Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....

[ednksu]

Hard to believe the Big 12 dies tomorrow.

maybe end of the week.  Than TROs and who knows from there.

["storm"nut]

I threw us in the SEC. But still. I don't think the SEC or the Big Ten will get teams they don't reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally want. Us included. Not sure.

If you're Mike Slive, and this is about securing the best deals for your league, etc., you can really screw the Big Ten by taking the three of us.  Just look at what the landscape is ultimately reduced to.



The Big Ten will be left with no hope of ever getting to an attractive sixteen should they ever need to have that happen.  Ever.

Or, you can split it up like this, and it looks like most sides end up winning.

That's not true at all. The Big Ten could just sit at 12 and all the 16 team conferences would be screwed by having to pay welfare revenue money to at least 5-6 teams while the Big 10 teams just get rich. If the Big 10 doesn't expand, there is no playoff and all the other conferences get caught with their dicks in their hands.

Yeah...that would be true, if all of this conf expansion crap was happening organically. However, at this point, I'm fairly sure that someone (espn) is behind the scenes telling everyone that a playoff is coming so it's time to get into a 16 team conference. There's just no way that everyone is acting so irrationally without a puppet-master.

This

They know 16 is the magic number.

[KCFDcat]

yeah, if texas and OU go to PAC, they won. USC, UCLA, Stanford, UT, OU. if this is  true they're doing it right

would they have an excuse for no one caring about pacific coast football than?

no.

[ew2x4]

Fine, stay till 500

[ksucrcoop]

O/U on the percent drop in enrollment if/when we get "left out"?

I'm saying 10-15%, this is being realistic.

[ew2x4]

Boom. 500. Im out.

[KCFDcat]

O/U on the percent drop in enrollment if/when we get "left out"?

I'm saying 10-15%, this is being realistic.

99% sure this won't happen. not informed, just imho

[Rage Against the McKee]

Huh?  So the pac is screwed by adding Texas and OU?  No

They are screwed by adding OSU, Tech, Colorado, and Utah.

[kcchiefdav]

Grats on 500 everyone. You've earned it. 

When they build new apartments where BSFS once stood, a transcript of this thread shall be placed in the cornerstone.

[SwiftCat]

Mandatory 500 page post.

  

 

[theKSU]

Page 500, you are so full of hysteria, fear, innuendo, and just general speculation to fill up BSFS.  

I still think we end up in a tard BCS-lite conference.  Any scenario locking D-1 teams out of a playoff format will face serious legal challenges.

[ArchE_Cat]

Huh?  So the pac is screwed by adding Texas and OU?  No

They are screwed by adding OSU, Tech, Colorado, and Utah.

Would take OSU off that list. But, if this thing does go to 16 team conferences, Larry Scott has to be kicking himself over CU and Utah.

[KCFDcat]

Huh?  So the pac is screwed by adding Texas and OU?  No

They are screwed by adding OSU, Tech, Colorado, and Utah.

Would take OSU off that list. But, if this thing does go to 16 team conferences, Larry Scott has to be kicking himself over CU and Utah.

adding UT, OSU, and OU more than make up for them. it's like not sleeping with a hot chick because she has an ugly friend that wants to watch. 

[Rage Against the McKee]

Huh?  So the pac is screwed by adding Texas and OU?  No

They are screwed by adding OSU, Tech, Colorado, and Utah.

Would take OSU off that list. But, if this thing does go to 16 team conferences, Larry Scott has to be kicking himself over CU and Utah.

If it goes to 16 team conferences, Larry Scott looks great because he gets playoff money to support the extra baggage. If the Big 10 schools decide they like having the most money and stay at 12 or add only Notre Dame to get to 13, they win in all of this.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Huh?  So the pac is screwed by adding Texas and OU?  No

They are screwed by adding OSU, Tech, Colorado, and Utah.

Would take OSU off that list. But, if this thing does go to 16 team conferences, Larry Scott has to be kicking himself over CU and Utah.

adding UT, OSU, and OU more than make up for them. it's like not sleeping with a hot chick because she has an ugly friend that wants to watch. 

I don't think it does unless all the other remaining BCS conferences go to 16. OSU is just KSU with an oil baron donor who will be dead in 10 years.

[WillieWatanabe]

i might go back to like page 100 and read some posts. Will be incredibly sad.

[KCFDcat]

Huh?  So the pac is screwed by adding Texas and OU?  No

They are screwed by adding OSU, Tech, Colorado, and Utah.

Would take OSU off that list. But, if this thing does go to 16 team conferences, Larry Scott has to be kicking himself over CU and Utah.

adding UT, OSU, and OU more than make up for them. it's like not sleeping with a hot chick because she has an ugly friend that wants to watch. 

I don't think it does unless all the other remaining BCS conferences go to 16. OSU is just KSU with an oil baron donor who will be dead in 10 years.

I was under the assumption that it is a given that everyone will be going to 16...

[theKSU]

OSU has a much better in-state buddy than we do.  

[Stevesie60]

Can you imagine the pak that will occur if we get into the SEC? I don't think it will happen, but man, it will be of epic proportions.

[Rage Against the McKee]

OSU has a much better in-state buddy than we do.  

Yeah, that's great news for OSU, not so great news for the PAC. The Big 10 teams could really take a lion's share of tv revenue by letting all the other conferences set up for a playoff that never happens.

[chum1]

THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A BLUFF FROM TEXAS! 

Should Texas have second thoughts and decide not to seek admission to the Pac-12 Conference highly unlikely that league would be willing to invite Kansas and Kansas State to join, along with Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.

http://www.statesman.com/sports/9-things-and-1-crazy-prediction-for-this-1865859.html

[FP TC etc.]

 

[Dr Rick Daris]

OSU has a much better in-state buddy than we do.  

Yeah, that's great news for OSU, not so great news for the PAC. The Big 10 teams could really take a lion's share of tv revenue by letting all the other conferences set up for a playoff that never happens.

for as big as their conference is and for the vision they have 14 schools is stupid. Osu and tech make a ton of sense.

[theKSU]

So it's Texas or nobody at all.  Well played, Mr. Scott.  

[KCFDcat]

OSU has a much better in-state buddy than we do.  

Yeah, that's great news for OSU, not so great news for the PAC. The Big 10 teams could really take a lion's share of tv revenue by letting all the other conferences set up for a playoff that never happens.

for as big as their conference is and for the vision they have 14 schools is stupid. Osu and tech make a ton of sense.

this. also, tech won huge in this deal if it goes through. HUGE.