It’s good to have teams to hate in your conference. My college years were CUSA… I missed out on the fun SWC days of hate.
Plus Baylor is good. They strengthen the conference and the bb games are going to be lit.
I don’t want Baylor to be doormats. I want them ranked, dominant and confident every year… so it’s that much sweeter when we beat them.
Trust me…you will learn to hate Baylor and Tech. Even Funk will…
Funk already hates Baylor. Buuut, like Mac, I want world-class sporting programs in our conference. I will root for them to be good enough for me to keep hating them.
With decent scheduling structures, we’re probably only playing them like once a decade anyway.
Having to root for Baylor and BYU is the price I’m going to have to pay here.
When I was a kid out golfing with my grandfather I would occasionally hit a nice shot…. When I asked if he saw it he would usually reply with “ the Sun shines on a dog’s a$$ every now and then”….
I think MHver3 experienced the same thing.
So if a full on merger happens, would Texas and Oklahoma be able to avoid the GOR penalty for leaving?
No we can do the athiest schools though
Which schools would those be? Texas A&M is no less secular than Cal. FWIW, I don’t want Cal, but that’s just inflammatory.
Likely nothing shakes out with the PAC until Oregon and Washington either get an invite to the B1G or are convinced that won’t happen. For so much money, gotta play the long game if you are those schools.
Than again, so much to make your head spin, we could be merged on Tuesday. Pick the most unlikely thing and you have a 50% chance of being correct.
Most likely not. The new conference would probably exist under the Big 12 charter
No they still have pay exit fee, unless the B12 negotiates to let them leave for a reduce fee.
No mergers, it’s isn’t complicated, either the big12 will raid the pac12 or vice versa. Raided conference will replenish from AAC or Mountain west.
The PAC-12 won’t raid the Big 12. It’s in no position to.
It’s on life support.
Big 12 raid or merger.
if they merge and change the name of the conference can they void our contract?
That’s a good question. It could be like the SWC and Big 8 in ‘94. I don’t think that will happen. We have important state officials on our side, and our administration has probably become friendly with their counterparts. But it’s not something you can completely dismiss.
Oregon State and Wazzu may not be great matchups, but if nothing else, spectacular parts of the country to visit.
Especially Walla Walla, if you like fly fishing or outdoorsy stuff.
The short answer is that they cannot do that without relieving UT and OU of their exit fee obligations.
The slightly less short answer is that if they hired good lawyers there’s no legal reason they couldn’t. It would probably end up in court. They’d probably win but for various reasons they’d probably settle by throwing some money our way. Unless they went under the Pac-12’'s charter, the NCAA would need to approve the new conference (which i would expect that they would).
It does not look like the NCAA is in charge of much right now.
Looks like it is on the fast track of going bye bye.
When is say “the NCAA” here I mean the teams and conferences have to vote to approve the new conference. Not that the central office has any authority.
There used to be an automatic qualification (seven or more teams have been playing together for five of more years) but they revised that to say “You know what, we’ll just vote on it.”
Well, even though we don’t get a slice the UTO is paying protective dividends.
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