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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11850 on: September 18, 2011, 10:20:27 AM »
should we call the time of death at 10:17 a.m September 18th 2011 or does this thing still have a weak heartbeat?

no, you're just witnessing a meltdown circle-jerk.

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11851 on: September 18, 2011, 10:20:36 AM »
Currie is great.



I was half expecting him to say "....and with solid gold toilets in every bathroom".  I mean, if you're gonig to make promises you can't keep, go big or f'ing go home.

This was truly a Baghdad Bob moment if there ever was one.



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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11852 on: September 18, 2011, 10:21:24 AM »
When one person, for whatever reason, has a chance to lead an exceptional life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

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Re: big reject mashup conference
« Reply #11853 on: September 18, 2011, 10:27:42 AM »
A combo fan only type board might have some legs.

Yep, we've already mastered offseason bbs'n.

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Re: big reject mashup conference
« Reply #11854 on: September 18, 2011, 10:29:36 AM »
Can't believe how much Fitz and the goEMAW mods are going lose on our websites. 

Who bbs's about C-USA games?  Does that even happen? 

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11855 on: September 18, 2011, 10:33:58 AM »
thanks John.  Smells like Conference Tri-Lamb for KSU.  Can you imagine how pissed KU will be if they are in this league with us?  

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Currie also says he has "full 100 percent confidence" KSU will stay "at the highest level of intercollegiate athletics" when this is over
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"... in a position, preferably the Big 12 Conference, that is in an AQ conference competing at the highest level."
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The "highest" level is a bunch of BS but I really think we will be competing in a "Big 12" (sans OU, OSU, UT, A&M, Tech and maybe Mizzou).  We get to keep the AQ for at least 3 more seasons, (until the contract expires) and collect some exit fees.  After that we are most likely screwed.  This will not be a quick death for KSU.


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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11856 on: September 18, 2011, 10:35:40 AM »
REIDLAYMANCE Reid Laymance
If OU, Texas to Pac-12, #mizzou options: merger of B12/BEast remnants, ACC w/KU, hope for SEC or big 10. Just an educated guessing game

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11857 on: September 18, 2011, 10:40:05 AM »
REIDLAYMANCE Reid Laymance
If OU, Texas to Pac-12, #mizzou options: merger of B12/BEast remnants, ACC w/KU, hope for SEC or big 10. Just an educated guessing game

people that throw out scenarios which have ku and kstate separating should be immediately discounted.

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11858 on: September 18, 2011, 10:46:48 AM »
REIDLAYMANCE Reid Laymance
If OU, Texas to Pac-12, #mizzou options: merger of B12/BEast remnants, ACC w/KU, hope for SEC or big 10. Just an educated guessing game

people that throw out scenarios which have ku and kstate separating should be immediately discounted.

Plus the fact that the ACC is not going that far west unless it includes Texas.  The ACC will be taking more Big East schools if\when they go to 16.

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11859 on: September 18, 2011, 10:49:05 AM »
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Yes it is. For TT too RT @Jake_Trotter Sweet music to OU's ears RT @ranriggs @kbohls says it's almost certain. Longhorns bound for the P12.

Why would OU like this? This is all just stupid.

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Re: big reject mashup conference
« Reply #11860 on: September 18, 2011, 10:59:47 AM »
I used to be a big Royals fan. They could compete with anyone. And then Kaufman died and baseball changed and small market teams with bad owners were mumped. I quit caring.
It'll be the same with college sports.

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« Reply #11861 on: September 18, 2011, 11:01:58 AM »
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Yes it is. For TT too RT @Jake_Trotter Sweet music to OU's ears RT @ranriggs @kbohls says it's almost certain. Longhorns bound for the P12.

Why would OU like this? This is all just stupid.

Yes.  It nueters UT to a certain extent and OU can continue to kick their ass, in conference, on a yearly basis, and OU's travel is basically null. 

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11862 on: September 18, 2011, 11:05:47 AM »
i think the thought there is that ou to the pac a lock if texas also goes.

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Re: big reject mashup conference
« Reply #11863 on: September 18, 2011, 11:14:07 AM »
On the other hand, a Big Reject DOD has some appeal.  We could get all pissy about being left out of the BCS or other system.

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11864 on: September 18, 2011, 11:15:38 AM »
not sure what Congress could actually do in the way of making everyone go back to homebase.  sounds like Ken made his rounds. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/sports/ncaafootball/congressional-scrutiny-of-conference-realignment-is-said-to-be-likely.html?_r=1&ref=sports
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“I think Congress has a variety of ways in which they could engage,” the representative said. “What we’re seeing is an effort by certain institutions to push other major institutions out of revenue deals and thereby impacting universities. And it’s done in a way that’s breaching contracts.”


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A lawyer who has higher education clients and has been involved in discussions with Congress about the legal ramifications of conference realignment said the threat of Congressional involvement is real.

“The sudden consolidation of the BCS conferences may raise any number of issues that Congress will want to explore, especially because these conference affiliation decisions have been made quickly and out of view of all concerned constituencies — student athletes, alumni, fans, and the governments who control the public universities that overwhelmingly populate the BCS,” said the lawyer, who was not authorized by his clients to speak publically on the subject.”


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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11865 on: September 18, 2011, 11:20:57 AM »
not sure what Congress could actually do in the way of making everyone go back to homebase.  sounds like Ken made his rounds. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/sports/ncaafootball/congressional-scrutiny-of-conference-realignment-is-said-to-be-likely.html?_r=1&ref=sports
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“I think Congress has a variety of ways in which they could engage,” the representative said. “What we’re seeing is an effort by certain institutions to push other major institutions out of revenue deals and thereby impacting universities. And it’s done in a way that’s breaching contracts.”


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A lawyer who has higher education clients and has been involved in discussions with Congress about the legal ramifications of conference realignment said the threat of Congressional involvement is real.

“The sudden consolidation of the BCS conferences may raise any number of issues that Congress will want to explore, especially because these conference affiliation decisions have been made quickly and out of view of all concerned constituencies — student athletes, alumni, fans, and the governments who control the public universities that overwhelmingly populate the BCS,” said the lawyer, who was not authorized by his clients to speak publically on the subject.”



Meh.....just a bunch of sabre rattling from the blowhards in Washington.  No real change will come of this.

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11866 on: September 18, 2011, 11:22:55 AM »
so like have we ever found out for sure how many teams need to stay in the big12 for it to still be a conference or if enough schools leaving disolves it or whatever?

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11867 on: September 18, 2011, 11:27:23 AM »
@CBSSports: ACC officially adds Pittsburgh, Syracuse. Your home for the story: bit.ly/phVjxk
this makes no sense to me. 


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« Reply #11868 on: September 18, 2011, 11:32:10 AM »
@CBSSports: ACC officially adds Pittsburgh, Syracuse. Your home for the story: bit.ly/phVjxk
this makes no sense to me. 

fear is a wonderful thing.

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11869 on: September 18, 2011, 11:32:58 AM »
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Big East will survive, it'll just be less big and less east

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11870 on: September 18, 2011, 11:34:56 AM »
@CBSSports: ACC officially adds Pittsburgh, Syracuse. Your home for the story: bit.ly/phVjxk
this makes no sense to me. 

Remember back in the part of the thread when everyone was talking about media markets?  I think we're back there now.

I hope this pain is equal to infinity/purgatory because that is how it feels.


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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11871 on: September 18, 2011, 11:41:56 AM »
That looks pretty painful, tortuga. But remember that behind every supernova is the backroom deal master Dan Beebe pulling strings and flipping switches

In Beebe We Trust

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11872 on: September 18, 2011, 11:42:56 AM »
DanWetzel Dan Wetzel
Big East will survive, it'll just be less big and less east

Forgot to add. And less football
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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11873 on: September 18, 2011, 11:52:53 AM »
   
List of options narrowing for Texas ...   Reply
A source close to Texas repeated to me today the Pac-12 may now be the Longhorns' top option in terms of finding a new conference home.

The Pac-12 might be willing to accept a "modified" version of the Longhorn Network, the source said.

This development was first reported by Orangebloods.com on Saturday, when the Atlantic Coast Conference began moving in a different direction, according to a Big 12 administrator.

Multiple sources said Texas was banking on ESPN to make a marriage between the ACC and Texas that would allow the Longhorns to keep LHN. But that appears to have failed, the sources said.

Orangebloods.com was the first to report Saturday that the ACC was concerned about how LHN would fit into its revenue sharing; sees itself as an east coast conference and wasn't interested in extending into the southwest (no matter how much TV money adding Texas would mean); and had concerns about the academics of Texas Tech, whom UT would be under pressure politically to bring with them wherever UT went.

UT president Bill Powers and athletic director DeLoss Dodds told people inside the athletic department last week the ACC was Texas' best option if the Big 12 fell apart. Now, Texas is looking at the Pac-12.

Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott told a group of reporters that included Orangebloods.com at the Rose Bowl Saturday the Pac-12 would not be flexibile about third-tier rights revenue sharing. Scott maintains that schools have to share the money equally.

If Texas sought membership in the Pac-12, Scott said LHN "would be an issue." But Scott said his league has a great relationship with ESPN, which owns the rights to LHN and is also a TV partner in the Pac-12 (along with Fox).

The list of options for Texas appears to be down to the Pac-12 or trying - come hell or high water - to hold the Big 12 together.

But a Big 12 without Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M does not excite the TV partners of the Big 12, industry sources have said. In other words, there's no way the Big 12 money stays the same if it's Texas, BYU, Louisville and some combination of Cincinnati, Houston and TCU along with the remaining members of the Big 12.

Also, schools like Missouri and Kansas would have to be convinced to stay in the Big 12 when they have other options, sources said.

DeLoss Dodds has told people who matter that Texas does not want to go independent and does not want to go to the Big Ten. Dodds has said the growth in the United States is south, and the Big Ten is not in the south.

It's not a done deal, but it's looking more and more like the Pac-12 with a modified version of the Longhorn Network, probably renamed as something like the Pac-12 Texas Network.

Stay tuned.


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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #11874 on: September 18, 2011, 11:55:43 AM »
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