Code Blue has been called and the docs are working on what's left of the Big 12. The Priest has been sent in to sit with the family. The Big 12's gotten off the operating table before, but this time it looks grim. Here is what folks are saying:
(1) 'Cuse and Pitt have been accepted into the ACC. As the article states: "The Longhorn Network started all of this." Only thing standing in their way: 27 months and 5 million. That's the Big East exit fee and time delay in getting out of their conference contract. The 5 million ain't a problem, the 27 months is. College Football should look "interesting" next year. As this article state, the Big East is dead.
(2) The Big East is dead. Oh wait, we heard that before. Money quote: "There's a pattern here: The ACC gets what it wants, and the Big East settles for padding its ranks with the scraps."
(3) In the first good news I've heard in a while, Out Kick the Coverage says W. Virginia is not headed to the SEC. It's worth clicking on the link to see the pic. The premise is the SEC President's won't let a University into the league who is, nationally, barely considered a University. Seems reasonable to me.
(4) I mean, if you burn couches after wins and losses, I don't know if you deserve to be in the SEC anyway. The fire marshal has declared that all residents must put any potential kindling locked inside their homes before the game begins. Again, seems reasonable to me. The fact that he has to ask/enforce this rule, perhaps a bit unreasonable.
(5) Know an honorable man running college sports? Wait a few minutes. Not a particularly insightful article, but one that points out how crazy this mess has become.
(6) Also not insightful: anything coming out of kU's normal circle of sports coverage. It's almost as if kU and k-State's sports columnists are just walking around in a haze. If we think we should be nervous at Mizzou, let's just say our friends are feeling worse than we are.
(7) Mizzou has lots of options, but few certainties, says PowerMizzou. Meanwhile, Saturday's game at OU could be our last one. What won't be sad is putting a mark in the loss column every other year since the 60's, what will be sad is the loss of yet another rival. On to the game this Saturday...21.5 points. Are you serious? I know it's a road game and I know they are #1, but really? Three touchdowns?!?
(8) I don't know Frank the Tank and I really don't know what he is trying to say here, but I thought I would pass it along for all to see. Somewhere in the article he's trying to say--I think--that Texas might go indy in football but put all other sports in the ACC and then Notre Dame might do the same? Good luck getting through it. It was an idea that hadn't been presented before. I thought you deserved to know. You're welcome.
(9) Shocker: Mack Brown wants to keep making up the rules as he goes along and keep getting handsomely rewarded for it. In other words, he prefers the Big 12 to stay together.
(10) Not-a-Shocker: T Boone Pickens? Still an asshole. His awful little school is lucky to be in the same state with a really good one.
(11) A Rock-M-Nation columnists (and founder?) hits the big time with SB Nation. Congrats.
(12) At Michigan, grandma's participate in shotgun beer races. Neat? Neat.
(13) Some random from Mercury News in the Bay Area, CA just tweeted that Pac 12-20 has Mizzou high on its radar. So that could mean Texas & T Tech or OK and OK State aren't going to the Pac 12-20. Or it could mean nothing at all...bringing us to...the summary.
Summary
Conference realignment has been a lot lot like a trip to Vegas: Lots of high, lots of lows. Some laughter, some tears. Some excitements, some fears. Right now, though? I just want to get off the ride. Let's just get this over with, says the BoCoMo Trib. To quote: "And as exciting as this realignment ride has been, I’m ready to reach the destination." Me too. I'm ready to go home. Where ever that home may be.
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Everything Must Belong Somewhere...
...or so says Bright Eyes. Where do we all belong...that's what we sort through today with a mega-list of links:
(1) The bottom line is Oklahoma will decide where everyone belongs and it looks like they will decide it on Monday. Brady Deaton agrees, its all up to OU as to what happens next.
(2) SI thinks everyone has lost their mind. The teams in the Big 12 below where they are. A funny quote: "The Big 12 does not evoke nostalgic affection. This is the league that diminished and ultimately destroyed Oklahoma-Nebraska, which was one of the top five rivalries in college football. It killed the old Southwestern Conference, which made cheating almost seem charming."
(3) If OU makes the decision to break up the Little 9 by heading west, Texas has a decision to make as to where it belongs. Texas is scared of the SEC says Out Kick the Coverage. And they are right. If you read nothing else, read this. The two key quotes:
(a) "There's only one issue for Texas -- going to the ACC and flying over the SEC would demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that Texas is scared of the SEC. Why? Because it makes the most financial sense for Texas to join the SEC. That is, Texas could make more money in the SEC than any other conference. That's because the SEC allows all schools to retain their local media rights. That means the Longhorn Network is the most feasible of all the major conferences in the SEC."
(b) "Texas, who received an offer to join the SEC last year, hasn't explored the SEC at all even as the very foundation of the Big 12 is rocked. Why? Because unlike their Texas A&M brethren the Longhorns are steers, gelded pansies afraid of competing in a real conference. The Longhorns, plain and simple, are bullies, and bullies don't like to be challenged. Instead of joining the conference they border replete with ready national rivalries, Texas would rather fly over the SEC and join the ACC, conference of perennial football lightweights. All hat, no cattle indeed."
(4) Jeff Schultz isn't buying that Texas belongs in the ACC. Perhaps more accurately, he says that they are swooping in to use the conference. Frank the Tank Disagrees and says the ACC for Texas makes sense. The Daily is pushing Texas toward the SEC.
(5) Who is deciding where programs belong? Doctors and dentists says CBS Sportsline. An interesting read about how Trustees are trying to serve as Athletic Directors and are failing in the process.
(6) Where does Dan "Mr. Longhorn" Beebe belong? Evidently making campus visits to schools that are already united in keeping the Little 9 together. Makes perfect sense to me.
(7) Perhaps the united part of the Little 9 isn't so united, says SB Nation. A humorous look at a Missouri town who is suing to try and get kU to drop its athletics mascot. Note the shirt the kid is wearing in the picture in this article.
(8) Whatever happens, teams don't belong in conferences over 12 members, says SB Nation. The reason: they all implode. Quickly.
(9) Meanwhile, the Big East says Mizzou, kU and k-State belong with them. A funny story.
(10) The St. Louis P-D asked where Mizzou belongs and the answers from their experts were a bunch of mindless dribble other than this really funny quote from alum Jeff Gordon: "...and poor Frank Haith has nightmares about the ACC talk. Been there, failed at that."
(1) The bottom line is Oklahoma will decide where everyone belongs and it looks like they will decide it on Monday. Brady Deaton agrees, its all up to OU as to what happens next.
(2) SI thinks everyone has lost their mind. The teams in the Big 12 below where they are. A funny quote: "The Big 12 does not evoke nostalgic affection. This is the league that diminished and ultimately destroyed Oklahoma-Nebraska, which was one of the top five rivalries in college football. It killed the old Southwestern Conference, which made cheating almost seem charming."
(3) If OU makes the decision to break up the Little 9 by heading west, Texas has a decision to make as to where it belongs. Texas is scared of the SEC says Out Kick the Coverage. And they are right. If you read nothing else, read this. The two key quotes:
(a) "There's only one issue for Texas -- going to the ACC and flying over the SEC would demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that Texas is scared of the SEC. Why? Because it makes the most financial sense for Texas to join the SEC. That is, Texas could make more money in the SEC than any other conference. That's because the SEC allows all schools to retain their local media rights. That means the Longhorn Network is the most feasible of all the major conferences in the SEC."
(b) "Texas, who received an offer to join the SEC last year, hasn't explored the SEC at all even as the very foundation of the Big 12 is rocked. Why? Because unlike their Texas A&M brethren the Longhorns are steers, gelded pansies afraid of competing in a real conference. The Longhorns, plain and simple, are bullies, and bullies don't like to be challenged. Instead of joining the conference they border replete with ready national rivalries, Texas would rather fly over the SEC and join the ACC, conference of perennial football lightweights. All hat, no cattle indeed."
(4) Jeff Schultz isn't buying that Texas belongs in the ACC. Perhaps more accurately, he says that they are swooping in to use the conference. Frank the Tank Disagrees and says the ACC for Texas makes sense. The Daily is pushing Texas toward the SEC.
(5) Who is deciding where programs belong? Doctors and dentists says CBS Sportsline. An interesting read about how Trustees are trying to serve as Athletic Directors and are failing in the process.
(6) Where does Dan "Mr. Longhorn" Beebe belong? Evidently making campus visits to schools that are already united in keeping the Little 9 together. Makes perfect sense to me.
(7) Perhaps the united part of the Little 9 isn't so united, says SB Nation. A humorous look at a Missouri town who is suing to try and get kU to drop its athletics mascot. Note the shirt the kid is wearing in the picture in this article.
(8) Whatever happens, teams don't belong in conferences over 12 members, says SB Nation. The reason: they all implode. Quickly.
(9) Meanwhile, the Big East says Mizzou, kU and k-State belong with them. A funny story.
(10) The St. Louis P-D asked where Mizzou belongs and the answers from their experts were a bunch of mindless dribble other than this really funny quote from alum Jeff Gordon: "...and poor Frank Haith has nightmares about the ACC talk. Been there, failed at that."
Monday, September 12, 2011
It's going down...
The theme of the day: its going down. Feel free to listen to the song of the same name by Vampire Weekend and pull out the emotions/themes you need to get you through the links today: love, hope, despair, loneliness. They're all here, in the links:
(1) Orangebloods.com says the Little 9 is going down. The say that OU and OK State will apply for membership in the Pac 12-20 before the end of the month. Never mind the words from T Boone Pickens saying OK State wants to stay in the Little 9 and never mind the Pac 12-20 commish saying they don't want to expand at present. Orangeboods says its happening. And what of Texas? They say "all options" are being considered.
(2) One of those options for Texas? Crawling on its hands and knees to Norman to beg OU face-to-face to stay in the Little 9. Or so tweets @ChuckCarltonDMN of the Dallas Morning News. He says: "Big 12 school sources confirm high-ranking UT delegation traveled Sunday to Oklahoma City to meet with OU officials about alignment issues." Two things: (1) the mere thought of this has been the greatest thing to come out of this realignment talk, and (2) if your name is Chuck Carlton of course you live in Texas.
(3) Who didn't like Texas getting down on their hands and knees? Their BFF Texas Tech. Reason? Tech wasn't informed on the high level trip. They are mad for two reasons: (1) by not being invited they think they might be getting left out of the expansion talk, and (2) they are siding with OU and OK State in thinking its time for the Little 9 to go down.
(4) The Little 9's not going down until A&M officially joins the SEC, tweets @kbohls of the Austin American-Statesman. His non-so-Texas name is Kirk Bohls, but fear not, Chuck Carlton agrees that the Pac-12 isn't making the first move.
(5) In the daily finger pointing of what brought down the Little 9, believing the conference won't last. He writes: "They're tired of the drama. Tired of the fatigue. Tired of never knowing what their landscape will look like a year from now." Tramel also puts forth a new name for the current Little 9: The Big Mess Conference. I like it.
(6) What brought Missouri down at the end of the game to ASU? Something I forgot to mention in my recap: why did we even have two time outs to ice our kicker in the first place. A great case is made at the every end of this article by Tim McKernan.
(7) Because of injuries we're down to our last remaining running back. Other options? A walk-on, a red-shirt freshman, and our top receiver, TJ Moe.
(8) For those conspiracy theorists among us: the Mizzou Board of Curators is meeting tonight to discuss the "System President Search." Last time they did this, we hired a new basketball "coach" (term used loosely). Could they announce a new conference after tonight? Doubtful.
(9) In other news, Bud Selig let the terrorists win last night and (separate issue altogether) this is awesome.
Summary
(a) We don't know much more than we did a few days ago about conference realignment.
(b) After appearing to be going down in shreds, the Little 9 rebounded for a while, only to be appeared headed down once again.
(c) The next move still rests with OU, as it has ever since they opened their mouth about this two weeks ago.
(d) In what generally doesn't happen, Gary Pinkel is defending his indefensible coaching decisions last Friday night. It's unusual and unusually sad. He's built up enough credit with the fan base to take the blame on this one, and he should.
Thanks for reading,
Doug
(1) Orangebloods.com says the Little 9 is going down. The say that OU and OK State will apply for membership in the Pac 12-20 before the end of the month. Never mind the words from T Boone Pickens saying OK State wants to stay in the Little 9 and never mind the Pac 12-20 commish saying they don't want to expand at present. Orangeboods says its happening. And what of Texas? They say "all options" are being considered.
(2) One of those options for Texas? Crawling on its hands and knees to Norman to beg OU face-to-face to stay in the Little 9. Or so tweets @ChuckCarltonDMN of the Dallas Morning News. He says: "Big 12 school sources confirm high-ranking UT delegation traveled Sunday to Oklahoma City to meet with OU officials about alignment issues." Two things: (1) the mere thought of this has been the greatest thing to come out of this realignment talk, and (2) if your name is Chuck Carlton of course you live in Texas.
(3) Who didn't like Texas getting down on their hands and knees? Their BFF Texas Tech. Reason? Tech wasn't informed on the high level trip. They are mad for two reasons: (1) by not being invited they think they might be getting left out of the expansion talk, and (2) they are siding with OU and OK State in thinking its time for the Little 9 to go down.
(4) The Little 9's not going down until A&M officially joins the SEC, tweets @kbohls of the Austin American-Statesman. His non-so-Texas name is Kirk Bohls, but fear not, Chuck Carlton agrees that the Pac-12 isn't making the first move.
(5) In the daily finger pointing of what brought down the Little 9, believing the conference won't last. He writes: "They're tired of the drama. Tired of the fatigue. Tired of never knowing what their landscape will look like a year from now." Tramel also puts forth a new name for the current Little 9: The Big Mess Conference. I like it.
(6) What brought Missouri down at the end of the game to ASU? Something I forgot to mention in my recap: why did we even have two time outs to ice our kicker in the first place. A great case is made at the every end of this article by Tim McKernan.
(7) Because of injuries we're down to our last remaining running back. Other options? A walk-on, a red-shirt freshman, and our top receiver, TJ Moe.
(8) For those conspiracy theorists among us: the Mizzou Board of Curators is meeting tonight to discuss the "System President Search." Last time they did this, we hired a new basketball "coach" (term used loosely). Could they announce a new conference after tonight? Doubtful.
(9) In other news, Bud Selig let the terrorists win last night and (separate issue altogether) this is awesome.
Summary
(a) We don't know much more than we did a few days ago about conference realignment.
(b) After appearing to be going down in shreds, the Little 9 rebounded for a while, only to be appeared headed down once again.
(c) The next move still rests with OU, as it has ever since they opened their mouth about this two weeks ago.
(d) In what generally doesn't happen, Gary Pinkel is defending his indefensible coaching decisions last Friday night. It's unusual and unusually sad. He's built up enough credit with the fan base to take the blame on this one, and he should.
Thanks for reading,
Doug
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Beebe Lives! Big 10 Dreams Die! Lots of Links!
Dan "Mr. Longhorn" Beebe stopped his drinking binge (or whatever he is on) long enough to release a statement. Like most everything he does, I think it was pretty weak. Basically, he said Big 12 central offices wouldn't sue SEC but that didn't cover individual member schools.
Or in other words, Congress and the President could sign a peace treaty with France but each state's national guard could ship troops over and invade. The real question is this: other than his own stupidity, what did Mr. Longhorn get from the SEC in return for not suing centrally? The answer to that question may be a problem for Mizzou fans. Although its pure speculation at this point, many national journalists are thinking that Beebe got an agreement that the SEC wouldn't take any other Little 9 schools.
If the SEC is out, we're in trouble. Gabe DeArmond of PowerMizzou.com tweets that the Big 10 isn't adding more members. If the SEC doesn't take Mizzou, we're headed way west or way east.
Speaking of tweets, to lighten the mood before the links here is the best one from yesterday via Sam Mellinger of the KC Star: "In his next career, I wonder if Dan Beebe would make for a good divorce attorney. He'd be your first choice to rep your spouse, anyway."
On to the links:
(1) Alum Pat Forde of ESPN says this whole thing is laughable. The key sentence pointed out by a loyal reader: "So the implosion of the Big 12 clearly would be a scary thing for Baylor. Same for the largely undesirable commodities to the north known as Kansas, Kansas State and Iowa State." Controversial question for the comments section: 10 years ago is our (Mizzou's) name in that sentence?
(2) Baylor seems to think they are saving football more than saving themselves. This person seems to think the Baptists are also saving souls.
(3) Greg Tepper of Dave's Cambell's Texas Football says, there are no villains in realignment. There are, though, plenty of emotions:
"But that’s when I get back to the emotion part, something I simply can’t grasp. Fans want to see their school do better than every other school (understandably so), which is why you see illogical, irrational statements like “Sticking it to Texas” and “Baylor’s being desperate.” Neither of those is true.
College football, first and foremost, is a business. These are business decisions. If Apple were making these decisions, we’d applaud them for doing what’s best for their shareholders.
A&M (with the SEC) and Baylor (with the reported threatened legal action) and OU (with reported flirting with the Pac-12) and Texas (with the Longhorn Network) are only acting in their best interest as institutions."
(4) Whoever is to blame, we need to get to a resolution quickly says NewsOK. The trip is killing us!
(5) If you are really bored at work, here are a shit-ton of links from Mr. SEC.com.
(6) Here is Rivals.com preview of Friday night's game.
Summary
Everyone is blaming everyone else for this mess instead of moving us forward toward resolution. It will be interesting to see who steps up. I think it has to be Oklahoma. Once they make a decision, others will quickly follow suit.
Something sad to ponder which was posted by a reader on the Forde column: 60% of the Little 9 are currently ranked in the Top 25. Why, again, are we blowing up this league? As Tepper said above, it's all about emotions and what we're seeing is a very emotional and very public divorce. Worst news of all? Dan "Mr. Longhorn" Beebe is our divorce lawyer.
Or in other words, Congress and the President could sign a peace treaty with France but each state's national guard could ship troops over and invade. The real question is this: other than his own stupidity, what did Mr. Longhorn get from the SEC in return for not suing centrally? The answer to that question may be a problem for Mizzou fans. Although its pure speculation at this point, many national journalists are thinking that Beebe got an agreement that the SEC wouldn't take any other Little 9 schools.
If the SEC is out, we're in trouble. Gabe DeArmond of PowerMizzou.com tweets that the Big 10 isn't adding more members. If the SEC doesn't take Mizzou, we're headed way west or way east.
Speaking of tweets, to lighten the mood before the links here is the best one from yesterday via Sam Mellinger of the KC Star: "In his next career, I wonder if Dan Beebe would make for a good divorce attorney. He'd be your first choice to rep your spouse, anyway."
On to the links:
(1) Alum Pat Forde of ESPN says this whole thing is laughable. The key sentence pointed out by a loyal reader: "So the implosion of the Big 12 clearly would be a scary thing for Baylor. Same for the largely undesirable commodities to the north known as Kansas, Kansas State and Iowa State." Controversial question for the comments section: 10 years ago is our (Mizzou's) name in that sentence?
(2) Baylor seems to think they are saving football more than saving themselves. This person seems to think the Baptists are also saving souls.
(3) Greg Tepper of Dave's Cambell's Texas Football says, there are no villains in realignment. There are, though, plenty of emotions:
"But that’s when I get back to the emotion part, something I simply can’t grasp. Fans want to see their school do better than every other school (understandably so), which is why you see illogical, irrational statements like “Sticking it to Texas” and “Baylor’s being desperate.” Neither of those is true.
College football, first and foremost, is a business. These are business decisions. If Apple were making these decisions, we’d applaud them for doing what’s best for their shareholders.
A&M (with the SEC) and Baylor (with the reported threatened legal action) and OU (with reported flirting with the Pac-12) and Texas (with the Longhorn Network) are only acting in their best interest as institutions."
(4) Whoever is to blame, we need to get to a resolution quickly says NewsOK. The trip is killing us!
(5) If you are really bored at work, here are a shit-ton of links from Mr. SEC.com.
(6) Here is Rivals.com preview of Friday night's game.
Summary
Everyone is blaming everyone else for this mess instead of moving us forward toward resolution. It will be interesting to see who steps up. I think it has to be Oklahoma. Once they make a decision, others will quickly follow suit.
Something sad to ponder which was posted by a reader on the Forde column: 60% of the Little 9 are currently ranked in the Top 25. Why, again, are we blowing up this league? As Tepper said above, it's all about emotions and what we're seeing is a very emotional and very public divorce. Worst news of all? Dan "Mr. Longhorn" Beebe is our divorce lawyer.
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