Big Ten Expansion

[Gashouse]

The New Big Sky Conference

Kansas
Kansas St
Missouri
Iowa St
Baylor
Boise St
TCU
Utah
BYU
Air Force

That wouldn't be all bad.

[Rieges]

http://www.columbiatribune.com/weblogs/ ... uri-domino

While there may be an informal invitation and a lot of behind the scenes conversations going on, NU to the Big 10 is not yet a done deal as reported. No vote has taken place by the the NU Board of Regents and it won't happen until Friday at the earliest.

On the heels of that comment, Nebraska issued a release taking some teeth out of the other reports.


"A report being circulated this afternoon among sports media stating that the University of Nebraska Board of Regents 'met informally' today and have 'agreed to move to the Big Ten' is not accurate. Members of the Board's executive committee met via conference call to discuss the agenda for Friday's meeting. Such meetings routinely take place prior to Board meetings. At its meeting on Friday, the Board will be briefed on UNL athletic conference alignment and consider a resolution. No action was taken during today's conference call, and none will be taken prior to Friday's meeting."

[ndistops]

This new Pac-16 conference is going to be freaking loaded.

It's kind of impossible to believe how quickly all this is going down.

[obucard]

Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M and Colorado to the Pac 10

Missouri to a wasteland

The Big 12 is dead.

Fixed that for you there ICE. Mizzou appears to be in deep now.

Welcome to the SEC?

[obucard]

The New Big Sky Conference

Kansas
Kansas St
Missouri
Iowa St
Baylor
Boise St
TCU
Utah
BYU
Air Force

That wouldn't be all bad.

That could take the Big 12's vacated BCS spot.

[obucard]

This new Pac-16 conference is going to be freaking loaded.

It's kind of impossible to believe how quickly all this is going down.

Being that loaded could have a negative effect in football, where loss count plays heavily in positioning for national championships.

[JL21]

I was thinking about this today. Why does everyone assume the Mountain West for the Big XII Orphans (KU, KSU, ISU, Baylor, and probably/maybe/I hope not Mizzou)? It'd seem that the writing is on the wall for the Big East as much as it is for the Big XII. Why not go after schools like Louisville and Cincinnati? Or better yet, do it piecemeal- chase TCU and Air Force, who make geographic sense?

I know it's not that easy. But it's very do-able. That quartet (or quintet) of schools doesn't have to be resigned to jumping into C-USA or the Mountain West. They could just as easily form the spine of a new conference.

Anyway, here's some daily funny, spoilered because it's a bandwidth hog (I'm sure TT's already seen this on Rock M Nation):

[SHOW]

[obucard]

I was thinking about this today. Why does everyone assume the Mountain West for the Big XII Orphans (KU, KSU, ISU, Baylor, and probably/maybe/I hope not Mizzou)? It'd seem that the writing is on the wall for the Big East as much as it is for the Big XII. Why not go after schools like Louisville and Cincinnati? Or better yet, do it piecemeal- chase TCU and Air Force, who make geographic sense?

I know it's not that easy. But it's very do-able. That quartet (or quintet) of schools doesn't have to be resigned to jumping into C-USA or the Mountain West. They could just as easily form the spine of a new conference.

People assume the MWC for the orphans in part because of that conference's current bid to become a BCS conference. Picking up 1/3 of the Big 12 would go a long way toward that (in addition to a space being vacated by the Big 12's demise).

[vinsanity]

I was thinking about this today. Why does everyone assume the Mountain West for the Big XII Orphans (KU, KSU, ISU, Baylor, and probably/maybe/I hope not Mizzou)? It'd seem that the writing is on the wall for the Big East as much as it is for the Big XII. Why not go after schools like Louisville and Cincinnati? Or better yet, do it piecemeal- chase TCU and Air Force, who make geographic sense?

Why is the writing on the wall for the Big East? I know Rutgers and Pitt were mentioned as potential targets for the Big 10, but with 16 teams in basketball and no real football standouts, I don't see why they'd have as much trouble either staying with a 6 team football schedule or getting a basketball school to jump to D-I football to fill in.

But I think Louisville or Cincy would be ok to join the the Big 12, but I think based on population, what remains of the Big 12 might be better suited sliding in to the Big East. KU stays in a power basketball conference, the east coast might offer more tv sets and allow for a Big Ten type channel, like the Pac 10 is trying to do.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

It could be homership more than anything, but both of the Columbia Tribune writers made good points yesterday.

More recently, though, Missouri has been characterized as underachieving, overcomplaining and just plain irrelevant — some have suggested Nebraska’s decision alone will determine whether the Big 12 continues or collapses.

What changed? Well, it wasn’t anything Missouri officials said. They haven’t said anything more substantive than, "We are a proud member of the Big 12 Conference," on or off the record in months. But the rest of the Big 12 continues to talk, often anonymously, and that view is being repeated.

That’s just the price for not playing the media’s game. Reporters tend to champion the causes of those who call them back. Journalism abhors a vacuum.

And then Dave Matter passed along that Alden has been uncharacteristically calm and quiet during the whole ordeal. I'm hoping that's because he has an ace up his sleeve, because considering how much they spoke out on things of lesser importance when they got screwed over (read: bowl games), you'd think think he'd be with all the other North AD's crying out for Big 12 unity if their future was uncertain.