Chip said that DeLoss said=Pac 16 done deal

[RGV Pony]

on 103.3 Chip Brown said DeLoss met with all the coaches at UT and said "we tried everything we could to save the Big XII, but we just couldnt"...and Brown surmised that this means it's an effective certainty that the 6 of the remaining are off to Cali and parts west.

[skyscraper]

Yep, just said the same thing to Channel 8 during their sports segment.
Still don't understand why some people on this board think minimal swapping will occur (only two schools to Pac 10 or Big 10). Massive shifts are taking place right now.

[ponyinNC]

...And we will be left in no man's land. sorry for the pessimism, but i don't see our situation improving. Who wants us..MWC? They can raid Big 12 leftovers. If those Big 12 leftovers somehow were able to start anew, would they want us? Probably not. When BE takes Memphis and or ECU/UCF, what does CUSA do? Probably take sunbelt schools.

Just don't see us getting an offer.

[Sam I Am]

ESPN has said on Wednesday that the inevitable final realignment of the top 60 football schools will result in the dissolution of the NCAA so the big boys can keep all the money. So true, so true.

[RGV Pony]

if SMU goes anywhere it'll be the SEC. The SEC is tough enough as it is...think they want to add more teams with top 15 recruiting classes? Plus gives them the Dallas tv market. TCU's already hitched its wagon to the MWC juggernaut.

See you guys at the Sugar Bowl.

[planoponyfan]

[quote="Sam I Am"]ESPN has said on Wednesday that the inevitable final realignment of the top 60 football schools will result in the dissolution of the NCAA so the big boys can keep all the money. So true, so true.[/quote]

I tend to agree with this assessment. I also think the schools on the outside of this have an opportunity to ruin those plans if they stick together.. something that I doubt they will do.

[PK]

The evening news reported that the UT president and DeLoss gathered the UT coaches together to tell them "they did all they could to keep the Big XII together." That is such bull [deleted]. All they have to do is backfill with one school and the Big XII is still alive. Obviously that is not really what they want. Ultimately the greed of UT will poison whichever conference they wind up in...IMHO.

[mrydel]

What would be fun to see would be the Big 12 backfill with a team from the Big 10.