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Contacted, not applied. The ACC has been contacted by 10 schools but so far only Pitt and Cuse have applied.

SMU would like you to know that they are not choosy.

Marinatto said there is no conference rule to force a member to notify the commissioner it has applied to another conference.

John Marinatto is an incredibly incompetent commissioner.

Texas has become one of the highest money-making entities in College Football. Though you can say the same about the players at Miami, Nevin Shapiro just doesn't pull the same weight as Bevo does.

Actually Miami doesn't have that much money behind it. It's a small private school with a middling-to-poor fanbase. Their one advantage was their immediate access to South Florida talent and a willingness to turn a blind eye to any NCAA violations/criminal escapades on the part of the players.

Certainly adds to the "Texas to the ACC" talk. Or the ACC is anticipating an SEC raid.

So when will the Big Ten get involved again?

Supposedly, the ACC has no problem with Texas keeping the Longhorn Network, unlike the Pac-12 and SEC do. And, Texas would still be a big fish in the ACC.

That's because with Florida State and Va Tech as their only real possible threat, they'd dominate the ACC.

Isn't that what people said about Miami joining the ACC in 2005?

Yeah, except Miami didn't have ESPN pumping in millions of dollars above and beyond what they'd make through Conference-wide contracts.

Certainly adds to the "Texas to the ACC" talk. Or the ACC is anticipating an SEC raid.

So when will the Big Ten get involved again?

Look what I found!

Texas is having a Board of Regents phone conference to discuss Conference alignment roughly two hours after the OU Conference on Monday. Yeah, this league's going down.

Boise State in all of them? Really? I don't think that will ever happen.

What do you expect its Rivals. They only know crap that's directly fed to them.

The SEC will not kick out Vandy and the Big Ten sure as hell will not kick out Indiana and ummm....wait did some dumbass seriously suggest the ACC would kick out Duke? Bottom line is that if you are currently a member of one of the 4 surviving leagues your future and safety is assured.

I wonder what Phil Knight thinks about the possibility of T. Boone Pickens muscling in on his heretofore-exclusive Official PAC Sugardaddy territory.

Judging from Oklahoma State's new unis, "A fool and his money are soon parted."

Oklahoma State is hardly AAU material either. Let's be honest, they're only going to the PAC-12 because Oklahoma is being forced to let them tag along.

Yes, but Oklahoma State also has nearly exclusive use of a billionaire sugar daddy. Boise State can't make similar claims.

In case anyone's surprised:

Oklahoma to Apply to Pac-12

Ok State to follow suit. Good night Big XII.

But OU isn't an AAU school, and neither is OK State. Oklahoma just became a Tier 1 institution this past January. What happened to those precious, unwavering academic standards that the PAC-12 claims to be obsessed with?

There's still a wide gulf between the Oklahomas and Boise State. For example AAU membership is somewhat feasible in the near to medium term for Oklahoma. Not so for Boise State.

In case anyone's surprised:

Oklahoma to Apply to Pac-12

Ok State to follow suit. Good night Big XII.

Please remember that Chip Brown is nothing more than Texas' information minister.

That said, in light of other indications that the Oklahomas are probably planning on bailing and the SEC accepting A&M's application, the following image can best describe the Big XII right now.

I will admit I could see a terribly rumpified Big 12 tossing a desperation invite Boise State's way, but I suspect it would be more likely for the "MURDERER'S ROW" Conference to join the Mountain West and try to bring the Big 12's AQ as a dowry.

If the Treasure Valley can grow some more, and BSU can remain a great team, then maybe the end of this decade is when they jump to a power conference.

THE SCHOOL IS A GLORIFIED COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

That's the problem, and no amount of population growth or football skill can correct that.

How would Boise State NOT make sense? Just because they never played in a legitimate conference? I'm sure if the Pac-12 could lure Texas over, they would be willing to make some adjustments to their TV schedules or do whatever they need to do with negotiating with ESPN or whoever runs the TV contract, to bring Texas in.

The Stanford caliber schools will never consort with a jumped-up community college. They've said as much.

The bigger issue here is that Texas never would have even gotten the startup money and support from ESPN if not for ESPN's desire to unleash Texas high school football to the masses of creepy shotacons throughout the country fans who are interested in the performance of the college stars of the future.

Unfortunately for ESPN, the NCAA saw the litany of problems with this and actually grew a backbone, leaving the Longhorn Network as both an albatross and a white elephant.

Both Texas and A&M should share the blame for potentially ruining college sports.

Fixed your thread! But in all seriousness,i can't emphasize enough what potential damage this will do to the olympic/non-revenue sports!

*looks up*

people care about that?

Look Baylor I'm sorry you've realized that without your patron Ann Richards, nobody wants to consort with a school that 1) May or may not include the Book of Genesis in its science curriculum, 2) fields a good football team roughly once every two decades, and 3) is less than a decade removed from the basketball team getting hit with massive sanctions for trying to use a player's murder to cover up SMU-caliber NCAA violations.

The dream was going to end sometime, and no amount of suing is going to bring it back.

Missouri, Kansas, and Kansas St. look to be heading to the Big East. Those schools had discussions with the Big East last year when it looked like the Pac-16 was going to happen. Missouri would like to go into the Big Ten, but I think the B1G wants to go east with their expansion at this point.

For once, I think a super-conference switch might actually BENEFIT college basketball this time (Kansas vs. the likes of Louisville, Georgetown, Syracuse, and UConn every year...I drool at the very thought)

Except they wouldn't even play annually unless the Big East started jettisoning members.

The Mountain West is holding a board meeting on Tuesday to discuss luring some teams from the Big 12. Unfortunately, those schools would likely be Baylor, Iowa State, and Kansas State.

Poor Missouri, nobody wants them.

DePaul was actually a good program when the Big East invited them. Providence might not have been a blueblood but they were pretty solid in the '80s and '90s.

All it takes is one bad recruiting class to cripple a program for half a decade. And not everyone can be on top; a good team can become a mediocre one if the competition is that strong week-in and week-out. You'll end up seeing a lot of 7-5 or 8-4 records among teams that are used to being dominant.

No, DePaul already was well on the decline from their late 70s-early 90s heyday when they joined the Big East. The Big East grabbed the now-struggling DePaul program solely to get a more reliable Chicago foothold than Hibernia perfide and it has been a catastrophe from Day 1.

So Texas gets a lot for football I am sure Kansas got a lot for basketball.

Football brings in a lot more than basketball overall.

How can a great conference like the Big XII fall apart so epically.

Built in structural inequalities between various members.

And so it begins...

I can't bear to think what this will mean for college athletics as a whole. Football drives everything; Men's Basketball is the red-headed stepchild, and every other sport is irrelevant. Goodbye, NCAA Tournament. Goodbye, College World Series. Goodbye, Frozen Four.

It means baseball and basketball have an extra at large and the Frozen Four...carries on as normal I guess, since none of these schools have NCAA hockey programs.

The Oklahoman/NewsOK: Oklahoma's (and Oklahoma State's, in all probability) sole focus now on joining the Pac-12

Friday, orangebloods.com reported that Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe convened a conference call of Big 12 presidents -- excluding Boren, Texas' William Powers and Texas A&M's R. Bowen Loftin -- and urged them to petition Texas to remain with the league.

This seems appropriate:

If I'm the AAU, I won't let the B1G strong-arm me when my membership includes MIT, CalTech, Rochester Tech, Johns Hopkins and the entire Ivy League. At least there is one association of schools where academics money still trumps football.

Fixed for truth.