That is all.

More on this later. Feel free to post your thoughts on the Big 12 leadership here.

Ok, now is “later”. Let’s have some fun with this, shall we Big 12 fans? Time to play a little fill-in-the-blank.

The Big 12 Conference and Commissioner Dan Beebe have less credibility than___________________.

To the winner will go a Texas Tech cap plus two pair of tickets to Tech’s season opener against SMU.

Get your answers in by Monday at noon and will announce the winner on Tuesday’s Williams and Hyatt Show live from Rudy’s Country Store and BBQ.

(keep it clean kids, I’ll not approve anything I couldn’t say to my momma)

Hyatt

Find out what Tech folks are saying and what West Texans are thinking. There won’t be a boring day this summer, so take advantage right now of 16-years of sports radio experience with Don and Ryan!

1.  Arkansas to the Big 12 didn’t happen yesterday, it won’t happen today and it won’t happen forever. (Ok, odd history reference over ) It makes no sense for Arkansas to leave a solid conference for one that is dying. It does make sense for Jerry Jones to try and do anything to get the Big 12 back to 12 teams and a conference championship game so he can make money on those dates reserved at Cowboys Stadium in a few years. For Hog fans Jerry is like that crazy uncle that’s lots of when he’s handing out cash but when he keeps hanging around the house you really want him to go home. Yesterday Hog fans really wanted Uncle Jerry to go home. Thanks to Dennis Smithson of Hooten‘s Arkansas Football for a great visit on The Show Thursday and some great perspective on why the Hogs aren’t ever leaving the SEC. Why should they? A&M will be there soon enough to provide a natural rival. . .

2.  Houston has about as much chance of getting Texas Lawmakers to push their way into the Big 12 as Baylor did of getting into the Pac 10 with the help of the politicos. That’d be none. Taking a Houston program that barely registers in their home city would be disaster for the Big 12. None of the projected TV numbers make sense from Dan Beebe unless it is a 10-team league. Adding an extra Cougar mouth to feed without those Cougars bringing anything to the league in return makes no sense. There like the guy with no job that moves in for the summer. Not cool.

3.  This may be the one and only time when Phil Jackson has ever won anything without having the clear-cut best player in the NBA on his team. Congrats. Now go away, please.

4.  Tiger Woods for now is just one of several really good golfers out on the PGA Tour trying to grind out wins (and find a birdie or two at Pebble Beach and The U.S. Open). This week he’s just a guy hoping to make the cut. The Golf Channel’s Frank Nobilo had great thoughts on The Dan Patrick Show saying that Tiger Woods has one more great stretch of golf left in him where he’ll lap the field. The question is when it starts and how long it lasts. If you’re Woods right now I guess the best thing is that your biggest problem is your divorce from Hank Haney and your swing and not your looming divorce off the course and other swinging activities.

5.  If you want further proof that the idiots are infiltrating more and more of our public institutions, we give you Rhode Island today and the “crazy hat” school controversy. Seriously, where do these people come from and why do we let them “educate” our kids?

( Ed. Note: Y’all do know you can comment on this, right? )

Texas Tech’s President and A.D. talk about how the Pac 10 bid went away, what’s next for Tech and how all of this came about.

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I didn’t write anything about Texas Tech losing out on a chance to go to the Pac 10 and elevate the University because of the caving in by other Big 12 conference members yesterday because I was too mad. I was afraid I’d write something I’d regret. Now, I don’t care if I do. It is time for Texas Tech to take the gloves off, grow-up and get on with it.

Leave UT. Move on. You’ve been put in your place, Tech, now what are you going to do about it?

For the best writing on the subject and how Tech got sabotaged and why read ESPN.com’s Andy Katz‘s article. It becomes quite clear the how and some of the why, but it still took the complicity of other school to go along with it. National radio host Tim Brando also had great comments on how outside forces brokered this Big 12 payoff in order to keep the Pac 10 from getting to 16 teams. Go catch his interview on The Monty Show from last night to hear some stellar radio.

As for Texas Tech, make no mistake yesterday was a set-back and a bad day. How Kent Hance leads from this moment on will define his time at Tech, much more so than anything having to do with the firing of Mike Leach. That was small time stuff compared to the stakes right now.

As of now there is still a Board of Regents meeting schedule for Tech today. If there really is an offer still out there from the Pac 10, which I doubt, Tech should and I would say must take it. It is time for little brother to grow up and move out of the house that Texas built and controls.

We’ll have much more later today at three when we are live from Rudy’s Country Store and BBQ. I hope you put your thoughts about what has gone down and what Texas Tech should do now here on the site. I really want to know what you’re thinking about all of this.

Hyatt

Don’t believe the hype!

No way, no way Texas is staying in the Big 12. Many reports out there that Texas is agreeing to stay in the Big 12 (10) and make it work. Particularly if they get their own network and unequal revenue sharing. Ya, that’ll keep A&M from going to the SEC. That’ll keep OU from leaving for the Pac 10…

All Texas is doing is trying to make it look like they tried. They weren’t the bad guys. They didn’t break up the Big 12. Nebraska did. And the Aggies did. And you know you can’t trust Missouri. Smart move and it’ll play great in Austin when the Legislature plays politics with their hearings on Wednesday (24 hours after Tech and Texas accept Pac 10 invites ).

Today on the show we’ll get your thoughts on the latest rumors and find out what you think Texas Tech should do. Stay with UT and a short-term Big 12 or take the Pac 10 invite and run? Give us your thoughts here and let us know what you think is going on and what should go on!

We’ll get the latest on what’s up with Tech today from Raiderpower.com’s Managing Editor in Travis Cram. Don’t miss it.

Hyatt

Even though Ryan Hyatt should never, never be on TV, KCBD 11 came out Friday to the studios of SportsRadio 1340 The Fan to find out what you guys were thinking about conference realignment and Texas Tech heading to the Pac 10. Y’all were great, but next time they need to show Hyatt like they did Waylon Jennings on the opening of The Dukes Of Hazard. Just his hands . . . not his face on TV.

Enjoy.