The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[TripletDaddy]

BYU brings "a ton of baggage"

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/col...of-baggage.ece

[Red Legger]

Hard to do when you refuse to play them.

The Slavers were on the Jayhawk's schedule for 120 years. They removed themselves from the schedule. Decisions have consequences.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Beat Mizzou

[TripletDaddy]

The Dude of WV started a blog, says stuff

http://dudesdispatches.blogspot.com/...-distance.html

[Red Legger]

BYU brings "a ton of baggage"

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/col...of-baggage.ece

Baggage is fine if you bring enough money to the table.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Beat Mizzou

[Red Legger]

LOL

KC is not a KU town.

Depends on the sport and the success rate. If George Brett and Bill Self decide to walk across the Plaza, people would bow down in reverence. Meanwhile, Drinkle couldn't get a taxi to stop and drive him over to his latest 18.5y/o WeatherGirlConquest's apartment after getting hammered in Westport. David Beaty touches the Buddha's record over the next 10 years, he'll be in a nice spot.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Beat Mizzou

[Armenag]

The Slavers were on the Jayhawk's schedule for 120 years. They removed themselves from the schedule. Decisions have consequences.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Beat Mizzou

Bill Self's hissy fit over Mizzou's leaving is pretty amusing now that it turns out kansas was secretly trying to flee to the Big 10 at the time.

[Red Legger]

Bill Self's hissy fit over Mizzou's leaving is pretty amusing now that it turns out kansas was secretly trying to flee to the Big 10 at the time.

I don't think Bill really cares. I think Bill is more concerned about the fact his guards cannot handcheck since the 2012 championship game. He really needs to address this problem.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Beat Mizzou

[Armenag]

I don't think Bill really cares. I think Bill is more concerned about the fact his guards cannot handcheck since the 2012 championship game. He really needs to address this problem.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Beat Mizzou

He clearly cares a lot -- and is the biggest reason the series hasn't resumed. He has provided such hits as:

Self grew animated when it was suggested the media would likely ask for a continuation of the series with perhaps a once-a-year meeting between the Border War combatants in Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.

“I’m not saying it would be bad or won’t be bad (playing once on neutral court). I will say this ... the media is not going to dictate who we play. I’ll dictate who we play as long as I’m coaching here,” Self said. “I have no ill will toward Missouri at all, but to do something at a time that could be so damaging and hurtful to a group, I can’t see us just taking it and forgetting. I think that would be something that’d be talked about with our administration and we’d make a decision that’s best for our place. They are making a decision that’s best for theirs. We’ll make a decision on a schedule that’s best for us.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/oc...medium=ljtweet

He actually said all that before Mizzou even left -- again, while his own school was trying to jump ship.

[lambdacoug]

The Slavers were on the Jayhawk's schedule for 120 years. They removed themselves from the schedule. Decisions have consequences.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Beat Mizzou

Correct, Mizzou left for the SEC. However, after Mizzou left, they wanted to keep the rivalry going and offered as much to KU. KU refused. The jayhawk is apparently a chicken.

[Red Legger]

Correct, Mizzou left for the SEC. However, after Mizzou left, they wanted to keep the rivalry going and offered as much to KU. KU refused. The jayhawk is apparently a chicken.

KU just quit answering phone calls. Slavers removed themselves from the schedule and were replaced by the Big12 w/ the Moutaineeers. Missoura wanting to run off down to Dixie where they belong is fine. We've moved on. They ought to as well.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Beat Mizzou

[frank ryan]

KU just quit answering phone calls. Slavers removed themselves from the schedule and were replaced by the Big12 w/ the Moutaineeers. Missoura wanting to run off down to Dixie where they belong is fine. We've moved on. They ought to as well.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Beat Mizzou

Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Avoid Mizzou

[New Mexican Disaster]

Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Avoid Mizzou

Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Mizzwho?

[Eddie]

I agree. Anything involving Nebraska is boring.

ALMOST anything involving Nebraska. There's this little shindig scheduled about a month from now involving Nebraska that I have some interest in.

But not much else...

[TripletDaddy]

Luck educates about the WVU Big 12 expansion invite

http://www.connect-bridgeport.com/co...ard-Brawl17619

While Luck is aware of the options he had at his disposal, he’s also aware that there are those out there that still believe another conference that was a better geographic fit was a very real opportunity. Luck may not have said it, but I will. It was the Big 12 or it would have been the American Athletic Conference. To think there was something better is foolish, particularly those who still want to believe that the ACC was actually an option or that other conferences were just waiting for us so they could pounce at the right time.
It wasn’t the case. Luck said as much.

“I think it’s accurate to say the ACC was never an option and all you have to do is go back and look at the history of the ACC and WVU’s history with the Southern Conference. The ACC changed its membership four or five times and never was WVU in the discussion and never invited,” said Luck. “ … When the most recent discussions were taking place, there was zero opportunity with the ACC – none.”

As for the SEC, well, that’s not the same story as our friends in the ACC. While Luck didn’t talk specifics, he did say something could have happened if …

“The SEC was a little bit different. Missouri took a long time to decide what it wanted to do and I think they were on the fence for six, seven, maybe eight months. Some thought Missouri was waiting for an offer from the Big 10 or may stay in the Big 12,” said Luck. “Had they stayed or had they become a member of the Big 10, we may have had an opportunity – and I emphasize the word maybe – to be in the SEC. The thing is nobody really knew what would have happened. What we do know is that Missouri’s move closed that door.”

The door to the Big 10 was never open either and it had nothing to do with a slight at WVU. Luck said he had, and still has, a great relationship with Commissioner Jim Delaney, but that WVU simply did not have Association of American University status.

“That’s not a slam against the University, but that’s why we weren’t even considered,” said Luck.

[TripletDaddy]

Jake Trotter on board

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