Posted on 06/14/2010 8:41:01 AM PDT by C19fan
The departure of Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State to the Pac-10 is imminent, four sources within the Big 12 said Monday.
One source said commissioner Dan Beebe's last-minute plan to save the conference has "zero" chance to succeed. Another source said it is "very unlikely" to succeed.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.espn.go.com ...
Utah.....perhaps.
I’m reading elsewhere that Texas is about to commit to staying put, and the Aggies and OU will stay put right along with them in a 10 team Big 12.
http://blog.al.com/solomon/2010/06/report_texas_committed_to_10-t.html
Sounds like the Big 12 commissioner is ready to revisit their revenue sharing agreement.
This thing is all over the place.
I am assuming the ESPN entry is more up-to-date than the talk of salvaging the Big 12 but who knows and that is what makes this so exciting.
I'm probably missing the point again, but shouldn't this be about college football and traditional rivalries?
Why can't you conduct research in partnership with any school regardless of their football program?
Yep when I hear “Pacific” I think “Texas”.
Well hell, for years, who outside of Spinal Tap would think 11 when they heard Big 10?
Or maybe tu just wants to be aligned with the more liberal schools in the Pac-10.
I’m an Aggie, and I live in California. I would love to be able to see the Aggie sports teams out here. However, I just don’t see the Aggies fitting in the the Pac-10. All the schools are too liberal.
I think the Aggies fit much better with the SEC.
Anyway, this is interesting.
Sickening for those of us old Big 8 schools that could be left behind.
June is turning out to be an awfully bad month for USC. First, 2 year death penalty. Now, they get Oklahoma and Texas in their conference.
Where will ISU go if not the Big 12 ?
Right now it seems BOTH reports are still in conflict, with no official source confirmation either way:
You’re right, it’s uncharted territory and it’s still pretty exciting, and somewhat unnerving when you think about what might happen to some of the long standing rivalries across all these conferences.
This is crap.
Just sucks.
Kansas and Kansas State will get stuck with some loser conference because they are good at the wrong sport and aren’t in a major media market.
Great point. I hate to say this but since I do not have a pony in this game I would rather see Texas Vs. USC than Texas Vs. Iowa State.
The Association of American Universities is a nonprofit association of 61 U.S. and two Canadian preeminent public and private research universities. Founded in 1900, AAU focuses on national and institutional issues that are important to research-intensive universities, including funding for research, research and education policy, and graduate and undergraduate education.
AAU schools received 17.2 BILLION in research money in 2007. Being aligned with other AAU schools can mean money that dwarfs football revenues.
Can anybody give a Readers Digest version as to why this is going on?
It seems college football is going to sort out to 4 big conferences and then a playoff........I honestly hope the texas schools go to the big ten.
I wish that college athletics wasn't such an important thing for a university.
But the conference affiliation affects much more than athletics from what I have been learning.
All time:
USC vs. Oklahoma, won 6, lost 2, tied 1
USC vs. Texas, won 4, lost 1
Bring it on.
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