As the conference realignment turns, more PAC 10 rumors

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The University of Oklahoma is headed for the Pacific-10 Conference but will wait until Texas declares its intentions, an OU source told The Oklahoman Friday after Nebraska announced it will leave the Big 12 for the Big Ten.
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Don Beebe's press conference starts any moment. You can watch here:

http://www.big12sports.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10410&catid=0

Expect a lot of this:

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This doesn't really say anything though because we've known all along OU would follow Texas. Joe C said as much. If UT decides to go to the SEC or Big 10 I don't think OU goes to the Pac-whatever. Joe C knows to be competitive on the national level he needs to follow Texas. Of all the schools in this OU has the easiest decision. Do what Texas does.
 
Nebraska Approved To Join Big Ten

So long, Big 12. Nebraska's membership in the Big Ten Conference is official.

The Big Ten's board of presidents and chancellors unanimously welcomed Nebraska to the club on Friday, just a few hours after the school formally disclosed its interest. The move takes effect July 1, 2011.
 
Cheno said:
Joe C knows to be competitive on the national level he needs to follow Texas.
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That's not what Joe C. was implying.

Joe C. knows OU will be competitive on a national level, regardless if they are with Texas or not. If OU wanted to, they could go to the SEC (which Joe C. confirmed the SEC has inquired them) with A&M and reap the benefits of the SEC's gargantuan TV deal.

There is a difference between being competitive on a national level, and enhancing your value on the national level. Enhancing OU's value would be to follow Texas, which is what Joe C. is saying. They would do great without Texas, but not AS great.
 
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The SEC is a great sports conference that has had a nice run but those things go in spurts.

What doesn't go in spurts is the talent cranked out of Texas and California and the level of academic excellence the Pac-10 has achieved.

Joining the Pac-10 will really raise up OU and OSU academically. Sports will keep on keeping on and maybe improve with the California pipeline opened a little wider.

A move to the SEC would do nothing for OU academically and nothing to enhance the athletic programs. In fact the athletics might deteriorate if instead of widening the california pipeline we narrowed the texas pipeline.

This is a no brainer for OU and OSU. If A&M has any brains it will be for them too.
 
bocabull said:
The SEC is a great sports conference that has had a nice run but those things go in spurts.

What doesn't go in spurts is the talent cranked out of Texas and California and the level of academic excellence the Pac-10 has achieved.

Joining the Pac-10 will really raise up OU and OSU academically. Sports will keep on keeping on and maybe improve with the California pipeline opened a little wider.

A move to the SEC would do nothing for OU academically and nothing to enhance the athletic programs. In fact the athletics might deteriorate if instead of widening the california pipeline we narrowed the texas pipeline.

This is a no brainer for OU and OSU. If A&M has any brains it will be for them too.
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SO they are a lock to the SEC then I guess.
 
OU certainly does not need to follow Texas to be fine on a national level.
 
They don't need to follow Texas to be successful, but in order to be most profitable (which this whole ordeal is all about), then it is the smart move.

Outside of athletics, a move to the Pac-10 is better for the university as a whole.
 
stoops4pres said:
Looks like your hopes lie with A&M.
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Not my hopes. That would suck. The Pac-10 sucks. I'd rather wait on the second wave. SEC, Big East, Big 10, ACC all could have changes as well. They aren't going to sit around and watch the Pac-16 and Big East be the only two super conferences.
 
Cheno said:
Not my hopes. That would suck. The Pac-10 sucks. I'd rather wait on the second wave. SEC, Big East, Big 10, ACC all could have changes as well. They aren't going to sit around and watch the Pac-16 and Big East be the only two super conferences.
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Okay I'll rephrase: KU's hopes lie with A&M.

And if I were a KU fan, I would much rather hope A&M passes up the bid and KU takes it, then be left on the outside looking in on the hopes that another BCS program takes KU (which aren't close to guarantees, except probably the Big East, which will be depleted once the ACC and possibly SEC snag their teams up as well). But that's your opinion.
 
stoops4pres said:
Okay I'll rephrase: KU's hopes lie with A&M.

And if I were a KU fan, I would much rather hope A&M passes up the bid and KU takes it, then be left on the outside looking in on the hopes that another BCS program takes KU (which aren't close to guarantees, except probably the Big East, which will be depleted once the ACC and possibly SEC snag their teams up as well). But that's your opinion.
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I just have zero desire to be in the Pac-16.
 
I think KU is better off going to the Big East or whatever that will become. We'll still have to wait on ND to see what happens because The Big 10 is wanting ND then they are looking at Rutgers(Big East) Syracuse(Big East), and Maryland(ACC), and the SEC could raid the ACC take the Florida teams Clemson and Gerogia Tech raiding into the ACC. This may force a Big East/ACC to somehow merge to counter that and be competitive. So KU could go to that conference.
 
Sounds like to me if A&M goes to the SEC then KU will go to the Pac-16. Stanford is already pushing for KU now. That would make a division of Texas, Tech, OU, OSU, Colorado, KU and probably Arizona & ASU. That would be a very good hoops division.
 
Cheno said:
Sounds like to me if A&M goes to the SEC then KU will go to the Pac-16. Stanford is already pushing for KU now. That would make a division of Texas, Tech, OU, OSU, Colorado, KU and probably Arizona & ASU. That would be a very good hoops division.
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Exactly, so why don't you want it? Not attacking just asking
 
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