The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[TripletDaddy]

You have your head up your ass. The PAC XX is not a country club affair where Stanford and Cal keep BYU out because of principle. The PAC XX is a business and will continue to only become more interested in money and power.

With the Big East imploding, the SEC going to 14, and eventually the big XII going back to 12, and possibly 14, we are a step away from the 16 team super conferences. It is going to happen.

Where does that leave the PAC XX? Who is left to grab? Certainly Wyoming would be a wonderful addition to the PAC XX.

BYU will be playing Utah in November and the PAC XX will be happy about it. BYU builds a rival with Notre Dame as well.

The sources have said repeatedly that BYU will eventually be in the PAC XX. You are narrow minded to think that the PAC XX would not accept BYU due to their peculiar ways. The sandlot doesn't have many teams left to choose from, all the good teams are gone.

This dog hunts!

[lambdacoug]

You have your head up your ass. The PAC XX is not a country club affair where Stanford and Cal keep BYU out because of principle. The PAC XX is a business and will continue to only become more interested in money and power.

With the Big East imploding, the SEC going to 14, and eventually the big XII going back to 12, and possibly 14, we are a step away from the 16 team super conferences. It is going to happen.

Where does that leave the PAC XX? Who is left to grab? Certainly Wyoming would be a wonderful addition to the PAC XX.

BYU will be playing Utah in November and the PAC XX will be happy about it. BYU builds a rival with Notre Dame as well.

The sources have said repeatedly that BYU will eventually be in the PAC XX. You are narrow minded to think that the PAC XX would not accept BYU due to their peculiar ways. The sandlot doesn't have many teams left to choose from, all the good teams are gone.

Not all the good ones BSU is still our there as are we.

With everthing else you said...here's hoping.

[Clueless]

This is triggering something for the recesses of my mind. Wasn't some movie or book, supposedly based upon DC/Viking's family (DDD, a little help here)? I'm hoping it is "Almost Famous". How cool would it be to find out Viking's source to all the juicy B12 comings and goings is Cameron Crowe!?!

I'm biased, but I'm an insider to this dynamic:

The movie is "The Royal Tenenbaums".

Viking did not go to St. Marks, but he did attend another blue blood HS in Dallas for a time, and he ran in the same circles as Luke Wilson. There's no chance Luke or Owen could have known how much art imitates a much-caricatured view of life in the Viking family but it's fun to speculate!

Royal = papa Viking (though he's actually a well-off guy, in real life). The biggest comparison is that Big Daddy Viking raised each of his children to be great at one thing: atheistcoug (not the total tool here) is an amazing programmer, doccoug was a premier athlete, hottiecoug (the lone menina) is a concert pianist.

Chaz = Viking. The comparisons with real-life are such that you'd fall on the floor. Viking even wears the same adidas work out clothes (he has 5 sets of them) every day while in Brazil at the office (things are informal here!).

Baumer = Doccoug. This one is a bit of a stretch (no suicide attempts!) but Doccoug was an amazing athlete in his day and groomed to be as such.

Ultimately, the family loves each other deeply. They will beat each other up inside the four walls but Viking spent most of 5th-6th grade standing up for his younger brother and can tell some tales of getting whipped by the principal for kicking ass and taking names in defense of his brother.

They are one of the best families I've ever known.

[Eddie]

I'm biased, but I'm an insider to this dynamic:

The movie is "The Royal Tenenbaums".

Viking did not go to St. Marks, but he did attend another blue blood HS in Dallas for a time, and he ran in the same circles as Luke Wilson. There's no chance Luke or Owen could have known how much art imitates a much-caricatured view of life in the Viking family but it's fun to speculate!

Royal = papa Viking (though he's actually a well-off guy, in real life). The biggest comparison is that Big Daddy Viking raised each of his children to be great at one thing: atheistcoug (not the total tool here) is an amazing programmer, doccoug was a premier athlete, hottiecoug (the lone menina) is a concert pianist.

Chaz = Viking. The comparisons with real-life are such that you'd fall on the floor. Viking even wears the same adidas work out clothes (he has 5 sets of them) every day while in Brazil at the office (things are informal here!).

Baumer = Doccoug. This one is a bit of a stretch (no suicide attempts!) but Doccoug was an amazing athlete in his day and groomed to be as such.

Ultimately, the family loves each other deeply. They will beat each other up inside the four walls but Viking spent most of 5th-6th grade standing up for his younger brother and can tell some tales of getting whipped by the principal for kicking ass and taking names in defense of his brother.

They are one of the best families I've ever known.

Wait - how did I miss this?

I had no idea that atheistcoug was related to viking and doc.

Does hottiecoug post here too and I've just missed that as well?

[CJF]

Wait - how did I miss this?

I had no idea that atheistcoug was related to viking and doc.

Does hottiecoug post here too and I've just missed that as well?

I think you missed something else.

[Clueless]

Wait - how did I miss this?

I had no idea that atheistcoug was related to viking and doc.

Does hottiecoug post here too and I've just missed that as well?

Read again.

No the hottie does not post here.

What's funny is Doccoug as a younger fellow looked a little like tom cruise but no scientology

[BemidjiCoug]

Not all the good ones BSU is still our there as are we.

With everthing else you said...here's hoping.

BSU must have a killer research budget.

[lambdacoug]

BSU must have a killer research budget.

Wait, I thought we were talking football... *shrug*

[Jennerstein]

I've done this before but it seems increasingly close to the reality.

Ladies and gentlemens, the Big 12:

I know the answer. BYU is Portia de Rissi.

[Green Monstah]

I know the answer. BYU is Portia de Rissi.

The girl who wants to have great sex really badly, just not with her husband (and who in real life is a HUGE fan of Ellen DeGeneres). I think it fits.

[Marvelous]

I know the answer. BYU is Portia de Rissi.

As in Lindsay Bluth? Or are you insinuating that BYU is somehow similar to the lesbian wife of Ellen?

[Scorcho]

for fear that Goatnappers nipples are getting limp and soft, Alema Herrington claimed today that BYU and the Big XII are still negotiating.

I heard it with my own ears.

Someone should be looking for a Triad Center Tent?

[TripletDaddy]

for fear that Goatnappers nipples are getting limp and soft, Alema Herrington claimed today that BYU and the Big XII are still negotiating.

I heard it with my own ears.

Someone should be looking for a Triad Center Tent?

They are probably going over an exhaustive list of religious values that might be open to negotiation. Of course BYU is carefully considering these proposals and countering with new, updated values and morals that the B12 can live with but that the LDS Church still approves. It is a long process, could take weeks.

[Coach McGuirk]

List of Demands from the Big12


1. Women allowed to hold Priesthood.
2. Caffeinated Coke sales allowed in Stadium for conference games.
3. 10% of all tithing goes into Tier 3 revenue sharing.

These are all I have been able to read from the smeared whiteboard.

[lambdacoug]

List of Demands from the Big12


1. Women allowed to hold Priesthood.
2. Caffeinated Coke sales allowed in Stadium for conference games.
3. 10% of all tithing goes into Tier 3 revenue sharing.

These are all I have been able to read from the smeared whiteboard.

Lucky for us, gay marriage is not one of the demands.