First, from the Oklahoman, it’s oh [double expletive deleted]:
OU’s sole focus now on joining Pac-12 (well, that headline just exudes optimism)
The Pac-12 preference is to add four schools – OU, Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech.
OU president David Boren stepped out of a cloak of secrecy Friday and said the Sooners were being proactive in deciding their conference future, had interest from multiple conferences and expected to make a decision soon, from 72 hours to two weeks.
But it’s Bryan Burell of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who’s gone ahead to “Bring out your dead”:
Tick, tick, tick. Two weeks to get your stuff together; two weeks to find three new conference members with some true gravitas who aren’t afraid to walk into a mine field; two weeks to solve the troubling fiscal imbalance that has already caused Nebraska, Colorado and Texas A&M to bolt over the past 15 months. Two weeks to do what Beebe has consistently been unable to do since this whole thing began unraveling like a cheap suit. Two weeks to live or die. My money is on death, quick, embarrassing and forever. …
Beyond all the very relevant academic credentials that [Missouri] can showcase, among the stragglers left behind — Kansas, Kansas State, Baylor and Iowa State — the Tigers have the most to offer any conference shopping for new members.
And I heard a Fox Sports radio guy slip and say “Pac-16” when talking about Saturday’s games.
The thunderclouds of doom that interrupted the Iowa game today (and Notre Dame, and Michigan) would have been more appropriate hanging over Ames.