The Sicatoka

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100611/SPORTS/306119924/-1

If the Big Ten gets Notre Dame and Rutgers I'm not sure they'd go any more. There's not enough fiscal return (unless it's Texas).

Yeah, but the spouse (Big XII) caught them cheating and they've already started the divorce.

Saw the Buffs headin' for the west coast; See Nebraska headin' east, And now some people think 'Twelve South is just Pac-10 EAST! When the Twelve come tumbling down When the Twelve come crumblin' tumblin' When the Twelve come crumblin', tumblin' do-o-o-wn ...

Wayne Nelson looks at the situation. http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/arti...1/group/Sports/

A major college FB playoff has been estimated to be worth between $600 and 800 million annually. Imagine having to only split that 64 ways. That makes the MBB tournament seem pretty pale in comparison. This is not about BB. This is about football and money. Proof? Kansas is being left in the cold.

Uh, I had the transcript first. :glare:

No, I'm pretty sure he, Tom, is a Dick.

Great. But depending on who the Big Sky potentially loses, will it be a decent conference that UND would want to be associated with?

TMZ.com (yes, the folks that first reported the death of Michael Jackson) is reporting further evidence of the death of the Big XII. Oklahoma State to Pac-10: http://www.tmz.com/2010/06/10/oklahoma-sta...ootball-big-12/

Colorado has bolted for the Pac-10. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5271438 There's no reason at all for Nebraska to hang around the Big XII now. Watch the dominos fall.

You're assuming the coming super-conferences stay in the NCAA and don't just go and form their own govering body.

First shoe has dropped. COLORADO TO PAC-10 http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5271438

The issues between UT and NU have been around for a long time. They're finally coming to a head.

That says to me to expect four 16-team superconferences to come out of this where each division champion goes to a "BCS tournament". Welcome to the "Year One" bracket: Pac-10 West champ plays Big Ten East champ Big Ten West champ plays SEC East champ SEC West champ plays ACC East champ ACC West champ plays Pac-10 East champ

The secret Big XII meeting transcript ... http://www.bringonthecats.com/2010/6/7/150...e-big-12-twelve

You know how all politicians work: If they can get what they want by doing nothing, they'll do nothing. They're letting the clock run out but can still say, "I didn't do anything against it."

They've always thought they are the center of everything in Lincoln.

ESPN top of the hour radio news (I'm streaming 1500 ESPN out of MSP) just reported that their sources have learned that the Nebraska regents have voted to join the Big Ten. Expect the announcement and news conference Friday. (Given ESPN inside sources history, for example "Brett Favre" stories, take it for what it's worth.) Honestly, that makes sense from a Big Ten POV: Getting Nebraska folds the Big XII; it effectively kills any midwest television competition for their Big Ten Network.

When he was honored at a home game not that long ago that's what they said. I wonder when that changed.

I'm pretty sure that's a bad assumption. I believe Jim Archibald works as a Canadian customs agent.

There's some serious concern to our south. Remember the old line, "Hey, you don't need to make a federal case out of it!" ... well ... http://www.omaha.com/article/20100609/NEWS...-a-federal-case http://www.omaha.com/article/20100608/NEWS...early-as-friday Why would NU move? More reasons than you think. http://www.omaha.com/article/20100609/NEWS...f-the-field-too

There's the king, and everything else. That's where hockey would stand, along with BB and baseball. Like the article says ...

Beat you by a couple months. http://forum.siouxsports.com/index.php?showtopic=13909

This is one I struggle with. Not having a travel partner really doesn't help or hurt your travel costs. You'll travel to each conference opponent (assume basketball). Sure, a travel partner road trip is arguably going to be close so that's one cheap travel weekend. Not having a travel partner really hurts the rest of the conference, namely their travel budgets. Right now IUPUI or UPFW or MIC-KEY-MOU-SE and the rest of the Summit can make one west trip in a weekend and get two games (NDSU/SDSU). Big cost, but two games on the trip. Big Sky folks won't like the notion of going east to play just UND and no other game on the weekend. That's lose-lose for them: Long expensive travel with only one game. That scenario would work against UND in the eyes of the Big Sky. This is why conferences like to find travel partner pairs, or a team that will make a logical travel partner to an existing member, when they evaluate potential new members.