RT @slmandel: And now, hell shall break loose. Rivals’ Texas site reporting that Pac-10 “is prepared to invite Texas, T Tech, A&M, OK, OK St and Colo.”
RT @slmandel: And now, hell shall break loose. Rivals’ Texas site reporting that Pac-10 “is prepared to invite Texas, T Tech, A&M, OK, OK St and Colo.”
Oh hell yes. Throw in Utah, AIr Force, or TCU and we’ve got the Pac-16
Wait…I missed the Texas Tech part, no need to pick up one of the others.
Your Move, Big Eleven/Sixteen/Twenty.
Personally I’d rather drop Tech and add Air Force to get Colorado a rival in state, but that may not be as advantageous.
I endorse this Kreutz Plan! Colorado State is also an option. But the point is, get the Trojans to my state once every four years, instead of once every eight! Er… I mean… get Colorado an in-state rival… yeah, that’s it.
P.S. Poor Baylor. They’re like the fat kid in kickball who gets picked last, or in this case, not at all. “We’re taking the entire Big 12 South — er, except you, Baylor. You smell funny. We’re taking Colorado instead. They have a buffalo.”
The other downside to this plan would be the inevitable confusing games between OSU and OSU both colored Orange and Black.
True. Also, speaking of OSU: by splitting into east/west divisions, instead of north/south, the powers-that-be fail to reduce the number of visits by USC to the abject hellhole and graveyard of otherwise promising seasons known as Corvallis, Oregon. 😛
Texas A&M may opt to go to the SEC, in which case there could be an opportunity to still target Utah.
Or Kansas? The Jayhawks look likely to be orphaned by the cannibalization of the Big 12, unless the Big Ten wants to expand even further afield than Nebraska. And they’d be a helluva basketball anchor for the Pac-16 Inland division. (Well, co-anchor, along with Texas.)
Kansas, Texas, UCLA, Arizona, Stanford, etc. etc. Not too shabby of a basketball conference.
Of course, the Jayhawks would be splitting up with not only their archrival, Missouri, but also their in-state rival, Kansas State. But again, unless the Big Ten wants the Kansas schools, KU doesn’t seem to have a lot of options at this point. Baylor and K-State would seemingly be bound for non-BCS conferences in that event.
Why A&M and not Tech? It makes more sense that Texas and A&M would go somewhere together given the rivalry and historical precedent.
If Texas goes to the Pac-16 and plays nine conference games per year, and has to schedule SEC-bound Texas A&M annually as one of its three non-conference games, we’ll never again see a major interdivisional game involving Texas (a la Texas vs. tOSU), as that would force the Longhorns to violate Mack Brown’s two-cupcake minimum.
What makes you think the Pac-16 would stick with a 9-game conference schedule?
I think a decent case could be made for dropping Texas Tech and picking up Kansas, but honestly I’d rather have Utah than either of those schools.