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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 13347, member: 652"]
Pac-12 if its add Oklahoma and Okie St to get to 14 does not expand anymore without Texas as part of the deal. UNLESS Missouri would go west then Kansas would probably be the 16th team. Tech is not getting into the Pac-16 without Texas coming along. Okie State wouldn't get into the Pac-12 without riding Oklahoma's coattails. Texas Tech is not a valuable asset to the conference alone they have only made 5 of the last 20 NCAA basketball tournaments and have never been to a BCS bowl. Lubbock is over 200+ miles from Houston, Austin, Dallas and while its in Texas its a distant 3rd at best popular school in Texas behind Texas and Texas A&M. Texas Tech is kinda the East Carolina of  Texas but got into the Big 12 in 1994 because of political pressure from the Tx Speaker of the House (Texas Tech alum) and the fact he got Texas A&M's basketball arena funded through political purse strings which they won't have in the Pac-12 unless Texas went with them. I believe that Texas will weigh all of its options and may look to the ACC as a possible destination which would be great for Syracuse. If  the ACC added Texas, Texas Tech, Syracuse, and UConn(possibly Pitt as well if WVU went to the SEC) then we would be in a stable conference once and for all.
However the Pac-12 isn't going to go 16 just to get to 16 it wants premiere value and Oklahoma justifies inclusion along with Okie St, but Texas Tech and Kansas wouldn't be enough to justify inclusion in fact the Pac-16 would basically be sending Texas to either the B1G, SEC, or ACC and I highly doubt they would want to do that.
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