Big 12 Now Big ten?

[Zemo]

Looks like Nebraska and Colorado are the only ones leaving.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/...=ESPNHeadlines

[saildog]

And the Big Ten now is the Big 12.

That whole thing was weird, but I'm glad it is over.

I'm relieved that Oklahoma and Oklahoma State aren't going to the Pac 10 Super Conference (the distance and time difference would have been a pain), but I really would have liked to go to the SEC (especially after Nebraska left the Big 12....there goes one of the best rivalries ever. Of course, the Big 12 killed it being an every year game.) if there had been a move. Oklahoma would have had it rough for a bit, but I really think we would have been a good fit in the SEC.

[Zemo]

And the Big Ten now is the Big 12.

That whole thing was weird, but I'm glad it is over.

I'm relieved that Oklahoma and Oklahoma State aren't going to the Pac 10 Super Conference (the distance and time difference would have been a pain), but I really would have liked to go to the SEC (especially after Nebraska left the Big 12....there goes one of the best rivalries ever. Of course, the Big 12 killed it being an every year game.) if there had been a move. Oklahoma would have had it rough for a bit, but I really think we would have been a good fit in the SEC.

I would have liked to seen that. Not sure why the SEC was only interested in TT.

[Duncan]

You can have Nebraska back if you want. I don't think they make a lot of sense in the Big 10.

[toys2cool]

I thought more were going to leave

[saildog]

You can have Nebraska back if you want. I don't think they make a lot of sense in the Big 10.

They have historically been one of the best teams ever, but they haven't done squat in years and they are tired of the Big Two dominating the Big 12. They were stuck in the Big 12 North and with the rare exception of the couple of years when Kansas State got hot, it was a boring Division and irrelevant for the entire history of the Big 12.

I think they feel they will be a better team in the Big 10. In the long run, I think Big 10 fans will reap some benefits of the addition.

I'd love to have them back in the conference, though. I'd gladly trade you Missouri, K-State, and Iowa State.

[megoat]

All this was interesting for me (and a bit alarming) considering I'm a Kansas fan. Yes our football team is mediocre at best, but our basketball team is a top five program. Since all of this conference reconfiguring is done along football lines I kept saying to myself "Where does this leave our basketball team?".....in the end, I'm glad the Big 12 was preserved....It was scary to think what conference Kansas woulda gone to if based solely on the performance/earning potential of their football team!

[saildog]

I thought more were going to leave

The Conference worked out a TV deal for teams to get more revenue that was acceptable to Texas. For some reason, Oklahoma wanted to act like they couldn't do anything without being aligned with Texas, so they went along with the deal. Oklahoma State and Texas Tech have to have the other two to survive, so they fell in line and the Conference was "saved".

Whatever.

I'm disgusted by the whole drama and how Oklahoma let Texas make all the decisions.

[saildog]

All this was interesting for me (and a bit alarming) considering I'm a Kansas fan. Yes our football team is mediocre at best, but our basketball team is a top five program. Since all of this conference reconfiguring is done along football lines I kept saying to myself "Where does this leave our basketball team?".....in the end, I'm glad the Big 12 was preserved....It was scary to think what conference Kansas woulda gone to if based solely on the performance/earning potential of their football team!

You know, that's what became very evident in the whole process and believe me, we were all talking about how Kansas was being overlooked by everyone (inside and outside the Big 12) because of their Football Program. ???? That makes no sense given their Historic Program in Basketball.

I guess we see that Football is what "drives the bus".

I love Kansas Basketball and I would have missed that for sure.

[Duncan]

All this was interesting for me (and a bit alarming) considering I'm a Kansas fan. Yes our football team is mediocre at best, but our basketball team is a top five program. Since all of this conference reconfiguring is done along football lines I kept saying to myself "Where does this leave our basketball team?".....in the end, I'm glad the Big 12 was preserved....It was scary to think what conference Kansas woulda gone to if based solely on the performance/earning potential of their football team!

I read a discussion where, since Kansas is a BBall school and not so much a football school, they'd head to the Big East, or something like that. It makes no geographic sense, but it would sell BBall tickets. That kind of thing bothers me, but money talks.

[Duncan]

They have historically been one of the best teams ever, but they haven't done squat in years and they are tired of the Big Two dominating the Big 12. They were stuck in the Big 12 North and with the rare exception of the couple of years when Kansas State got hot, it was a boring Division and irrelevant for the entire history of the Big 12.

I think they feel they will be a better team in the Big 10. In the long run, I think Big 10 fans will reap some benefits of the addition.

I'd love to have them back in the conference, though. I'd gladly trade you Missouri, K-State, and Iowa State.

I'd take Missouri. I saw an Ohio State away game there back around 1998, and it was a good time. I remember driving back over East St. Louis on I-70 and seeing a couple of guys burning something (a body?) in an oil barrel under the overpass.

[saildog]

I'd take Missouri.

Done.

They haven't won a conference championship since 1969.

Nebraska has 46 conference titles, 5 national championships, and three Heisman winners in its football history.

I do like Missouri's fans and Faurot Field is a rocking place.

[megoat]

I read a discussion where, since Kansas is a BBall school and not so much a football school, they'd head to the Big East, or something like that. It makes no geographic sense, but it would sell BBall tickets. That kind of thing bothers me, but money talks.

Funny, I heard a rumor that North Carolina and Duke were lobbying to have Kansas join the ACC! Talk about a dominant basketball conference!

[saildog]

Funny, I heard a rumor that North Carolina and Duke were lobbying to have Kansas join the ACC! Talk about a dominant basketball conference!

Not counting Oklahoma State's two championships in the mid-1940's, Kansas is the only Big 12 team to have won a championship in Basketball. They are consistently among the nation's elite and I was a bit perplexed that all of the conference realignment talk ignored that fact.

It was all about money and evidently, mediocre/inconsistent Football (Oklahoma State) makes more money than superb Basketball (Kansas). That sucks.