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Why?
Are you moving to another message board?
Sue me.
Why?
Are you moving to another message board?
Yes, and you're not invited.
But you're still here.
What's the holdup?
So you're agreeing to not sue?
Is that keeping you here?
What is the incentive for waiving my right to sue?
Nothing, really.
A&M will still end up east, this is just pushing back what we though was already over. The ball now ends up in OUs court. If they leave then everyone will follow and Baylor will be suing everyone I guess. If they stay, the conference looks for an A&M replacement and solidifies the league to where Baylor would drop all litigation threats.
What you gunna do OU?
OU is going to leave maybe some time next week
Loftin said he believes Beebe’s turnaround puts the future of the 15-year-old conference in more jeopardy than A&M’s leaving.
“By keeping us in in this limbo, they really are inhibited from bringing in other members to take our place,” Loftin said. “So they’re creating more instability by taking this particular direction. We were trying to clean this up for ourselves very quickly … so they could get about their business of replacing us in a prompt way and go forward and hopefully become a better conference. How can that happen right now when they’re insisting that we simply stay in this holding pattern indefinitely while they try to figure out what’s wrong?”
what was Beebe's turnaround? It seemed like he just didn't consult teams in the conference before putting out his letter last week?
That and the SEC's weird stipulation to have every school sign waivers.
Seems like as good a thread as any to drop this in.
OU and Oklahoma State are going to give the big12 and Texas an option. Stabilize the conference and go to equal revenue sharing throughout all its members or were going west. No more Texas is the best and the rest is next. It's obvious that without equal revenue sharing the same problem is going to constantly arise. Oklahoma acknowledges this and rather have long term conference stability at this point.
OU doesn't have their panties in a wad about revenue.
Not necessarily when it comes to $ amounts but they do have a problem with how things have been run recently. They are just as skeptical of Texas than Nebraska and A&M were at this point, they just haven't been as vocal about it. They are going to want to make sure that if they stay in the big12 that it has longterm stability in the future and they aren't going to go through this every summer. By doing that you make everyone equal and quit letting Texas get/do all they want. If Texas abides and plays nice they will stay, if not then they will head west. If they weren't worried about revenue/stability/texas then they would already say were staying.
Equal revenue sharing to some extent goes hand in hand with conference stability. Look at PAC, B1G and SEC
I'm beginning to think as far as OU is concerned it's beyond that now. Yeah Baylor is trying to gum up A&M's deal, but this is as much about OU as it is about A&M. OU certainly doesn't want Baylor getting in the way of any of their future plans. So are they better off trying to leave now as part of a mass exodus that just kills the conference entirely? Or do they risk sticking around only to find that Baylor just wants there to be a big 12 and doesn't really give a whether A&M is or isn't a part of it thus letting A&M off the hook and making it more complicated for OU to leave later?
The Big East has started to reach out to big 12 teams. OU easily could be looking at this as their best opportunity to move when as many as 8 of the 10 schools could find themselves with a home in a BCS conference on short notice. A&M's got their new home picked out. OU can pick one for them and OKState. Texas obviously has options. Tech ends up okay unless Texas goes independent, but OU doesn't care about Tech. If the Big East is willing to take the Kansii and Mizzou (if Mizzou can't get a B10 or SEC invite) then you're looking at 7 or 8 teams having no trouble finding a new BCS home. What's Baylor going to do? Sue 3 conferences at the same time?
Aggie fans and Baylor fans are going to war on each other's wikipedia pages. I think they've finally been locked. Some of the interesting edits included Baylor being a proud member of the Southland Conference and Texas A&M overflowing its jar.
why? would A&M still hold a vote and just flip the ' no' switch on every candidate?
lol
could be that if college football does go to 4-5 superconferences getting preferential BCS bowl/championship game treatment that the remaining 25-40+ FBS schools get together and file some kind of huge lawsuit.What's Baylor going to do? Sue 3 conferences at the same time?
Why doesn't the SEC just admit them without conditions? Wouldn't that be keen?
Baylor is the one keeping us from going. ing un-American.
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