It's official... Nebraska joins the Big 10!

yeah baby. wrote:

How does OSU get mentioned with Stanford and USC?

Is that the OSU from Oregon or the OSU from Oklahoma?

Will the REAL Orange and Black please stand up?

OSU OSU OSU. The OSU I know best has the Big Wave machine. but there's one OSU which is ranked in top 5 for NCAA Athletic programs and they have been invited to be in the PAC-16. The PAC-16 XC champs will be something else !

Agreed, but OSU vs OSU is going to be "interesting." And right now I believe its officially the PAC-12, with the Texas schools seeking a better travel/timezone match.

News source?

I don't see any news of this on any credible sites. I would guess it is not official yet.

I'm actually at a laptop in Eugene waiting for the running events to start, but as I understand it, ONLY Colorado and Oklahoma State are confirmed (accepted) for the PAC-12, and Nebraska is NOT in the Big 11/12. Maybe by the weekend or maybe not at all. It is not a done deal yet.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/06/10/sports/AP-Pac-10-Expansion.html?_r=1

dukerdog wrote:

Red Glare wrote:

See the tidbit above about the superconferences breaking away from the NCAA after they form and creating their own division. When that happens, minimum requirement for varsity sports to be in NCAA D1 goes away. And thus so does every athletic department budget item that does not in some tangible way bolster football and basketball fortunes. Track and xc will survive almost exclusively at the mid-major level and down.

Almost all those superconference schools currently fund more mens sports than the NCAA minimum requires. Not sure why they would suddenly drop sports if the minimum goes away, when there is nothing to stop them from doing that now.

And many do not. The lower end schools, the Washington States and the Baylors and the Iowa States of the college sports landscape, do not and if they want to compete in football and basketball then they might gut other sports to bolster the budgets for football and basketball to better contend. Hell, Colorado, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Arizona, and Arizona State would have to really bring up their level of investment in football and basketball in a big way to even hope to contend for just their division title against Texas and Oklahoma within the PAC 16. Colorado dropped men's tennis recently (to help pay off Barnett's contract) and dropped men's baseball in the '80s (not long before winning their football national championship). Sure, I can see Stanford, Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Cal, USC (which still lacks men's xc), Washington, and even Oregon keeping many Olympic sports. They have an alumni funding base that can all but ensure t&f and xc, not to mention golf, tennis, soccer, etc. at those schools. Those schools aren't the entire picture, however. Not by far.

I hope the NCAA goes away.