Kansas going hard at P-10 invite
by JazzyUte on Jun 13, 2010 12:07 AM MDT
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PrintKansas won't just lay down and die if Texas A&M, like planned, bolts for the SEC. If that happens, the Jayhawks will go all out in trying to grab that vacant spot. With it down to Utah and Kansas, any leverage either school could get might prove to be the deciding factor.
Kansas does have a good case with its powerful basketball program and BCS inclusion already. But will it be enough?
From what I understand, the Big 12 four (Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State) want Kansas. The Pac 10, however, wants Utah. Who'll get their wish? If the Big 12 holds the cards in this arrangement, the Jayhawks have a good shot of being the sixteenth member. But, it's very possible the P10 calls the shots in this regard and you've got to think that Kansas isn't the type of program that would make or break Texas' move west.
Anyway, we'll see what happens. I still think Utah has the inside track based on the fact they've been courted and have been courting the P10 Conference for a while now. But as I said in my last update, this whole situation is very fluid and could change at any moment.
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Here's why the Pac has more leverage
Texas has made it clear that the Bix XII is dead. For whatever reason, they cannot stay in a conference that doesn’t have Nebraska and Colorado in it. (Why? I have no idea. Apparently getting spurned by Nebraska hurt their feelings pretty bad.)
Because Texas has to switch conferences, they have little leverage here. They can threaten to go to either the Big Ten or the SEC, but neither of those conference are offering to let the dead weight come along; the other conferences won’t let Texas Tech or Oklahoma State come along. Texas has no leverage. They cannot threaten to go to the SEC because the Pac’s response would be, “they’re not even going to accept Texas Tech. What makes you think they would take Kansas?”
Meanwhile, the Pac obviously wants Texas, but they have already shown that they are willing to expand with or without them. Texas would help the Pac, but they are not the be-all-end-all that Texas apparently thinks they are.
In other words, because the Pac is willing to say, “no,” they have the power.
As of late Friday Texas said it had not made a decision
Said staying put was still an option. I am sure they’d like to get all offers on the table is why they say that, but . . . a 10 team Big-12 just as viable.
Hopefully...
the PAC 10 deals with this the same way they dealt with Baylor. The PAC 10 wanted the Denver market and got it, despite what the othe Big XII schools wanted. Hopefully they do the same with the Utes, if they really want the SLC market.
I think Texas obviously has a lot of pull, but I don’t think they want to go to the SEC. That’s a brutal conference and I don’t think Texas really wants any part of it. Now the Big Ten on the other hand…I don’t know, this whole thing just continues to be crazy.
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