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Message: [QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 291938, member: 622"] The Pac 12 has a permanent ally in the whole mess. If the PAc 12 is goingto get squeezed out, the B1G simply puts any conslidation on the back burner. The Big 12 is still the most unstable conference and if they add FSU, Clemson, GATech and Miami, they will remain the most unstable conference. 1) Every team has attempted to leave the conference in the last two years 2) The GOR is still only a contract, if any team wants out, itis mearely a startying point for negotiations 3) Texas can and will do as it wishes 4) Texas can take a few teams with them and destroy the conference 5) Texas has the means to buy out the GOR in cash if they wish, though they will certainly negotiate it down or destroy the confernce thereby destroying the GOR/TV deal 6) As long as Texas gets the LHN $$, they stay. IF ESPN drops it because they cannot get carriage (which is quite possible) Texas will have a wandering eye 7) Texas can join any conference and any conference would take them under the conference conditions of equality (B1G, Pac 12 and ACC already made this offer) 8) OU can join the SEC or follow Texas 9) The remaining current Big 12 teams have little hope of joining a major conference due to 1 or more of the following: * Crappy academics * Location * Market * History (weak in sports) * Religion 10) Even if FSU, Clemson, GATech and Miami joined, they have no common ground/history with the remaining teams 11) The South East teams are on an island from the remaining teams (OK, WVU is at least in the east) 12) If you cannot pack your stands with fans for teams that your school already hates, will the fans be fired up for TTech and Iowa State? 13) SouthEast fans are not going to travel en masse to Ames, Iowa, Stillwater, OK, Lubbock, TX, Manhattan, KS [/QUOTE]

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