[Husker] Hes' At It Again

[Mike Jaixen]

I think the point coming from Austin is that if Nebraska doesn't fully commit to the Big XII (whatever that means) by Friday, Texas plans to walk to the Pac-10 and apparently take the rest of the Big XII South with them.  (Latest story is that the Pac-10 might take Baylor instead of Colorado...)

So while Nebraska can't be expelled from the Big XII, we might find ourselves in a six team league.

 Mike Jaixen
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From: Scott Stewart <fourtwophd at gmail.com>
To: Tony lambert <slimmer37 at hamilton.net>
Cc: Husker List <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Sun, June 6, 2010 6:27:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Hes' At It Again

I read his story and he seems to twist several things. The articles that I
have read said the Commissioner sought approval to explore expansion and
make offers without having to return for another vote. He did not discuss
the BIg South rumor, and said the result of their exploration would be to
invite up to six, two, or none depending on how it looked for the league.

This smacks of Tejas trying to stir things up.

Here are my questions, if there is a deadline why is everyone looking at NU.
According to Chip Brown the only folks with an offer on the table is the Big
12 South.

My second question is about this ultimatum. If NU doesn't commit by Friday,
what happens.

I am not a lawyer, but I don't think they can change the buy out clauses
with out NU agreeing to them. The originals would remain in place until both
parties agreed to them.

They could expel NU from the Big 12. However, by them expelling NU I think
it they would be violating the standing contract with whatever problems that
could entail. If expelled, wouldn't NU get the revenue from television games
played at NU. They would likely have to negotiate a price with the tv
stations, but the Big Games this year (Tejas, CU) are at Nebraska. The other
televised game is non-conference and away.

I just don't think the conference has a lot of cards in this game, and by
the comments out of Texas they are concerned. I don't know that leaving the
Big 12 is the only/best scenario, but I don't know when NU has had this much
power recently in conference matters. Maybe it is a benefit of have an
ex-congressman as an AD. He certainly is playing politics with the big boys
down south.

Scott

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Tony lambert <slimmer37 at hamilton.net> wrote:

> So Texas and the rest of the schools in the big 12 are playing Nebraska as
> the villain ?
>
> Tony Lambert
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>  Chip Brown reports that Pac 10 Commissioner Larry Scott has proposed to
>> the conference presidents that they offer membership to the six Big 12
>> members he previously identified. He further reports that nine Big 12
>> schools were willing to commit to the conference at last week's meeting; the
>> holdouts were NU, CU and Missouri. He further believes (as others have
>> speculated) that Nebraska holds the key to the whole situation. Problem is,
>> no one knows if the Big 10 is interested enough to make a firm offer.
>> http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1091537
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