I wonder why FedEx even cares about Memphis. I guess because so many of their graduates end up delivering packages?
<sarcasm> Yup. We kin excuse Kansas and Iowa and West Virginia fer fightin again state rights, but if the entire whoppin state of Connectycut hadn't jumped on the yankee bandwagen, we'd still be sippin mint julips on the porch of antebellum mansion instead of electrocutin' ourselves stealin cable for our double wide.</sarsasm>
You, sir, are a silly person.
If Memphis has such big bucks influence from FedEx why the he'll does our athletic dept dwarf theirs in size and revenue?
Given everything I have read (non-twitter) and some conversations with people that have more knowledge than me, the Dude, Flugar and most of the media, Uconn is in a fight versus BYU for #4.
Same way that Nike helped blow up Oregon into a contender...a reported $300 million in contributions reported so far by Phil Knight. Either personal money from a billionaire or a corporate contribution.
Or T Boone Pickens and his $500 million in contributions to Oklahoma State...as he famously said about his name on campus..."it'll be a hell of a long time before someone says, 'who the hell was that guy' ".
It is wrong, and it shouldn't be allowed. There should be a set discount that new members of a conference take when they join, there's no problem with that. But making it a race to the bottom is BS. Schools should be added based on what they can bring to the conference, not how cheap they are.In a way, I hate what the P5 has done. Making the difference between G5 and P5 so drastic that programs are willing to become indentured servants for years before earning full rights. That seems so wrong.
I relayed my opinion and what someone I respect as knowledgeable told me regarding Houston/Cinci/Memphis as the top 3. He has no agenda and it was backed up by a person with a Uconn agenda. I'll take those right now over most sources for the basis of my opinion.don't confuse noise as fact. Very little of what you summarized is true. If Memphis and Houston are added and UConn us not, the fate of the Big 12 will be sealed.
Thst is not reasonable. Those big bucks could be funding their AD, at P5 levels now, allowing them among other things, to keep their FB coach. WVU promised the Big 12 an airport, they're still waiting.It is not that they currently have big bucks, only the promise of future big bucks if selected to the Big 12.
I still think Temple should get more consideration. Big school, big alumni base, good basketball, acceptable Olympic sports in a major metropolitan city.And I would guess, the biggest decision the Big 12 still has to make is who is #4. If not BYU, then who?
No speculation but my preference would be UConn/Temple/Cincy/Houston
Memphis just feels so gross
Does almighty BYU even need the Big12? They are the Notre Dame of the west after all.
Another guy who needs to educate himself with the NYC DMA....Shocking article from a Temple professor.