{"id":400,"date":"2011-09-14T00:10:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T05:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2011-09-14T00:10:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T05:10:06","slug":"austin-writer-puts-himself-in-my-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/austin-writer-puts-himself-in-my-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin writer puts himself in my shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Imagine for a moment being an Iowa State fan,&#8221; the American-Statesman article starts out. Then it goes into the obvious: Currently 2-0, two stadium sellouts, and &#8220;viewed simply as one of the weak links of the Big 12.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/collegefootball\/big-12-iowa-state-on-uptick-but-still-1856455.html\">Read the whole thing<\/a>; it sums up the situation pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoman reports, well, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/texas-a-ou-texas-officials-meet\/article\/3603502?custom_click=lead_story_title\">not much of anything<\/a> from the Texas-Oklahoma meeting Sunday, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/longhorns\/sources-texas-has-three-viable-realignment-options-1851020.html\">American-Statesman says<\/a> that Oklahoma was already intent on heading for the Pac-Number TBA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cyclonefanatic.com\/football\/sports-business-experts-chime-in-on-iowa-states-future\">Cyclone Fanatic interviewed<\/a> Kristi Dosh of BusinessofCollegeSports.com about the situation. The short version: TV money means everything, and TV markets mean everything. Big money big money no whammies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you parse the SEC&#8217;s statement Monday, there was nothing in there that  didn&#8217;t say &#8220;&#8230;but we will be more than willing to look at Missouri if  and when the Big 12 collapses.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Imagine for a moment being an Iowa State fan,&#8221; the American-Statesman article starts out. Then it goes into the obvious: Currently 2-0, two stadium sellouts, and &#8220;viewed simply as one of the weak links of the Big 12.&#8221; Read the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/austin-writer-puts-himself-in-my-shoes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}