Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

[Stormin]

BY countered with once you decide to join the big boys table you could have real food. (While eating lobster)

BY dined on soup. Waiting for Arizona to join the Big 12. PAC 12 will be feasted on for the main course.

 

[CascadeClone]

I've seen people trying to blame this whole thing on Larry Scott, and while I agree GK was dealt a bad hand, he's made the wrong move basically EVERY TIME.

He was dealt a 3, 4, 7, 8, 9... but discarded the 3 to go for the inside straight.

 

[Die4Cy]

Interesting. Figured BY was a mac & cheese and apple juice kind of guy.

BY looks like he might be allergic to carbs.

 

[CascadeClone]

Arizona has an invitation. I understand they have to make a decision by Friday. They have a lifeline. ASU does not. Utah does not. Arizona really has no leverage. None. They will take the deal. They really don’t have a choice. Money and joining the best basketball league in the country. ASU and Utah may be friends. But they are also competition. This is Survivor.

Plus, not signing up for Utah or ASU until UO/UW say 100% no way - which is probably only the case if the B1G takes them.

How long do you think BY would give UO/UW to work with the B1G? What is their deadline, if any?

 

[laminak]

This is how wild speculation is done, folks!

The wild speculation had origins in reddit and a tweet/X of the restaurant and BY had some sort of mushroom soup.

 

[jcyclonee]

I’ve always liked dinosaur meat. Tastes a lot like ground up and pulverized chicken with a lot of fillers mixed in. Still amazed they can get dinosaur meat since they’ve been gone so long, but these are the wonders of modern science.

Maybe it's lab-grown dinosaur meat. Or maybe it's dinosaur meat in the way Kei$ha uses the term.

 

[BCClone]

Plus, not signing up for Utah or ASU until UO/UW say 100% no way - which is probably only the case if the B1G takes them.

How long do you think BY would give UO/UW to work with the B1G? What is their deadline, if any?

Friday

 

[BCClone]

Now think how we dodged the Bob Bowlsby bullet with him retiring when he did. OuT happens and Bob wants into the PAC (was an AD there, thought they were the cool kids and was panicking), they turn their noses up at us. So we have to grab 4 teams. Bob settles in, announces his retirement. big 12 hires BY and Brett comes in and says move your *** Bob I'm going to actually do something besides dunk my donut in my coffee and collect a check. He then proceeds to do what a good commissioner would do and goes on the offensive. If BB would have stayed on one more year, we could have been in some serious crap.

 

[SolterraCyclone]

Now think how we dodged the Bob Bowlsby bullet with him retiring when he did. OuT happens and Bob wants into the PAC (was an AD there, thought they were the cool kids and was panicking), they turn their noses up at us. So we have to grab 4 teams. Bob settles in, announces his retirement. big 12 hires BY and Brett comes in and says move your *** Bob I'm going to actually do something besides dunk my donut in my coffee and collect a check. He then proceeds to do what a good commissioner would do and goes on the offensive. If BB would have stayed on one more year, we could have been in some serious crap.

Yormark has been brilliant. Jumping P12 for the Fox/ESPN contract saved the conference imo

But he was aided by USCLA departing, the P12 having a commissioner in way over his head, and 10 years of crappy P12 football/financial management

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Now think how we dodged the Bob Bowlsby bullet with him retiring when he did. OuT happens and Bob wants into the PAC (was an AD there, thought they were the cool kids and was panicking), they turn their noses up at us. So we have to grab 4 teams. Bob settles in, announces his retirement. big 12 hires BY and Brett comes in and says move your *** Bob I'm going to actually do something besides dunk my donut in my coffee and collect a check. He then proceeds to do what a good commissioner would do and goes on the offensive. If BB would have stayed on one more year, we could have been in some serious crap.

Preach!

 

[werdnamanhill]

According to Twitter he ordered this. Mushrooms grow on logs which are made by sawing trees. There's big trees on the west coast. This means we are sawing the P12 in half!

 

[BCClone]

Yormark has been brilliant. Jumping P12 for the Fox/ESPN contract saved the conference imo

But he was aided by USCLA departing, the P12 having a commissioner in way over his head, and 10 years of crappy P12 football/financial management

And had Bob been our commissioner, we would probably be joined to the PAC after LA schools left.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

Now think how we dodged the Bob Bowlsby bullet with him retiring when he did. OuT happens and Bob wants into the PAC (was an AD there, thought they were the cool kids and was panicking), they turn their noses up at us. So we have to grab 4 teams. Bob settles in, announces his retirement. big 12 hires BY and Brett comes in and says move your *** Bob I'm going to actually do something besides dunk my donut in my coffee and collect a check. He then proceeds to do what a good commissioner would do and goes on the offensive. If BB would have stayed on one more year, we could have been in some serious crap.

Had Bowlsby not added the other 4, Yormark doesn't have a solid base to start from and that's before we talk about the destabilizing of the Pac that the Big 12 had nothing to do with.

 

[SolterraCyclone]

And had Bob been our commissioner, we would probably be joined to the PAC after LA schools left.

Bowlsby was still the commissioner at that time I believe. USCLA announced their departure June 30th and Yormark started on August 1st.

 

[BCClone]

Had Bowlsby not added the other 4, Yormark doesn't have a solid base to start from and that's before we talk about the destabilizing of the Pac that the Big 12 had nothing to do with.

You think Bob had any choice? He was pushed into that. He tried to join the PAC and they said no. I'm assuming the b12 ADs said we have no choice, but to expand. That was the only option and the B12 had been considering teams even before BB became commissioner.

 

[Jeffrey Scott]

Preach!

BY is good. I would certainly enjoy seeing a transcript of his interview for Commissioner of the Big 12. I'll bet that would be some inspiring reading. I know that likely will not happen but I'll bet that things are going the way of the plan that he laid out to the Big 12.

 

[KnappShack]

Yormark has been brilliant. Jumping P12 for the Fox/ESPN contract saved the conference imo

But he was aided by USCLA departing, the P12 having a commissioner in way over his head, and 10 years of crappy P12 football/financial management

Books will be written and classes taught about how a premier athletic conference covering large media markets **** the bed again and again and again.

Scott and Kliavkoff couldn't have been more destructive if they pulled their checks from the SEC and B1G to be a Trojan Horse.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

You think Bob had any choice? He was pushed into that. He tried to join the PAC and they said no. I'm assuming the b12 ADs said we have no choice, but to expand. That was the only option and the B12 had been considering teams even before BB became commissioner.

What?

The ADs have nothing to do with realignment, that's all the presidents/chancellors. Also, Bob became commissioner in 2012 after the first round. Jesus Christ himself could've been commissioner when UT/OU got the offer to go to the SEC and couldn't have stopped it. Without Bowlsby getting the big market schools, there's no way that we're at a point where the Big 12 has the stability and money it has.

Yormark has been fantastic but it's okay to give Bowlsby some credit here too for keeping the league together to get to this point.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Had Bowlsby not added the other 4, Yormark doesn't have a solid base to start from and that's before we talk about the destabilizing of the Pac that the Big 12 had nothing to do with.

Big failure by GK not adding immediately after USCLA left. Now looking back we know he wasn’t capable. SDSU really knows he’s not capable.

 

[BCClone]

What?

The ADs have nothing to do with realignment, that's all the presidents/chancellors. Also, Bob became commissioner in 2012 after the first round. Jesus Christ himself could've been commissioner when UT/OU got the offer to go to the SEC and couldn't have stopped it. Without Bowlsby getting the big market schools, there's no way that we're at a point where the Big 12 has the stability and money it has.

Yormark has been fantastic but it's okay to give Bowlsby some credit here too for keeping the league together to get to this point.

Have you ever seen Jamie and Wendy together????