ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Dec 8, 2014 3:04pm
If you're the Big 12, what schools do you go after to attempt to bring your conference numbers up to at least 12 members?
Baylor
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas Christian
Texas
Texas Tech
West Virginia
Who do you go after? If adding teams would get them to a championship game, and I'm A&M, I may be begging to be let back in.
Boise State? Cincinnati?
Baylor
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas Christian
Texas
Texas Tech
West Virginia
Who do you go after? If adding teams would get them to a championship game, and I'm A&M, I may be begging to be let back in.
Boise State? Cincinnati?
sleeper
Posts: 27,879
Dec 8, 2014 3:18pm
Why would Texas A&M, an easy top 10 team year in year out because SEC, go back to a conference where it never won anything and ate the scraps of Big Brother Texas? The way they have it now, they will be ranked in the top 15 every year, beat 1 team who also got an inflated ranking, and end the season 7-5 but ranked, whereas in the B12 they wouldn't start ranked, play zero teams that started ranked, and end the season 8-4 and not ranked?
Mulva
Posts: 13,650
Dec 8, 2014 3:36pm
BYU and Cinci or Houston make the most sense to me.
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Dec 8, 2014 4:08pm
Not Boise?
Automatik
Posts: 14,632
Dec 8, 2014 4:16pm
I've heard others mention poaching from the SEC. LSU was a team brought up.
Also SMU.
Also SMU.
se-alum
Posts: 13,948
Dec 8, 2014 4:18pm
Boise and Cincy. I think especially in the short term, Cincy will help their conference. They're going to be pretty good in the next few years with Kiel at the helm.
Heretic
Posts: 18,820
Dec 8, 2014 4:28pm
Cincy makes perfect sense as they got shut out in the conference expansion bonanza of recent years, are a recent BCS bowl team and a perfect natural rival for West Virginia, who is kind of out on an island with a bunch of Great Plains teams.
Both Boise and BYU would be the best picks for the other slot. Depends probably on if BYU is NotreDameStubborn about maintaining indie status on if they'd work out. Shit, grab those three and maybe Houston (does good in an under-the-radar conference) to get to 14 and stay on pace with most of the major conferences, lol.
Both Boise and BYU would be the best picks for the other slot. Depends probably on if BYU is NotreDameStubborn about maintaining indie status on if they'd work out. Shit, grab those three and maybe Houston (does good in an under-the-radar conference) to get to 14 and stay on pace with most of the major conferences, lol.
mucalum49
Posts: 1,639
Dec 8, 2014 4:36pm
UCF and Cincy. Get the B12 brand into Florida and Ohio. Adding another Texas school doesn't do anything. Although they might just be happy to be there and let Texas/Oklahoma rake them over in the conference profit sharing. So it'll most likely be Houston or SMU haha.
Mulva
Posts: 13,650
Dec 8, 2014 4:47pm
Boise has horrible academics, and pretty much no TV or recruiting value.
S
sportswizuhrd
Posts: 3,215
Dec 8, 2014 6:49pm
On Saturday there was talk of Cincinnati and Memphis.
Looks like they have met with UC.
http://www.downthedrive.com/2014/12/8/7355657/mike-decourcey-big-12-officials-meeting-cincinnati-bearcats-expansion
Looks like they have met with UC.
http://www.downthedrive.com/2014/12/8/7355657/mike-decourcey-big-12-officials-meeting-cincinnati-bearcats-expansion
ptown_trojans_1
Posts: 7,632
Dec 8, 2014 7:08pm
Colorado State.
Cincy.
Cincy.
Ironman92
Posts: 49,363
Dec 8, 2014 7:50pm
UC and BYU
R
rydawg5
Posts: 2,639
Dec 8, 2014 8:12pm
Byu won't play on Sundays and I think that is a problem with Big 12 (any sports)
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Ironman92
Posts: 49,363
Dec 8, 2014 8:14pm
Ok.....rydawg5;1684251 wrote:Byu won't play on Sundays and I think that is a problem with Big 12 (any sports)
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
UC and Boise St
Ironman92
Posts: 49,363
Dec 8, 2014 8:14pm
Rice?
R
rydawg5
Posts: 2,639
Dec 8, 2014 8:59pm
Nebraska should go back thru will always seem like a big 12 team to me
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
gerb131
Posts: 9,932
Dec 8, 2014 9:21pm
WVU needs someone so Cincinnati is obvious choice then who knows. Pluck someone from mountain
S
sportswizuhrd
Posts: 3,215
Dec 8, 2014 9:48pm
Iowa and Nebraska?
ts1227
Posts: 12,319
Dec 8, 2014 10:28pm
Nebraska/Osborne hated the Big 12 from day 1 when it became "whatever Texas wants"rydawg5;1684274 wrote:Nebraska should go back thru will always seem like a big 12 team to me
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Since they left, that's only become worse, as all of the other Big 12 North schools literally handed Texas the keys to keep a conference together after Nebraska and Mizzou left in order to avoid it collapsing and then all being forced into like CUSA
They aren't going back any time soon
FatHobbit
Posts: 8,651
Dec 8, 2014 10:45pm
I don't think they would give up b1g money to be Texas' bitchsportswizuhrd;1684305 wrote:Iowa and Nebraska?
SportsAndLady
Posts: 35,632
Dec 8, 2014 11:11pm
Why would a B1G school move to the big 12?
R
rydawg5
Posts: 2,639
Dec 8, 2014 11:24pm
Not saying they will just saying Nebraska is a better fit in big 12
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
ts1227
Posts: 12,319
Dec 8, 2014 11:31pm
The only way it would ever happen would be if they completely overhauled their bylaws, formed a network, etc. and even then they'd never get B1G Network moneySportsAndLady;1684354 wrote:Why would a B1G school move to the big 12?
But it'll never happen in a million years. To overhaul the bylaws and get a network they'd have to run off Texas. To get any decent money for a network they need Texas.
believer
Posts: 8,153
Dec 9, 2014 5:58am
Listening to ESPN Nashville on the way home from work last night, these were the two teams being discussed. They had just finished interviewing the Big 12 commish too sooooooo.........sportswizuhrd;1684228 wrote:On Saturday there was talk of Cincinnati and Memphis.
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Dec 9, 2014 6:25am
Does Memphis have football?