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Message: [QUOTE="ConnectiCuse, post: 56056, member: 675"] From an apparent Oklahoma insider named SoonerLawyer: [INDENT=1][B]Post #1[/B][/INDENT] [INDENT=1]"Scheduling for next season was the problem. If WVU is the only team admitted, WVU can swap out for Missouri's conference schedule and TCU can swap out for A&M's schedule. If UL is in the mix, then everything has to be re-done and everyone is on a very short time frame at this point to make that happen. Nobody in the Big 12 office wanted to drag out the "who gets to join first" argument. The TV networks (not Texas) made the call between the two schools. That's what I'm hearing from the Sooner camp. It makes sense to me. It sucks for you guys, but I believe that's how it was decided. WVU is going to just buy their way out of the league contract immediately and start Big 12 play next season. That said, UL will get an invite down the road (probably sooner than you think.) The Big 12 administrators agreed that 12 members were necessary, but there is not a consensus agreement on who the 12th team should be. Notre Dame will probably turn down full membership in a couple of months, but that will restart the conversation in the Big 12 in January. [U]Really no consensus whatsoever on #12. UC and USF are both mentioned a lot. Tulane is still being discussed. UConn has come up recently, also.[/U] In the meantime, the Big East will survive and keep its AQ bid by adding Boise, Air Force, SMU, Houston, UCF, Temple, Navy, possibly Army, and possibly BYU. Losing UL a year from now won't threaten the Big East's AQ standing. UL staying allows the Big East to go forward with expansion."[/INDENT] [INDENT=1][B]Post #2[/B][/INDENT] [INDENT=1]"I don't know all of the details, but allegedly, it is believed that only taking one school, rather than 2 (or 3), was leverage used by the Big 12 against the Big East to get an early release of WVU. The Big East needed the bleeding to stop long enough to re-build its football conference. Keeping UL on board, for now, left a nucleus of 5 school. So rather than be added to CUSA, the Big East can still add schools from CUSA. And that will begin happening soon. When the dust settles and the Big East is safe (a couple months from now), UL will be brought back up as Big 12 #11 either for 2013, but more likely, for 2014."[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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