And then we have these discussions
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Rumors are that the big ten takes Washington, Oregon, cal, Stanford. We get corner schools…. FSU, unc, Clemson all want big money. So either this year or next. Acc collapses. So essentially we are 3rd conference we end up with the scraps… Louisville Pitt Georgia tech etc
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Big 12 board had meeting tonight and approved the addition of Arizona it’s al a formality, Arizona haad a bOR meeting tonight along with Arizona St and according to Jason Scheer from the Wildcat Insider said it’s just a formality they should have things wrapped up tonight and hopefully along with Arizona St be able to Announce they are leaving the PAC.
The BOR over see’s Arizon and Arizona State both, so virtual lock that now Arizona & Arizona State coming and then Utah will follow according to multiple sources
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PAC is staying together
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@FarmerJayhawk - source?
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@Gorilla72 aaaand it fell apart as quickly as it came back together ope
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On to UConn!
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Arizona hsa been accepted to the Big twelve by the Big twelve board last night - -just waiting for Arizona St
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Well we finally got it , Arizona , Utah , and fricken Arizona St all applied for member ship to the big 12 today.-- Arizona has been voted in , BOR meeting tonight to vote in Utah and Ariz St. Crow better feel lucky that Brett believes in 2nd chances Crow about really screwed this up for Arizona St
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From what I read, it looks like AZ won’t come to the Big 12 without AZ State, as they share a common board of regents. ???
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@Gorilla72 said in And then we have these discussions:
From what I read, it looks like AZ won’t come to the Big 12 without AZ State, as they share a common board of regents. ???
It’s happening.
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I cannot even imagine what this would feel like if it was the Big12 getting shredded overnight. Glad it’s not, and hopefully this solidifies our position for a while?
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@approxinfinity said in And then we have these discussions:
I cannot even imagine what this would feel like if it was the Big12 getting shredded overnight. Glad it’s not, and hopefully this solidifies our position for a while?
The PAC 12’s inept leadership of Scott and Kliavkoff is why it didn’t happen. The PAC 12 has had 2 chances to end kill the Big 12 and could never pull the trigger. Texas and OU had one foot out the door of the Big 12 back in 2011, but the PAC didn’t pull the trigger. They also had a chance at a killshot 2 years ago after Texas and OU announced they were going to the SEC and again failed to pull the trigger and kill Big 12.
The PAC 12 has nobody to blame but themselves for the death of their conference.
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Was just listening to Arizona St podcast and talking about their new league and no we have THIS BREAKING
Bret Yormork in discussions and looking to add Gonzaga & U Conn for Basketball only - - -HOLYSMOKES
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Was listening to multiple podcasts around today, and heard this from more then one. - Was Stated with the make up of the Big 12 now the they think that OVERALL in Total - -ALL sports that the Big 12 that w ar the most athletic overall of any conference. Not saying the best in Football – But we are best athletic league OVERALL in ALL sports combined. - -Very well could be
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So - what’s the conference part of KU’s schedule now gonna look like? No more home and away games for each team obviously.
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So is the Pac 12 officially dead? Or will they merge with the mountain west?
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New Big 12/16. 4 pods or 2 divisions?
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@Bosthawk yeah the home and away matchups were nice, even if it meant the conference was precariously small.
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@approxinfinity - best way to determine regular season winner.
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Sweet 16!
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@Gorilla72 said in And then we have these discussions:
New Big 12/16. 4 pods or 2 divisions?
You can’t really do anything super effective in football. If you wanted to have something, splitting the league into quadrants and having a school play the other 3 schools in the quadrant every and develop a rotating system where all 12 non Texas schools play at least 1 road game in Texas per year to help schools with recruiting visibility in the state.
For basketball, you could keep the quadrant system and still have an 18 game schedule with each school playing the other 3 teams in their quadrant home and away (this helps some rivalry games like the Holy War, KU/KSU, UA/ASU, etc.) and play the other 12 schools once each season. Whenever the non Arizona amd Utah schools make their trek out west for the 2 road games against whichever combination of schools it’d be that season, play those games back to back to minimize travel time and expenses for school.
Olympic sports can use that system based on however many schools participate in that sport to try and minimize travel expenses for schools.
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Jason Scheer which has been on top of these actions has been pretty spot on, - -he is the inside reporter for Arizona - -just like Swain is for KU. He tweeted out that there is a real chance that Yormark also goes ahead and invites Gonzaga & U Conn for Basketball only - and the League to expand to 18.
It’s ben known for some time Yormark wants U Conn pretty bad to get into that Northeastern section , and to get the New York Media. Brett has been in discussions again with both Schools and they feel he will be able to get th approval with the School presidents - -. Brett is doing this as I’ve said before , he is fully aware that football is the money maker BUT also feels and wants to make up a totally separate media agreement for Basketball as it being up and coming in revenue
I’m telling you don’t be shocked if Brett gets this done, he has been pretty impressive with what he hsa accomplished in his 1st yr as Commissioner - - he has been very aggressive isn’t sitting still and doing nothing , like a shark in bloody waters. - -He was smart and beat the PAC in getting a new media deal, leaving the PAc stranded to where Georgie was doing nothing. Brett got the media deal done and then was able to focus on getting these PAC 12 Schools. - -He got the deal done in Mexico as has been stated, he wants the Big 12 even better,-- don’t be surprised , in the end if this doesn’t get done.- -However there is as Jason said still a lot of work to be done for that to happen
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Not sure if anyone has heard the chatter in the last few days. The Big Ten and sec have been having some ‘talks’. Some are speculating some sort of cooperative between the two leagues and creating their own athletic organization free of the NCAA. Should all this wild speculation be accurate we’re left on the outside to compete for extremely watered down titles. I’d guess there’s lots of schools that would be pounding on the door asking to be let in too.
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@wissox we’ll be in if it includes basketball thankfully
