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

[MakeItRain]

the long mir hissy fit posts and responses are often preferable to pan's long posts in that i can skip reading them and know that i'm not missing anything.

That's not very nice to panjandrum.  I'd skip over my posts if I didn't love me so much.

[WildcatNkilt]

McMurphyCBS Brett McMurphy
Multiple Big East sources said they have been told by WVU officials that WVU rejected by ACC & SEC

brutal

[michigancat]

My colleague in Chicago told me last night that he spoke with the President of Michigan State about conference realignment last summer and she said that TVs and how well the fanbase traveled were big factors.  

He is a Michigan guy but asked her about KU (his daughter goes there) and she said they had examined adding KU, KState and Mizzou as a package to get the midwest tv market. She said they examined many factors and realized people in that tv market will care much more about games between those three schools than any of those schools separate playing existing big 10 members and said they has looked at how popular the tv ratings were for those rivalries.

But that was before they added Nebraska.  

BOOM! you reading that SEC?

[ew2x4]

I'm honestly feeling SEC. Their actions are basically begging us 3 to go there.

[MadCat]

So, are we in a better position than WVU at this point?

[ew2x4]

So, are we in a better position than WVU at this point?

Absolutely.

[CNS]

So, are we in a better position than WVU at this point?

If the note about the three local schools being valuable as a group, maybe.

If the note is not accurate, then def not.

[Gooch]

This crap is killing me. Can we just rough ridin' get this done with.

[SkinnyBenny]

Even if we go SEC, which would be the most badass possible thing probably (and which we won't), I'll still feel for I-STATE0.

[CNS]

This crap is killing me. Can we just rough ridin' get this done with.

Some guy on radio this morning said it could be another week to week and a half.   

[ew2x4]

So, are we in a better position than WVU at this point?

If the note about the three local schools being valuable as a group, maybe.

If the note is not accurate, then def not.

IF WVU got rejected by their only two options, there's no way we're worse off. Yet.

[MadCat]

President Susan Herbst tells me #UConn has not ruled out staying in the Big East. Says geography will be a major part of her decision.

Does not want Big 12  

["storm"nut]

McMurphyCBS Brett McMurphy
Multiple Big East sources said they have been told by WVU officials that WVU rejected by ACC & SEC

Wait, I know that can change but did they just get put in the ISU, Baylor, and TCU block?

[CNS]

President Susan Herbst tells me #UConn has not ruled out staying in the Big East. Says geography will be a major part of her decision.

Does not want Big 12  

Prob the opposite.  No one knows who will be left in the B12.  For instance, if TX somehow decides to stay, and the OKies jet, the UConn's of the BE may see the B12 as a legit landing spot.

[TheHamburglar]

This crap is killing me. Can we just rough ridin' get this done with.

Some guy on radio this morning said it could be another week to week and a half.   

This will continue until ND and Big10 make their final decisions, so unless the ACC pushes ND's hand to join now this will go into next summer.  

[WillieWatanabe]

heh

http://www.rockmnation.com/2011/9/19/2436901/portraits-of-conference-realignment

highlights.

[Emo EMAW]

Who's to say that over the long term these changes cause a steady decrease in ratings and folks decide smaller/more regional conferences is the way to go?  

[ksucrcoop]

I'm honestly feeling SEC. Their actions are basically begging us 3 to go there.

Been hearing some rumblings that people are feeling like KSU, KU, and Mizzou to the SEC could really happen...stay tuned

[Houstoncat93]

This crap is killing me. Can we just rough ridin' get this done with.

Some guy on radio this morning said it could be another week to week and a half.   

1000 pages here we come!!!!!!

[CNS]

heh

http://www.rockmnation.com/2011/9/19/2436901/portraits-of-conference-realignment

highlights.

Fantastic. 

[Panjandrum]

Who's to say that over the long term these changes cause a steady decrease in ratings and folks decide smaller/more regional conferences is the way to go?  

True, but that can be resolved by pod scheduling.

Get yourself a tight group in a small area (i.e. KU/KSU/MU/Arkansas), start a regional network, and that becomes your regional conference.

[SkinnyBenny]

LOL, remember when saul was all, "totally, I'm never gonna let this get over 200 pages!"

[Rage Against the McKee]

So, are we in a better position than WVU at this point?

If the note about the three local schools being valuable as a group, maybe.

If the note is not accurate, then def not.

It is accurate. Every KU fan I know still watches K-State, even though they hate us, just like every K-State fan I know watches KU basketball. I'm sure KU and MU are the same way. I think the 3 schools are much more desirable together than they are separated.

[Panjandrum]

Even if we go SEC, which would be the most badass possible thing probably (and which we won't), I'll still feel for I-STATE0.

If we all go to 16, I feel pretty comfortable in the thought that I-Stateo goes to the Big Ten.

[Panjandrum]

So, are we in a better position than WVU at this point?

If the note about the three local schools being valuable as a group, maybe.

If the note is not accurate, then def not.

It is accurate. Every KU fan I know still watches K-State, even though they hate us, just like every K-State fan I know watches KU basketball. I'm sure KU and MU are the same way. I think the 3 schools are much more desirable together than they are separated.

 

I watch all KU/MU games when I'm not watching our own.  Football and basketball.  I'll watch MU baseball if they're on as well.