People actually care about a crazy religious school being in their conference? Why? Who gives a shit?
I want to watch competitive football games and I want my conference to be competitive financially, I really don't care about the politics and religion of other schools in my conference
if Baylor wasn't in the conference and the current political landscape was a bit more mellow, BYU would be a shoo-in.
Clearly. But I'm not a university president, so I don't care. I mean if all things were equal, I could see the fact that BYU is a religious private school being a deal breaker. But BYU is clearly the best option.
the result might end up being BYU as football only while the presidents/ADs try to spin that as the "compromise" and Cincy as a full member.
I am very skeptical UConn delivers any TV markets. And as others have mentioned, basketball doesn't drive realignment. Just think it's an odd school to be in the mix and wondered if I was missing something obvious that makes them a potentially lucrative choice. Apparently not.
I think them never being in the conversation during ACC expansion tells you everything you need to know about their desirability.
They're going to leave. It's like your girlfriend convincing you that having a theeesome with another dude will save your relationship when she is going to break up with you anyway.
And I get that, but they don't want to leave. They're trying not to, but they will if the conference continues to get watered down
Big XII expansion discussions will be even more fun after the conference misses the playoff again this year.
I must have missed something. OU is trying to leave the BIG XII? to go where? The SEC has no desire to expand and probably doesn't want them anyway. The Big Ten doesn't need them; they already have Nebraska (plain state traditional power). The Pac? No. OU is stuck. they've always been stuck.
Naw, OU can go just about anywhere they want. Best guess is the Big Ten. Texas would be the preferable partner, with Kansas as the backup.
Nobody is going to 15. It really depends who 16 would be. If OU insists on OSU, they become much less attractive. If they bring Texas with them, they are the hottest girls in school.
I wouldn't say Oklahoma is looking to leave the Big 12, but Oklahoma isn't going to sign a long-term contract without seeing what the free agent market is like. Oklahoma is basically Kevin Durant, and Texas is Decision LeBron James.
It's not even that. It's the fact that he doesn't think every conference in America wouldn't say no to OU But boren does want to stay with Texas and knows it's a huge deal for both schools. He's trying to keep it together but not at the expense of allowing Houston or uconn into the conference
No one in the Big 12 actually *wants* Houston in, Texas just has to pretend like they do for UT-Houston campus reasons, and the little brother schools in Texas has to pretend like they're being good little brothers by supporting Texas' pretend support of Houston.
The B1G basically invited Oklahoma when we let Nebraska in. Then we let Rutgers and Maryland in. Welcome Oklahoma and Iowa State!
Boren somehow thinks OU can be on par with the great public universities academically, and being in a football conference with more of them than just Texas will support that transformation. He's apparently also willing to sacrifice the one thing OU is really really good at, football, in order to achieve that. It's a risky bet, so we'll see how it plays out.
OU wants to stay with Texas but Boren doesn't feel they have to. You guys haven't been listening. Boren wants 2 things to happen. Texas to drop the Longhorn network and Big 12 network to be created. Unless those 2 things happen OU will shop their exit and will do so without any ties to Texas or OSU.