"I am attaching JK's analysis for a new thread. This is by far the best analysis I have seen of where KU stands in the current world and Big 12 situation. This is a great and candid analysis."
KU's problem is right now they aren't wanted by any conference.
No conference is saying "we have to go to out and land KU"
Now....if conference realignment got fired back up and then the Pac 12, Big 10, SEC started to gobble up teams I think KU would have to be considered among the top group they coveted. Texas and OU are at the top of that pecking order. Then it comes down to whether Oklahoma State and Texas Tech have go as partners of Texas and OU.
If it did fire back up I think the Big 10 would have to take a hard look at KU and OU. The two states would make it congruent with Nebraska.
The SEC would be an awful conference for KU. You think the round robin in football is a dogfight in the Big 12 just think about playing in the SEC.
I don't like what I read about the Pac 12 and their declining situation. When the original deal was going down KU was on the outside looking in with the Pac 12. Larry Scott was flying to KC to meet with KU in case someone backed out KU was going to be a back up plan. Before Scott's plane got off the ground he was informed by the Texas schools they were keeping the Big 12 together.
I talked to someone connected with Texas this week. I suggested Texas moving away from the Longhorn Network and doing something to help form a Big 12 Network and this person laughed at me. He said Texas has something like 25 years left on the contract and would never give up that cash. The money Texas gets along with the Big 12 money puts them right at or above what the Big 10 and SEC schools currently get. It was a $300 million deal.
This person also said Texas is in a bit of a holding pattern with a president who has been on the job less than a year and an interim AD who has two years left.
This all really comes down to Texas and OU....not KU. KU will be in a reactionary position because they nowhere else to go and still bound by the GOR. I have no idea that Boren at OU is working behind the scenes. He's a professional politician and knows how to work deals. He just turned 75 last month and the word is he has told people on the board of regents a timeline when he might step down.
Before Boren leaves I think he will try to put his stamp on his legacy and position OU in the best way he can. He's an ego guy. Guys like that think how they can leave looking good on the way out. I still to this day haven't heard of any way out of the GOR. I think deep down Boren would love to leave Texas in the dust. If OU could find a way to the Big 10 or SEC that would put Texas in a tough position.
32 JK, 37 minutes ago
KU's problem is right now they aren't wanted by any conference.
No conference is saying "we have to go to out and land KU"
Now....if conference realignment got fired back up and then the Pac 12, Big 10, SEC started to gobble up teams I think KU would have to be considered among the top group they coveted. Texas and OU are at the top of that pecking order. Then it comes down to whether Oklahoma State and Texas Tech have go as partners of Texas and OU.
If it did fire back up I think the Big 10 would have to take a hard look at KU and OU. The two states would make it congruent with Nebraska.
The SEC would be an awful conference for KU. You think the round robin in football is a dogfight in the Big 12 just think about playing in the SEC.
I don't like what I read about the Pac 12 and their declining situation. When the original deal was going down KU was on the outside looking in with the Pac 12. Larry Scott was flying to KC to meet with KU in case someone backed out KU was going to be a back up plan. Before Scott's plane got off the ground he was informed by the Texas schools they were keeping the Big 12 together.
I talked to someone connected with Texas this week. I suggested Texas moving away from the Longhorn Network and doing something to help form a Big 12 Network and this person laughed at me. He said Texas has something like 25 years left on the contract and would never give up that cash. The money Texas gets along with the Big 12 money puts them right at or above what the Big 10 and SEC schools currently get. It was a $300 million deal.
This person also said Texas is in a bit of a holding pattern with a president who has been on the job less than a year and an interim AD who has two years left.
This all really comes down to Texas and OU....not KU. KU will be in a reactionary position because they nowhere else to go and still bound by the GOR. I have no idea that Boren at OU is working behind the scenes. He's a professional politician and knows how to work deals. He just turned 75 last month and the word is he has told people on the board of regents a timeline when he might step down.
Before Boren leaves I think he will try to put his stamp on his legacy and position OU in the best way he can. He's an ego guy. Guys like that think how they can leave looking good on the way out. I still to this day haven't heard of any way out of the GOR. I think deep down Boren would love to leave Texas in the dust. If OU could find a way to the Big 10 or SEC that would put Texas in a tough position.
32 JK, 37 minutes ago
