PAC 12 decides not to expand

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Just reported on Kansas City's NBC Action News. This coming from a report out of Salt Lake.
 
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This, by all means, is great news for A&M. The Big 12 likely staying together means Baylor no longer has litigation to sue, therefore A&M is free to SECede.
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give_him 6 said:
Just reported on Kansas City's NBC Action News. This coming from a report out of Salt Lake.
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From a game-theory standpoint, you'd expect the next move to be for Oklahoma to start planting stories about how now they're considering the SEC. Because their leverage for forcing changes in the Big 12 and the Longhorn Network just went up in smoke.

(But then what happens if the SEC announced they weren't interested? Sad to say, we live in a world where Mizzou and its TV markets are a more attractive target for the SEC than Oklahoma probably is.)
 
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Calculon said:
Texas must have pissed them off too.
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It's amazing how this stupid TV network has become such an albatross that Texas has gone from being the biggest prize in the country to a school that nobody wants to deal with.
 
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The PAC Ten basically looked at OU and Texas as two kids fighting in the sandbox and wanted nothing of it.

Hearing that OU may already be re-connecting with the SEC to discuss possible "plan C".
 
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Tux said:
The PAC Ten basically looked at OU and Texas as two kids fighting in the sandbox and wanted nothing of it.

Hearing that OU may already be re-connecting with the SEC to discuss possible "plan C".
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Where are you hearing this?
 
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In other words they won't be conned into taking Oklahoma State and Texas Tech.
 
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Finebaum...Okie and Okie State Pac12 talks were just smokescreeens according one of his sources.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
It's amazing how this stupid TV network has become such an albatross that Texas has gone from being the biggest prize in the country to a school that nobody wants to deal with.
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Basically. It's looking like they're going to have to ditch TLN altogether or at least strip it of any worthwhile content (which would undoubtedly kill it within a couple years) unless they want to end up out on the curb. The closest they can get is a shared regional network with TTU from the Pac-12.
 
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milohimself said:
Basically. It's looking like they're going to have to ditch TLN altogether or at least strip it of any worthwhile content (which would undoubtedly kill it within a couple years) unless they want to end up out on the curb. The closest they can get is a shared regional network with TTU from the Pac-12.
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....or this is the chance the ACC was waiting (and avoided taking uconn, etc) for
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HialeahGator said:
Finebaum...Okie and Okie State Pac12 talks were just smokescreeens according one of his sources.
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That wouldn't be surprising for the school to have used them to have gained more leverage....though the smaller schools are still utterly screwed, at the mercy of Texas and a now more powerful oklahoma
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I'm seeing a bit about how the big issue was the Pac12 didn't want to take OU without the longhorns....presuming if that's the case that means Texas negotiations got all held up and just caused the Pac 12 to walk away from it all entirely


TIFWIW
 
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So the upshot now seems to be that, since there isn't any mutual interest between the SEC and Oklahoma -- on the SEC's part, because Oklahoma doesn't have a good TV market and on Oklahoma's part, because they are chickenly and going to the SEC wouldn't help their recruiting like going to California would -- Oklahoma has no leverage left and they are going to sit down and hammer out some agreement with Texas to coexist for awhile longer. This is like the couple that breaks up over and over again but keeps getting back together. It never ends up lasting, right?

Our old buddy Pete Thamel says he'd be shocked if Mizzou left the Big 12 now after talking to a few people there.

So: we're stuck with A&M. The ACC may have boarded up the windows with this exit fee thing. I bet we end up with the couchburners after all.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
So the upshot now seems to be that, since there isn't any mutual interest between the SEC and Oklahoma -- on the SEC's part, because Oklahoma doesn't have a good TV market and on Oklahoma's part, because they are chickenly and going to the SEC wouldn't help their recruiting like going to California would -- Oklahoma has no leverage left and they are going to sit down and hammer out some agreement with Texas to coexist for awhile longer. This is like the couple that breaks up over and over again but keeps getting back together. It never ends up lasting, right?

Our old buddy Pete Thamel says he'd be shocked if Mizzou left the Big 12 now after talking to a few people there.

So: we're stuck with A&M. The ACC may have boarded up the windows with this exit fee thing. I bet we end up with the couchburners after all.
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And that's a damn shame.
 
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They said they'd be fine with having to schedule with 13 teams for a year or so; i'd expect them to take that route now and just wait a bit longer


they won't add just any team, solely to get a nice number
 
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