BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Oklahoma now staying in the Big 12 (which means Okie State stays with them). Pac-12 announces it's staying with 12 teams. Commish Larry Scott pretty much just said on ESPN that the Longhorn Network sunk Texas chances to move west.

Wow. Texas now backed into a corner. Thanks to its arrogance.

 

You really think the SEC will be content sitting at 13? The lack of a dance partner for A & M is a mighty big string still untied.

 

I figure there is enough ego left in college football that someone will try to broker some deal to make them a hero.
The Big 12 has been wounded. Kind of hard to sell a conference where the teams that can bolt have bolted, and those that can't are willing to accept whatever Texas tells them to accept. I'll believe the B12 is planning to stick around when they add two more teams.

 

Oklahoma president David Boren is an evil cock sucker. Literally. And the Oklahoman in OKC has become his mouthpiece "highly placed OU source" = Boren. Oklahoman wrote a spin job where OU and OSU were "double agents" and were really trying to save Big 12 with play fake toward Pac-10.

Boren can no longer buy car insurance; he's been rear-ended too often.

 

NOT so fast, my friend: East Carolina is applying to join the Big East.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7001803/east-carolina-applies-big-east-conference-membership

Hell, maybe the SEC should go after them. Gets them into North Carolina and adds a serious contender in the NCAA barbecue playoffs.

 

The SEC should go after UNC...they have the prerequisite NCAA scandal already flourishing.

Joking aside, I wish the B12 would hire Joe Castiglione as Commish. He's probably ready to get the hell away from Boren, and he has the cajones to stand up to Texas.

 

Nice piece looking back at the formation of the Big 12 with the then president of the Big 8 Council of Presidents.

http://themercury.com/K-StateSports/article.aspx?articleId=3d2af06db8284de69292e4bd5d8d69a2

 

Is anybody - aside from diehard Sooner fanboys - buying that?

 

I would imagine if that was possible, it would have been implemented a long time ago, no?

 

Kevin Weiberg was kind of run out as Big 12 commish because he wanted to create a Big 12 Network and share the money. Texas wasn't alone with a vision toward its own network. Oklahoma and Nebraska wanted to do the same thing. Until relatively recently, Kansas wouldn't have been a fan of sharing all TV money because it makes a good chunk of cash broadcasting non-conference basketball games across the state on the "Jayhawk Network".

It wasn't until Texas got in bed with ESPN for $300 million and started talking about showing recruits' games and highlights that the majority of the schools felt it was a problem.