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Rise And Fire – Conference Realignment Morning Link Dump - 9/21/2011
Too many expansion, retraction, realignment links for one post, so here's another Link Dump for you. HERE WE GO AGAIN - BIG 12 REALIGNMENT AND/OR EXPANSION AND/OR RETRACTION What newspapers are saying... KC Star - Kansas Board of Regents to discuss realignment Thursday Topeka Capital-Journal...
SMU to Big 12: Are the Mustangs Football and Basketball Programs Attractive?
With the departure of Texas A&M from the Big 12 conference now almost a sure thing one school, Southern Methodist University (SMU), has already started to make noise publicly about joining the conference when the Big 12 expands. SMU's athletic director & president have made it known that...
Rise And Fire - Big 12 Basketball Morning Link Dump for 8/16/2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! Celebrating the life cycle, we also look back at the death of Elvis Presley on this date in 1977 and Can't Help Falling In Love with the web as we find interesting information on each Big 12 basketball team. Check these links, then come back each day for updated information. If...
Texas A&M Not Invited To SEC, Big 12 To Remain With 10 Teams (For Now)
According to various reports, the SEC is content with the status of the conference and has not invited the Texas A&M Aggies into the conference, despite rampant Saturday internet grumblings. The Texas A&M Board of Regents is planning on meeting this morning to discuss the future of A&M...
Big 12 Conference Dissolution – Where Each Team Would Go
With confirmation by Texas governor Rick Perry that the Texas A&M Aggies are exploring the possibility of moving to the SEC, it is once again time to look at the ripple effect of what a move like that would have. If the Aggies do move on, that will leave nine schools left in the less-than-aptly...
Open Letter to Colorado Buffalo Fans: The Grass Isn’t Always Greener
CU Buff fans, I know you're excited about your move to the Pac-10. Truthfully I might be excited about road trips to places like Eugene, LA and Tucson. But let's be honest... you are going to an athletically inferior conference. Yep, the conference you're leaving is a better conference than the...
Post-pocalypse, or Is It Postpone-ocalypse?
Dan Beebe wooed Texas (with Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and Texas Tech close behind) with promises of more unequal revenue sharing and Longhorn TV rights to boot. It was a gutsy move that almost definitely saved the Big 12 from being cannibalized by its neighbors. In the process the Big 12...
St Louis Post-Dispatch: Deadline for Mizzou from Big 12 Reportedly is June 17
The Big 12 has been nice enough to extend Mizzou's deadline to declare their allegiance for the Big 12. Vahe Gregorian writes Lending clout to what a well-placed college athletics administrator believes could be "kind of a showdown" week in the otherwise relentless rumor mill of expansion...
Omaha World-Herald - NU to Big 10 as early as Friday?
The Omaha World-Herald's Lee Barfknecht writes that Nebraska's announcement on a move to the Big 10 could come as early as Friday. Direct confirmation from Nebraska of a conference change for the Huskers wasn't immediately available. Sources at two other Big 12 schools told The World-Herald that...
ESPN - Report: Huskers, Mizzou face ultimatum
The Big 12 has drawn a line in the sand for at least two member schools. The conference, amid a chorus of story lines that would all significantly change the face of big-league college sports, has imposed a deadline of Friday for Nebraska and Missouri to state their intentions on whether they...
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