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

[steve dave]

KUSports    Lew Perkins: This one of the greatest things to happen in intercollegiate athletics in a long time.

I love Lew Perkins d00ds 

[steve dave]

KUSports    Perkins: No one in the Big 12 is interested in expansion right now. The league schools like having 10 teams.

[OK_Cat]

Another sidenote that people aren't thinking about:

We can still laugh at mid-majors at the NCAA's.   

[steve dave]

Here is the Cliff's Notes version of Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins' comments at his press conference today.

Full audio will be posted later.

• Perkins says KU is unbelievably happy that all 10 schools were able to stay together in the Big 12. There's lots of value in that.

• In Perkins' opinion, it is one of the greatest things to happen in intercollegiate athletics in a long time. Ten is a great number for the Big 12. Some things are still unanswered, and the league is trying to work through those as quickly as possible. Basically, it's like starting a new conference with all the details that still need to be worked out. This will not be finished for a long time.

• One of the questions he gets asked most is about the conference name. Perkins doesn't know the answer, and he believes everyone in the league will have to talk about whether a name change is needed.

• Though he thinks many of the reporters will want to know about the numbers, Perkins doesn't have completely accurate numbers right now. Things could change over time. He doesn't think any Big 12 schools would have accurate numbers right now.

• No one in the Big 12 is interested in expansion right now. The schools like having 10 teams. Perkins believes that perhaps this could start a trend for schools to go smaller. KU coach Bill Self said it well yesterday when he talked about the new Big 12 being like the old Big Eight.

• KU worked hard behind the scenes to keep this thing together. There are always going to be disagreements. That's never going to go away. But Perkins came away thinking this was the best thing for the Big 12, for the 10 teams still involved and for intercollegiate athletics.

• Perkins believes the basketball league will be stronger.

• Perkins said he kept KU's coaches in the loop throughout the process as much as he could.

• Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe deserves to be thanked. He has been blamed for a lot of things, but he and his staff might have saved intercollegiate athletics as we see it today. Perkins doesn't think the change would have been best for the student athletes involved.

• KU chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little was a watchdog, and she and Perkins were in constant contact through the whole process.

• If Perkins ever had to "go to war," he'd want to do so with Kansas State's president Kirk Schulz and KSU athletic director John Currie. Everything between KU and KSU was done step in step.

• As the five "leftover" Big 12 schools looked at things — Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Baylor and Missouri — they came up with a business plan to try to keep the Big 12 together. Perkins compared it to a starting five of players and an institution trying to keep a good basketball coach. The schools knew what the other schools were being offered by other conferences.

• The five leftover schools then tried to figure out what they had to do to keep those other schools on board. Perkins said that the five leftover schools agreed to help subsidize the other three schools — Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M — if they didn't make a certain number of dollars. The "leftovers" were going to make more money with 10 teams in the Big 12 than if they were left on their own. At the end of the day, the leftover schools might have to pay a little bit, and they might not have to pay anything. Those leftover schools will guarantee, though, that those other schools would make at least what they would have made elsewhere.

• The five leftover schools hope they won't have to give additional funds to the other three schools. That's not guaranteed, though. Time will tell. The agreement just allows the leftover schools to guarantee that the Big 12 schools that were thinking about leaving, even with a worst-case scenario, will make at least as much money as they would have made in other conferences.

• The Big 12 schools signed an agreement to stay in the conference 10 years. If other things happen, it could be longer. Perkins says he has no reason to fear that any other Big 12 team will bolt on the league. All indications are that the teams are in the Big 12 for the long haul.

• Perkins says his only concern was the Big 12 during the process. His only concern now is the Big 12. He won't address the other hypotheticals and things that might have taken place in previous weeks. Everything else is meaningless now.

• Perkins says not to focus on liquidating damages. It's a non-factor in this whole situation.

• Perkins says it doesn't matter if this situation could have been averted. It doesn't matter now. There are a lot of coulda, woulda, shouldas. Things happen. Everybody wants to point a finger at somebody. Perkins says he's not going to worry about yesterday. He feels good that the 10 teams are in this for the long haul.

• Perkins' guess is that it's going to take a year to put everything in the Big 12 back together, because the conference is starting at zero.

• Scheduling is very important, but no one has gotten that far yet.

love this guy  

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

KUSports    Perkins: The 10 members of the Big 12 have signed an agreement to remain together at least 10 years.

10 years of not having to worry about being a mid-major boys    Plenty of time for me to make a billion dollars in a shady business scheme and assure we won't have to worry about it ever again.

But what is the buyout? Texas can probably afford it!  

[DOOMsday]

KUSports    Perkins: The 10 members of the Big 12 have signed an agreement to remain together at least 10 years.

10 years of not having to worry about being a mid-major boys    Plenty of time for me to make a billion dollars in a shady business scheme and assure we won't have to worry about it ever again.

But what is the buyout? Texas can probably afford it!  

They are prolly gonna use the CU/Nubb money we give them!!! 

[bradleigh]

At the thursday NU game we should have willie do a skit where we have some super old timer from Sunflower Estates or whatever it's called (I think Tex would do it) play Tom Osborne and have to give willie a bag of cash.  Then, willie dumps it on the ground and rolls around in it like Eric Cartman.  

do it at a football game.  like this---->



except the snow is money

having willie do snow angels in tom's money on our field would be epic

Glad to see this idea getting fleshed out.

http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=4362.msg87096#msg87096

[kso_FAN]

do it at a football game.  like this---->

I think I made that.  Pretty terrible, but pre-photoshop.

[bradleigh]

dmartin, your You Have Died of Dystenary thing has always made me LOL.  

In our Smoke Your Cigars Thread Coffee Table Book, there should most def. be an entire spread dedicated to the best lollerworthy graphics created by Kazzu fans.

[Dugout DickStone]

Currie pimping some Olympic sport losers.  Come on Curr-dog.

[Testy Westy]

Currie pimping some Olympic sport losers.  Come on Curr-dog.

"this is brutal" 

[sonofdaxjones]

JC sounds cocky.

[sonofdaxjones]

2 Less Mouths to feed at Dinner . . . lolers.

[steve dave]

Someone in the KSU media better do a cliff notes like the LJW guys did

[sonofdaxjones]

Now Pimping  

[MadCat]

UPKS likes breadsticks, ADJC likes pah.

[jtksu]

Instead of the snow angel skit, I would like to approach it from a GTA standpoint.  Willy, in car, pulls up next to Dr Tom and Dr Toms hops in.  Some money is exchanged and Dr Tom fellates Willy enthusiastically.  Dr Tom gets out of the car and goes off on his way.  Willy gets out of the car and hits Dr Tom repeatedly with a bat, until Dr Tom gives Willy his money back.  Willy gets back in car (convertable, so we can see the encounter) and cruises away listening to some sweet 90s tunes.  End scene.

[sonofdaxjones]

-Big 12 Got Stronger.

-Charter, Deals will be done as rapidly as possible.

-Glossed over "commitment" by other schools.

-Win-Win for State and Communities.

-League like the Old Big 8 . . . Fans know that every school will visit them every other year in football and every year in basketball . . . sounds giddy.

[pissclams]

i'd prefer that we keep the name "big 12" so that future generations who weren't around for these recent events will wonder what happened to the other two teams and then be able to mock NU and CU as much as we have and will continue to do.

[steve dave]

i'd prefer that we keep the name "big 12" so that future generations who weren't around for these recent events will wonder what happened to the other two teams and then be able to mock NU and CU as much as we have and will continue to do.

This is a great point for keeping it

[sonofdaxjones]

Oh . . . Ahearn Donations up 25% year over year . . . Season Football Tickets 1,000 ahead year over year at this date.

[sonofdaxjones]

-League Value will cause increase in payout to Big 12 this year from bowls.

-Every school brings value, every school is better because of the Big 12.

[sonofdaxjones]

-Roller Coaster Ride, hats off to Beebe, Presidents and fellow AD's in Big 12 (should have said except those f_cksticks at Corn and Boulder).

[sonofdaxjones]

Dax Note:  Time for the Pres and John to quit trying to be the Anti Wefald and Krause who used and abused the K-State Jet . . . to start using the K-State Jet during important times.

[jtksu]

Those dudes can use the damn jet everyday for all I care.  We're gonna be rich, bitches!