NCAA 2009

[sbr]

They should put Boise St. in the Pac-10 so Oregon has to play them every year. 

That was uncalled for. 

[Valmy]

The real issue is that the Big 10 and the SEC threw down the gauntlet with their recent TV contracts and people are wondering if the Big 12 will be able to pick up said guantlet or fall way behind.  Missouri, for one, is desperate to leave and if that happens...well what would the Big 12 have to offer?  The lucrative Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska TV markets?

[grumbler]

I gotta say that, except for distances, Texas is a perfect fir for the Big Ten.

If taking A&M is a requirement for Texas to join the B10, I would be glad to see the B10 throw out MSU or Illinois to accomodate the Aggies.  With the loss of MSU, the B10 would lose a basketball program worth keeping, but MSU (or Illinois, though much less so) don't fit the B10's academic profile any better than Texas A&M anyway, and Texas's women's programs would be a shot in the arm worth tossing MSU's basketball to get.

[MadImmortalMan]

Mizzou's colors are just like Iowa's and the Cyclones are just like the Gophers. So I veto those. The last thing we need is another red and white school, so OU and Nebraska are out. It has to be Texas. 

[MadBurgerMaker]

You need to be looking at the division they play every team every year in, not the two games per year in the B12 North.  How big of a difference is it going to Minneapolis vs Waco?  Madison vs. Stillwater?  Yeah, that's a big difference.

Well obviously there is no comparison with the instate schools.

Stillwater isn't in Texas.   

There's no comparison with any of the schools that Texas plays every year, which is what you have to look at.  Farthest away in the division is...what...Tech?  You can't just say "Well...they go to Iowa State, so it's okay," when they don't go there every year, while they would be going to play the Hawkeyes, or Badgers, or Gophers, or some other team way the hell up there every single year.

It's not even close.

[grumbler]

Mizzou's colors are just like Iowa's and the Cyclones are just like the Gophers. So I veto those. The last thing we need is another red and white school, so OU and Nebraska are out. It has to be Texas. 

Here is a clear-thinking man.  I call upon the NCAA to put him in charge of the Div-1A playoffs!  :hatoff:

[PDH]

I volunteer Wyoming to be the new doormat team in a AQ conference.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I volunteer Wyoming to be the new doormat team in a AQ conference.

This would work.  Send Mizzou to the Big 10, bring Wyoming to the Big 12 North. 

Wait.  Wyoming is better than Mizzou and would probably be competing with Nebraska inside of a year.  No deal.     Trying to sneak in acting like you'll be another Baylor or something.  Ff.

Really, this would be cool though.  Colorado State ( ) would work too from the MWC, I guess.

[dps]

Think USF, Hawaii, and...thats about it, I think, for similar situations.   Edit:  Louisiana Tech is in BFE relative to the other WAC schools too.  Left over from when there were closer teams.

USF being geographically out of place with regards to the rest of its conference is also a "leftover" situation--they weren't nearly so islolated when VT and especially Miami were in the Big East.  Geographically it would have been much tidier if USF had gone to the ACC and BC had stayed in the Big East.

[jimmy olsen]

but is completely against everything that college sports is supposed to be about.

Academics?   That is the main reason to make the move.

And do you think Lincoln Nebraska or Columbia Missouri is really that much closer than the Big 10 schools?

And don't worry it will probably not happen, Texas state politics insures Texas remains wedded to Tech and A&M.

How does the move make sense academically? How will it have an impact at all on that, either positive or negative?

[MadBurgerMaker]

USF being geographically out of place with regards to the rest of its conference is also a "leftover" situation--they weren't nearly so islolated when VT and especially Miami were in the Big East.  Geographically it would have been much tidier if USF had gone to the ACC and BC had stayed in the Big East.

USF wasn't in the Big East when Miami, BC, and VaTech were, IIRC.  That was why they got pulled up from C-USA with...uh...Louisville, Cincy, and......two basketball schools...I can't think of who's in Big East basketball right now.  Marquette?  Whatever who cares.

But yeah, that would have matched up nicely.

How does the move make sense academically? How will it have an impact at all on that, either positive or negative?

Texas has Big 10 level academics.

[katmai]

Didn't realize the Big-10 had such shitty credentials when it comes to academics.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Didn't realize the Big-10 had such shitty credentials when it comes to academics.

They can't all be like Alaska - Anchorage or Texas Tech.

[katmai]

Didn't realize the Big-10 had such shitty credentials when it comes to academics.

They can't all be like Alaska - Anchorage or Texas Tech.

Two schools i never went to

[MadBurgerMaker]

Two schools i never went to

That's obvious.  You can read.  You have some sort of relatives or something at Tech though.  I know these things.







(I know nothing about Alaska - Anchorage    Tech is on my shitlist forever for the Leach thing)