Big 12 has Emergency Conf. Call. OU, UT, A&M were not included
I'm not crazy about Chip Brown, or some of his take on it all, but this makes it look like OU is gone and they know it.
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Interesting on many levels.
Not knowing what site I was clicking on, I had to vomit from seeing that horrid orangish color.
After that I had to wonder, why exclude tu from this conversation? Do they know something we don’t yet know about the wHorns intentions? Does this mean that the Sooners are inextricably and irrevocably bound to the wHorns? Say it ain’t so.
While I am pondering with no answers, I have another.
Why couldn’t they have had this conference call months ago with everyone except tu? Amputating a diseased limb to save the body would have been the most efficacious and least painful to save the entire body. Implying that if OU leaves for the Pac12 tu tags along implies that OSU isn’t OU’s only little brother, but tu is, jalso.
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. --Richard Marcinko
I had many of those same questions
I figure this was for the 7 dwarfs to be asked, what do you all want to do…stick it out and raid C-USA or do you all want to walk too.?
You may be right.
The idea of bailing on the conference, but remaining bound to tu is not absurd. That’s like moving to another city with the same abusive mate hoping for a different result.
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. --Richard Marcinko
Oklahoma isn't bound to Texas, but
Oklahoma is much better off in a conference division that includes Texas, than they are in one that doesn’t. It ensures the game in Dallas for the foreseeable future, and it keeps Oklahoma from being the only team legitimizing the level of competition in its division. Based on what I’m seeing, if/when A&M walks away from its conference relationship with Texas, Oklahoma is going to try to corral Texas into a similar relationship. They’ll try to form the nucleus of a foursome that goes to the Pac-12, or they could try to form a pairing that joins the B1G. In either of those scenarios Texas is going to have to give up their independent network, and they won’t be able to disregard their conference-mates the way they have in the BigXII. Both scenarios are also better than independence for Texas because they’ll actually make more money and it won’t destroy they schedule for all of their non-revenue sports (which are currently very competitive across the board and could be devastated by a Conference USA affiliation). Also, Texas fans would also actually be able to watch their team play instead of being used as negotiating fodder for the Disney Corporation. And the Disney corporation gets out of a deal that all the major carriers have wanted absolutely nothing to do with while ensuring a better position in re-negotiating with the conference because it’s compromising on its independent deal with Texas. It’s seriously a win for everyone involved. All it really requires is everyone to be realistic about where they are and where they can be.
If a foursome of OU, OSU, Texas, and Tech/Mizzou went to the Pac-12, that would be a huge win for OU and the state. Also, word on Saturday was that Oklahoma and the Pac-12 were pulling to make Mizzou the 4th team rather than Texas Tech. If that were to happen, then the two regional TV channels could be an OU-Texas channel and an OSU-Mizzou channel. That could be huge. A regional network that had both OU and Texas’ 3rd tier rights would be extremely marketable on a national level. From the looks of it, that’s what Oklahoma is working for, and if it happened, that would be an unmitigated win.
Texas is in a tough spot
They would absolutely be in demand by every conference were it not for that LHN. No one wants any part of that b/c it really hurts all the other schools. On the other hand, the last thing Texas wants is to be left w/o a chair when the music stops in some sort of remade Big 8 involving them, the Kansas schools, Missouri, Baylor, Tech and Iowa St. I also see no benefit to them going independent. The problem is that they’ve pissed on (can I say that here?) all their friends and now they’re wondering why no one wants to play with them any more.
In order to get into the Big 10+2, the PAC whatever, or the SEC, they’re probably going to have to give up their LHN or severely water it down. If we go to the PAC whatever, they’re going to be jumping right along so that they’re not the ones left behind unless they’re trying to follow in A&M’s coattails to the SEC. Both would love to have UT but not unless they give up that network.
Let me add this disclaimer
I don’t feel sorry for them. They brought this on themselves but they’ve dug themselves into a hole and now they’re looking around for someone to toss them a rope.
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