[Redrum]

The Big 12 seems to be draining away like sand running through one\'s fingers.   No wonder the Big 12 Commish was going around like half bully, half beggar trying to get every member to publicly sign a loyalty oath.

BUT...The Big 12 can firewall this.  If there can be and 11-team Big 10, there can be an 11-team Big 12.   (And they can get Houston to join and keep on limpin\' on).  The Big 12 North will be a bloody laughingstock, but at least it will still bear the Big 12 name. So even if Nebraska bolts,  it seems up to Texas and the other Texas schools.  If the Pac-10 gets one of the Big  Big-12 defection candidates to commit,  then it most likely will crumble.

Hard to see the Pac-10 going for Missouri over Colorado.  It\'s just hard to see why the Pac-10 would be interested in one team.  The one team is just the domino tipping to get the whole thing.

[Redrum]

The Big 12 seems to be draining away like sand running through one\'s fingers.   No wonder the Big 12 Commish was going around like half bully, half beggar trying to get every member to publicly sign a loyalty oath.

BUT...The Big 12 can firewall this.  If there can be and 11-team Big 10, there can be an 11-team Big 12.   (And they can get Houston to join and keep on limpin\' on).  The Big 12 North will be a bloody laughingstock, but at least it will still bear the Big 12 name. So even if Nebraska bolts,  it seems up to Texas and the other Texas schools.  If the Pac-10 gets one of the Big  Big-12 defection candidates to commit,  then it most likely will crumble.

Hard to see the Pac-10 going for Missouri over Colorado.  It\'s just hard to see why the Pac-10 would be interested in one team.  The one team is just the domino tipping to get the whole thing.

[fullmetal]

You\'re just seeing contingency plans going into action.  The ADs here have been looking at this for a while...I kind of lament the end of the Big12 and true conference regionalism at the hands of big money.

[fullmetal]

You\'re just seeing contingency plans going into action.  The ADs here have been looking at this for a while...I kind of lament the end of the Big12 and true conference regionalism at the hands of big money.

[washingtonismoney]

So I think the rumor of the moment is that the Big Ten (Twelve, now?) is planning on doing its expansion in stages: inviting Nebraska means that it gets to topple the Big 12, which means that it can take Mizzou at its leisure. The reason they want to do this in stages is the ever-elusive Notre Dame, which may finally feel compelled to join a conference once the Pac-16 behemoth assembles itself.

[washingtonismoney]

So I think the rumor of the moment is that the Big Ten (Twelve, now?) is planning on doing its expansion in stages: inviting Nebraska means that it gets to topple the Big 12, which means that it can take Mizzou at its leisure. The reason they want to do this in stages is the ever-elusive Notre Dame, which may finally feel compelled to join a conference once the Pac-16 behemoth assembles itself.

[Redrum]

UTexas site (Orangeblood) says that the UT chancellor and Athletic Dir.  have already met with the football coaches to tell them the Big 12 is history.

[Redrum]

UTexas site (Orangeblood) says that the UT chancellor and Athletic Dir.  have already met with the football coaches to tell them the Big 12 is history.

[fullmetal]

Texas fans aren\'t enamored of having to bring Tech along with the Longhorns, that\'s for sure.  Tech is far from a world-class university.  A&M is a better university than Texas Tech.

[fullmetal]

Texas fans aren\'t enamored of having to bring Tech along with the Longhorns, that\'s for sure.  Tech is far from a world-class university.  A&M is a better university than Texas Tech.

[Redrum]

Said the fullmetal Longhorn honk through clenched teeth.   ;D

All I gotta say is Texas better not ever, ever again schedule another one of those 10 a.m.  110 deg. games with Stanford

[Redrum]

Said the fullmetal Longhorn honk through clenched teeth.   ;D

All I gotta say is Texas better not ever, ever again schedule another one of those 10 a.m.  110 deg. games with Stanford

[fullmetal]

I\'m not terribly anti-Aggie, though I am generally pro-Longhorn.  After all, my sister did just graduate from A&M\'s medical school :)  Also, the analog circuit engineering track in A&M\'s electrical engineering program is surprisingly good.  UT-Austin doesn\'t have too many profs in that area.

[fullmetal]

I\'m not terribly anti-Aggie, though I am generally pro-Longhorn.  After all, my sister did just graduate from A&M\'s medical school :)  Also, the analog circuit engineering track in A&M\'s electrical engineering program is surprisingly good.  UT-Austin doesn\'t have too many profs in that area.

[Ratmandoo]

Anybody remember which Bruce Willis movie it was in which he\'s abducted and then forced to walk around Harlem naked except for a sandwich-board that says I HATE [N-WORD]S? That\'s probably fullmetal\'s fate -- walking down Guadalupe past the UT campus, wearing only a sandwich board that says, I\'M NOT TERRIBLY ANTI-AGGIE.

Die Hard 3: The crappy Die Hard movie.

And if Texas comes to the Pac-10, so does A&M and Tech. The interesting question is if Baylor can use its Texas connections to get in over Colorado. As for Oklahoma State, I believe they come if Oklahoma comes. So Missouri just gets left out with Kansas and K-State.

[Ratmandoo]

Anybody remember which Bruce Willis movie it was in which he\'s abducted and then forced to walk around Harlem naked except for a sandwich-board that says I HATE [N-WORD]S? That\'s probably fullmetal\'s fate -- walking down Guadalupe past the UT campus, wearing only a sandwich board that says, I\'M NOT TERRIBLY ANTI-AGGIE.

Die Hard 3: The crappy Die Hard movie.

And if Texas comes to the Pac-10, so does A&M and Tech. The interesting question is if Baylor can use its Texas connections to get in over Colorado. As for Oklahoma State, I believe they come if Oklahoma comes. So Missouri just gets left out with Kansas and K-State.

[yvonne]

Merc says Colorado has already agreed to come west (yay!), others to be invited soon. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15266487.  

[yvonne]

Merc says Colorado has already agreed to come west (yay!), others to be invited soon. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15266487.  

[yvonne]

Never mind.  It turns out the Merc\'s research is nothing more than reading the espn.com blog. wonder when the Rip van MercuryNew will wake up and realize we can all do the same thing, and that they need to add some value by actually reporting.

[yvonne]

Never mind.  It turns out the Merc\'s research is nothing more than reading the espn.com blog. wonder when the Rip van MercuryNew will wake up and realize we can all do the same thing, and that they need to add some value by actually reporting.

[fullmetal]

My sandwich board reads: "Why A&M is important."

Read this article on why.

Also, a nice article on the death of the Pac-10\'s image here.

[fullmetal]

My sandwich board reads: "Why A&M is important."

Read this article on why.

Also, a nice article on the death of the Pac-10\'s image here.

[raja]

Die Hard 3: The crappy Die Hard movie.

And if Texas comes to the Pac-10, so does A&M and Tech. The interesting question is if Baylor can use its Texas connections to get in over Colorado. As for Oklahoma State, I believe they come if Oklahoma comes. So Missouri just gets left out with Kansas and K-State.

It\'s unclear to me why Oklahoma State is in this at all.  I am no expert on OU politics, but my Oklahoma peeps say that there is much less allegiance and political wrangling over OU/OSU as there is in the Texas legislature.

Why can\'t we invite Mizzou - or even Kansas - instead of OSU?

- MC

[raja]

Die Hard 3: The crappy Die Hard movie.

And if Texas comes to the Pac-10, so does A&M and Tech. The interesting question is if Baylor can use its Texas connections to get in over Colorado. As for Oklahoma State, I believe they come if Oklahoma comes. So Missouri just gets left out with Kansas and K-State.

It\'s unclear to me why Oklahoma State is in this at all.  I am no expert on OU politics, but my Oklahoma peeps say that there is much less allegiance and political wrangling over OU/OSU as there is in the Texas legislature.

Why can\'t we invite Mizzou - or even Kansas - instead of OSU?

- MC

[Kathy]

Neither Missouri nor Nebraska can make a move on this issue without the consent of the system governing boards. Nebraska\'s regents made a change to their agenda for Friday\'s meeting to allow discussion of conference alignment. Missouri\'s Board of Curators meets today and tomorrow. No public word on additions to the agenda yet, but that doesn\'t mean the issue will be ignored.

[Kathy]

Neither Missouri nor Nebraska can make a move on this issue without the consent of the system governing boards. Nebraska\'s regents made a change to their agenda for Friday\'s meeting to allow discussion of conference alignment. Missouri\'s Board of Curators meets today and tomorrow. No public word on additions to the agenda yet, but that doesn\'t mean the issue will be ignored.

[CowboyIndian]

Re: Ann Killion and her crap blog, er, column. Hear, hear, Mr. Garvin!

[CowboyIndian]

Re: Ann Killion and her crap blog, er, column. Hear, hear, Mr. Garvin!

[Kathy]

It\'s unclear to me why Oklahoma State is in this at all.

Ever hear of T. Boone Pickens?

[Kathy]

It\'s unclear to me why Oklahoma State is in this at all.

Ever hear of T. Boone Pickens?

[Redrum]

He can tote the Oklahoma St. Cowboys any damned place he wants.  Offer expires midnight of LOI day 2012.

[Redrum]

He can tote the Oklahoma St. Cowboys any damned place he wants.  Offer expires midnight of LOI day 2012.

[Pastor]

BTW, that\'s T. Bone Pickens...he lost a o off the end of his fortune in the last recession.

He still has plenty to pay Redrum.....after all, what\'s $5

[Pastor]

BTW, that\'s T. Bone Pickens...he lost a o off the end of his fortune in the last recession.

He still has plenty to pay Redrum.....after all, what\'s $5