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if you're in Oklahoma,

Posted on 9/13/11 at 9:48 am
Posted by stephendomalley
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Posted on 9/13/11 at 9:48 am
do you want to be in a leagure where everyone else is out on the west coast? yeah, i know there's Colorado and Utah, but they aren't exactly next door.

pretty sad that Texas screws things up. before colorado, nebraska and A&M left, the league should've kicked Texas out. IMO.
Posted by Dobermann
Member since Sep 2008
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Posted on 9/13/11 at 10:13 am to
if the pac 16 comes to fruition, OU would likely be in a division with AZ, ASU, TT, UT, OSU, CU, and Utah.

Not a tremendous amount of west coast travel for football anyway.

Interestingly, if this is how the Pac 16 ends up, the west division will be the same as the old Pac-8
Posted by daboman of Aggieland
Columbia, MO
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 9/13/11 at 10:34 am to
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pretty sad that Texas screws things up. before colorado, nebraska and A&M left, the league should've kicked Texas out. IMO.

What is potentially hilarious in all of this would be Texas following Nebraska to the Big Ten. You know that Tom Osborne would be looking at Deloss Dodds and wondering "WTF do I have to do to get away from this a-hole?"
Posted by GulfCoastPoke
Port of Indecision
Member since Feb 2011
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Posted on 9/13/11 at 11:46 am to
I hail from OK, but do not currenly live there. I hate the idea actually. What do I, as an OSU alum, have in common with the USC, Cal, Stanford, Oregon, etc fanbases....likely nothing.

Not to mention the 2 hour time change and the travel for non-football sports.
Posted by choog
Cypress, TX
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 9/13/11 at 11:56 am to
quote:

What is potentially hilarious in all of this would be Texas following Nebraska to the Big Ten. You know that Tom Osborne would be looking at Deloss Dodds and wondering "WTF do I have to do to get away from this a-hole?"


Colorado feels the same way. Somebody's getting fricked and it ain't gonna be us.
Posted by Rouge
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Posted on 9/13/11 at 12:05 pm to
OU to CU = 11.5 hours
OU to Utah = 19.25 hours
OU to ASU = 16 hours
OU to UA = 16 hours

as a comparison, Baton Rouge to Columbia, SC is 12 hours. We only make that trip once every 6 years for football. OU fans would have to make those long hauls every other season
Posted by pdxlsufan
Beaverton, Oregon
Member since May 2008
3226 posts
Posted on 9/13/11 at 12:39 pm to
quote:

if the pac 16 comes to fruition, OU would likely be in a division with AZ, ASU, TT, UT, OSU, CU, and Utah.

Not a tremendous amount of west coast travel for football anyway.

Interestingly, if this is how the Pac 16 ends up, the west division will be the same as the old Pac-8


This.

It will be like 2 completely separate conferences united only by their love of TV money.

At most you'd have 2 cross divisional games and you don't need the permanent rivalry cross divisional game as none of the cross divisional games would really qualify as rivalries. The AZ schools are rivals with each others and don't really have a rivalry with any of the Cali schools.
Posted by pdxlsufan
Beaverton, Oregon
Member since May 2008
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Posted on 9/13/11 at 12:44 pm to
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What do I, as an OSU alum, have in common with the USC, Cal, Stanford, Oregon, etc fanbases....likely nothing.


Are you kidding me?

Merle Haggard, BAYBEE!

LINK

The Pac 12 East will unofficially be known as the Dust Bowl Division and the Pac 12 West will be the Okie Evacuee Paradise Division.

The conference championship game can rotate between Muskogee and Bakersfield and Merle can do the coin flip.

Posted by Hawgon
Texas
Member since Feb 2011
1223 posts
Posted on 9/13/11 at 1:15 pm to
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OU to CU = 11.5 hours
OU to Utah = 19.25 hours
OU to ASU = 16 hours
OU to UA = 16 hours

as a comparison, Baton Rouge to Columbia, SC is 12 hours. We only make that trip once every 6 years for football. OU fans would have to make those long hauls every other season


Fan travel isn't much of an issue. Even OU doesn't travel anything like any of the SEC schools. And the ones who do, will do a lot of it regardless.

Keep in mind, the Big 12 only alots something like 3,500 tickets to the away team and those are seldom all used for any game.

As long as OU continues to play Texas in Dallas and OSU, the average OU fan is going to get to travel as much as he wants.

Oh yeah, and you have to figure they'll keep playing Tulsa as well.
This post was edited on 9/13/11 at 1:26 pm
Posted by molsusports
Member since Jul 2004
36999 posts
Posted on 9/13/11 at 1:40 pm to
quote:

if the pac 16 comes to fruition, OU would likely be in a division with AZ, ASU, TT, UT, OSU, CU, and Utah.



do people really think Texas is going to the PAC?

seems like they are refusing to let go of the LHN idea and that makes it impossible

Too bad for Texas in an athletic sense tho - they would be a good fit in many ways with the PAC sensibilities. Politically Austin is more west coast than south and they take a lot of pride in a lot of non football, non basketball sports.

Academically the PAC is a mixed bag, but so was the Big 12 - no change there of any note IMO
Posted by Hubbhogg
Our AD Sucks
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 9/13/11 at 2:03 pm to
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Not to mention the 2 hour time change and the travel for non-football sports.


I think this is something that is overlooked in this whole deal. Your games out there are going to come on late as frick. Especially a problem in basketball when you're trying to watch your team play a weeknight game and it doesn't start till 11 cst
Posted by Hubbhogg
Our AD Sucks
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Posted on 9/13/11 at 2:03 pm to
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This post was edited on 9/13/11 at 2:04 pm
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
53614 posts
Posted on 9/13/11 at 2:05 pm to
Texas A&M told Texas to shove off
You think OU is gonna sit there and take it from Bevo too

My guess is OU is trying to get as far away from Texas as possible. There not going to become Texas' lap dog
Posted by pdxlsufan
Beaverton, Oregon
Member since May 2008
3226 posts
Posted on 9/13/11 at 2:11 pm to
quote:

do people really think Texas is going to the PAC?

seems like they are refusing to let go of the LHN idea and that makes it impossible


Good point.

Swap out UT for BYU, then.

Pac 10 West:
Old Pac 8: UW, WSU, UO, OSU, Cal, Stanford, UCLA, USC

Pac 10 East:
UA, ASU, BYU, Utah, CU, OU, OSU, TT

Geographically speaking, that could work. Though Oklahoma would win that division 80% of the time.
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