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

[The42Yardstick]

See, I told you guys everything would be fine.

[theKSU]

We need somebody to to a mockup of the Big XII logo with a 10 somewhere in it like the Big Televen.  

Or will we just become the Big teXas

[Mikeyis4dcats]

nope, but they'll be right back in it in 3 years.   They are USC.

so in 3 years how well do you think usc will be? it took alabama more then 3 years to bounce back and usc is losing more scholarships then they did

hate to break it to you, but USC without those schollies is STILL probably better than 7 teams in the current Big 12.

[goldenticket]

yeah what about the name and do you think we should get a name that doesnt have a number so it doesnt have to change the next time we add teams

[doom]

Would be fine being called Texas' Harem so long as we are not in the MWC.

[OregonSmock]

http://ucla.freedomblogging.com/2010/06/13/pac-10-expansion-scott-in-austin-kansas-next/16411/

Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott arrived in Austin Sunday to meet with University of Texas officials about the Longhorns joining an expanded Pac-10 and is scheduled to meet with University of Kansas officials Monday night, the Orange County Register has learned.
Scott landed in Austin as the Texas board of regents prepared to meet Tuesday morning to discuss the Longhorns’ conference options.
The Austin stop comes after a busy weekend for Scott, the point man in a Pac-10 expansion bid that could dramatically alter the major college sports landscape by the end of the week.
Scott met with University of Oklahoma president David Boren and Sooners athletic director Joe Castiglione in Oklahoma on Saturday and then flew to to College Station, Texas to meet with Texas A&M officials on Sunday morning before flying to Lubbock for a meeting with Texas Tech officials later that afternoon. Texas Tech’s regents are also scheduled to discuss the school joining the Pac-10 on Tuesday afternoon. Oklahoma regents will hold a similar discussion Wednesday, school officials said.
Monday could be just as busy with Scott and deputy commissioner  Kevin Weiberg, a former Big 12 commissioner, scheduled fly to Kansas City Monday night to meet with University of Kansas officials scrambling to find a home for the Jayhawks with the break up of the Big 12 imminent.
Scott’s whirlwind tour of the Big 12 Southern Division comes as SEC officials have expressed interest in pursuing Texas and Texas A&M. A&M officials have also expressed an interest in at least exploring the SEC as an option.
But Texas remains the key to Pac-10 plans to expand to a 16-school, two division super conference. Pac-10 officials see Texas as the flagship university in a Eastern Division that would also include Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Colorado, who joined the Pac-10 on Thursday, and current Pac-10 members Arizona and Arizona State. Pac-10 officials hope Texas A&M will round out the Eastern Division. If the Aggies jump to the SEC or pursue other options, the Pac-10 will look at Utah and Kansas.
The Western Division would be made up of the original Pac-8 schools: Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, California, Stanford, UCLA and USC.
 

That is from last night you dumbass.

Calm down, dude.  I'm not going to sift through 150 pages of bullshit just to make a post.  I realize it's stressful right now for K-State fans and your impending mid major status, but get a grip.  

[VGibsonLives]

We need somebody to to a mockup of the Big XII logo with a 10 somewhere in it like the Big Televen.  

Or will we just become the Big teXas.

 

[iCat Pro]

http://ucla.freedomblogging.com/2010/06/13/pac-10-expansion-scott-in-austin-kansas-next/16411/

Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott arrived in Austin Sunday to meet with University of Texas officials about the Longhorns joining an expanded Pac-10 and is scheduled to meet with University of Kansas officials Monday night, the Orange County Register has learned.
Scott landed in Austin as the Texas board of regents prepared to meet Tuesday morning to discuss the Longhorns’ conference options.
The Austin stop comes after a busy weekend for Scott, the point man in a Pac-10 expansion bid that could dramatically alter the major college sports landscape by the end of the week.
Scott met with University of Oklahoma president David Boren and Sooners athletic director Joe Castiglione in Oklahoma on Saturday and then flew to to College Station, Texas to meet with Texas A&M officials on Sunday morning before flying to Lubbock for a meeting with Texas Tech officials later that afternoon. Texas Tech’s regents are also scheduled to discuss the school joining the Pac-10 on Tuesday afternoon. Oklahoma regents will hold a similar discussion Wednesday, school officials said.
Monday could be just as busy with Scott and deputy commissioner  Kevin Weiberg, a former Big 12 commissioner, scheduled fly to Kansas City Monday night to meet with University of Kansas officials scrambling to find a home for the Jayhawks with the break up of the Big 12 imminent.
Scott’s whirlwind tour of the Big 12 Southern Division comes as SEC officials have expressed interest in pursuing Texas and Texas A&M. A&M officials have also expressed an interest in at least exploring the SEC as an option.
But Texas remains the key to Pac-10 plans to expand to a 16-school, two division super conference. Pac-10 officials see Texas as the flagship university in a Eastern Division that would also include Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Colorado, who joined the Pac-10 on Thursday, and current Pac-10 members Arizona and Arizona State. Pac-10 officials hope Texas A&M will round out the Eastern Division. If the Aggies jump to the SEC or pursue other options, the Pac-10 will look at Utah and Kansas.
The Western Division would be made up of the original Pac-8 schools: Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, California, Stanford, UCLA and USC.
 

 

[steve dave]

@HS_BHGP: Dan Beebe's new plan: (1) Reduce conference to 10 teams. (2) Rename conf Big Ten. (3) Take over Big Ten Network. (4) Profit.

[sonofdaxjones]

Note to Breadstick and the Beav:  When you replace the Field Turf in the Football Stadium next year.   I suggest that you don't put any conference logos on it.  If so, don't do it with the sewn in lettering, maybe velcro.

[steve dave]

Calm down, dude.  I'm not going to sift through 150 pages of bullshit just to make a post.  I realize it's stressful right now for K-State fans and your impending mid major status, but get a grip.  

hey beems, thoughts on the Pac 10 plane heading back to the west coast and skipping the KU meeting?

[OregonSmock]

Note to Breadstick and the Beav:  When you replace the Field Turf in the Football Stadium next year.   I suggest that you don't put any conference logos on it.  If so, don't do it with the sewn in lettering, maybe velcro.


Ben getting clowned, now lashing out . . . as per usual.

Unlike you clowns, I wasn't sitting next to a computer all weekend worrying about becoming a mid major.  

[1/64th]

@HS_BHGP: Dan Beebe's new plan: (1) Reduce conference to 10 teams. (2) Rename conf Big Ten. (3) Take over Big Ten Network. (4) Profit.

btw, if you guys aren't following the fake Dan Beebe on twitter, then you sir/maam, are missing out on some comedy GOLD!!!!

[The42Yardstick]

ahh, angry beems is back today. sweet.

[mcmwcat]

Unlike you clowns, I wasn't sitting next to a computer all weekend worrying about becoming a mid major. 

BMWJhawk and mcmwcat are above this kind of anxiety 

[catzacker]

so basically, we can thank twitter for saving the big 12.

[OregonSmock]

Calm down, dude.  I'm not going to sift through 150 pages of bullshit just to make a post.  I realize it's stressful right now for K-State fans and your impending mid major status, but get a grip.  

hey beems, thoughts on the Pac 10 plane heading back to the west coast and skipping the KU meeting?

I don't know... I've heard reports that a meeting will take place tonight.

[ew2x4]

@HS_BHGP: Dan Beebe's new plan: (1) Reduce conference to 10 teams. (2) Rename conf Big Ten. (3) Take over Big Ten Network. (4) Profit.

[sonofdaxjones]

Note to Breadstick and the Beav:  When you replace the Field Turf in the Football Stadium next year.   I suggest that you don't put any conference logos on it.  If so, don't do it with the sewn in lettering, maybe velcro.


Ben getting clowned, now lashing out . . . as per usual.

Unlike you clowns, I wasn't sitting next to a computer all weekend worrying about becoming a mid major.  

Neither was I, spent a great day on the water on Saturday.

[The42Yardstick]

so basically, we can thank twitter for saving the big 12.

Kinda wondering if I should bring my Twitter back. Not my facebook though. eff them.

[SleepFighter]

Calm down, dude.  I'm not going to sift through 150 pages of bullshit just to make a post.  I realize it's stressful right now for K-State fans and your impending mid major status, but get a grip.  

hey beems, thoughts on the Pac 10 plane heading back to the west coast and skipping the KU meeting?

I don't know... I've heard reports that a meeting will take place tonight.

That was from when the plane was going to Kansas City last night.  Now it's not.

[catzacker]

Serious question: Will Kirk Schultz take Deloss Dodds out for endless salad and breadsticks after this whole thing blows over?

Say, Deloss, you seen Prince of Persia?  That Jake Gyllenhaal isn't queer after all.

i have a feeling zacker is going boomer sooner, even if big 12 stays  

[TBL]

Note to Breadstick and the Beav:  When you replace the Field Turf in the Football Stadium next year.   I suggest that you don't put any conference logos on it.  If so, don't do it with the sewn in lettering, maybe velcro.


Ben getting clowned, now lashing out . . . as per usual.

Unlike you clowns, I wasn't sitting next to a computer all weekend worrying about becoming a mid major surfing gay midget porn.  

[slimz]

http://ucla.freedomblogging.com/2010/06/13/pac-10-expansion-scott-in-austin-kansas-next/16411/

Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott arrived in Austin Sunday to meet with University of Texas officials about the Longhorns joining an expanded Pac-10 and is scheduled to meet with University of Kansas officials Monday night, the Orange County Register has learned.
Scott landed in Austin as the Texas board of regents prepared to meet Tuesday morning to discuss the Longhorns’ conference options.
The Austin stop comes after a busy weekend for Scott, the point man in a Pac-10 expansion bid that could dramatically alter the major college sports landscape by the end of the week.
Scott met with University of Oklahoma president David Boren and Sooners athletic director Joe Castiglione in Oklahoma on Saturday and then flew to to College Station, Texas to meet with Texas A&M officials on Sunday morning before flying to Lubbock for a meeting with Texas Tech officials later that afternoon. Texas Tech’s regents are also scheduled to discuss the school joining the Pac-10 on Tuesday afternoon. Oklahoma regents will hold a similar discussion Wednesday, school officials said.
Monday could be just as busy with Scott and deputy commissioner  Kevin Weiberg, a former Big 12 commissioner, scheduled fly to Kansas City Monday night to meet with University of Kansas officials scrambling to find a home for the Jayhawks with the break up of the Big 12 imminent.
Scott’s whirlwind tour of the Big 12 Southern Division comes as SEC officials have expressed interest in pursuing Texas and Texas A&M. A&M officials have also expressed an interest in at least exploring the SEC as an option.
But Texas remains the key to Pac-10 plans to expand to a 16-school, two division super conference. Pac-10 officials see Texas as the flagship university in a Eastern Division that would also include Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Colorado, who joined the Pac-10 on Thursday, and current Pac-10 members Arizona and Arizona State. Pac-10 officials hope Texas A&M will round out the Eastern Division. If the Aggies jump to the SEC or pursue other options, the Pac-10 will look at Utah and Kansas.
The Western Division would be made up of the original Pac-8 schools: Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, California, Stanford, UCLA and USC.
 

In other breaking news:

It is now on the record that sometime in Al Bohl's 20-month tenure as Kansas University's athletic director, compliance officer Janelle Martin approached Bohl about the need to budget more help for her understaffed office.

"Compliance," Bohl is said to have responded, "doesn't sell tickets."

That belief, in part, indirectly brought Kansas to Thursday's news, when the NCAA Committee on Infractions passed out punishment for violations committed within the athletic department between 2000 and 2005.

A lack of institutional control allegation - brought forward partially by severe compliance shortcomings during Bohl's tenure - was justified in the eyes of the committee. A three-year probation was handed down as a result, keeping Kansas on a short leash until Oct. 11, 2009.

KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway was asked specifically about Bohl's comment cited in the committee's report - one which seems to reflect an attitude that likely gets schools in the very trouble Kansas finds itself in.

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NCAA punishes KU

"He never said that to me," Hemenway responded. "I think you can just about imagine what would have happened had he ever had."

In addition to the probation, more penalties were passed out for KU's football and men's basketball programs, which were cited as being in violation of multiple NCAA rules. Among the new punishments:

¢ Men's basketball loses one scholarship for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 school years, and will have 12 grants to give instead of 13.

¢ Men's basketball also must restrict the number of official campus visits by eight over a two-year period. Given 12 per year, coach Bill Self now has 16 visits to use instead of 24 between now and the 2008-09 school year.

¢ For being found guilty of academic fraud and other violations, football loses three scholarships per signing class for each of the next two years. The 25-scholarship maximum for most football programs is just 22 for Kansas until 2009.

¢ Kansas must disassociate with booster Don Davis, who provided $5,000 in improper benefits to men's basketball player Darnell Jackson. Kansas already suspended Jackson nine games last season for his role.

Mark Mangino press conference

KU head football coach Mark Mangino answers questions about the NCAA penalties. Enlarge video
Women's basketball, meanwhile, received no punishments beyond what was self-imposed 16 months ago, and the committee actually found the previous penalties of scholarship loss and recruiting restrictions to be too harsh, saying they were "disproportionate" to the infractions.

Hemenway said KU would not appeal the new penalties.

"The committee has been very fair with us," Hemenway said. "We trust the process, and we accept the committee's judgment. This is a process that speaks to the integrity of intercollegiate athletics. It is a process that deserves our respect."

 

[OregonSmock]

Calm down, dude.  I'm not going to sift through 150 pages of bullshit just to make a post.  I realize it's stressful right now for K-State fans and your impending mid major status, but get a grip.  

hey beems, thoughts on the Pac 10 plane heading back to the west coast and skipping the KU meeting?

I don't know... I've heard reports that a meeting will take place tonight.

That was from when the plane was going to Kansas City last night.  Now it's not.

Well, I've also been hearing reports that the Pac 10 has already offered KU, so maybe they had a teleconference or something last night and didn't need to formally meet face to face.