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Bigsouthking wrote: The governor of Texas just wants Texas and A & M to stay together. Texas could go Big Ten, Pac 10, or SEC or they could stay and hold Big 12 together maybe.How can you justify politically strong-arming aTm into whatever conference Texas goes to but not Texas Tech?
TDDance234 wrote:And that officially marks Baylor as the biggest loser in those whole process, IMO. They will have to settle with the MWC, I believe.No, that would be Kansas
El Scorcho wrote:post at your own risk.
4everfsu wrote:The Boulder Daily Camera reported that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has asked Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Baylor to meet Thursday so they can talk about ways the four state schools could remain in the same conference. A source confirmed to ESPNDallas.com's Jeff Caplan that the four schools will meet Thursday.Why Baylor? Baylor is private. What does the governor have to do with a private school?
LUconn wrote:Depends on which school the governor graduated from and which has more members in the state legislature at the time.Bigsouthking wrote: The governor of Texas just wants Texas and A & M to stay together. Texas could go Big Ten, Pac 10, or SEC or they could stay and hold Big 12 together maybe.How can you justify politically strong-arming aTm into whatever conference Texas goes to but not Texas Tech?
PAmedic wrote:you're absolutely right
SumItUp wrote:The Big XII requires 9 of the 12 voting to dissolve the conference. If those are the only 4 remaining, one of them would probably vote to dissolve the conference. Arkansas will not leave the SEC to move to a "Big 12" conference that does not include most of the former SWC members (Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Baylor).That depends on the amount of money from the buyout and where it would go. If there's a good chunk of money that could somehow go to the 4 schools why would they vote to dissolve it?
flamesfilmguy wrote:A hire up in the Tech Athletic department informed me that FSU,Clemson,GT and Miami have already been contacted and invited to the SEC. GT is going to accept once its formal and public as of right now.A guy supposedly in the know from UGA said he can PROMISE that GT isn't in the top 15 teams the SEC would consider.
Schfourteenteen wrote:If the Big XII only lost one team, I could see Arkansas maybe coming back. When all this bagan last year, that was my prediction. But, the Pac-10 overthrew everything.SumItUp wrote:The Big XII requires 9 of the 12 voting to dissolve the conference. If those are the only 4 remaining, one of them would probably vote to dissolve the conference. Arkansas will not leave the SEC to move to a "Big 12" conference that does not include most of the former SWC members (Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Baylor).That depends on the amount of money from the buyout and where it would go. If there's a good chunk of money that could somehow go to the 4 schools why would they vote to dissolve it?
It's be better for them to vote to keep the conference, collect the buyout and then dissolve it a month later if they really wanted out. Or - pick up 4 to 8 growing mid-major programs and move on. There's no good options for Kansas and Baylor if Texas leaves.
The Arkansas issue makes sense. I was just throwing teams out there.
What if the Big XII picks up TCU, Memphis, Arkansas, and Houston before UT makes their decision? Apparently not after what the Commish said
Schfourteenteen wrote:That depends on the amount of money from the buyout and where it would go. If there's a good chunk of money that could somehow go to the 4 schools why would they vote to dissolve it?That's a good point. It appears the exit fees for 8 teams will surpass $80 million.
LUconn wrote:Yeah, I don't understand why they don't in turn raid the MWC. You'd have a better conference than what the MWC is right now which as stated earlier is on par or better than some other premier leagues.Maybe that's the "process" Don Beebe keeps mentioning.
El Scorcho wrote:post at your own risk.
Man I feel like i am high school all over again. The gossiping the rumors, the “they are doing whats?”. We all know how it is and how comparable the Conference Expansion is like it.
Roles:
Cheerleaders: Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Texas Tech, and because their mom got involved and forced the team to take her Baylor.
The really Hot girl not on the squad: ND
The girl that is friends with the Cheerleaders but ready for her own thing: Nebraska
The oddly attractive chick, just cause she kind of stands out: Colorado
The girl that everyone is friends with, but is just not that attractive: Kansas (in this instance football is looks, and basketball personality)
The girl that cheats on her boyfriend openly: Mizzou
The other girls people know but do not really care for: K-State, ISU
Big ten is the football players, and the Pac – 10 is the cool guys who do not play sports, SEC is the other schools football team that really does not care to intermingle. Big East and ACC fill out the rest.
The goal of all the girls is to find a date/group to go to homecoming with.
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