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T. Boone Pickens: 'Problem' if Missouri leaves the Big 12

JimmyBuff

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SAN ANTONIO -- Oklahoma State billionaire booster T. Boone Pickens says the Big 12 is in trouble if Missouri leaves.


Missouri has been rumored to possibly follow Texas A&M to the SEC. In San Antonio on Tuesday, Pickens said "we got a real problem" if Missouri doesn't stay in the Big 12.
The oil magnate has given Oklahoma State's football program hundreds of millions of dollars and kept vocal during the latest round of college realignment. Pickens also says TCU and Houston are the most sensible replacements for the Big 12.
The Aggies will begin playing in the SEC next year.

Five Big 12 teams are ranked in the football Top 25 -- which Pickens says makes it unusual that the conference is "falling apart."


They need to make this guy the Big 12 commissioner.

LOL at Coog High being a good replacement.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...ckens-says-big-12-got-problem-missouri-leaves
 
This from the guy who said aTm wasn't leaving the Big 12-2-1 because they were "sobering up".
 
Dood needs to shut the hell up. In fact, everybody in that conference needs to have a gag surgically placed in his/her mouth. What a PR nightmare. Have one guy doing all the talking. Period. You'd think they'd have figured that one out a long time ago. Dumbasses.
 
No, not dumbasses, just big, arrogant oil men. They have been acting like this for generations.
 
Why is the Big12 sitting on their thumb and not picking up schools to get back to 12? Until they do this and the longer they wait, the more likely their conference explodes.
 
Why is the Big12 sitting on their thumb and not picking up schools to get back to 12? Until they do this and the longer they wait, the more likely their conference explodes.

I think most of the schools the Big Tex conference has in mind are not sure if they want to go thru all of the brain damage they would have to deal with such a dysfunctional group of schools. It may yet implode in another year or two.
 
Wasn't there an immediate OU-UT pissing contest about expansion, with OU wanting 12 and UT wanting to stand pat?That conference is so ****ed.
 
SEC doesn't want to be responsible for dismantling the Big 12 so they can always pull MU's invite and give it to WVU and come back to MU at a later time.
 
Dood needs to shut the hell up. In fact, everybody in that conference needs to have a gag surgically placed in his/her mouth. What a PR nightmare. Have one guy doing all the talking. Period. You'd think they'd have figured that one out a long time ago. Dumbasses.

TBoone doesn't know any better; his role as a "mouthpiece" for the big XII is just an extension of how Oklahoma State allows him to act with respect to their program.
 
Wasn't there an immediate OU-UT pissing contest about expansion, with OU wanting 12 and UT wanting to stand pat?That conference is so ****ed.

There are several things that are currently contested.

Some of the members of the conference want everyone to offer up their media rights for the next five years. Oklahoma's president came out publicly and said that every remaining member of the conference had agreed to this. Unfortunately, 15 minutes later Missouri's president came out and said Mizzou hadn't agreed to give up their media rights. It now sounds like maybe Texas has not agreed to give up media rights, either.

Then OU came out and said that they want to get back to 12 teams. Texas came back and said they wanted to get back to 10 teams, and didn't want 12 teams.

Plenty of disagreement in the league, still.
 
There are several things that are currently contested.

Some of the members of the conference want everyone to offer up their media rights for the next five years. Oklahoma's president came out publicly and said that every remaining member of the conference had agreed to this. Unfortunately, 15 minutes later Missouri's president came out and said Mizzou hadn't agreed to give up their media rights. It now sounds like maybe Texas has not agreed to give up media rights, either.

Then OU came out and said that they want to get back to 12 teams. Texas came back and said they wanted to get back to 10 teams, and didn't want 12 teams.

Plenty of disagreement in the league, still.

This is their biggest problem. They need to hammer this stuff out behind closed doors and have one person make all announcements to the press. It's a mess because there isn't one, unified voice. Even if Boren *thinks* they all have agreed to something, he needs to keep his big trap shut and allow the conference media relations guy (whoever that is, probably nobody at the moment) do the talking.
 
Hey, Mr. Pickens, if you like, we'd allow you to be a CU booster. For, say, $100 million or so.
 
Dood needs to shut the hell up. In fact, everybody in that conference needs to have a gag surgically placed in his/her mouth. What a PR nightmare. Have one guy doing all the talking. Period. You'd think they'd have figured that one out a long time ago. Dumbasses.

Sacky, one thing about folks in that general area of the U.S. . . . . and I work with many of them and enjoy their candor. . . . is that they have absolutely no filter when it comes to expressing their opinions . . . . .and have absolutely no memory of being wrong when confronted with their statements later. It actually is kind of endearing in weird kind of way.
 
That's for sure, but MU is gone. They would be insane to pass up the $EC.

I'm not so sure. They will probably get paid decent cash in a few years when the tier 1 rights are renegotiated and if the tier 1 and tier 2 rights are equal. Also they are highly competitive in the Big 12-2-1 whereas they will really struggle in the SEC.
 
I'm not so sure. They will probably get paid decent cash in a few years when the tier 1 rights are renegotiated and if the tier 1 and tier 2 rights are equal. Also they are highly competitive in the Big 12-2-1 whereas they will really struggle in the SEC.

Long term stability is what they get in the sec. Gotta hit it while the griddle is hot
 
Long term stability is what they get in the sec. Gotta hit it while the griddle is hot

I think they are in a position right now where they get to sit back and watch others play their hand. If the Big 12 agrees to the binding media deal, they get stability. If the Big 12 doesn't, they have an invite in hand to the SEC.
 
I think they are in a position right now where they get to sit back and watch others play their hand. If the Big 12 agrees to the binding media deal, they get stability. If the Big 12 doesn't, they have an invite in hand to the SEC.
Is there any credible confirmation out there that MU actually has an $EC offer in hand? All I've seen/heard is the loose lips of some second-rate booster who flapped his gums out of school. I also believe that the $EC "officially" denies making any such offer. I won't believe anything else on this until it actually happens.
 
I would love to see MU get stuck in the Mack 10. MU fan seems to be very similar to KjucoState the last few years.
 
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Is there any credible confirmation out there that MU actually has an $EC offer in hand? All I've seen/heard is the loose lips of some second-rate booster who flapped his gums out of school. I also believe that the $EC "officially" denies making any such offer. I won't believe anything else on this until it actually happens.

I'm wondering the same thing too and have yet to see any solid information stating that the SEC has extended an invitation to Missouri. :huh:
 
JMO - the SEC was more than willing to consider taking Mizzery when it was apparent that the Big 12 was going to implode and there wouldn't be a conference for Baylor to accuse them of destroying. Now that it seems likely that the Big 12 is going to survive as long as Mizzery stays, they're not considering it.

I'd say that the two-bit booster was trying out his very best T. Bone impression and talking out of his ass.
 
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