Breaking!!! PAC 16 - OMG!!!! According to Chip Brown

OSU, I love your avy! Can you post a bigger version of it for me? (and colorado should now be inside the pacman )

 

I'm thinking the Mountain West Conference only delayed doing this in order to wait and see how the Pac-10 reacted to the Baylor for Colorado scenario. And now that Colorado is off the table, Boise State. And soon the left overs of the Big XII.

 

Totally agree with you. If we get UT and TT we would have a huge Texas presence for TV market, recruiting, more national recognition. Further adding A&M wouldn't really provide much marginal benefit since we already have the other Texas schools. Adding Kansas would be huge for basketball and include Kansas City to the Pac16 market.

 

a&m would be WAY better than Kansas. That being said, Kansas would be a nice consolation prise for basketball anyway.


I'm not sure people up there realize the presence that a&m alums have in SA, Houston and Dallas tv markets.

As for bitter rivalries, UT and a&m are it. It would be a shame to lose that.

The one cool thing that will come from this....if it happens, is that the people in the NW will realize what total college football fantacism is all about.

 

Chip Brown Confirms once again

Texas will announce its plans to join the Pac-10 after its regents meet next Tuesday, source confirm to Orangebloods.com.
TYPO COR: B12 Souh schools (TX, TTech, OU, OSU) confirm to OB with Neb move they go to Pac-10!!! Sorry bout that!!

 

Nebraska is now official.

And also, Texas, Oklahoma, Tech, and Ok St will leave for the Pac. Texas will make an official announcement Thursday.

 

Maybe Baylor can try to hitch a ride with A&M to the SEC...

Just kidding. That would be hopeless.

 

Despite news that new Pac-10 teams will start in 2012, Nebraska will reportedly start in the Big Ten in 2011. (See Chip Brown link above)

I guess this has to do with the fact that the Pac-10 TV contract won't start until then, while the Big Ten won't renegotiate for a while.

 

I thought I heard if teams don't wait two years they miss out on a ton of money from the old conference. Perhaps the Big10 is compensating for some of this?

 

I no doubt believe A&M is much more attractive in isolation when compared to Kansas. But if you already have the big Texas school it drastically reduces the benefit of adding another one to the conference.

It's the same reason the SEC doesn't have much interest in adding Miami or Florida State. Those are huge succesful programs, but the SEC already has Florida, so they already have the Florida market. TV stations won't pay much extra just to add a second or third Florida school, but they would pay a TON to add a Texas school like A&M.

 

THIS IS GETTING CRAZY! Am I the only one who thinks 16 teams is too many?

 

I still want A&M. I have some friends who are fans of that team, and I'd much rather talk about the beat-down they're about to receive than how great the SEC is. My other SEC friends are already playing that tune to death.

 

At least for the next few days, the Big Ten and the Big XII have to swap logos.

 

I feel bad about Kansas.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=6485

 

Compared to what conferences have been then yes I'd agree.

But this might just be the future of the major conferences, SEC adds a few teams they'd be at 16. ACC might expand and pick off the good Big East schools. The Big10 is already at 12 teams and is looking at adding Norte Dame + others. In the end you'd have four 16 team super conferences.

Maybe it would be easier to think of it as two 8 team conferences.... If you only play out of division teams once every four years it doesn't seem right to think of them as "in our conference"

 

I'm going to miss the rivalries. This is kinda like my Blazers being in the same conference with Minny and OKC! I don't want to see USC or UW only coming thru every 5 years or so. The one positive for Kansas if they stay, they will win the conference title in everything from hoops to chess!

 

Well the proposals I've seen have us in a division with all the old Pac8 schools, which is everyone from last year minus Arizona and Arizona State. We would play those Pac8 teams every year.

It's just the Texas/Oklahoma/Colorado/Arizona schools that we would play once every 3 or 4 years.

 

^^^ What he said, HCP