BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

My guess? BYU (which Oklahoma opposed), TCU (which Oklahoma opposed) and West Virginia (which Oklahoma wanted) would be the most attractive candidates. The Sooners wanted a Pitt-WVU combo, and that can't happen now, but the Big East's uncertainly puts some good options back in play that weren't there a week ago.

 

Um, Oklahoma State, Missouri and Texas Tech scoff. We're talking the last 10 years, not the last 100.

 

But the SEC still needs a fourteenth member. I read somewhere that the OU president said that the SEC offer OU and A&M invites last year. Does OU see if they can still be included as the fourteenth member, or do they potentially let Missouri receive the invite?

 

What about the Big 12 and Big East joining forces for a super conference?

 

Super-mediocre, maybe. The Big 12 is better off going it alone than joining up with that big ball of suck.

 

OK, fair enough.

How many BCS bowl appearances between the three of them in the last decade? How many conference title game appearances? Ad, just to be nice: How many New Year's Day bowls?

For that matter, how many Final Four appearances, just in case anyone wants to sell the overall athletic program? How many College World Series appearances?

Texas scoffs in return, while lighting dollar bills on fire.

 

No doubt, but if Mizzou leaves, that leaves eight teams. Would the Big 12 try and invite TCU, WVU, BYU and Boise and get back to 12 teams?

 

I think that might happen, especailly if the SEC takes another school from the group or the ACC two more. And at that point I think the Big East basketball only schools head for the gates.

 

Whatever. Without being in a conference (which has been considered the second-toughest in football), Texas joins Notre Dame and BYU on the spiral of mediocrity. The Big 12's problem was not telling Texas to fuck itself in the first place. It holds the leverage, especially knowing now that Texas is pretty much out of options. It's not as if Texas was in a Big East-type deal.

 

Still could be West Virginia, I'd think.

Keep in mind that McMurphy's story on CBSSports.com came from anonymous Big East sources. You don't think it's at least possible that those sources (one could've even been John Marinatto himself) had an agenda to keep the current Big East schools in the fold? Especially if those same Big East sources had just been blindsided by the Pitt/Syracuse/ACC maneuver? I'm not disparaging McMurphy, who's excellent, but that's the problem with anonymous sourcing...