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

[Kat Kid]

Tuesday night means Big XII football!

It isn't even funny.

[MakeItRain]

How the playoff will work:

Each super conf will have 4 pods.

The winner of each pod will get the invite, 4x4 =16.

Maybe you've explained this because I'm having a hard time keeping up with this thread.  Please reconcile UPs and ADs all of a sudden wanting a playoff when they were gung ho the current bowl system like yesterday.  They go from not approving a +1 to a 16 team playoff?  Four 16 team conferences changes literally nothing as it relates to the current set up and a playoff system.  There are like 67 current BCS schools as opposed to the 64 in the model you say they want.

[wes mantooth]

SECede!!

[Winters]

What are the realistic options we have left?

Is the Big 12-as-we-know-it destroyed? What super conferences have spots left? Do those conferences even want to go to 16?

It think the best shot people have been throwing around is KU/KSU/MU to SEC.

I mean, if you really think about it, the SEC has, like, really crappy options if they don't move fast.  Really bad.  Cincy/Louisville/Baylor bad.

The ACC locking down has really screwed them.  Hard.

I bet Louisville is making the same joke about us right now

[ew2x4]

KU, MU to Big 10. Us to SEC. only option we have.

[Stevesie60]

I've always respected hardcore fans of college teams who aren't relevant, and especially of teams who aren't in a relevant conference. Remember TheTastyGreek? What a great guy/fan. It will be great to see if I can live up to the challenge.

[Dr Rick Daris]

I still have a weird zen-like sense that we'll be okay.

 

1st stage is denial.

I guess I just think that there's some sort of solution out there that no one's kicking around.

[CHONGS]

How the playoff will work:

Each super conf will have 4 pods.

The winner of each pod will get the invite, 4x4 =16.

Maybe you've explained this because I'm having a hard time keeping up with this thread.  Please reconcile UPs and ADs all of a sudden wanting a playoff when they were gung ho the current bowl system like yesterday.  They go from not approving a +1 to a 16 team playoff?  Four 16 team conferences changes literally nothing as it relates to the current set up and a playoff system.  There are like 67 current BCS schools as opposed to the 64 in the model you say they want.

my explanation =  + all the UPs and ADs know the vast money potential in a playoff

[Katpappy]

Really, so OU is "floored" after they come out and basically say they're talking to everybody and anybody . . . so they thought schools like Pitt were just going to sit on their ass and wait and see what OU and their "he needs to be punched in the mouth" president decide they're going to do?

I am with Rusty . . . who makes this $hit up?

it is just one more way for a school to distance themselves from the decisions that they are making. "we totally were still maybe going to stay in big12, but then the acc did what they did and jesus. i mean it just wasn't possible for us to stay after that."

texas certainly and now ou don't want to be seen as the bad guys and are going to spin at every opportunity possible.

ew2x4 would appreciate it if you would only deal with facts not speculation of what you think might be going on. TIA

Nothing wrong with speculation. Conspiracy theories stated as facts are frowned upon. Read harder. thx.

is ou and texas using reporters to make it appear they were blindsided by pitts move to the ACC in attempts to NOT be implicated as the catalyst for conference change a consipracy of sorts?  TIA

It's a little more believable than the post I initially criticized. I still don't believe blame is a factor at this point, though.

To avoid confusing ew2x4 in the future, please be sure to clearly label your posts in this thread with an all-caps disclaimer at the beginning of each post which clearly states which category your post belongs under:

*  EDUCATED GUESS
*  PURE SPECULATION
*  SYNTHESIS OF EXISTING THEORIES
*  TWITTER REPOST
*  TEXT FROM COUSIN IN SEC COUNTRY
*  CONSPIRACY THEORY
*  COMPLAINT ABOUT POST IN THIS THREAD
*  FREAK OUT

Thanks for your help, everybody.

+1  

[pissclams]

Focus on renewing our rivalry with Drake.

[ednksu]

How the playoff will work:

Each super conf will have 4 pods.

The winner of each pod will get the invite, 4x4 =16.

Maybe you've explained this because I'm having a hard time keeping up with this thread.  Please reconcile UPs and ADs all of a sudden wanting a playoff when they were gung ho the current bowl system like yesterday.  They go from not approving a +1 to a 16 team playoff?  Four 16 team conferences changes literally nothing as it relates to the current set up and a playoff system.  There are like 67 current BCS schools as opposed to the 64 in the model you say they want.

Not sure what you mean.  With that above setup it creates a simple pool play with a clear winner and than you get a clear set of teams to be playoff contenders.  You would include the most favorable teams to be in a tourney (sorry BSU/TCU) and create a clear system instead of relying on bowl tie ins or politics to set matches.

I believe UPs and ADs want what ever gives them more money.  Super conferences clearly provide that.

[wes mantooth]

Weird Robert will call us all Jayhawks if we don't go to the K-State/Wyoming baseball game.  

[Panjandrum]

What are the realistic options we have left?

Is the Big 12-as-we-know-it destroyed? What super conferences have spots left? Do those conferences even want to go to 16?

It think the best shot people have been throwing around is KU/KSU/MU to SEC.

I mean, if you really think about it, the SEC has, like, really crappy options if they don't move fast.  Really bad.  Cincy/Louisville/Baylor bad.

The ACC locking down has really screwed them.  Hard.

I bet Louisville is making the same joke about us right now

Maybe.  But they share a state with a current member, they're below us on the list of US News rankings (if those things matter, but they probably don't), and they've only been BCS for about five or six years.  They have no ties with anyone or anyone to really lobby for them.

I'd be really surprised if KU/KSU/MU aren't lobbying hard for one another.  I may be alone in that thought, but I think there is a lot of sentiment between the three schools that they don't want to split.

[Dr Rick Daris]

How the playoff will work:

Each super conf will have 4 pods.

The winner of each pod will get the invite, 4x4 =16.

Maybe you've explained this because I'm having a hard time keeping up with this thread.  Please reconcile UPs and ADs all of a sudden wanting a playoff when they were gung ho the current bowl system like yesterday.  They go from not approving a +1 to a 16 team playoff?  Four 16 team conferences changes literally nothing as it relates to the current set up and a playoff system.  There are like 67 current BCS schools as opposed to the 64 in the model you say they want.

my explanation =  + all the UPs and ADs know the vast money potential in a playoff

it really wouldn't be a sixteen team playoff. the first few rounds would be knocked out during the regular season and then conf championship games.

[ew2x4]

MU is off on their own. I have zero faith in them lobbying for us. Atleast we have Cheyenne Zulu.

[TheHamburglar]

It sounds like the Big East/Big 12 merger is a worst case scenario. Something may be in the works. I haven't heard anything about the SEC or ACC for K-State (I have heard KU to the ACC), but people in the know aren't sweating this as much as the fans.

Fitz is getting the feeling from what he calls "people in the know" that they are confident...translation: We're mumped.

[wetwillie]

if the pac 16 and ACC 16 happens as planned why do the BIG 10 and SEC have to goto 16?   other than ND for the Big 10 who can the SEC get beyond Mizzou and WV to make 14 that won't severly water down their payouts?

[Mixed-Nutz]

What are the realistic options we have left?

Is the Big 12-as-we-know-it destroyed? What super conferences have spots left? Do those conferences even want to go to 16?

It think the best shot people have been throwing around is KU/KSU/MU to SEC.

I mean, if you really think about it, the SEC has, like, really crappy options if they don't move fast.  Really bad.  Cincy/Louisville/Baylor bad.

The ACC locking down has really screwed them.  Hard.

I bet Louisville is making the same joke about us right now

Maybe.  But they share a state with a current member, they're below us on the list of US News rankings (if those things matter, but they probably don't), and they've only been BCS for about five or six years.  They have no ties with anyone or anyone to really lobby for them.

I'd be really surprised if KU/KSU/MU aren't lobbying hard for one another.  I may be alone in that thought, but I think there is a lot of sentiment between the three schools that they don't want to split.

+1 and i don't think we are all going to the BIG, and the SEC has no one else to add.

[ew2x4]

If there's one thing I've learned, don't let your opinion or emotion be swayed by Fitz.

[wes mantooth]

It sounds like the Big East/Big 12 merger is a worst case scenario. Something may be in the works. I haven't heard anything about the SEC or ACC for K-State (I have heard KU to the ACC), but people in the know aren't sweating this as much as the fans.

We're mumped.

 

[Mixed-Nutz]

if the pac 16 and ACC 16 happens as planned why do the BIG 10 and SEC have to goto 16?   other than ND for the Big 10 who can the SEC get beyond Mizzou and WV to make 14 that won't severly water down their payouts?

 

WV is going to want to be in the ACC with PITT.

[michigancat]

Weird Robert will call us all Jayhawks if we don't go to the K-State/Wyoming baseball game.  

Ok. This one was funny.

[ednksu]

It sounds like the Big East/Big 12 merger is a worst case scenario. Something may be in the works. I haven't heard anything about the SEC or ACC for K-State (I have heard KU to the ACC), but people in the know aren't sweating this as much as the fans.

Fitz is getting the feeling from what he calls "people in the know" that they are confident...translation: We're mumped.

disagree with this reading.  seems more like we land somewhere and Fitz says I knew all along but was asked to keep quite.

[MakeItRain]

Pete Thamel
Folks around the Big East are STEAMED over Swofford mentioning playing the ACC Tournament in MSG. Just irate.

The day after Dave Gavitt died

[Tobias]

Focus on renewing our rivalry with Drake.

tobiasbro played fb at drake.  do not want.

note: getting pak'd at their relays is pretty fun in a quaint iowa kind of way.  their track also encircles their football field, so the squawks could consider it a home game.