(01-11-2018 02:28 PM)ren.hoek Wrote:  

(01-11-2018 02:18 PM)green Wrote:  

(01-06-2018 02:45 PM)msm96wolf Wrote:  I think 2024 will be when this all plays out. Texas and ND has been the holy grail for Swofford. Not that I think it will happen but that appears to be the best hope is ND to join if Texas joins the ACC. I think OU and OSU to SEC and Texas and ND to the ACC would be great incredible. SEC gets Bedlam and TX plays OU, OK ST and Tx AM every three years as part of ACC/SEC rivalry weekend. Just have a feeling B10 will not allow this to happen.

The academic powers that be, if Oklahoma was going to leave the Big 12, they'd way rather go to the Pac 12. There's not a lot of enthusiasm for the SEC on the academic side. I think they look at the Pac 12 as a way to enhance their academic reputation. SEC is about the same as the Big 12. Big 12 used to be better and then the SEC got two of the better academic institutions from the Big 12 and sort of tilted it. But I think they'd rather be in a league with Stanford and Cal and UCLA than in a league with Mississippi State or Georgia.
-- Daily Oklahoman columnist Berry Tramel

CLOSE CALL

In retrospect, the PAC12 turning down OU and OSU might very well be the dumbest decision of the realignment era. Holy crap, what were they thinking?

they turned them down on both academic and market issues. This time around the PAC can't afford them. Both Oklahoma and Okie State make more than the PAC schools, by about 6 million plus T3 which puts OU about 10-11 million ahead of them.

Tramel has always been a Boren mouthpiece. Boren's gone in June. That piece is over a year old. And Oklahoma and Oklahoma State as a pair will be impossible for the Big 10 to take. So the SEC isn't in a bad position on this one if they offer the pair. The question is will we want to offer the pair. ESPN talking heads have buzzed that we will for 2 years now with Finebaum putting his stamp on it this past Spring. Since it's likely 5 years off who knows.

But in the end it will be about geographical fit, familiar foes, and money. I like our positioning on all three.

And if OU doesn't head to the Big 10 and chooses the SEC it bodes much better for Texas to consider the ACC.