{"id":475,"date":"2011-09-19T14:03:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2011-09-28T22:19:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T03:19:37","slug":"conferencepocalypse-afternoon-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/conferencepocalypse-afternoon-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Conferencepocalypse: Afternoon links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seen and unseen, the great and unknown tumbled together in a writhing heap as the bow plunged deeper and the stern rose higher\u2026 . The muffled thuds and tinkle of breaking glass grew louder. A steady roar thundered across the water as everything movable broke loose.<\/em>
\n\u2014 Walter Lord, A Night to Remember<\/em><\/p>\n

The Oklahoma State University Board of Regents is meeting Wednesday<\/a>. Can’t be good. (I was mistaken in thinking that OU and OSU had the same board.)<\/p>\n

Here’s a reminder that the NCAA has no control<\/a> over any of this. There is no commissioner of college football.<\/p>\n

Post-Dispatch:<\/a> Is Missouri-Oklahoma the beginning of the end? Missouri coach Gary Pinkel says it’s “naive”<\/a> to think about saving the Big 12.<\/p>\n

A Lawrence Journal-World sports reporter spells out doom:<\/a><\/p>\n

The truth is, Kansas University is on the brink of ranking as one of the biggest losers in the conference realignment musical-chairs game it had nothing to do with setting in motion.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dallas Morning News (via S.F. Chronicle): The Pac-16 will happen. Or it won’t.<\/a><\/p>\n

Jennifer Floyd Engel uses, um, colorful language<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Give the ACC credit for winning the inevitable-since-realignment-began showdown with the Big East. This leaves the Big 12 losers to join with the Big East left-behinds to form the Big Ten-uous Conference, with Desperate and Scared to Death divisions. … All the Baylor lawyers in existence cannot stop this snowball rolling straight toward hell; an atrociously ill-conceived and not-properly-vetted blueprint for expansion started to become reality with Pitt and Syracuse and will not stop until every inch has been affected.<\/em><\/p>\n

A basketball perspective<\/a> gives ISU a couple of scraps:<\/p>\n

Lest we forget, the Big East as it currently is (minus Syracuse and Pittsburgh, and let’s throw in UConn and Rutgers, too) is not a bad basketball league. It’s still pretty good, actually. Now throw in Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Baylor and Iowa State. That’s a viable hoops conference, kids. <\/em><\/p>\n

But when it comes to the Big East, look at this from last year<\/a>, where a poll discussed at the New Republic of all places points out how little the Northeast cares about college football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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