We have the same number of teams as we do teeth…well, except for you Vandy types, what with your fancy big-city dentistry and fluoride.

At this point, the Big Ten has 11 teams, the Big 12 has 12 teams, and the Pac-10 has 10 teams.
In 2011, the Big Ten will have 12 teams, the Big 12 will have 11 teams, and the Pac-10 will have 10 teams.
In 2012, the Big Ten will have 12 teams, the Big 12 will have 10 teams, and the Pac-10 will have 11 teams.

And I’m willing to bet that other than the traditionally inept midwesterners, we’ll at most see numerical inaccuracy in one year (the current Big 12 in 2011, its single year of 11 teams).

Kansas is the only school that’s willing to take that label. Mizzou waffles back and forth on it. And certainly KState and Okie Lite wouldn’t consider themselves strictly basketball schools. Baylor is probably a basketball school, but no Texas school would ever come out of that closet.

Just because they actually have success in another sport doesn’t mean that football isn’t still king. You CAN do both, you know.

It’s still a better football conference than the Big Integer or the Pac Integer (especially with a neutered U$C). All we’ve lost is one of our worst programs, and one of our average ones (unless Suh is playing).

Let me guess, you believe that the SEC or another conference should get two automatic bids from now on. Sorry, but that’s what the regular season and conference title game is for.

Yes. This, indeed.

The Big “12” was the only conference that was willing to let them build their Longhorn Network. They just grabbed more cash from the conference tv deal, will get more cash from their tv channel, and don’t have to fly their volleyball team out to Pullman every year.

They had every opportunity to jump somewhere (anywhere) else, but didn’t. How can you say their plan was fucked up? Because they didn’t end up in the Southeast? What goal didn’t they accomplish? If these “superconferences” become the greatest thing since pizza on a bagel, it’s not like UT won’t have every opportunity to join up somewhere.

Lane Kiffin will use that post to claim Saban is tampering with his running backs again.

Started the Shiners early, eh?

yep, it’s a Mexican beer.

All we lost was friggin’ Colorado and a post-Suh Nebraska.

Now we just work Jerry Jones for Arkansas (“sure would be nice to have a Big 12 title game in your nice new stadium, Mr. Jones..”), and steal Louisville. Neither one is a powerhouse, but we didn’t lose any powerhouses, either.

Right now you could argue that Stanford has as good a chance of winning the Pac 10 this year as anybody. Missing out on that isn’t exactly going to lead to Sooner ruin.

He’s probably drafting a hyperdefensive moving letter explaining the B10’s mission, and how everything is about “fit”, and that, at the end of the day, there just weren’t any candidates more inline with the B10 mission than the Cornhuskers.

While, the rest of the nation sniggers at him…

…I think it will be clear that no one had any clue what they were doing.

On the plus side, Mizzou nearly destroyed college football. That has to count for something.

Also, the Big 10 can now have a championship game while the Big 12 and Pac 10 can not.

The Big 10 is the oldest and most prestigious conference in the nation. There is and never will be a better combination of athletics and academics.

It doesn’t matter how many football games the SEC wins. We will always look down on you.

The SEC just got turned down by A&M, I’d hold off on the trimphalism a bit if I were you.

In the end, the Big East, ACC and SEC stood pat, will be interesting to see what happens next time this starts up. You know, in a year when Texas is dissatisfied with some minor detail and demands even more concessions.

Not they will be relevant athletically, but they got their wish culture and academics wise.

because we don’t have to deal with Texas A&M’s superior academics, or scrotal-damaging fans.

I’m a loser because my business model relied heavily upon A&M fans visiting the SEC and causing scrotal damage that needed immediate medical attention.

The fourth guy back actually required 3 surgeries to restore cremasteric function

Your Jim Delany has no regard for human life, not even of his own. For this reason men, I want to impress upon you the need for extreme watchfulness. The enemy may come individually, or in strength. He may even appear in the form of Osborne or Mizzou. But however we must stop him. We must not allow him to gain entrance to the Texas TV Market. Now, I’m going to give you THREE SIMPLE rules: First, trust NO one, whatever his uniform or academic ranking, unless he is known to you personally; Second, anyone or anything that approaches within 200 miles of the Red River is to be FIRED UPON; Third, if in doubt, shoot first then ask questions later. I would sooner accept a few casualties through accidents rather losing the entire state and its personnel through carelessness. Any variation on these rules must come from me personally. Now, men, in conclusion, I would like to say that, in the three years it has been my privilege to be your commissioner, I have always expected the best from you, and you have never given me anything less than that. Today, Longhorn nation is counting on us. We’re not going to let them down. Good luck to you all.

the best ISU Baylor game EVAH!

They were played like a fiddle to try to entice Notre Dame. They’re so completely lacking in awareness of their place in college athletics that they were the perfect bait to string along. At one point, MU message board posters were talking about agreeing to only a partial share of revenue sharing just to be part of the “in-crowd.” As a Jayhawk, this was by far my favorite part of all of this.

The thing I don’t get is why the SEC had any interest in aTm in the first place. What value would they have brought on their own? Do you really need to worry about marketshare when you’re already nationally broadcast for every game? How the fuck do you schedule a 13 team league? And if you go for a 14th, unless it’s Navy or ND, it would have only created another round of this clusterfuck, only several times worse.

What I meant to say was: Whatever. Let’s face it, the Big XII wasn’t saved today, the inevitable was only pushed down the road. Since the underlying disease remains – a league that will cravenly give into any demand by Texas, no matter how preposterous – the patient remains teminal. But hey, at least Baylor and ISU get to pretend they still belong at the adults’ table.

 You go see [Dan Beebe], he still can’t reach up with his right hand for his hat… Point bein, even in the contest between man and steer the issue is not certain.