No, Rape U. always needs kicking to the curb. And maybe a little more kicking afters, too.To be honest I was expecting way more talk about windowing Baylor out of the b12. Real disappointment the level of hate has dropped to all time lows.
Maybe that's how we do it: eleven members of the Big12 join another conference.No, Rape U. always needs kicking to the curb. And maybe a little more kicking afters, too.
Now we’re getting somewhere. Let’s invite SMU first then everyone bail leaving Baylor and SMU togetherMaybe that's how we do it: eleven members of the Big12 join another conference.
Oh, delicious cruelty! Positively savage!Now we’re getting somewhere. Let’s invite SMU first then everyone bail leaving Baylor and SMU together
Andy Staples has the what I think is the best take on this whole thing. Here's him and Nicole Auerbach talking about various things; Pac 12/Big XII is the last segment, the final 25 minutes or so.
All of the "this is going to happen tomorrow" stuff out there from non-journalists is just rubbish, even if it proves to be right in the end. "Breaking" news breaks because the people who actually make decisions "leak" information to journalists they trust when they're ready to leak it. Until then, it's all just speculation. What Staples speculates is, I think, the right conclusion to draw from the past 15 years of this endless nonsense: the remaining eight members of the Pac 10 will want Oregon and UW to give them a long-term, binding commitment, and those two schools have no incentive to do that and every incentive not to. In contrast, the Big XII has the cohesion that comes from no one wanting to poach its members, and the hard-nosed realism that comes from experience. These might enable them to make deals flexible enough to suit everyone in the immediate term. My guess is that this all works out to the Big XII's advantage in the short-to-medium-term, but not within the next week or even perhaps this summer. What happens long-term, I have no idea.
Oh, delicious cruelty! Positively savage!
SMU: "Hey! The music stopped!"
Rape U: "Yeah. Where did everybody go?"
SMU: "I don't know. And why are we holding this bag?"
Get your Ralphie the Buffalo gear today!The University of Colorado Board of Regents has scheduled a Special Board Meeting for this evening from 5::00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Mtn). This is the second special meeting the Board has scheduled this week, with the first being on Wednesday evening. They were apparently "briefed" by representatives of the Athletic Department concerning the Big-12 expansion plans.
Their website has labelled both of these meetings "Executive Session Only" No Formal Action will be taken! However the Regents also have a three day "Retreat" scheduled for July 13th - 15th! Make of this what you will!
University of Colorado Regents
Given it is called their "Annual Retreat" which they have held in July for a number of years I don't make anything of that.The University of Colorado Board of Regents has scheduled a Special Board Meeting for this evening from 5::00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Mtn). This is the second special meeting the Board has scheduled this week, with the first being on Wednesday evening, just two days ago. They were apparently "briefed" by representatives of the Athletic Department concerning the Big-12 expansion plans.
Their website has labelled both of these meetings "Executive Session Only" No Formal Action will be taken! However the Regents also have a three day "Retreat" scheduled for July 13th - 15th! Make of this what you will!
University of Colorado Regents
I didn't say it was intended as some sort of special meeting! I too can read and was fully aware that this Retreat was an annual event and was scheduled a while back! The point I was trying to make was it would provide an opportunity for the Regents to vote, receive any additional briefings, or take some other Formal action that they didn't have during the meeting tonight!Given it is called their "Annual Retreat" which they have held in July for a number of years I don't make anything of that.
His other tweets—
I recognize that nobody from any institution involved will ever say "yeah we were working on that, but it fell through." So many will judge the truth on the outcome of the conversation, whether they make it work and the teams move. Regardless, the conversation is happening.
But, this is the funnest part of sports, right? The arguing over things that will never publicly be proven true or false beyond a shadow of a doubt? Note that not one of these guys have said "I talked to someone in X's office, and they said it was not happening."
One football guy told me today that my reporting couldn't possibly be legitimate because we post articles about how fast a swimmer can kick a 100 yard free. *Just because you don't understand anything about swimming, doesn't mean we don't understand anything about football."
Football is king. But everyone is treating basketball as "rounding error" in realignment, and it's more than that. Not that I think basketball keeps anything together, but I think basketball could provide a comfortable Plan B for programs like BC, Syracuse, and even Pitt.