It's the day before the first college football Saturday of the year and realignment talk has reappeared again. In a time when the focus should be on football, and the follies of Morgan Newton, it's all about money, the implosion of the Big 12 and superconferences again.
The latest involves Oklahoma and a package that would create the Pac-16. That package, according to Jon Wilner, includes Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State. In other words, a similar scenario to last summer.
If Texas is part of the league’s expansion puzzle, the other teams would be Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
If Texas is not part of the puzzle, I was told, the conference would have to be convinced that there’s a combination of four schools, obviously including Oklahoma, that would not cause the per-school revenue to decrease.
It's all guesswork, but this time around Oklahoma is reportedly leading the charge.
Sooners athletic director Joe Castiglione isn't talking, but that sure isn't stopping Oklahoma president David Boren from speaking his mind. Boren is uncertain about the future of the Big 12, but expects something to happen fast, putting a two- to three-week timetable on a conference decision, it seems. He added that Oklahoma tried to fight Texas A&M's decision to leave the conference, but to no avail.
Finally, Boren said "I don't think OU will wind up being a wallflower on this in the end" and that the school is "active" at the moment. So is Oklahoma spearheading a charge to either find a replacement for Texas A&M or find a new home? From his comments, it sure seems likely.
The Big 12 could be saved, with Boren saying the goal is to get back to 12 teams. But reading between the lines, his words sound more like a eulogy than words intended to revive the conference.
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Pac 12
So the article speculates that it is rumored that Oklahoma is beginning discussions about joining the Pac 12. You back that up with an statement from the Pac 12 stating they are not discussing re alignment, and that the Big XII is trying to add replacements.
Did it ever occur to you that the SEC might have some say in this. Why are all articles like this acting as if the Pac 12 holds all the goodies?
by College Sports Rivalry on Sep 2, 2011 8:06 PM EDT reply actions
Academics
Not the SEC’s strong point. I
I think the Big Ten might be the biggest competitor to the Pac-12 in all of this realignment talk.
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by Grady Clapp on Sep 2, 2011 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions
but
wouldn’t Texas have to ditch the network.
by Mark Mandingo on Sep 2, 2011 11:19 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
OKLAHOMA holds all the cards and Oklahoma wants the Pac 16 over the SEC for academic reasons and the fact that they will be able too more easily recruit California
by Douglas Van Leuven on Sep 3, 2011 1:37 PM EDT reply actions
The SEC is being protected by the NCAA
So they suspend 3 Boise State players 2 days before the game against Georgia. What a bunch of lowlifes. Cam Newton and Auburn get caught red handed, the NCAA does an investigation of about a minute. And them say “nothing happening here” what a joke and the USC case was a lynching, all to try and stop USC from continuing to kick the crap out of SEC teams. So they can keep saying “look how the SEC dominates” They ducked USC in 2003 and 2008 BCS games. SEC if you are all that, why are they doing every thing they can thru the NCAA and BCS to stop USC , Boise State the major threats to their propaganda and bs political monopoly ?
by Douglas Van Leuven on Sep 3, 2011 1:55 PM EDT reply actions
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