Over the course of the last year, several schools have been left with some serious egg on their face. Of course, everyone knows that my favorite, Mizzou, was accused of "hiking it's skirt" for the B1G last year. You cannot imagine the PR nightmare that statement has been for the U of M.
However badly Mizzou, West Virginia, and several others have looked during this expansion madness, nothing they've endured comes anywhere close to the absolute smack down Oklahoma recently received from the Pac 12.
If Mizzou can be accused of "hiking it's skirt," OU and OSU can rightly be accused of far worse. They assumed much. Way too much.
This article outlines the extent of the embarassment.
Rejection by Pac-12 a surprise to OU, OSU? | Tulsa World
However badly Mizzou, West Virginia, and several others have looked during this expansion madness, nothing they've endured comes anywhere close to the absolute smack down Oklahoma recently received from the Pac 12.
If Mizzou can be accused of "hiking it's skirt," OU and OSU can rightly be accused of far worse. They assumed much. Way too much.
This article outlines the extent of the embarassment.
Rejection by Pac-12 a surprise to OU, OSU? | Tulsa World
Couple this with the unnecessary Sept 22 OU press conference in which Boren made outlandish claims about an agreement to sign away media rights and Boren and OU look like complete idiots.On Sept. 20, the day after OU gave Boren permission to explore OU's options in another conference, a Pac-12 official said the conference would not be expanding.
On that same day, OU President David Boren released a statement saying, "We were not surprised by the Pac 12's decision" and "conference stability has been our first goal and we look forward to achieving that goal through continued membership in the Big 12 Conference."