Conference Realignment: Oklahoma And Texas Can Explore Leaving Big 12

Paging Notre Dame. Please report to the Big-16 with all due speed. Otherwise, stand clear of the closing doors. All aboard!

The Big 12 remnants for the most part can compete in basketball, but the Big East remnants would ALL get their asses kicked in football in a merger situation. I guess you have to do what you have to do if things are going to hit the fan, but it seems like since this is all happening because of football you would try to go somewhere you could actually compete (referring to the Big East remnants).

There’s almost no chance OU goes for this. None.

The only way is if the Pac-12 declines to extend an invitation, and I think Larry Scott is set on expansion.

Here’s a quote (it’s from a site with a Texas slant, but it’s been pretty spot-on). While some OU fans refuted the claim that there’s tension between Boren (OU’s Prez) and Castiglione (OU’s AD), the fact is that once Boren started getting involved, the OU pendulum swung squarely from “save the Big 12” to “let’s go Pac-12”. Remember, it was Boren, not Castiglione, that announced to the national media that OU would not be a “wallflower” in conference realignment.

I know that Bellmont is somewhat caught off guard by OU being in a big hurry to force things. Remember, I told you that if Boren starts doing the talking instead of Castiglione, then that would muck up the revamped Big 12 route that Texas wanted to take. Boren does not trust Texas and that’s the main reason there’s a rift between he and Castiglione—Boren doesn’t think Texas has OU’s best interests at heart so he’s asked Castiglione to sit this one out. Texas was pretty happy with their ability to get Baylor to stand down and allow A&M to leave, but just like a game of whack-a-mole, another problem popped up. Buckle your seat-belts.

Fast-forward to today’s Berry Tramel (News OK) column, where he basically cites the trust/stability issue after the OU BoR meeting. It’s not about UT. The Red River Shootout will continue to survive, whether OU and UT are in the same conference or different. It’s too valuable a property for both sides. But OU’s main Big 8 rivals, Nebraska and Colorado, have fled. The Aggies backstabbed the conference on the way out. Baylor is just dumb enough to sue. Texas is looking out for numero uno. For OU, they feel it’s high time they do the same.

This isn’t the Big 12. This is a conference that used to be the Big 12.

Boren said stability ranks No. 1 on his wish list in deciding between staying or going.

"Obviously we do not want to continue to have these kinds of situations," Boren said, "where our membership in a conference is still undecided, (where) the stability of the conference has to be revisited every year."

The Big 12 has reached the point where finding replacements for Nebraska, Colorado and A&M is not the problem. The problem is sleeping at night and not knowing who will be there when you wake up.

powerhouses have made it into the superconference of their choice or necessity, there will be a playoff for national championship. Four teams from each conference can play for two playoff spots and the eight teams can settle the score over a three week period. What’s more they can form their own national championship for college basketball and dump the NCAA altogether. The NCAA can do nothing to stop this but they help bring about the climate for change, along with obscene amounts of money of course.

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