RIP Big 6/7/8/12

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The conference OU's been with since 1919 is about to be dead. A good solid 90+ year run for OU. Granted we still have one more season with it. This thread is to tribute the great moments of that conference.

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We laughed, we cried, we beat the crap out of a lot of teams. It was fun while it lasted. On to bigger and better things.
 
Is it not 2 more years?

I have heard different starting years.
 
Some of my favorite Big 8 basketball moments were at the pre-season tournament in Kansas City between Christmas and New Year's. They played 2 games on Thursday and 2 on Friday. Saturday morning 4 games would start with the game for 7th place ..... I remember sitting in the stands with less than 100 people in attendance for that game.

I loved watching Norm Stewart at Missouri and Ted Owens at KU go against some of the legends...... Dave Bliss was the OU coach then. I remember sitting with John McCullough asking about plays from the night before. It was a chance to watch every conference team play 3 games ..... and really in a no=pressure situation before conference games began.

My roommate and I went every year (he lived in the KC area).

I also remember going to Iba arena and visiting with Coach Iba in the stands......

Those were some great days.
 
I know there have been rumors and reports of moves in the works, but what's happened tonight that makes things appear more certain?
 
 
 
Damn, Bill Self is a cool dude. That's a great pic!! :clap
 
usedtobe1 said:
I also remember going to Iba arena and visiting with Coach Iba in the stands......

Those were some great days.
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Wow. You're old. ;) Just kidding. I grew up with the Big 8 and worked for the Big 8 Conference Headquarters as a Sr. in high school (83-84). Unlike many OU fans (especially on the OUInsider football board) I am a fan of the conference. I like to see other conference schools do well when they aren't playing OU (except for ku because they're fans are extremely arrogant and obnoxious and I live in KC so i have put up with their crap all the time).

It really pisses me off that this situation is all due to market size and TV revenue. The Big 12 is the 2nd best football conference (behind the SEC) and at least the 3rd best basketball conference (behind the Big East and perhaps the ACC) and yet we're the one's that are going to be screwed in this whole deal. It's just wrong on so many levels. College sports should be about celebrating amature athletics and not about TV revenue. Long ago the NCAA should have put in place a system where ALL tv revenue was shared equally among member institutions. We're about to the point where the "haves" are going to have a lot more and the "have nots" are gonna be screwed. I like the fact that teams like Utah, TCU, and Boise State have been able to "crash the party" as far as BCS football games, but that's not gonna happen anymore. The disparity in tv revenue is going to make sure of that.

I don't think basketball will be affected as much, but it will still be affected because teams like ku and ksu (if they don't get in a major conference) will have much less money to spend on facilities than before. That could really hurt some of the traditional basketball powers that don't have great football programs (i.e. Duke, ku, Louisville, etc.). This whole thing just pisses me off! This is supposed to be about school pride and amature athletics, not about tv effing revenue!
 
1H3@rtH0$ said:
Wow. You're old. ;) Just kidding. I grew up with the Big 8 and worked for the Big 8 Conference Headquarters as a Sr. in high school (83-84). Unlike many OU fans (especially on the OUInsider football board) I am a fan of the conference. I like to see other conference schools do well when they aren't playing OU (except for ku because they're fans are extremely arrogant and obnoxious and I live in KC so i have put up with their crap all the time).

It really pisses me off that this situation is all due to market size and TV revenue. The Big 12 is the 2nd best football conference (behind the SEC) and at least the 3rd best basketball conference (behind the Big East and perhaps the ACC) and yet we're the one's that are going to be screwed in this whole deal. It's just wrong on so many levels. College sports should be about celebrating amature athletics and not about TV revenue. Long ago the NCAA should have put in place a system where ALL tv revenue was shared equally among member institutions. We're about to the point where the "haves" are going to have a lot more and the "have nots" are gonna be screwed. I like the fact that teams like Utah, TCU, and Boise State have been able to "crash the party" as far as BCS football games, but that's not gonna happen anymore. The disparity in tv revenue is going to make sure of that.

I don't think basketball will be affected as much, but it will still be affected because teams like ku and ksu (if they don't get in a major conference) will have much less money to spend on facilities than before. That could really hurt some of the traditional basketball powers that don't have great football programs (i.e. Duke, ku, Louisville, etc.). This whole thing just pisses me off! This is supposed to be about school pride and amature athletics, not about tv effing revenue!
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skyvue said:
I know there have been rumors and reports of moves in the works, but what's happened tonight that makes things appear more certain?
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With Nebraska apparently headed to the Big Ten, the Pac-10 is poised to become the Pac-16.

Colorado already has received an invitation to join the conference, while five other invitations will be extended to Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.

A Big 12 football coach, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach on Wednesday night that if Nebraska left the Big 12 the conference would dissolve, according to his athletics director and university president. The coach said Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Colorado would join the Pac-10, leaving Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and Iowa State behind.

"Nebraska is the key," the coach said.

The coach said the Pac-10 favored Colorado over Baylor because of the Buffaloes' presence in the Denver TV market.

Another Big 12 coach said Wednesday night that an anticipated Nebraska announcement of moving toward the Big Ten Thursday would indeed trigger the death of the Big 12 and a mass migration west.

"If Nebraska leaves," the coach said, "everyone has to look."
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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=52700 48
 
If the Pac 16 is such a great idea why is Joe C seemingly so adamant of keeping the Big 12 alive?
 
Unfortunately I do not have any special insight into his thought process, so you will have to ask him. He put a lot of work into creating the conference so that may have something to do with it. Who knows? But in the end I suspect he will decide that it will be in the best interest of the University of Oklahoma to move to the Pac-10. Personally, I will be pretty excited if this happens. Naturally one is sad about losing the relationships that have been formed over the years, but that doesn't mean it isn't time to move on.
 
Also I am opposed to the "Pac-16" moniker. There really is no reason to continue having numbers in the conference names, honestly.
 
Tony said:
Also I am opposed to the "Pac-16" moniker. There really is no reason to continue having numbers in the conference names, honestly.
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They will take a page out of the Big 10 book and still call it the PAC-10.
 
Tony said:
Unfortunately I do not have any special insight into his thought process, so you will have to ask him. He put a lot of work into creating the conference so that may have something to do with it. Who knows? But in the end I suspect he will decide that it will be in the best interest of the University of Oklahoma to move to the Pac-10. Personally, I will be pretty excited if this happens. Naturally one is sad about losing the relationships that have been formed over the years, but that doesn't mean it isn't time to move on.
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Ultimately, he'll do what Texas does....that's basically what he's said.
Texas holds the future in everyones hands. They are the power player in the conference and the rest of us will just have to follow the hand they lead.
 
Cheno said:
If the Pac 16 is such a great idea why is Joe C seemingly so adamant of keeping the Big 12 alive?
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What he says in the Media and what he does behind closed doors are most likely two very different things. He is staying PC in the media
 
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