Battles may be won or lost rather quickly, but wars often times drag on for while until one side simply runs out of resources or willpower. Ditto college football expansion. It appears as if we are talking weeks not days as OU's Prez says he wants this figured out "sooner [ed note: get it?!?! sooners...get it...] rather than later" while the TX Prez says he wants this done in "two weeks." In other words, hunker down, we'll be fighting for sometime. Here are the links:
(1) If the first causality of war was the Big East, the second is West Virginia. Brett McMurphy of CBS Sports tweets that he has confirmation from a West Virginia Administrator that the school has been turned down by both the SEC and ACC. Good news for Mizzou.
(2) Out Kick the Coverage was on top of the West Virginia story a day ago, as they have consistently with all of their leads. Today they're saying the SEC expands to 16 and has four four-team pods with an extended playoff for the SEC championship. Its an out-of-the-box idea but one that merits some consideration. I'm a purist, so my initial thoughts were it was a bad idea, but I'm also pro football playoffs and this would be a big step in that direction. Who does the SEC add to get to 16? They say A&M, Mizzou, Va Tech, and NC State(?!?).
(3) In what can only be described as "cute" the Mountain West and C-USA are talking about merging to try and get around a 50 team league that is a BCS auto-qualifier. You might want to bookmark that link, its a constantly updated series of posts by SB Nation on the minute-by-minute goings on. Its rather informative.
(4) Another story in that link, the Big East is holding 'Cuse and Pitt to the 27 month rule to leave the Big East. I guess that is more mature than filing a lawsuit, but not by much.
(5) Speaking of lawsuits, the jerks from Baylor are trying to pass off bad data as "scientific" to build their case to hold the Little 9 together. Keep in mind its the same Baylor Bears who jumped ship from their conference into the Big 12 not too long ago.
(6) Don't be confused by the headline that the Big 10 is warming up to Mizzou as a member. It's not. The Big 10 blogger for ESPN is warming up....and evidently bad at his job give the confusion.
(7) The timing if the Big 12 breakup is ironic, seeing as how we're now the best football conference in the nation (and that's without Nebraska).
(8) Andy Katz also laments what could have been in basketball if the Big 12 had stayed together.
(9) Frank the Tank thinks that if the Big 10 expands, it goes east not west. Or I think that his what he says. Either I'm not picking up what he's putting down, or he's just confusing sometimes.
(10) Speaking of confusing, here's a great article about my BFF Dan "Mr. Longhorn" Beebe. First, he produces a grammatically incorrect statement about Texas and OU and then he claims that the "Case for Big 12 as strong today as it was last year." I used to get mad at him for doing nothing, but now I see that doing nothing was/is his strong suit.
(11) Berry Tramel of the Oklahoman likes to do a few things: (a) Wear t-shirts under sport jackets, (b) take shots at Missouri for starting the conference switch a year ago, and (c) defend Dan "Mr. Longhorn" Beebe. Despite those facts, he is right in this article in that it doesn't matter who the Little 9 could add to the league, the Big 12 is dead and it died because of lack of trust and partnership (and I would add sports writers who wear t-shirts under sport jackets).
(12) Finally, you have to click here. Its about a journey west on the Pac Trail.
Summary
I've got expansion fatigue. Everyone is grasping at straws. I'm hoping the Big 10 takes ND or the SEC wraps its loving arms around us as #14.
Thanks for reading,
Doug
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