The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[TheAzzuri]

What makes aTm think it is going to do well in the SEC?

Hope springs eternal.

It's very a much a "we'll cross the bridge when we come to it" situation. This is entirely about getting out of Texas' shadow.

[TheAzzuri]

What does that have to do with anything?

Hope springs eternal.

It's very a much a "we'll cross the bridge when we come to it" situation. This is entirely about getting out of Texas' shadow.

Yeah, he said it better.

[SteelBlue]

Um...I don't get it.

I think the winner looks like you.

[Coach McGuirk]

SEC looking for 4 teams not 1. If that is the case, I think the Big 12 is dead.

http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1252192

[LA Ute]

SEC looking for 4 teams not 1. If that is the case, I think the Big 12 is dead.

http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1252192

I didn't follow Chip Brown last time around, so I don't know, but he sure got lots of criticism for being unreliable. Do you think he is? (I really don't know. Someone summon Uncle Ted.)

[TripletDaddy]

SEC looking for 4 teams not 1. If that is the case, I think the Big 12 is dead.

http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1252192

[Jacob]

I didn't follow Chip Brown last time around, so I don't know, but he sure got lots of criticism for being unreliable. Do you think he is? (I really don't know. Someone summon Uncle Ted.)

What? He was right and scooped everybody last time around.

[Coach McGuirk]

What? He was right and scooped everybody last time around.

yeah, I don't get the unreliable part.

[LA Ute]

yeah, I don't get the unreliable part.

Like I said, I didn't follow Chip at all last time.

[Surfah]

yeah, I don't get the unreliable part.

Yeah, if there was any criticism levied on Chip Brown it was that he was Dodd's and Beebe's puppet.

[LA Ute]

Yeah, if there was any criticism levied on Chip Brown it was that he was Dodd's and Beebe's puppet.

I guess that's the one I remember.

[TripletDaddy]

It has been said that one of the biggest winners in PAC expansion was Chip Brown. I think that might be accurate.

[Paperback Writer]

I didn't follow Chip Brown last time around, so I don't know, but he sure got lots of criticism for being unreliable. Do you think he is? (I really don't know. Someone summon Uncle Ted.)

My take is that he is dead on when his sources are out of Austin. I think the UT AD department was feeding Chip info on the Longhorn perspective of the departure of Colorado and Nebraska from the Big 12 and the possibility of UT and other programs from the Big 12 South joining the PAC-10. I'm not sure his sources out of College Station are as good because I don't recall him reporting in advance that Texas A&M wasn't about to go to the west coast.

I just don't see the SEC blowing up the Big 12 and the ACC to get to 16 teams.

[Jacob]

My take is that he is dead on when his sources are out of Austin. I think the UT AD department was feeding Chip info on the Longhorn perspective of the departure of Colorado and Nebraska from the Big 12 and the possibility of UT and other programs from the Big 12 South joining the PAC-10. I'm not sure his sources out of College Station are as good because I don't recall him reporting in advance that Texas A&M wasn't about to go to the west coast.

If correct, that's good news for BYU, since he's saying that BYU is at the top of the list of replacements, after ND.

[SeattleUte]

Isn't it pretty much the general consensus here that BYU is going to wind up in the Big 12 or another BCS conference sooner or later? That's what I think will happen. I recognize that SU will now come after me with a club, but reality is reality. The rivalry could be cooler than ever if that happens. An annual PAC-12/Big 12 grudge match.... :crazy:

(The above assumes that the current structure of CFB is not blown up by mega-conferences.)

Won't happen unless it's the Big East, and I can hardly imagine that except that the Big East can't reallly have a bias against religoius schools.