![\"Big12Handcuffed-1\"](\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Big12Handcuffed-hires.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Another blow to the University of Oklahoma as they continue to play the second fiddle to the University of Texas in the Big Twelve Conference.\u00a0 Baker Mayfield was denied another year of eligibility to play for the Sooners as a coalition of the Texas Longhorns and four other Big Twelve schools voted against the extra year.\u00a0 A five to five vote sends Baker Mayfield to another non-conference school in 2017 or to professional football, either the NFL or the CFL.\u00a0 The walk-on change didn\u2019t happen as he has only one year to play in the Big Twelve as of conference rules.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
This vote today was just as much a vote against the Sooners and the four other schools that voted with OU than the player himself.\u00a0 This was\u00a0a vote against the long term health of the conference.\u00a0 If Bob Bowlsy, commissioner of the league could draw up a better\u00a0plan during the conference meetings this week to sink the league, he could not have done a better job.\u00a0 A lack of leadership by this man\u00a0in adding teams to the inferior Power Five league, and a lack of getting the league to play a football championship with a true twelve team league will be the ruination of this group of ten schools.<\/p>\n
The question of how long will OU President David Boren continue to eat Longhorn crow. Boren, the most powerful man on the\u00a0Oklahoma University campus, will do one of two things in the coming months.\u00a0 Either he sells the Board of Regents of the\u00a0University that the Sooners must move out of the Big Twelve to another conference (and they are wanted by\u00a0three Power Fives currently without reservations-SEC, PAC, B10); or he resigns his position.\u00a0 Boren, more than any man alive, knows what is best for the University, and if he thinks his recommendations \u00a0are not going to be acted on, he will quit.\u00a0 David Boren is one proud Sooner and a man that has to be trusted.\u00a0 The Board of Regents oversee the University, the President runs it and makes the moves needed for it\u2019s viability.<\/p>\n
On another note, in the five to five vote that\u00a0denied Mayfield another Big Twelve year, if Oklahoma State voted with Texas, look for payback from Boren and the Sooners if they make the move out.\u00a0 They will not stop OSU from going with them to another conference, but don\u2019t look for any favors or positive actions in bring the Cowboys with them.\u00a0 This deal today with Mayfield has repercussions and don\u2019t think what happen doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 The Big Twelve is making decisions that border on a complete disassociation between Oklahoma and Texas and Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.\u00a0 How OSU voted today probably will not be put out to the press, but the men in the room know who voted for and against.\u00a0 OSU Nation, be worried that your school voted with OU and not Texas.\u00a0 The lifeline is at stake for the\u00a0 Pokes and Sooners.\u00a0 Bad blood can happen with one transfusion.<\/p>\n