I wonder if OU and OSU join PAC 10, will this affect OU vs OSU bedlam game and OU vs Texas red river game? If we keep those two, I don't really care who else we play..
I wonder if OU and OSU join PAC 10, will this affect OU vs OSU bedlam game and OU vs Texas red river game? If we keep those two, I don't really care who else we play..
With OU and OSU moving to the Pac 10 I think the one thing that nobody has mentioned is the recruiting pool just got bigger!
OSU and especially OU will be seen by high school kids all over California on TV and in the papers. Recruits will feel more at home going to OU and OSU now. I just hope that OU and OSU can recruit better than the Texas schools. I think the biggest boom for recruiting in Cali will be Colorado. Its lifestyle is more in tune with the Cali kids, so they will see a boom in Cali kids coming in.
Pac-10 vs. SEC. A Tulsa Whirled report I read yesterday confirmed that the SEC has been lobbying the heck out of OU and that OSU's preference is in fact the SEC, they want to be with former rival Arkansas instead of Arizona and other schools they don't know.
But this report that's circulating on the google wire says OSU will in fact be the very next domino to fall, in light of CU's bolting for the Pac-10, and it will be the Pac-10 for the Cowboys.
Oklahoma State Next to Jump to Pac-10 Conference | TMZ.com
Although, it is TMZ.. I guess they're just as good a source in any of this as anyone else LOL. There has literally been NOTHING but unnamed sources close to certain departments and anonymous reports and so on..but they've all been right so far. OSU and OU would of course be tied politically.
I really dont get the point of the super-conferences (outside of the money).
Let's say OU, OSU, Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech all follow Colorado to the Pac-10.
The new Pac 10 would have two 8 team divisions like so:
--West--
Cal
Stanford
Oregon
Oregon State
USC
UCLA
Washington
Washington State
--East--
Arizona
Arizona State
Colorado
OU
OSU
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Each team would play their 7 division mates each season, then either 1 or 2 of the teams in the other division, leaving 4 or 3 non conference games.
So my question is, what is the point? What is the point in OU being in the same conference as Cal if they only play them once every 8 years?
[QUOTE=Caboose;337954]I really dont get the point of the super-conferences (outside of the money).
The money is the point. Money drives pretty much everything.
Maybe all these "super conferences" will lead to a REAL National Championship series/game?
Caboose...I am going to wait and see how all this realignment stuff works out.
Channel 5 is reporting that OU is going to the SEC.
Not true. Sooner Scoop just asked Josh Heupel straight up and he said that he never got a text saying OU is bolting to the SEC. Whoever Channel 5 is using as their sources needs to be canned.
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In any event, OU will go wherever UT goes, and OSU will go wherever OU goes.
I'm torn but if I had to make the choice I would vote SEC.
[QUOTE=Caboose;337973]Not that much less connection to the other division than the Big 12. In basketball and baseball there are enough games to play the whole conference. In football the schedule will probably be the seven in your division, rotating two from the other division and three other teams. Every 4 years you will have played the entire conference vs. every two years now.
How is this for the SEC?
Drop Vanderbilt and Mississippi St and pickup Texas, Texas AM, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, Missouri, and Kansas.
You lose 25% of Nashville and whatever town Mississippi St is in and pick-up Dallas, Ft. Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, OKC, Tulsa, Kansas City, 50% of Wichita, and St. Louis.
Hey, we better hope that OSU doesn't get dropped along the way on the account of Stillwater unless Oklahoma City and Tulsa makes up for it.
One of these things, is not like the other things.
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However unlikely as it may be, should no more defections come from the Big 12, which 2 great universities should it seek to replace Colorado and Nebraska? Arkansas and LSU?
Meanwhile, Pickens isn't happy with the situation.
Oklahoma State Booster T. Boone Pickens No Fan of Expansion -- NCAAFB FanHouse
It was a preemptive strike against legislative politicking here in Austin.
Vandy brings the grade point average up and is a private school, so some conference matters do not fall under the open records acts. Most of the majors have a private school.
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