Will Colorado Be the First Big 12 Team To Join the Pac 10?
by Jon Johnston on Jun 8, 2010 5:59 PM CDT
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PrintIt was kind of a quiet day.... until there was notice of a double-secret meeting of the CU Board of Regents (if you want the map to the place, well, it's available. So much for secrecy. What did they expect, anyway?).
Then there was another blockbuster from our Texas buddy, Chip Brown, that Colorado may accept a Pac-10 invitation as early as tomorrow:
Colorado is expected to have a major announcement on Wednesday, sources said.
If the specualation is true, Colorado could be preparing to accept a bid from the Pac-10 Conference, which has targeted the Buffaloes for expansion.
(First of all, it's not a typo. Texans are regularly adding extra vowels to words, so specualation is quite correct.)
If Colorado leaves, nothing much changes, really. Nebraska still has a decision to make, based on what Notre Dame does (or not). Brown makes it sound like Nebraska might be screwed dependent upon what happens with Notre Dame and the Big 10, but I'd like to think that it's more Texas that'd be screwed if Colorado accepts that invitation before Baylor, since Texas may be stuck with her sister schools (all the Longhorns fans just gagged) because of Texas politics.
The Big 12 can survive without Colorado by adding (gag) another Texas team like TCU, and things move on with the Big 12 remaining a viable conference.
In any case, the week continues. That Tom Petty was so right when he said "waiting is the hardest part", eh?
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This would be an incredibly smart move by the Pac 10
By inviting Colorado and letting them join independently on the rest of the target schools, the Pac 10 manages to avoid the Baylor problem in its entirety. The Texas legislature loses its ability to force Baylor into the move and I rather doubt that they’ll nix a deal to give the three public schools a home just because Baylor isn’t being invited along. Meanwhile, inviting Colorado destabilizes the Big 12 even more, making the other invitees to the Pac 10 more likely to accept the invitation.
Question
Why exactly does this prevent Baylor from being invited? Who’s to say that “Texas Politics” still demands that Texas, A&M, Tech, and Baylor all be invited together, and say…Oklahoma State gets left behind?
If the original report about the Pac-6 was true, it means they’d rather have the Cowboys more than the Bears. But they’d want Texas above all, so they might be willing to take the 4 Texas schools anyway and leave someone else out. The Buffs just get the benefit of not being passed over for the Bears.
just guessing
but the Pac 10 will want Oklahoma. And T Boone Pickens will want Oklahoma State included.
Hell, everybody’s got politics. Even Oklahomans.
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CU alum here
I agree 100% that this would be an incredibly smart move by the Pac-10. However, as a CU fan, I would MUCH rather join a Pac-12 with Utah than a Pac-16 with Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, OU and OkieSt.
If it has to be a Pac-16, then I’d much rather the new teams be CU, Utah, Texas, Texas A&M, OU, and OkieSt., with CU and Utah in a pod with Arizona St. and Arizona, and the Texas+Oklahoma schools in a Central Time zone pod.
Having grown up in Big10 country, I think the Huskers would fit there very, very well, and I’d be sure to cheer for you against all but OhioState. I think Mizzou would be good to add along with NU, with Kansas (sorry KSU), Rutgers and either ND (if they’d stoop so low as to join a conference) or Maryland. However, Kansas is not likely to get the nod because of its population and the KState factor. If KU weren’t to be added, then don’t be surprised if Georgia Tech or Virginia were invited instead. It’s all about “eyeballs,” and although Nebraska is a tiny population state, your Huskers draw viewers to TV sets like few other schools in the nation.
I wish y’all the best, and look forward to what should be EPIC annual battles with the corny Iowans. I wonder what the I-80 corridor might look like during those weekends?
and that
turned out to be mostly bullshit:
http://twitter.com/KyleRingo/statuses/15747180631
Do you get the idea more and more that Chip Brown really is the propaganda arm of the Texas athletic department?
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But the announcement...
… is coming tomorrow!!! Book your hotel rooms in Columbus for October 2012 – it’s all happening right now!
Chip Brown is to DeLoss Dodds...
…what Jim Rose was to Steve Pederson. Granted, I don’t think Dodds is anywhere as incompetent as Pederson, but it’s becoming obvious that his only sources are in Austin.
And now this for CU
http://twitter.com/ChipBrownOB
Good Lord, could CU and KU look any worse that the most inopportune time? I now think they are really going to be on the outside.
:::rolls eyes:::
Per Chippy: “Colorado will be only BCS fball program to get NCAA APR sanctions Wednesday and one of only 2 BCS hoops programs to get sanctioned.”
JKC…
Hang 'em!!!
by Screwface on Jun 8, 2010 10:17 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Omaha World-Herald getting in the news-breaking mix
An executive at a Big 12 school relayed to The World-Herald on Tuesday that he expects Nebraska to become a member of the Big Ten as early as Friday.
We haven’t seen this yet, have we? And it’s not from Orangebloods?
Osborne kind of confirmed that tonight in his radio interview...
…said “few days”. Look to the CN home page for more…
Uh... So soon?
It’s all but over for NU in the Big XII.
“Nebraska A.D. Tom Osborne offered implicit confirmation Tuesday night that the timetable on national conference realignment has been accelerated.”
Full article here.
Hang 'em!!!
by Screwface on Jun 8, 2010 11:27 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
Question for Huskers
Washington State fan here (but also the son of a Husker)… what do most of you think about the prospect of moving to the Big Ten? Are you against it because it breaks with tradition? For it because you can avoid being left out in the cold if the Big XII really is a sinking ship?
I would think most of my relatives there in Lincoln would be against it, but then again it would do nothing to change their support of Nebraska.
As a Wazzu fan I really hope it goes down. It would be a huge boost to us financially and in terms of notoriety… and we have a new AD that can actually meet the challenges that come with that. Meanwhile I’ve always felt the Big Ten is overrated and would enjoy watching the Huskers beat the likes of Ohio State and Michigan on a yearly basis. It would be sad for NU to lose some of the Big XII rivalries, but I feel like the Big XII North/South divisions already weakened the Nebraska/OU rivalry.
Just some thoughs. Would be interested to hear yours…
I think your intuition is more or less correct.
I don’t think there is a great deal of consensus. We’re conflicted for and against for the reasons you mention. Also, Husker fans are tiring of (our perception of) Texas running the conference, and we wouldn’t mind being on among equals in the Big Ten.
by Trey Hillman's Chin on Jun 9, 2010 8:44 AM CDT up reply actions
Make no mistake, Texas has run this conference from the time someone thought up the idea of a SWC and Big 8 merger. They have the biggest stick at the table, and probably the biggest stick outside of Notre Dame in the nation. It makes me sick, but it’s not just Neb’s (and every other Big XII school) perception…it’s reality.
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