Posted on 06/14/2010 5:15:20 PM PDT by Shamrock498
The Big 12 Conference will stay alive after all 10 remaining teams have agreed to remain members, according to multiple reports late this afternoon.
Texas turned down an invitation from the Pacific-10 Conference, announcing in a university statement late this afternoon that the Longhorns will continue competing in the Big 12. Texas president William Powers Jr. and athletic director DeLoss Dodds will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The Texas Board of Regents meeting set for Tuesday was cancelled.
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“Give ‘em another play.”
I heard the fighting irish is going to join the big 10.
Rats. I was looking forward to the Aggies coming to the SEC.
Texas’s Athletic Director is from Kansas State and he has a lot of loyalty to his Alma Mater. This was all about keeping Kansas, Kansas State and Kansas City from getting screwed.
Me too.
The Big 12 becomes the Big 10 and the Big 1(1)0 becomes the Big 12?
maybe the big 10 and big XII can just swap stationary and their signs outside their office’s...
And the Pac-10 become 11. This must be the new math that the teacher’s unions are gouging us for...
This is the greatest news that could possibly happen. Now it’s time to replace those two schools and become the Big 12 again. Anyone taking votes?
I could not stand the thought of the Horns going to Washington every year. What kind of say would the six Big 12 schools have had in the PAC 10?
Great news! I was against joining the Pac-10 until I learned the Big XII South was coming with them. The once I heard the UT president was a Cal-Berkeley alum, I smelled an inside job.
I’m glad everyone came to their senses.
Thank you, A&M. In your own way, you forced the rest of the conference to work it out.
As an Aggie in GA I was dying for us to join the SEC, and am in utter disbelief that we caved to Texas yet again. While it would take awhile for us to become competitive in the SEC, to open that rich recruiting ground up beyond LSU would have certainly increased our potential in the long run.
As it is A&M will now deservedly remain Texas’ b!tch and fight to compete with Texas Tech and Baylor in football.
If we get blown out by Arkansas again this year, which I expect, our AD had better start looking for a new job.
Great news. We don’t need mega-conferences. Twelve is about the right number for a college conference.
If USC and Texas want to play each other every year for another big payoff, they can accomplish that by dropping some of their powder puff opponents and scheduling each other every year. The same goes for any other schools who want more big TV revenue payoffs. No one has to screw up all the conference alignments just to have a few more big match-ups of teams in big TV markets.
Welcome Boise State to the MWC.
Notre Dame ought to join the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference--and start a rivalry with Occidental College.
What about trying to get Arkansas, and TCU and re-kindle some of the old SWC rivalries ?
No idea if either is possible, I was just thinking about that this morning.
I would guess TCU with either BYU or SMU. I would also guess that Utah makes the PAC-10 the PAC-12.
“The Big 12 becomes the Big 10 and the Big 1(1)0 becomes the Big 12?”
Or the Big 1100. But the running backs and wide receivers would never figure it out.
Big 1+little 9
Supposedly The Status Quo Will Remain
http://www.iamthe12thman.com/2010/6/14/1518141/supposedly-the-status-quo-will
Going to be interesting to see how the Texas money compares to the rest. The words “Snow White and the 9 Dwarves” come to mind...
I’m surprised. I thought that the Big 12 was dead and gone.
I’m glad that the Big 12 (or whatever it is now) is still in business. Looking at it geographically, it makes sense.
apparently they can make more money with 10 at this point. this according to media consultants to the conference. but if you had to pull in two more teams I’d try and steal Arkansas from the SEC since they have expressed interest in the past and maybe BYU...i dont know
I’ve been thinking the same thing but having 10 teams will get rid of the stupid football “Championship Game” and every team can play the others every year not every two years. And get rid of the basketball post season tourny. I know, they are there to generate more money but if the 10 teams are pulling bigger bucks from the new deal, who needs them.
When it looked like only 5 teams would be left, I thought they would have to change the conference name to “The Dangerfield 5”.
YEA!
I don’t want to be part of the PAC-10 or BIG 10!
This is great news. I still hate to see Nebraska leave the Big 12 (unless they are doing it because one second was put back on the clock in the Big 12 Championship game, which would made them just whining crybabies), but I did not want to risk losing the Texas-Texas A&M rivalry and certainly did not want to be associated with the crooks at USC.
I am beginning to think Bill Powers is about as good a President as a University could have.
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, and Missouri ... not a dwarf among ‘em.
“Commissioner Dan Beebe said during the Big 12 meetings in Kansas City two weeks ago that his conference would be able to approach paying league members as much as $17 million annually — nearly twice as much as some members now receive — with a new television deal with Fox Sports Net.”
The SEC is a conference intelligent enough not to attach a number to its name. SEC always works and it’s never outdated by changes in the number of members.
Maybe the coach should start looking for a new job. I will never understand why they hired Sherman (well, I understand it; it was not a good hire, imho).
They wouldn’t be going to Washington every year. If they had joined the Pac10 with OU, Tech, OSU, CU and A&M, they would have been in a division with Arizona and ASU. They would have traveled to the West coast maybe twice a year at most.
I would have loved the Pac16, Old Mexico Conference, etc., because there would have been a conference network and huge tv deal for all the schools (more money than is currently being offered), good football, good baseball, good basketball, and sexy cheerleaders.
I live in Columbia. Yes, this is great news. #Mizzou is the life of Columbia
UT stayed because of greed. UT will get up to $25mil/yr, OU & ATM $20mil/yr and the rest $14 to $17mil/yr. Plus UT will get to start their own network.
here is what our conference championship game has brought us....
1996: #3 NU loses to unranked UT in conf champ game. this is pre BCS but obviously NU was out of the running after this loss.
1998: texas a&m beats #2 k-state in the conference championship game and keeps them out of the national championship game
2003: k-st beats #1 OU in the conf champ game..knocks them out of the natl champ game
2007: OU beats #1 MU in the conf champ game...knocks them out of the natl champ game
2009: UT gets a second put back on the clock against NU allowing them to attempt a game winning field goal and avoid getting eliminated from going to natl champ game. close call...
none of the coaches in the big 12 liked having to play the conf champ game. we’re all scratching our heads as to why the pac 10 and big 10 are in such a hurry to have one of their best two teams lose their last game of the regular season every year. i predict a big 12 team will play in nearly every natl champ game once the pac 10 and big 10 add a conf champ game.
so while the lack of a conf champ game maaaayyyy hurt a conf champs SOS the downside of possibly losing that late in the year makes it worth getting rid of the champ game...IMHO
no one thinks they did it to be nice:)
everyone is going to make more money and stay together so its a win-win i suppose right?
UT stayed because of greed. UT will get up to $25mil/yr, OU & ATM $20mil/yr and the rest $14 to $17mil/yr. Plus UT will get to start their own network
Yep.
To overuse and abuse some old cliches:
"The biggest frog in a little pond will kill the goose that lays the golden egg."
UT grabbing the lion's share of the revenue will only make the conference less competitive and boring in the long run.
I just don't like what this is going to do to SoS. I just don't like it period. There is still going to be bad blood. The other schools are not going to be happy that Texas, OU, and A&M are making more money, and I think that in the end we will be right back here in a few years trying to decide whether or not to save the conference.
If everyone had gone to the Pac16, there would have been a conference network, and you wouldn't have to whine about "greed."
Wishful thinking on someone's part.
I was mourning the end of the Border War myself. Looks like it got a reprieve.
OK so now we lost two teams in the north how do we align divisions now? Split the two Okie teams between the divisions? Make it KU, K-State, ISU, Mizzou, and Okie State vs. UT, A&M, Tech, Baylor, and OU?
Your sentiments are share by a large number of former students. Every Aggie I talked with the last couple of weeks, wanted A&M to go out on its own to the SEC. So not a lot of former students are very happy with this decision, myself included!
With Nebraska gone to the Big 10 that will hurt their recruiting in Texas severely. Year after year they usually steal 4/5 really good recruits from the state, and there have been years where NU had more players on their team from Texas than from Nebraska. OU and LSU are now the two biggest outside presences, and it would have really put A&M in a great position to pick up recruits via the move to the SEC.
I cannot for the life of me understand how A&M passed up this opportunity, it really is the biggest Aggie joke of all time, and I'm very upset about it. The ONLY explanation I can think of is that since we are $16 million in the hole, thanks mostly to our AD extending Franchione's contract after a tepid performance, that we couldn't risk dropping the guaranteed conference money dangled in front of our face this year. I can only hope that Stallings and the other BOR left the option open for the near future, and that the SEC doesn't feel slighted.
Best case scenario would be for us to have a great year in the Big XII-II, win a bowl game, and then move to the SEC on a high note, unlike Arkansas who lost to the Citadel their first year in the SEC. We would still get the conference dollars for this year, be in the clear, and the move would be easier.
I think we'll see a realignment of the conference, hopefully put it East/West instead of North/South and place OU and Texas in each instead of the same, thus making the Red River Shootout an even bigger game than it is now. With NU gone I just can't see the North being competitive enough to sustain a conference.
There will be no divisional re-alignment. Each team will play 9 in conf games and lose an out of conference game. And the out of conference schedule is going have to get tougher if the schools want to be playing for a BCS title.
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