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  • This video is pretty funny for anyone who has followed the conference realignment dramas of the last two summers. You have to wait for the second half of this:

    [nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vq3j5gSwgo&feature=player_embedded"]Alabama v. Florida- Will Muschamp talking Star Wars vs. Nick Saban not taking any reporter's jive - YouTube[/nomedia]

    [YOUTUBE]2vq3j5gSwgo&feature=player_embedded[/YOUTUBE]
    “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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    • Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
      This video is pretty funny for anyone who has followed the conference realignment dramas of the last two summers. You have to wait for the second half of this:

      Alabama v. Florida- Will Muschamp talking Star Wars vs. Nick Saban not taking any reporter's jive - YouTube

      [YOUTUBE]2vq3j5gSwgo&feature=player_embedded[/YOUTUBE]
      What does that have to do with the Big 12 expansion? Uncle Ted already posted it yesterday in the week 5 thread btw.

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      • Originally posted by dabrockster View Post
        Hmm. I wonder if BYU and Utah came as a package to Big 12 would Utah entertain the idea? Jump from one BCS conference for another.. It puts BYU and Utah back in the same conference and keeps the rivalry in conference as well and the game being possibly moved back to November..

        If I was the Big 12, I would at least entertain this option and see if they could get some revenge for the PAC 12 poaching last year. And it would add more stability then some of the other options. They then could add WVU and have a East/ West conference division..

        It may be just messageboard fodder, but I think it would be appealing...
        As a fan, I'd be pissed at a move from the PAC to thend Big 12.

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        • Originally posted by creekster View Post
          Looking at all the empty parking spots in the adjacent lot I wonder if all that yellow is the color of the seats.
          im glad to see that they paved the lot. when did they do that?
          Fitter. Happier. More Productive.

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          • Originally posted by Portland Ute View Post
            As a fan, I'd be pissed at a move from the PAC to thend Big 12.
            We wouldn't want you any way

            End the "rivalry"...it is meaningless to the vast majority and students and grads who are not from Utah

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            • Originally posted by SCcoug View Post
              What does that have to do with the Big 12 expansion?
              I thought Saban's comments about Internet message boards were funny, and would be to anyone who's been following expansion on this board.
              “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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              • Originally posted by dabrockster View Post
                Hmm. I wonder if BYU and Utah came as a package to Big 12 would Utah entertain the idea? Jump from one BCS conference for another.. It puts BYU and Utah back in the same conference and keeps the rivalry in conference as well and the game being possibly moved back to November..

                If I was the Big 12, I would at least entertain this option and see if they could get some revenge for the PAC 12 poaching last year. And it would add more stability then some of the other options. They then could add WVU and have a East/ West conference division..

                It may be just messageboard fodder, but I think it would be appealing...
                First wrestling and now this?

                "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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                • Originally posted by Portland Ute View Post
                  As a fan, I'd be pissed at a move from the PAC to thend Big 12.
                  Utah has twice as many players from the PAC-12 footprint (sans Utah and Hawaii) as it does the Big XII's.

                  There's that to consider.

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                  • There are still persistent rumors that Missouri could be headed to the SEC to become the conference's 14th team and join Texas A&M. Rumors that aren't easy to put the rest when you find out that, according to the Kansas City Star, the Missouri Board of Curators is meeting on Tuesday and the school's conference affiliation will be one of the topics under discussion.

                    If that's not enough, for you stalkers out there, this FlightAware link of a certain twin turboprop plane making a flight from Birmingham, Alabama to Columbia, Missouri on Tuesday should stoke the flames a bit.
                    Wilner reports that the Big 12 is eyeing BYU, Boise State, West Virginia and Louisville as possible replacements because the conference feels that if it's going to be considered a peer of the Big Ten, SEC and Pac-12, it needs 12 schools and a title game. The Big 12 is also considering staying at 10 schools and replacing Texas A&M and Missouri if it has to. Which schools it would prefer in that case is unknown.

                    As for the likelihood of adding the four schools mentioned in the report, it's hard to know how interested each would be in the Big 12.

                    BYU may only be interested in bringing its football to the Big 12, and who knows how the Big 12 would feel about that?
                    http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/e...56338/32340782

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                    • BYU may only be interested in bringing its football to the Big 12, and who knows how the Big 12 would feel about that?
                      Why are people so stupid as to believe such a ridiculous rumor? Even worse to propagate it.

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                      • Originally posted by Jacob View Post
                        Why are people so stupid as to believe such a ridiculous rumor? Even worse to propagate it.
                        Exactly.
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                        • Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                          First wrestling and now this?

                          :shush:

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                          • Tweet from TDawgCoug:
                            Some may remember a few weeks ago when I compared the BYU/Big 12 issue to a big poker game. Let me just say that Tom and the boys have played one heck of a game. I have a bit busy as of late, but in review of all the info I have received in the last few days since I've been here with my daughter, man I am impressed, still, with Tom and the team.
                            "Nobody listens to Turtle."
                            -Turtle
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                            • Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                              Tweet from TDawgCoug:
                              Who is TDawgCoug other than some CB "insider"?

                              edit: nevermind
                              "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                              "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                              "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                              GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                              • Who needs 3rd tier rights when you have a bunch of beer drinking rednecks for fans?

                                @mikecasazza
                                Mike Casazza
                                In first two games, WVU netted $132,760.83 in beer sales. In third game, WVU netted $120,469.81.

                                After two games, the seven-game net profit projection was $464,442.90. After third game, the projection is $590,871.49.
                                "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                                "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                                "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                                GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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