(05-09-2017 12:48 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(05-09-2017 12:32 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(05-09-2017 12:29 PM)Hokie4Skins Wrote:  http://newsok.com/berry-tramel-would-the...um=twitter

"OU in the Big Ten doesn't sound right.

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan. Those are schools that have little in common with the Sooners. Culturally. Geographically. Historically. Frankly, outside Nebraska (an epic rivalry) and Iowa (Bob Stoops), there's little linking OU to the Big Ten.

But as I wrote the other day, if the Sooners ever leave the Big 12, the Big Ten would be the destination of choice."

If you have to sell it then it's not a natural fit.

I think it's overstating it. Oklahoma is arguably a more natural fit in the Big Ten than Rutgers was to the B1G a few years ago or Missouri was to the SEC or pretty much every realignment move over the past several years with the exception of maybe Texas A&M to the SEC (which made perfect sense). Even within Tramel's piece, he's conflating "fit" with "history". Those are two different things. Oklahoma has little history with many Big Ten schools, but it's wrong to say that they don't fit (as a large public flagship school with a huge football and athletics program).

That's an apt distinction. If OU wants to move to the Big 10 then selling it is the wrong approach. When the time comes the administration simply needs to hold alumni and donor meetings and listen first to their people, ascertain what the sentiments of the majority may be, and then play the hand that will explain what the administration wants to do and why they need to do it.