"The Pac 10 blows up the Big XII and takes the best pieces and A&M"

If Pac 10 offers, it would make it obvious that NU and Mizzou need to commit to a long-term Big XII conference or else.
Typically Aggies would prefer the lack of academics in the SEC. Maybe they will get retroactively voted out of the AAU. And, OU belongs in the SEC—they are more equivalent to those programs in standards. But, if OU, OSU and A&M prefer the SEC, it leaves a lot of questions to be answered on how to merge with the Pac 10.. UGH
Can’t we just play football already?

Bill Byrne was asked if the SEC is an option for the Aggies should the Big 12 break up, and he said, “It might be. You know what? It might be.”

He answers this question as if:

Bill Byrne was asked if a granola bar would be a good idea for breakfast in case the planned bacon and eggs falls through, and he said, “It might be. You know what? It might be.”

was the portion about Nebraska not really being an option for the Big 10 vs. Missouri.

I expected the Pac 10 to try and jump into all of this, but the blurb on Nebraska cemented a question I had in regards to Nebraska’s financial viability in regrads to the Big 10 Network business model.

I do not know why but a Divsion of South West Schools instead of Midwest seems so good. 6 Big XII teams plus the two ’Zona schools in one and the PAC 8 in the other.

Primarily the something about the schools being offered on an apparently individual basis. I doubt the PAC 10 would risk being stuck with Tech, OU, OSU, and Colorado without guarantees from both A&M and UT.

I somehow also doubt those guarantees will be extended unless/until the Big 10 has the opportunity to make a serious counteroffer.

While I love playing the Pac-10 schools, it would really be a drain for all the other sports.

But, this does give us a very viable option should Mizzou and/or NU decide to bail on us, and it is a much better option than replacing them by taking two less qualified, non AAU schools which would form a weaker Big XII. It sure would leave Kansas, KState and Iowa State out in the cold.

The more and more I think of all this I really hope that the Big XII just stays as is.

There is no way on God’s green earth the PAC 10 will allow in ou, tech and osu. The conference has a unanimous vote to allow in memebers and I find it difficult to believe Stanford would allow 3 academically challenged schools into the league. We didn’t even get their vote in the 90’s.

Never gonna happen people.

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Gotta think about this for a bit. I would suggest that the title for the FanPost be changed. This ain’t no merger.

I hope they maintain the rights to regional tv revenue that they would have as an independent or as a member of the SEC.

I’m pretty sure they have gone on record saying they would like to avoid playing each other. Guess we’ll see.

. . . would it be contingent upon all six schools accepting?

I mean, it would be funny if Tech and OSU said yes, while Texas, A&M and OU parlayed this offer into offers from other conferences.

. . . I just did a perusal of some of the SB Nation Pac 10 blogs, and those that are covering this right now have comment sections which seem to be universally in favor.

I think Tom Osbourne is doing some pretty good Scooby impersonations right about now. He probably hates Texas even more now.

But Nebraska has no assurance it will be invited to the Big Ten and could be left completely out of the power conference structure if it’s not careful.

We could soon be talking about whether Nebraska to the MWC would make sense. And that might cause me to giggle uncontrollably.

So says Halliburton via Twitter: Pac 10 commish shoots down report his league is about to invite 6 Big 12 schools. Says no invites, no near-term expansion plans.

I don’t see the PAC-10 lowering their academic standards and “reducing” themselves to the SEC. Same thing for the Big televen- OU, OSU and Tech are non-starters for those 2 conferences.

says or reports. When he worked for the DMN he got cut-off completely from Mack and the football program for reporting on a story about Mack and Sally during OU weekend (wish I could remember the year.) Don’t know where he gets his so called sources, but I take everything he says with a grain of salt.

We could just report it and then we would know the exact opposite is true.

From an email written by the Ohio State president after a conversation with Powers, disclosed in an open records request by a Columbus newspaper:

“I did speak with Bill Powers at Texas, who would welcome a call to say they have a ‘Tech’ problem.”

I like that. The “Tech Problem.”

1) Are you guessing at the Pac 10 allowing Texas to keep the LSN even though they are joining the Pac 10 or have you read it somewhere? The report on Rivals quotes the Pac 10 commissioner as saying that the Pac 10 wants a network and "it would have to be an ‘all rights in situation.’"

2) Stanford does have a large endowment and a rich benefactor for the athletic department (Arrillaga, their version of Knight, Pickens), but even they had layoffs in their athletic department recently. I am not saying that would get the support of the academic side, but I can’t imagine the stanford AD would not seriously consider this plan.

3) I think people are overlooking the "division" concept. From the Pac 10, it is very ideal and overcomes some roadblocks. It returns the conference to the "Pac 8"; which some old time alums will like. For Stanford, it could give them cover as they could claim that it’s really an 8 team Pacific Conference and the conference is in an alliance with a southwest conference. De facto, that would be true, if for football a division plays a 7 game round robin and 2 crossover games that don’t count in determining the division champ. I have only been following the Big 12 as part of confernence expansion but divisions are beneficial for the Big 12 side too. It keeps rival teams together. It also will cut down on travel, which appears to be a concern of A&M. Lastly, contrary to Big 10 desires, having a core of Big 12 schools may make this work better for the Pac 16 because having a core of Big 12 schools in a division would be a more cohesive group. "Assimiliting" into the Pac 10 is less of an issue b/c at the bottom of it, the Pac 10 is only an athletic conference. There is no CIC or other academic links.

First of all, I think Chip does have reliable sources. He has always done a pretty good job of reporting and writing, imo.
To me, the idea of keeping the 6 Big 12 schools in a conference division paired with the AZ schools sounds great. Some people asked what Tech brings? I might ask the same thing about atm? They both help to seal up the Texas media market.
At the end of the day, the whole conference expansion thing is about money. The academic fit, geography play a role, but for a price, anything can be had or done.
Bill Byrne better pull his head out from his a** or atm’s gonna get left behind and TCU would gladly take their spot.
Some teams I won’t miss……baylor, k-state, iowa state, missouri and oh yeah, nebraska, haha.

but Maize n Brew Dave just posted the funniest thing I’ve seen on the topic.

We’ve seen it before. Baylor has excellent academics and a lot of research money to match up with other Pac-10 institutions. There are reports of them replacing Colorado but wouldn’t it make more sense to replace OK State?

The 6 would instead be UT, A&M, Baylor, TT plus CU and OU. That makes the most sense to me. Then who knows what happens with the Big 10. If they pick off Missouri and Nebraska, maybe a new conference forms with the remnants of the Big 12 + the mountain west. KU, KSt, Iowa St, OKSt, TCU, Utah, Colorado St, BYU. Throw in Air Force/New Mexico if you want. That’s what I want to see.

.. one of the scenarios the PAC-10 commisioner put forward is a full merger with the B12.

So if the B12 less Nebraska and Missouri merge with the Pac-10, forming a 20 team super conference. Do you think that would work or it would just get unwieldy?

Made up of old Southwest Conference (Texas, TA&M, TT, TCU, SMU, Baylor, Rice and Houston) plus Oklahoma, OK State, Arkansas and LSU. We would then negoiate a tv contract with Pac 12 and create a 24 team Super Power!!