{"id":309,"date":"2011-09-04T01:54:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T06:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2011-09-04T01:54:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T06:54:54","slug":"conferencepocalypse-ii-pac-16-and-start-the-obits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/conferencepocalypse-ii-pac-16-and-start-the-obits\/","title":{"rendered":"Conferencepocalypse II: Pac-16 and start the obits"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, from the Oklahoman<\/a>, it’s oh [double expletive deleted]:<\/p>\n

OU’s sole focus now on joining Pac-12<\/strong> (well, that headline just exudes optimism)<\/p>\n

The Pac-12 preference is to add four schools \u2013 OU, Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

But it’s Bryan Burell of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/a> who’s gone ahead to “Bring out your dead”:<\/p>\n

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. …<\/em><\/p>\n

Beyond all the very relevant academic credentials that [Missouri] can showcase, among the stragglers left behind \u2014 Kansas, Kansas State, Baylor and Iowa State \u2014 the Tigers have the most to offer any conference shopping for new members.<\/em><\/p>\n

And I heard a Fox Sports radio guy slip and say “Pac-16” when talking about Saturday’s games.<\/p>\n

The thunderclouds of doom that interrupted the Iowa game today (and Notre Dame, and Michigan) would have been more appropriate hanging over Ames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u2013 OU, Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech. OU president … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}