The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[Viking]

Ha. I have made an absolute killing shorting this stock.

Know what a short recall is? Might want to get familiar with it...

[LiveCoug]

Looks like WVU and the Big East are about to resolve their issues.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040...pid=newspanel2

Seems easy. Basically had to pay double the monetary penalty without the 27 month waiting penalty. With the new monetary penalty being 10 million (still with the 27 month waiting penalty), it seems WVU got out pretty easy.

Wonder if Syracuse and Pitt are peeved by this, as they were content to following the rules of their Big East contract by waiting the 27 months....

[Omaha 680]

Looks like WVU and the Big East are about to resolve their issues.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040...pid=newspanel2

Seems easy. Basically had to pay double the monetary penalty without the 27 month waiting penalty. With the new monetary penalty being 10 million (still with the 27 month waiting penalty), it seems WVU got out pretty easy.

Wonder if Syracuse and Pitt are peeved by this, as they were content to following the rules of their Big East contract by waiting the 27 months....

So we can expect a Big 12 presser to announce WV, BYU, and Louisville to the Big 12 any day now.

[Uncle Ted]

So we can expect a Big 12 presser to announce WV, BYU, and Louisville to the Big 12 any day now.

Not until this thread gets up to 12,000 posts. Only 100 99 more to go.

[LiveCoug]

Cardinal Jim knows what's up...

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=17&f=2759&t=8684981&p=1

[Viking]

Brigham Young University stock is up 10% right now on the CUF exchange. The short recall is about to begin and soon, I will be lord of CUF!!! Ha ha ha ha

[Uncle Ted]

Frank the tank sez...

2. Big 12 Expansion Rumors II: The More Realistic Louisville/BYU (or TBD) Scenario – I don’t claim Dude-like sources, but for what it’s worth, I’ve heard from two separate places that validate what The Chronicle of Higher Education reported a couple of weeks ago: the Big 12 wants Louisville as school number 11 with BYU as the preferred choice for school number 12. Louisville is the easy part of the equation – both parties want each other and if the addition of the Cardinals alone wouldn’t result in an odd number of schools, they would have been in the Big 12 a long time ago. The issue, of course, is that BYU has been far from easy to work with for any conference. We actually have to twist the mantra here of “Think like a university president and not like fan” and apply the standard of “Think like a church leader and not like a university president” for the purposes of BYU. From standpoint of the vast majority of universities, it would have made perfect sense for BYU to have joined either the Big 12 or Big East months ago. However, the decisions at BYU are being ultimately driven by LDS leadership and it appears that they are enamored of their independent ESPN exposure along with the opportunity to build up a greater audience for BYUtv. Essentially, they’ve caught Notre Dame-itis.

The problem for the Big 12 is that there isn’t any realistic alternative for school number 12 besides BYU (assuming that, like me, you don’t buy the rumor that the Big 12 will raid the ACC)....

http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/20...yoff-proposal/

[Clark Addison]

Cardinal Jim knows what's up...

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=17&f=2759&t=8684981&p=1

Huge news, for two reasons:

1. I have never known "Cardinal Jim" to be wrong
2. We have never heard before anything like "The Big 12 and BYU have reached a tentative agreement to move The Cougars into The Big 12. Details should be wrapped in a few days...."

[creekster]

Huge news, for two reasons:

1. I have never known "Cardinal Jim" to be wrong
2. We have never heard before anything like "The Big 12 and BYU have reached a tentative agreement to move The Cougars into The Big 12. Details should be wrapped in a few days...."

have you paid much attention to cardinal jim before?

[Clark Addison]

have you paid much attention to cardinal jim before?

Not really, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't invalidate my point.

[MarkGrace]

Huge news, for two reasons:

1. I have never known "Cardinal Jim" to be wrong
2. We have never heard before anything like "The Big 12 and BYU have reached a tentative agreement to move The Cougars into The Big 12. Details should be wrapped in a few days...."

ha.

[LiveCoug]

Cardinal Jim and Lane Luckie have spoken! Just believe!

[Indy Coug]

Have you ever noticed that CardinalJim and Fake Dan Beebe have never been seen in the same place at the same time? Just sayin...

[Portland Ute]

Huge news, for two reasons:

1. I have never known "Cardinal Jim" to be wrong
2. We have never heard before anything like "The Big 12 and BYU have reached a tentative agreement to move The Cougars into The Big 12. Details should be wrapped in a few days...."

Congratulations, Cougar fans.

Welcome to the BCS!

[TripletDaddy]