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  • #601
    Alright attorneys and spin folks.

    What good comes of releasing a letter like this:

    http://www.amestrib.com/articles/201...9305138917.txt


    ????

    Sounds like they are panicking.

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    • #602
      Originally posted by beefytee View Post
      Alright attorneys and spin folks.

      What good comes of releasing a letter like this:

      http://www.amestrib.com/articles/201...9305138917.txt


      ????

      Sounds like they are panicking.

      Translation - Hey fans, we did everything we could to keep this gravy train rolling, but OU, Texas, and some others said sorry, we are probably gone. Don't blame us if we end up in the MAC!

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      • #603
        Originally posted by Coach McGuirk View Post
        Translation - Hey fans, we did everything we could to keep this gravy train rolling, but OU, Texas, and some others said sorry, we are probably gone. Don't blame us if we end up in the MAC!
        Rumors confirmed.
        Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

        For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

        Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."

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        • #604
          Originally posted by Coach McGuirk View Post
          Translation - Hey fans, we did everything we could to keep this gravy train rolling, but OU, Texas, and some others said sorry, we are probably gone. Don't blame us if we end up in the MAC!
          Yes, this translates into some good smoke at this point. That means there probably is a fire.

          I don't get why they would do this otherwise. Actually I still don't get why they would say anything other than: The Big 12 is great! There is nothing to see here. Everything is just baseless speculation at this point. Everything is rosy.

          You don't need to say anything, let alone publicly panic.

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          • #605
            Originally posted by beefytee View Post
            Yes, this translates into some good smoke at this point. That means there probably is a fire.

            I don't get why they would do this otherwise. Actually I still don't get why they would say anything other than: The Big 12 is great! There is nothing to see here. Everything is just baseless speculation at this point. Everything is rosy.

            You don't need to say anything, let alone publicly panic.
            http://www.sportingnews.com/college-...-big-ten-texas

            Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee told Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany on April 20 that he had spoken with Texas president William Powers about the Longhorns joining the Big Ten, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
            "I did speak with Bill Powers at Texas, who would welcome a call to say they have a 'Tech' problem," Gee told Delany in one of many emails obtained by the Dispatch after a public-records request for documents and correspondence related to Big Ten expansion.
            Ohio State declined to clarify what Gee meant by "Tech problem," telling the Dispatch that the records request did not require the school to elaborate on the email.
            Gee was almost certainly referring to Texas Tech, one of three publicly funded Texas schools in the Big 12. The other two are Texas and Texas A&M, both of which are members of the Association of American Universities (AAU). Membership in the AAU, an alliance of prestigious research schools, is a key criterion for the Big Ten as it looks at expansion candidates.
            Sounds like Texas has happy feet. ISU has good reason to worry.

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            • #606
              We know at least this much is true: Texas is holding up the rest of the Big 12: "Back up the truck or adios."
              When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

              --Jonathan Swift

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              • #607
                Speaking of smoke and fire, check out this video (different from the article).

                [ame="http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5252276"]Commissioner 'comfortable' Big 12 to stay intact - ESPN[/ame]

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                • #608
                  Okay, this is real as real gets without the invites being made public as far as I am concerned. Monday should be fun with the PAC opening conference talks tomorrow.

                  [ame="http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5252844"]Conference Chess - ESPN Video - ESPN[/ame]

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                  • #609
                    And just for the record, this expansion thing has zero to do with academics.
                    "Take it to the Bank"

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                    • #610
                      Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                      One Texas fan's opinion:

                      http://www.burntorangenation.com/201...icles-texas-to
                      What's the matter with you? I am trying to troll SU.
                      "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                      "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                      "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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                      • #611
                        I don't think I like this. I like it better when college athletics conferences have some relationship to geography.
                        “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                        ― W.H. Auden

                        "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                        -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

                        "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                        --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                        • #612
                          Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
                          I don't think I like this. I like it better when college athletics conferences have some relationship to geography.
                          So you didn't want Utah in the Pac 12? What was with all the Pie talk then?
                          Get confident, stupid
                          -landpoke

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                          • #613
                            Originally posted by HuskyFreeNorthwest View Post
                            So you didn't want Utah in the Pac 12? What was with all the Pie talk then?
                            Well, Utah and Colorado in the PAC made sense geographically. If this PAC 10- Big 12 raid goes off the way it's being described, we'll be looking at mega-conferences that have nothing to do with geography. Call me a romantic, but that's one thing I have always liked about college sports. The way things are going college sports will be just like professional sports. Yuck.
                            “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                            ― W.H. Auden

                            "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                            -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

                            "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                            --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                            • #614
                              More rumor confirmations:

                              Tweet: A&M coaches, staff told Pac-10 rumors are true
                              Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

                              For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

                              Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."

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                              • #615
                                One thing I will say about the PAC 10.. When they look to expand they really swing for the fences..

                                The Big Ten could learn a lot about what the PAC 10 is trying to do.. They just showed that stiring the expansion talk for months without real intent to go after big players will only weaken your conference..

                                I wonder how the Big Ten will respond to this.. They just got school'd in the expansion arena by the PAC 10..

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