Ohio State team captain as a safety back in 1990, dontcha?
My husband won’t let me date. ;^)
I’d love to see the SEC go after the Texas schools. If they wanted Oklahoma/OSU, though, they’d have to drop two other schools to stay at 16 teams. To me it’d make more sense to have South Carolina in the ACC where they’d be more competitive, but they like being in the SEC and I don’t think the ACC’d want them back anyway.
Texas et al would make more sense in the SEC than in the Pac-10, I think.
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“USC will have a few down years due to the Bush thing”
Here we go again, blaming Bush!
Amen, as a UT fan, I’d rather go with the SEC. Revive the Arkansas rivalry, start a good one with LSU. I don’t want them going to Washington every season.
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