Nah...they're taking the van :o)
Posted on 06/09/2010 8:44:40 PM PDT by Willie Green
Sources are reporting that the Big 12 Conference cannot be saved and that The Texas Longhorns will bolt for the Pac-10.
"Texas is leaving; the Big 12 is essentially dead," said Chip Brown of Orangebloods.com, who broke the story.
It means big changes for college football.
There are, of course, several moving parts involved, but let's try to simplify things:
Brown reports that Nebraska's Board of Regents has informally agreed to move from the Big 12 and join the Big Ten Conference.
"[Nebraska Athletic Director] Tom Osborne has made the case for that school that it's a better fit in the Big Ten, that academically, athetically, culturally, overall, that's the place that Nebraska needs to be for the next hundred years," Brown said. "Financially, it's a good step for them."
Brown said Osborne can make the case that Nebraska can double its money in the Big Ten.
According to Brown, Texas Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds met with university coaches on Wednesday afternoon and told them efforts were made to save the Big 12 conference, but they just couldn't do it.
"Texas and Texas A&M will meet tomorrow, and if they are on the same page — which it appears that they are — then Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech will all follow whereever Texas and Texas A&M go," Brown said.
That would create the nation's first 16-team "super-conference," Brown said, with Colorado likely also dropping out of the Big 12 to shift to the Pac-10.
A Big 12 spokesperson at the conference headquarters in Irving had no comment.
So what happens next?
"My sources say that the Pac-16, or whatever we're going to call this thing, will start in 2012, which will make for an incredibly uncomfortable next two seasons among the Big 12 opponents," Brown said.
The Pac-10 commissioner already has the authority to extend invitations to other schools — something we expect is going on this week.
With Nebraska apparently deciding to exit the Big 12, it could act like the first domino and signify the fall of the Big 12 conference as we know it.
Via high speed rail?
We don’t want no stinkin’ longhorns or buffalo chips.
It is a shame that Texas will have to take A&M and Tech along with them to the Pac 10.
Nah...they're taking the van :o)
I am really not sure I care about this. lol.
LOL.
BTW, this will throw a complete wrench in the BCS system. Good. But rumors of the new super Pac asking for two automatic bids will not go over well.
“Pac” means Pacific. Colorado, Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma — in the “Pacific” conference? This is nuts.
I wish this stuff would get settled as it’s almost sure to cause upheavals in all other conferences. Seen dozens of projected realignments, most will be wrong.
Money is the only reason to do this. The conferences have, and have always had, a regional identification that made bowl match-ups and inter-conference play more exciting. Now, so many big names will be playing each other more often that the match-ups will mean less.
I hope the SEC stays out of all this expansion mania this time.
Hey Longhorns, you’re still gonna have to beat an SEC school in the BCS Championship bowl in order to be National Champs.
No Kansas. It is Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Colorado, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State. Changing the name of the conference.
AZ and AZ State are not exactly on the ocean either.
Reminds me of when the Atlanta Braves were in the National League West
The Texas Longhorns carry the biggest stick in the NCAA and can go to the confrence they choose.
Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State and Iowa State are left out in the cold.
Why I Officially No Longer Care Whether the Big Ten or the Pac-10 Expand
http://www.dawgsports.com/2010/6/9/1509488/why-i-officially-no-longer-care
Wow... I’m sure that many would take this a a reality check..... or maybe just another football argument...
Sorry, can’t get worked up about this... I really don’t care about where or what they play in and less about their inter league problems.
Really, this is a minor conflict compared with today’s problems and should e treated as such.
You can blame MO and NE for all of this. Big 12 had a deal on distribution that you would get more as a BCS Bowl participant but MO kept whining and wanted the same for all.
MO threatened to leave and NE joined them and the other schools told them to put up or shut up basically so NE is leaving and with that the six teams will go to the PAC 10 and the Big 12 which should never have been formed goes away.
NE has had their nose out of joint against TX for years and losing the Big 12 Championship last year made it worse.
Fine with me. Let the wronghorns leave the conference and move their campus as well. They would be a better fit in Kalifornistan or Oregone.
Playing night games in the Pacific Time Zone is a sure fire way to national oblivion. If these dumb suckers ever find themselves playing in November at Pullman, they’ll rue the day that they didn’t look eastward.
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