OU requests removal of Beebe in list of demands to stay in Big 12

Damn.OU bringing the wood.

I wonder why it has taken so long for any other Big 12 member to call for the Beebe puppet head.

ETA: Are the rest of the schools that intimidated by UT?

Oklahoma owns Texas.

wow, I'm beginning to think more and more that Texas is going to be forced into independence and out in the cold with their LHN.

Dan Wetzel beating his chest on how said Beebe killed the Big 12 by not endorsing a playoff:

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My column from June 2010 on how Beebe killed the B12

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Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe all but killed his own conference on April 30, 2008.

That’s when he decided to team up with the Big Ten and Pac-10 to reject a four-team playoff being pushed by the SEC and ACC.

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That would have solved all the monetary concerns that have left the Big 12 on the verge of collapse at the hands of its one-time allies, the Big Ten ...Jim Delany admitted to Congress a 16-team playoff could gross...about $900 million annually.

He opposed it anyway. Beebe and the others never seemed to ask why. They’re finding out now.

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It’s clear now that Delany used opposition to a football playoff...to starve out the Big 12...of the hundreds of millions a playoff would’ve given them and thus turn the future of college sports into a battle of television sets...the Big Ten will always dominate if everything boils down to TV revenue.

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Am I being too hard on Beebe? Not even close. He’s been played like a fiddle....

“I expect that Jim, who I have known for many, many years and trust implicitly, [will] do what he said he’s going to do,” Beebe said. “If and when the time comes that they’re going to do anything – and if that includes any of the institutions in the Big 12 – he’ll let me know first.” This week the Columbus Dispatch printed emails between Delany and Ohio State president Gordon Gee that detailed Gee reaching out to the University of Texas to broach interest about the Big Ten.

So much for Mr. “Trust Implicitly.”

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cliff notes are: Beebe got played like a bitch by Big ten commish Jim Delaney and is responsible for the Big 12's current sittuation.

I haven't had time to read the whole thread, but this seems to signal that the PAC doesn't see OU worth it if OSU is attached. This may also be true even if TX follows because that would mean TT too. It looks like OU may not have the leaving options it thought.

Not sure how anyone can think Texas is in the right on this whole thing. This is a classic politician move using technicalities to get what they want and trying to play it off as they are doing nothing wrong. ESPN is making money off the situation, as is UT, but UT will end up getting more than that, i.e. a stranglehold on overall college athletics elitism through the LHN, which through the partnership between themselves and ESPN, has already tried their hand at getting a leg up on the competition in recruiting by showing HS players' highlights/games, although they were shut down on both accounts.

With the PAC-12 not expanding and calling out UT by name, I would say that OU, OSU, and Mizzou to the SEC would be a very safe bet. UT would be wise to back off, and realize how much they lose by the breaking up of the Big XII that they have caused. There is much more at risk here than UT realizes in my opinion, and when OU, OSU, Mizzou, and A&M are comfy in their new home, Texas will eventually come calling, and by then it will be too late. Everyone will have already seen them for what they are: Horrible liars, terrible with politics, and low down, greedy bastards.