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Aren't OU and OSU basically considered a package deal at this point? I don't necessarily mean with the schools themselves so much as with certain political elements within the state of Oklahoma.
Some expansion history might be in order here to explain this. When the ACC expanded in 2004, their original intention was to take Miami, Syracuse, and Boston College (only God knows why). The ACC at the time had 9 schools and 7 had to agree for expansion to happen. UNC and Duke were already hard NOs because they thought it would upset their BB apple cart. However, elements in the Virginia legislature friendly to VaTech started threatening to cut UVA's general funding if they agreed to any plan that left VaTech out in the cold. Since that made UVA a NO, the whole expansion plan had to be rethought. As you can guess, the new plan included inviting VaTech.
The point of all this is: Could OSU-friendly elements in OK's govt start making threats like this against OU if they do anything to screw over OSU in this? When legislators start threatening a state school's funding for any reason, that school's administrators definitely start paying attention! But would it have any effect?
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