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

[pissclams]

Rumblings that A&M is serious about trying to secede, Texas is interested trying to keep the Big 12 together if they leave, and if neither of those happen, Texas forming a super confy with Notre Dame.

 

my guess is that K-State would also be in the Super Conference

[Emo EMAW]

Very snub/elitist/douche bag tone in that article

And with a long southern drawl as well. Seriously, I read the whole thing with the voice of Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side.

So...you read it extremely condescendingly?

Exactly. It read like "I'm from Texas and y'all are respects."

I used "Jo"from the Office.

[steve dave]

lol if Notre Dame and Texas make new Big12 super conference after the Big10 begged Notre Dame to join them and had to settle for NU 

[Panjandrum]

Rumblings that A&M is serious about trying to secede, Texas is interested trying to keep the Big 12 together if they leave, and if neither of those happen, Texas forming a super confy with Notre Dame.

 

my guess is that K-State would also be in the Super Conference

Well, they need serfs.  And we're more than willing to be the serfs.

[michigancat]

Rumblings that A&M is serious about trying to secede, Texas is interested trying to keep the Big 12 together if they leave, and if neither of those happen, Texas forming a super confy with Notre Dame.

 

my guess is that K-State would also be in the Super Conference

Well, they need serfs.  And we're more than willing to be the serfs.

WILL TAKE

[pissclams]

Rumblings that A&M is serious about trying to secede, Texas is interested trying to keep the Big 12 together if they leave, and if neither of those happen, Texas forming a super confy with Notre Dame.

 

my guess is that K-State would also be in the Super Conference

Well, they need serfs.  And we're more than willing to be the serfs.

my guess is that K-State would also be in the Super Conference

[Rage Against the McKee]

Rumblings that A&M is serious about trying to secede, Texas is interested trying to keep the Big 12 together if they leave, and if neither of those happen, Texas forming a super confy with Notre Dame.

 

my guess is that K-State would also be in the Super Conference

It all depends on whether or not we can break our ties with KU.

[Panjandrum]

Truthfully, if I'm Beebe, I'm on a conference call with Dodds and Jack Swarbrick, and I'm talking about the chaos that engulfs college football if A&M goes to the SEC.

If Notre Dame wants to continue to control it's destiny and have the maximum amount of profitability and autonomy in the "New World Order", they need a conference, and they need one that will let them control their own media rights.  We can provide that.

What no one can provide is a guarantee that if super-conferences form, Notre Dame will still have a seat at the table in the BCS because no one knows what happens to its makeup if they start expanding and retracting conferences.  If everyone starts playing musical chairs, you never know where everyone will end up.

If we invite Notre Dame, we could quickly invite TCU and BYU to the table to round it out to 12.  With Notre Dame, Texas, and OU, we're assured BCS status.  Even Missouri wouldn't want to leave a conference that's raining ND/Texas/OU money split 12 ways instead of 16.

All it takes is one 'Yes', and everything is golden.  Pun intended.

[sys]

there is no possibility that nd comes to the big 12 in anything like it's current form.


this entire discussion is Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) anytime it turns vaguely serious.  a&m isn't going anywhere.  anyone who wasn't clearly making fun of someone else, go delete your post.

[CNS]

Truthfully, if I'm Beebe, I'm on a SUPERconference call with Dodds and Jack Swarbrick, and I'm talking about the chaos that engulfs college football if A&M goes to the SEC.

If Notre Dame wants to continue to control it's destiny and have the maximum amount of profitability and autonomy in the "New World Order", they need a SUPERconference, and they need one that will let them control their own media rights.  We can provide that.

What no one can provide is a guarantee that if super-conferences form, Notre Dame will still have a seat at the table in the BCS because no one knows what happens to its makeup if they start expanding and retracting conferences.  If everyone starts playing musical chairs, you never know where everyone will end up.

If we invite Notre Dame, we could quickly invite TCU and BYU to the table to round it out to 12.  With Notre Dame, Texas, and OU, we're assured BCS status.  Even Missouri wouldn't want to leave a SUPERconference that's raining ND/Texas/OU money split 12 ways instead of 16.

All it takes is one 'Yes', and everything is golden.  Pun intended.

[steve dave]

gpc thread has taken an interesting but predictible turn and they are now in a heated debate on whether mormons and chatholics are christians

[CNS]

gpc thread has taken an interesting but predictible turn and they are now in a heated debate on whether mormons and chatholics are christians

They need to focus and squabble about what is truly important here, starting football games at 4:30pm CST rather than 2:30 CST and how that is going to disrupt a healthy bedtime.

[Rage Against the McKee]

gpc thread has taken an interesting but predictible turn and they are now in a heated debate on whether mormons and chatholics are christians

Man, I couldn't even imagine what those guys would be saying if there were an Islamic school with a football program at Notre Dame's level.

[hemmy]

My bags are packed, ready for the Mountain West.

[CNS]

My bags are packed, ready for the Mountain West.

No.

[Panjandrum]

there is no possibility that nd comes to the big 12 in anything like it's current form.


this entire discussion is respected anytime it turns vaguely serious.  a&m isn't going anywhere.  anyone who wasn't clearly making fun of someone else, go delete your post.

Agreed with you 110% until I was told this morning that the Texas legislature was less likely to get in the way this time.

Otherwise, yes, completely respected.

[steve dave]

Today was a very busy day in Park Ridge. For the Big Ten, the writing has been on the wall: we're going to 16-team super-conferences.

Invitations to join the conference remain in the hands of the appropriate parties at Notre Dame and Texas. The Big Ten believes that Notre Dame will join once Texas joins the conference. Texas wishes to join the Big Ten with its Longhorn Network, as a non-participant in the Big Ten Network. This scenario remains feasible.

The Big Ten is now operating under the presumption that A&M currently plans to leave the Big XII for the SEC. However, there is haste to consider an invitation to A&M immediately. The message to A&M has not yet been met with adequate response by the relevant parties at A&M. Though an invitation has not been settled upon, one likely will soon be forthcoming to Texas A&M. The Chancellors and Presidents have a conference scheduled to give provisional approval to invite A&M to the conference. It is expected that the Big Ten Chancellors and Presidents will find that A&M would add a unique level of tradition and academic prestige to the conference.

Separately, A&M stands to benefit the most from joining the Big Ten conference. In particular, A&M would reap the benefits from the Big Ten Network - which Park Ridge thinks would vastly outweigh the benefits that A&M would receive from the SEC. In particular, the Big Ten Network's reach is and likely always will capture a vastly wider audience than the Longhorn Network, and with A&M's addition to the Big Ten, will include the geographic footprint of the entire state of Texas.

With regard to the benefits A&M stands to gain from Big Ten membership, the Big Ten feels that the Big Ten Network would obviously more than offset the competition for eyeballs of recruits in the state of Texas from the Longhorn Network. The terms of the offer given to Texas include the right for Texas to maintain and independently operate the Longhorn Network, and thus not share in the financial benefit of the BTN. (Texas would receive equal voting rights and treatment in all other operations and activities of the conference aside from participation in the BTN.)

If A&M left the Big XII for the SEC, the Big Ten believes that the resulting political circumstances in the state of Texas would enable the University of Texas to leave the Big XII to join the Big Ten conference, regardless of the decisions made by the other Texas universities (with regard to the Big XII conference).

The Big Ten is actively pursuing the relevant parties at A&M and expanding discussions. This week, for the first time since the conference explored expansion possibilities, the notion that Texas and Texas A&M could join the Big Ten instead of Texas and Notre Dame as members 13 and 14 were openly considered. In such circumstances, the Big Ten believes that once Texas and Texas A&M join the conference, Notre Dame almost certainly would immediately follow, and several universities are in consideration for the sixteenth member, as I mentioned on the Rock. Should Texas and Texas A&M commit simultaneously to the Big Ten, the Big Ten expects to jointly announce the addition of four teams total to create a 16 team conference shortly thereafter.

We're currently in a period of acceleration of activity much like that which came before the invitation extended to Nebraska. The Big Ten seems poised to act immediately if A&M responds to certain overtures.

[MadCat]

Notre Dame would have to give up too many of their traditional football rivalries to join the Big 12 (not to mention contracts...aren't they booked well into the future?)  I think they value tradition and freedom more than money at this point.

[steve dave]

Notre Dame would have to give up too many of their traditional football rivalries to join the Big 12 (not to mention contracts...aren't they booked well into the future?)  I think they value tradition and freedom more than money at this point.

their helmets are painted with real gold nuggets.  have you seen the price of gold recently?

[Panjandrum]

Today was a very busy day in Park Ridge. For the Big Ten, the writing has been on the wall: we're going to 16-team super-conferences.

Invitations to join the conference remain in the hands of the appropriate parties at Notre Dame and Texas. The Big Ten believes that Notre Dame will join once Texas joins the conference. Texas wishes to join the Big Ten with its Longhorn Network, as a non-participant in the Big Ten Network. This scenario remains feasible.

The Big Ten is now operating under the presumption that A&M currently plans to leave the Big XII for the SEC. However, there is haste to consider an invitation to A&M immediately. The message to A&M has not yet been met with adequate response by the relevant parties at A&M. Though an invitation has not been settled upon, one likely will soon be forthcoming to Texas A&M. The Chancellors and Presidents have a conference scheduled to give provisional approval to invite A&M to the conference. It is expected that the Big Ten Chancellors and Presidents will find that A&M would add a unique level of tradition and academic prestige to the conference.

Separately, A&M stands to benefit the most from joining the Big Ten conference. In particular, A&M would reap the benefits from the Big Ten Network - which Park Ridge thinks would vastly outweigh the benefits that A&M would receive from the SEC. In particular, the Big Ten Network's reach is and likely always will capture a vastly wider audience than the Longhorn Network, and with A&M's addition to the Big Ten, will include the geographic footprint of the entire state of Texas.

With regard to the benefits A&M stands to gain from Big Ten membership, the Big Ten feels that the Big Ten Network would obviously more than offset the competition for eyeballs of recruits in the state of Texas from the Longhorn Network. The terms of the offer given to Texas include the right for Texas to maintain and independently operate the Longhorn Network, and thus not share in the financial benefit of the BTN. (Texas would receive equal voting rights and treatment in all other operations and activities of the conference aside from participation in the BTN.)

If A&M left the Big XII for the SEC, the Big Ten believes that the resulting political circumstances in the state of Texas would enable the University of Texas to leave the Big XII to join the Big Ten conference, regardless of the decisions made by the other Texas universities (with regard to the Big XII conference).

The Big Ten is actively pursuing the relevant parties at A&M and expanding discussions. This week, for the first time since the conference explored expansion possibilities, the notion that Texas and Texas A&M could join the Big Ten instead of Texas and Notre Dame as members 13 and 14 were openly considered. In such circumstances, the Big Ten believes that once Texas and Texas A&M join the conference, Notre Dame almost certainly would immediately follow, and several universities are in consideration for the sixteenth member, as I mentioned on the Rock. Should Texas and Texas A&M commit simultaneously to the Big Ten, the Big Ten expects to jointly announce the addition of four teams total to create a 16 team conference shortly thereafter.

We're currently in a period of acceleration of activity much like that which came before the invitation extended to Nebraska. The Big Ten seems poised to act immediately if A&M responds to certain overtures.

Where is this from?

[MadCat]

Notre Dame would have to give up too many of their traditional football rivalries to join the Big 12 (not to mention contracts...aren't they booked well into the future?)  I think they value tradition and freedom more than money at this point.

their helmets are painted with real gold nuggets.  have you seen the price of gold recently?

Yes, Notre Dame prolly has a giant stockpile of gold and laughs in everybody's faces that try to tempt them with these worthless American pesos.

[MadCat]

Today was a very busy day in Park Ridge. For the Big Ten, the writing has been on the wall: we're going to 16-team super-conferences.

Invitations to join the conference remain in the hands of the appropriate parties at Notre Dame and Texas. The Big Ten believes that Notre Dame will join once Texas joins the conference. Texas wishes to join the Big Ten with its Longhorn Network, as a non-participant in the Big Ten Network. This scenario remains feasible.

The Big Ten is now operating under the presumption that A&M currently plans to leave the Big XII for the SEC. However, there is haste to consider an invitation to A&M immediately. The message to A&M has not yet been met with adequate response by the relevant parties at A&M. Though an invitation has not been settled upon, one likely will soon be forthcoming to Texas A&M. The Chancellors and Presidents have a conference scheduled to give provisional approval to invite A&M to the conference. It is expected that the Big Ten Chancellors and Presidents will find that A&M would add a unique level of tradition and academic prestige to the conference.

Separately, A&M stands to benefit the most from joining the Big Ten conference. In particular, A&M would reap the benefits from the Big Ten Network - which Park Ridge thinks would vastly outweigh the benefits that A&M would receive from the SEC. In particular, the Big Ten Network's reach is and likely always will capture a vastly wider audience than the Longhorn Network, and with A&M's addition to the Big Ten, will include the geographic footprint of the entire state of Texas.

With regard to the benefits A&M stands to gain from Big Ten membership, the Big Ten feels that the Big Ten Network would obviously more than offset the competition for eyeballs of recruits in the state of Texas from the Longhorn Network. The terms of the offer given to Texas include the right for Texas to maintain and independently operate the Longhorn Network, and thus not share in the financial benefit of the BTN. (Texas would receive equal voting rights and treatment in all other operations and activities of the conference aside from participation in the BTN.)

If A&M left the Big XII for the SEC, the Big Ten believes that the resulting political circumstances in the state of Texas would enable the University of Texas to leave the Big XII to join the Big Ten conference, regardless of the decisions made by the other Texas universities (with regard to the Big XII conference).

The Big Ten is actively pursuing the relevant parties at A&M and expanding discussions. This week, for the first time since the conference explored expansion possibilities, the notion that Texas and Texas A&M could join the Big Ten instead of Texas and Notre Dame as members 13 and 14 were openly considered. In such circumstances, the Big Ten believes that once Texas and Texas A&M join the conference, Notre Dame almost certainly would immediately follow, and several universities are in consideration for the sixteenth member, as I mentioned on the Rock. Should Texas and Texas A&M commit simultaneously to the Big Ten, the Big Ten expects to jointly announce the addition of four teams total to create a 16 team conference shortly thereafter.

We're currently in a period of acceleration of activity much like that which came before the invitation extended to Nebraska. The Big Ten seems poised to act immediately if A&M responds to certain overtures.

Where is this from?

My guess is stevedave's email he receives from the higher ups at Nebraska.

[CNS]

Who is the Big 10 version of Chip Brown?  I need to tune my Twitter feed appropriately.  TIA

Going to start a Confy Army column on Tweet Deck.

[Trim]

I'm not that interested this time around.  Hopefully, we land somewhere where we play teams in cool cities with schedules set far in advance that if I can get my crap together, I can use my BA miles for (on AA metal).

[steve dave]

Today was a very busy day in Park Ridge. For the Big Ten, the writing has been on the wall: we're going to 16-team super-conferences.

Invitations to join the conference remain in the hands of the appropriate parties at Notre Dame and Texas. The Big Ten believes that Notre Dame will join once Texas joins the conference. Texas wishes to join the Big Ten with its Longhorn Network, as a non-participant in the Big Ten Network. This scenario remains feasible.

The Big Ten is now operating under the presumption that A&M currently plans to leave the Big XII for the SEC. However, there is haste to consider an invitation to A&M immediately. The message to A&M has not yet been met with adequate response by the relevant parties at A&M. Though an invitation has not been settled upon, one likely will soon be forthcoming to Texas A&M. The Chancellors and Presidents have a conference scheduled to give provisional approval to invite A&M to the conference. It is expected that the Big Ten Chancellors and Presidents will find that A&M would add a unique level of tradition and academic prestige to the conference.

Separately, A&M stands to benefit the most from joining the Big Ten conference. In particular, A&M would reap the benefits from the Big Ten Network - which Park Ridge thinks would vastly outweigh the benefits that A&M would receive from the SEC. In particular, the Big Ten Network's reach is and likely always will capture a vastly wider audience than the Longhorn Network, and with A&M's addition to the Big Ten, will include the geographic footprint of the entire state of Texas.

With regard to the benefits A&M stands to gain from Big Ten membership, the Big Ten feels that the Big Ten Network would obviously more than offset the competition for eyeballs of recruits in the state of Texas from the Longhorn Network. The terms of the offer given to Texas include the right for Texas to maintain and independently operate the Longhorn Network, and thus not share in the financial benefit of the BTN. (Texas would receive equal voting rights and treatment in all other operations and activities of the conference aside from participation in the BTN.)

If A&M left the Big XII for the SEC, the Big Ten believes that the resulting political circumstances in the state of Texas would enable the University of Texas to leave the Big XII to join the Big Ten conference, regardless of the decisions made by the other Texas universities (with regard to the Big XII conference).

The Big Ten is actively pursuing the relevant parties at A&M and expanding discussions. This week, for the first time since the conference explored expansion possibilities, the notion that Texas and Texas A&M could join the Big Ten instead of Texas and Notre Dame as members 13 and 14 were openly considered. In such circumstances, the Big Ten believes that once Texas and Texas A&M join the conference, Notre Dame almost certainly would immediately follow, and several universities are in consideration for the sixteenth member, as I mentioned on the Rock. Should Texas and Texas A&M commit simultaneously to the Big Ten, the Big Ten expects to jointly announce the addition of four teams total to create a 16 team conference shortly thereafter.

We're currently in a period of acceleration of activity much like that which came before the invitation extended to Nebraska. The Big Ten seems poised to act immediately if A&M responds to certain overtures.

Where is this from?

http://northwestern.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=57&tid=161240718&mid=161240718&style=2