UNI to join a conference with Kansas and ISU?

[Panther-Sheik]

Re: UNI to join a conference with Kansas and ISU?

Where can a copy of this letter be found? I think that content is dead on.

[JD720]

Re: UNI to join a conference with Kansas and ISU?

Where can a copy of this letter be found? I think that content is dead on.

http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&ATCLID=204955238&DB_OEM_ID=10700

[UNIpanther99]

Re: UNI to join a conference with Kansas and ISU?

Suddenly UNI athletics would look financially healthy if ISU is on the outside looking in.

[DomeRanger Posse]

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All right, I'm a little slow coming to this party. What's going on with all this talk about the conference realignment? Is the Big XII going the way of the Dodo? I don't watch or participate in a lot of (any) sports media, so I come here and all of a sudden there's all this talk about ISU going to another conference. Is this really going to happen, or is this all speculation and big schools playing with the conference in order to get something more?

[JD720]

Re: UNI to join a conference with Kansas and ISU?

All right, I'm a little slow coming to this party. What's going on with all this talk about the conference realignment? Is the Big XII going the way of the Dodo? I don't watch or participate in a lot of (any) sports media, so I come here and all of a sudden there's all this talk about ISU going to another conference. Is this really going to happen, or is this all speculation and big schools playing with the conference in order to get something more?

There is speculation, that I think has pretty good legs, that Texas, A&M, Tech, Oklahoma, OSU, and Colorado are going to be invited to the Pac Ten and Nebraksa and Missouri will be invited to the Big Ten.

The "Heartland Conference" mentioned in the OP is one writer's guess as to what happens to the other 4 Big 12 members and seem unlikely in my opinion.

[Newsbreaker]

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http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle....B_OEM_ID=10700

If, in the same situation, that letter were sent by TD to all of us, we'd be in a meltdown of epic and Biblical proportions. I can't believe that's what they sent out!

[06panther10]

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We should replace evansville with Iowa state in the Valley.

[06panther10]

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http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle....B_OEM_ID=10700

wow. That definitely does not give off a very good feeling, if you are a cyclone fan.

[achrist70]

Re: UNI to join a conference with Kansas and ISU?

We should replace evansville with Iowa state in the Valley.

They might jump on that

[TH1974]

Re: UNI to join a conference with Kansas and ISU?

If, in the same situation, that letter were sent by TD to all of us, we'd be in a meltdown of epic and Biblical proportions. I can't believe that's what they sent out!

It is shocking...Pollard is usually very measured and calm and rational in his e-mail blurbs to fans. LOL

[Newsbreaker]

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An Austin paper is reporting that the AD at TAM has told his coaches that the Pac-10 rumors are true.

This will have one interesting impact on UNI. If ISU is dumped to the MWC, they lose a lot of money and their hopes of being self-sustaining are dead. That changes the Regent's math in a major way.

[JayJ79]

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Seems like alot of this is driven by the promise of bigger television payouts, in the form of additional conference-specific (or even single-university specific in Texas' case) networks, ala what the Big Ten has done with BTN.

Of course, all that extra money has to come from SOMEWHERE. So I'm guessing if it goes through, it will lead to not only upheaval amongst the conferences with the "realignment", but higher cable and sat. bills for the general public. (and of course, sports bars having to shell out more to be able to carry the games, which leads to them raising their prices as well).

[SteinPizza]

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Creation of a basketball only conference is nice, but it won't compare to a monster Big 10, Pac 10, or SEC. College football is the 800 pound gorilla in all this. Basketball is next in line, but at the end of the day it's the tuna or grouper on the food chain, and football is the great white shark or killer whale.

P.S. There was also a story today about the Big Ten's continued pursuit of Texas. This was leaked via some Columbus media obtaining emails by the Ohio State AD via the state's open records law.

[Cat80]

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Interesting the PAC 10 is including OK, but not KS. Football is still the driver regardless the names on your basketball court. Except for FL I can't think of a state with the so called 2 'major' sports schools being in different conferences. Maybe CO counts, NV is different conferences, but not the level of Big10-12. TX, OK, and KS can all count on members of the governing board from preventing a solo defection. Iowa cannot and ISU will pay dearly for it.

[Luther_Heggs]

Re: UNI to join a conference with Kansas and ISU?

Interesting the PAC 10 is including OK, but not KS. Football is still the driver regardless the names on your basketball court. Except for FL I can't think of a state with the so called 2 'major' sports schools being in different conferences. Maybe CO counts, NV is different conferences, but not the level of Big10-12. TX, OK, and KS can all count on members of the governing board from preventing a solo defection. Iowa cannot and ISU will pay dearly for it.

The people of Kansas (e.g. Fred Phelps) would just love having California schools coming to Kansas on a regular basis.