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

[wabash909]

shazbot! you Missouri and Nebraska, go ahead and go to the Big 10.  Our Pac 20 Conference will be a lot better.

[Joker]

At least we (big 12) are doing something.  Was kind of worried (still a little bit) that we were going to just sit around and wait for everyone else to go through the BBQ line and pick out their steaks, and then we come in and grab our cold hamburgers.

[wabash909]

OMG . . . game day at Husky Stadium!!

Hey Cornhole, enjoy Bloomington, Indi "F'ing" ana . . . we're point blankin it here on a boat just outside Husky Stadium, and about ready to go see some mega elite Wash Husky uniforms, and those Helmets . . . my gawd they're beautiful, maybe we can convince them to go with their all white uni's and those glorious helmets all the time.

Seriously, just heading up to Seattle for a little late October Pac 20 conference tilt with U-Dub, guys.  You can find me kicking back on a sail boat on lake Washington, just tailgating before the Cats game with my bottle of Cakebread Merlot and plate of crab cakes, just enjoying my picturesque view of Mount Rainier on the horizon and daydreaming about Samuel Lamur shredding the defense for 400+ passing yards and 8 touchdowns.

Be sure to send us a postcard from beautiful West Lafayette, Indiana this weekend, Huskers.  Smell you later, chumps.

[Dr Rick Daris]

east lansing 

[steve dave]

We will all complain when our Pac 10 roady draw takes us to Arizona instead of some elite CA, OR or WA locale.  "Oh man, we have to go to beautiful Tempe in October to enjoy some sun and fun instead of even more elite LA or something!  DARN IT!" LMAO.

[Sugar Dick]

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/06/1929542/big-12-pac-10-look-at-alliance.html

This would flat save our asses, I don't care how it works out, as long as works out.

The thought of floating around in some disintegrating conference 

[mcmwcat]

after drop kicking nu/mu to the curb big 12 championship game could be replaced by the 'power west power championship power game' between the pac10 and big12(10) winners.

[wabash909]

Nebraskan’s are going to be so jealous when we join the Pac 20.  Enjoy the Runza’s, guys.  

I’m just chilling down here off the Santa Monica pier in my board shorts, playing some Frisbee with a homeless guy and wondering what assortment of premium liquors I’ll be serving to my VIP guest list at the Chateau Marmont for my “Cats game after party”.  

[sonofdaxjones]

Just think of the great feelings and validation we can give mega Elite Pac-10 visitors to Manhattan.   We can show them a great time all the while apologizing for it being Kansas and handing them another beverage . . . and then give them a warm and fuzzy feeling as we constantly valdiate and affirm their mega elite locales.  They will then return home with stories about how "cool" and "awesome" we are and how they must invite us to their pre game parties on/in their mega yachts, beach/sound/mesa/mountain view mansions and red wood forest getaways.  

Meanwhile Moo fans will be wondering if they have to take the next left at the corner of the cornfield and the cornfield to find Kinnick Stadium.

Sucks to  be them I tell ya.

[steve dave]

"Hey guys, I gotta head out.  Meeting fatty at the Golden Gate Bridge later.  See you at The French Laundry after the game!"

[deputy dawg]

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/06/1929542/big-12-pac-10-look-at-alliance.html

This would flat save our asses, I don't care how it works out, as long as works out.

The thought of floating around in some disintegrating conference 

Will PAC-10 want to put up with the Texas knack for revenue hogging?

[steve dave]

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/06/1929542/big-12-pac-10-look-at-alliance.html

This would flat save our asses, I don't care how it works out, as long as works out.

The thought of floating around in some disintegrating conference 

Will PAC-10 want to put up with the Texas knack for revenue hogging?

I personally say we don't invite Texas. 

[steve dave]

"What, sorry, can't hear you.  You must have shitty cell phone service out there in Bloomington.  Yeah, I'm just smoking some basically legal marijuana and getting ready to head into a super chill atmosphere and watch some EMAW football.  No biggie."

[chum1]

The suggestion certainly follows the theme of the rich getting richer.  

[wabash909]

east lansing 

Just imagine the poor wayward Nebraskan that gets his black shirts magnet laden conversion van lost in the Section 8 neighborhoods of east lansing following a Mighigan State night game.  Enjoy the Big 10, fellas.  Hope all don't die because you probably will.

[Sugar Dick]

ESPN

Most of the expansion talk on the West Coast has focused on the Pac-10 luring Colorado away from the Big 12, but there's increasing evidence that the Pac-10 and Big 12 also are interested in a potential partnership.

Big 12 and Pac-10 administrators and athletic directors met Wednesday in Phoenix, and afterwards Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott used terms like "strategic alliance" and "pooling TV rights" and "joint network."

None of it sounded terribly adversarial.

Both conferences' media contracts expire after the 2011-12 academic year. Both want -- need -- to sign new contracts that help them keep pace with the SEC and Big Ten.

That might take some creativity, though a rebounding economy should help the cause. There are plenty of reasons the conferences could work together, starting with geography: They are the only two BCS conferences entirely located west of the Mississippi River. It would be easier for the Pac-10 to partner with a conference in the Mountain and Central time zones, rather than one that's entirely in the East, such as the ACC.

Moreover, Scott's No. 2, deputy commissioner/chief operating officer Kevin Weiberg, is a former Big 12 commissioner. Not to mention that new Arizona athletic director Greg Byrne is the son of Texas A&M AD Bill Byrne, who used to be athletic director at Oregon.

So there are grounds to build trust during what could be complicated negotiations.

Scott and Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe huddled for several minutes after a long afternoon meeting on Wednesday. It may have been only one of many future negotiations between the two.

    * This comes a bit late for Oklahoma, but the Pac-10 is considering no longer using conference officials for nonconference home games, which would reduce controversy when homer, er, bad calls are made and would fall in line with other BCS conferences. Understand: Nothing is official until a proposal is ratified by the conference during June meetings.
    * As part of a more aggressive marketing effort, the Pac-10 will hold a bi-coastal preseason "media day" in late July. The first day would be in New York, the second at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on July 29. Previously, Pac-10 media day was a one-day event in a LA airport hotel.
    * Football travel squads may enlarge from 64 to 70, which falls in line with what other BCS conferences allow.
    * Scott said that the NCAA's new, controversial "no taunting rule," which is scheduled to be adopted in 2011, was a hot topic. The new rule would make taunting a live-ball foul and the penalty would be assessed at the point of the infraction, which means it could kill a touchdown. "There's some concern about that from our coaches," Scott said. I bet.
    * The Pac-10 coaches and ADs also met with officials from the Alamo Bowl, the conference new No. 2 bowl -- replacing the Holiday Bowl, which is now No. 3 -- as well as BCS executive director Bill Hancock.

[Sugar Dick]

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/06/1929542/big-12-pac-10-look-at-alliance.html

This would flat save our asses, I don't care how it works out, as long as works out.

The thought of floating around in some disintegrating conference 

Will PAC-10 want to put up with the Texas knack for revenue hogging?

I personally say we don't invite Texas. 

I think Texas does that just because they can.

Which is awesome and sh!tty at the same time.  We hate'em cause we aint'em

[Havs]

Big 12, Pac-10 look at alliance

By BLAIR KERKHOFF
The Kansas City Star

Big 12 Conference athletic directors met with their Pacific-10 counterparts in Phoenix on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss collaborating in a future sports landscape and possibly working together on television contracts, a source told The Kansas City Star.

Contacted Thursday, Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe confirmed the meetings but did not offer specifics. He called the exchange “very positive.”

“It was an informal gathering,” Beebe said. “We talked about how we might cooperate going forward.”

The meeting could be seen as preparation for possible Big Ten expansion. The Big Ten announced last December that it was exploring adding members, and among those swirling in the speculation are Big 12 members Missouri and Nebraska.

An alliance between the Big 12 and Pac-10 could strengthen their position in television negotiations. As the two major conferences west of the Mississippi River, their schools are located in or near six of the nation’s top 13 media markets — Los Angeles, Dallas, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle and Phoenix.

The Big 12 has football television contracts with ABC/ESPN that go through 2016 and with Fox Sports Net through 2012. The league begins negotiations with Fox starting next spring.

The Pac-10 also has deals with ABC/ESPN and Fox through 2012 and is expected to begin negotiating new deals this year.

According to the source, a negotiating point for new deals could involve games between the Pac-10 and Big 12.

The conferences already partner in men’s basketball. Last week, the leagues announced the matchups for the fourth Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series.

Posted on Thu, May. 06, 2010 06:12 PM

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/06...-alliance.html

http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum/football/90248-big-12-pac-10-alliance.html

[yosh]

LOVE this idea.

[EMAWzified]

We hate'em cause we aint'em

But we still beat'em.

[WillieWatanabe]

Two words...

"The Hills" 

[wabash909]

Me, at an industry party later that night after the KSU/USC game:  Climbing out of the pool and toweling myself off....."Hey, Jess.  (Jessica Biel)  How 'bout the fourth quarter of the Cats game?"  Pretty funny.

[steve dave]

You know who fist pumped when he heard this news? (the one on the right)

[pissclams]

The fact that it makes sense and is a good idea discounts it from qualifying as an initiative the B12 would consider

[Havs]

The fact that it makes sense and is a good idea discounts it from qualifying as an initiative the B12 would consider

Pretty much what I thought when I read this.