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The Bar => Sports => Topic started by: Odin's Hand on June 11, 2010, 11:18:20 AM
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Most of the old Big 8 rivalries will be dead. :(
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And all the traditions are going away.
Has Nebraska announced anything yet?
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And all the traditions are going away.
Has Nebraska announced anything yet?
UT, A&M and NU are supposed to have press cons. today.
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UT, A&M and NU are supposed to have press cons. today.
I wish they'd all stay put. Nebraska in the Big 10? That just seems wrong.
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It seemed wrong to me when there was no longer the big rivalry between Nebraska and Oklahoma, and they quit playing the day after Thanksgiving. I had family there, moved to Omaha after college and married someone who grew up in Nebraska....watching the Nebraska-Oklahoma game was tradition.
Now, with Colorado gone...wonder who they will play the day after Thanksgiving?
Some match-ups are just tradition and should stay that way... :(
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I'm just hoping A&M and Texas can stay together. I'd miss the Thanksgiving game every year since it's pretty much the only college game I watch. That said, I would like them to go to the Pac 10. Then I could see my two favorite teams (A&M and Washington) together.
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NU to Big 10 in 2011.
http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news;_ylt=ApvoQI2l0yxgWexDnc8hDL05nYcB?slug=ap-expansion-nebraska
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The f***ing Pac-10...sharing the same field weekly with those left-coast jackasses... ::)
Give me the SEC, move Alabama and Auburn into the East division and add OU, OSU, UT and A&M to the West.
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I don't know who this guy is.....but I think I like him... :-)
Pac-16: Why SEC Teams Will Benefit from the Move
by Brett Stephen Written on June 08, 2010 Jeff Gross/Getty Images All of the talk in recent days has been about conference realignment and how it will affect the Big 12, Pac-10, and Big Ten.
But what impact will the move have on the Southeastern Conference?
The first thought is typically that it will make the new Pac-16 a power conference that can rival the SEC and somehow hurt it, but in the words of Lee Corso, “Not so fast my friend.â€
For years, SEC teams have been beating each other up during the conference schedule and knocking each other down in the BCS rankings, while Pac-10 and Big 12 teams have played very cushy schedules and skated right into championship games after one, or maybe two, significant wins.
If the speculation comes to fruition and the Pac-10 and Big 12 essentially merge, the competition that these teams will face in conference will increase significantly.
If this move happens, it will make the Pac-16 champion, like the SEC champion, a legitimate, and most of all, undisputed BCS Championship contender.
The increased competition will eliminate or at least reduce the number of undefeated and one-loss teams coming from this merged conference, and in turn help SEC teams retain higher rankings when they suffer the inevitable one or two losses in conference play.
Overall, this merger will be a great thing for the SEC and college football.
It will take some of the controversy out of the BCS, with fewer situations in which voters must decide whether a team is undefeated because they are dominant, or simply because of lack of competition.
SEC fans should be excited about the potential merger as it will force teams that have been getting free passes into BCS games to now prove themselves on the field of play, rather than just ride a biased preseason ranking into the postseason.
While it will take some of the mystique of the SEC away, it will even the playing field and force the rest of the “Power Teams†to experience the tough regular season that SEC schools have been dealing with for years.
Instead of some of those teams playing half their seasons with "The Little Sisters of the Poor" University....they are going to have full seasons of hard games back to back.
Come the end of the season... SEC will still be standing. Those other conferences are going to be walking wounded. :evillaugh:
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Instead of some of those teams playing half their seasons with "The Little Sisters of the Poor" University....
Hey . . . the Little Sisters of the Poor have one hellacious running game! :tongue:
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ESPN.com has a "Breaking News" alert at the top of their mobile web page that says Texas will stay in the Big 12. Now I'm totally confused.
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Report: Texas Eyes 10-Team Big 12 (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5285680)
The Texas Longhorns, based on a TV deal in the works that could pay them upwards of $25 million per year, are leaning toward staying in a 10-team Big 12 for the foreseeable future, Orangebloods.com has reported, citing sources familiar with negotiations.
Texas was meeting Monday with the other remaining nine schools in the Big 12 about a TV deal included in a plan put together by Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe that would keep the league intact with its current programs, according to multiple reports.
Texas stands to earn between $20 million and $25 million in television revenue, including money from its own network, in the reworked deal, according to Orangebloods.com.
The Longhorns network figures to generate between $3 million and $5 million, according to the report. Because the Big 12 has unequal revenue sharing, the deal will mean more money for Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma, who all would receive at least $20 million annually from the new deal.
The other schools seven schools in the Big 12 would make between $14 million and $17 million, doubling what they currently receive in TV revenue.
Earlier Monday, ESPN reported that the departure of Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State to the Pac-10 was "imminent," citing four sources within the Big 12 said Monday. The report said that Texas' interest in being aligned with the research opportunities and academic missions of Pac-10 schools is driving the decision, along with money.
But a source within the Big 12 told ESPN's Joe Schad that Texas president William Powers Jr. was working through the Beebe's projections to determine if they compare financially with a proposal by Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott.
Part of those projections would likely include "adjustments" from television partners as well as future contracts that were more on par with the contracts of other conferences, the source said.
If this turns out to be true, so ironic & funny that the Big 12 will have 10 teams, while the Big 10 will have 12 teams. :lmao:
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Yeah, it is a go. I bet they try to reach out to two new teams though. TCU and Tulsa will probably be up there.
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I wonder what our resident Nebraska fan thinks about this?
Coach? Where are ya?
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Yeah, it is a go. I bet they try to reach out to two new teams though. TCU and Tulsa will probably be up there.
TCU might be more interested in leaving if the Utes bolt for the Pac-whatever. But they/we were jilted by the Big 12 when it was originally formed in favor of Baylor, and there is definitely still animosity there. On the other hand, the Frogs would much rather travel to the Big 12 destinations than the ones in the Mountain West.