OUInsider - Owen Field

The SEC announced it's not taking another team. According to Dean Blevins, he thinks it a done deal, because Missouri has no alternative but to stay in the Big 12.

Mizzou once again is left in the cold:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/15649798/sec-no-plans-to-add-14th-team-when-am-joins

At this point it appears no one has much of a choice. The Big 12 will live...for another another few years at least. Lets pull in three teams and own the conference!

I'd say screw them and everybody else at this point. Missouri may be stuck for another couple of years, true enough. However, that doesn't actually inspire hope of OUr ultimate goal of gaining conference stability. No way I can see Missouri signing off any type of six year agreement, stipulating to the "grant of rights" that Boren alluded to. If memory serves me correctly, Boren said that conference stability was OUr primary goal, period. Well, based on what's coming out over the past few days, or since the news conference, deductive reasoning tells me we are as far away from "conference stability" as we ever have been. While I'd personally love to see the Big XII remain together, just don't see it happening. I don't care what people say, but losing Nebbish, Colorado, and A&M has really hurt this conference, especially with Nebraska and A&M rebounding and becoming respectable again. Bottom line, I think a conference call should be held between all the remaining schools, and Boren needs to let everybody know that we did the best we could at making this work, but at this point, it's every man for themselves. If that means we go to the Pac 12 or SEC or where ever without Uterus or OSU, or anybody else, so be it. We need to become selfish in this deal and look out for OUr interests, nobody else. This is just not looking good.

I think if everyone signs on the dotted line to the rights agreement, this conference will be good for five or six years. (There's always the possibility that someone will still be unhappy five years from now. IF the right opportunity presents itself, l can see one of the members saying we'll lose a year's TV revenue towards the "greater good".)

The problem is nothing has been signed by anyone. Until every remaining member signs, there's nothing but a lot of talk. Again, it sounds a lot like congressional hearings and debates.

And, just like all along, there is plenty of talk going on behind closed doors that's very different from what people are willing to say publicly. So as Yogi Berra so aptly stated: "it ain't over 'till it's over".

The schools in the Big 12 (except fexas) needs to get together and tell fexas get rid of the network and play nice or leave, PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^^^^^^^^^THIS!!

Concessions aren't good enough. Texas has not, is not, and will not be willing to give up on anything significant. I would have loved a move to the PAC, but my preference has always been to the SEC. The 'football culture' in Oklahoma definitely resembles SEC teams as opposed to PAC teams.

We shouldn't play any cards, we should just leave.

This is going to take time to sort out. You cannot believe anyone's statements. We have an agreement to share TV money but maybe not everyone has agreed to that. The SEC said they would not take A&M without the Big XII schools' agreement not to sue. Baylor threatened to sue. The SEC didn't get that agreement but they have still accepted A&M. Now they are "not talking" to Missouri. And A&M is the "only school to have applied". Deloss Dodds is myopic about LHN income and possibly delusional. OU is bound at the hip with osu. Baylor is willing to be ut's lap dog. Texas Tech apparently has a terrible academic reputation and osu's isn't a lot better. We don't want to be a member of the American Assocation of Colleges. (And I fully support that position.) Kansas State and Kansas are also joined at the hip ask why basketball isn't important. And Iowa State has no where to go if the Big XII goes away. No one really wants their wrestling program. A quote from the movie "Bull Durham" sums it up pretty well, "We're dealing with a lot stuff here!"

Any criticism of Boren is utterly retarded.

Initially I was in favor of going PACxx but must admit I was getting cold feet a couple of days before it went down the tubes, mostly because I thought Texas recruiting would be improved if we went SEC, and really put UT out on an island with no good choices. It also would have killed the LHN. Now, the Big whatever we're in coddles the thought that each team should develop their own network. The school network pairing the PACxx used was a great idea, but deep down I'd rather play in the SEC. We'd be right at the top of that league in contention for division and conference championships every year. I really doubt that either division was any harder than the Big12 south division has been the last five years--we seemed to do well there.

He got rid of that broken down alcoholic before he did any more damage. That's a positive in my book!