So say rumors on the Internets.
(Hat tip on the LOTR reference: B. Minich.)
P.S. To review why Nebraska’s departure will trigger the epic realignment apocalypse, click here.
P.P.S. How about some other Lord of the Rings quotes to sum up various players’ positions in this whole mess?
Big East: “Are you frightened?”
Big 12: “Yes.”
Big East: “Not nearly frightened enough. I know what hunts you.”
Nebraska: “Against the power that now rises in the Midwest, there can be no victory. We must join with them. We must join the Big Numerically Challenged.”
Kansas: “Tell me, ‘friend,’ when did Cornhusker the Wise abandon reason for madness?”
Texas, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech, pondering Baylor’s future: “It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing.”
Kansas State: “They have taken the Big 12 South, and Colorado. We cannot get out. Drums, drums in the deep. … They are coming.”
Iowa State: “Nobody tosses a dwarf!”
More after the jump.
Notre Dame: “We Irish cannot hold back this storm. We must weather such things as we have always done.”
Big East: “How can that be your decision?”
Notre Dame: “This is not our war.”
Big East: “But you’re part of this world, aren’t you? You must help… please!”
Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe: “What is this new devilry?”
Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds: “A Delany. A demon of the ancient world. This foe is beyond any of you. Run!”
Texas A&M, explaining why it’s going with Texas to the Pac-16 instead of pursuing other options: “One does not simply walk into the SEC. Its black gates are guarded by more than just Nick Saban. There is evil there that does not sleep.”
Missouri, to the rest of the Big 12: “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
Big East commissioner John Marinatto: “Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of UConn, of Cincinnati, of West Virginia, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when our conference fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered schedules, when our BCS status comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear in this good sport, I bid you stand, Men of the Big East!”
Nebraska: “Forth, and fear no darkness! Arise! Arise, Cornhuskers of Lincoln! Allegiances shall be shaken, conferences shall be splintered! A sword day… a Big Red day… ere the sun rises! Ride now! … Ride now! … Ride! Ride to ruin and the world’s ending! DEATH!!!”
Kansas: “I’m glad I’m with you, Kansas State, here at the end of all things.”
Any other suggestions, readers? 🙂
UPDATE: Some brilliant suggestions from comments:
Nebraska: “The Big 12 cannot win this fight. They are all going to die!”
Iowa State: “Then I shall die as one of them!”
Texas to the other Texas schools: “The Big 12 stands upon the brink of destruction. None can escape it. You will unite or you will fall.”
Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott: “Smoke rises from the mountain of Delany. The hour grows late, and Texas the Longhorned rides to Larry Scott seeking my counsel. For that is why you have come, is it not… my old friend?”
Nebraska: “Concealed within his fortress, the Lord of the Big Unnumbered Conference sees all — his gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth and flesh. You know of what I speak, Texas — a great Eye… lidless… wreathed in flame.”
Texas: “The Eye of Delany.”
Nebraska: “He is gathering all evil to him. Very soon he will summon a conference great enough to launch an assault upon the Big 12.”
Texas: “You know this? How?”
Nebraska: “I have seen it.”
Texas: “A Twitter Client is a dangerous tool, Big Red.”
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, to Notre Dame: “I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly. But you… have elected… the way of… superconferences!
Big Ten official, talking to his master, Delany: “The BCS conferences are strong, my Lord. Their roots go deep.”
Delany: “Rip them all down.”
I don’t have the encyclopedic knowledge that you do, but there has to be something appropriate for the Pac-10’s joy at being able to get Texas et al, Cal’s consternation over Baylor, and the salivating and scheming occuring right now in the Mountain West as they look at picking up the remnants of the Big 12.
Of course there is a not unreasonable scenario that involves a decimated Big 12 poaching from the Mountain West/Conference USA either…
Oh, f***.
(Further expletives to come later.)
Nebraska: The Big 12 cannot win this fight. They are all going to die!
Iowa State: Then I shall die as one of them!
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Wow. I didn’t even know I was remembering a LOTR reference. But my brain had the mood down pat!
Hrmmmmm . . .
“Smoke rises from the mountain of Delaney. The hour grows late and Texas the Longhorned rides to Larry Scott seeking my counsel. For that is why you have come, is it not… my old friend?”
Nebraska: “Concealed within his fortress, the Lord of the Big Unnumbered Conference sees all — his gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth and flesh. You know of what I speak, Texas — a great Eye… lidless… wreathed in flame.”
Texas: “The Eye of Delaney.”
Nebraska: “He is gathering all evil to him. Very soon he will summon a conference great enough to launch an assault upon the Big 12.”
Texas: “You know this? How?”
Nebraska: “I have seen it.”
Texas: “A Twitter Client is a dangerous tool, Big Red.”
Delaney to ND: “I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly. But you… have elected… the way of… superconferences!”
Big Eleven (for now) official, talking to his master, Delaney:
“The BCS conferences are strong, my Lord. Their roots go deep.”
Delaney: “Rip them all down.”
ROFL…. those are brilliant. Better than mine. Hahaha. I love the Interwebs.
OK, last one for now.
Texas to other Texas schools: “The Big 12 stands upon the brink of destruction. None can escape it. You will unite or you will fall.”
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