Also, keep in mind these are the odds of a beat reporter from the Statesman. Not like Vegas weighing in here, guys.
Odds for the six schools that they have evaluated so far:
Boise St 20-1
Colorado St 20-1
Central Florida 12-1
UConn 10-1
Cincinnati 5-1
BYU 3-1
They plan on looking at 4 more schools over the next couple of days.
LOL - "Without expansion, the league has teams in four of the top 100 markets — Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Des Moines-Ames, and Waco — in the United States. "
LOL - "Without expansion, the league has teams in four of the top 100 markets — Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Des Moines-Ames, and Waco — in the United States. "
Four of the top 100!
LOL - "Without expansion, the league has teams in four of the top 100 markets — Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Des Moines-Ames, and Waco — in the United States. "
Four of the top 100!
Odds for the six schools that they have evaluated so far:
Boise St 20-1
Colorado St 20-1
Central Florida 12-1
UConn 10-1
Cincinnati 5-1
BYU 3-1
They plan on looking at 4 more schools over the next couple of days.
LOL - "Without expansion, the league has teams in four of the top 100 markets — Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Des Moines-Ames, and Waco — in the United States. "
Four of the top 100!
By the way, different writers are doing each school, and their approaches have been different.
They've all been essentially the same format - no?
Some analysts consider BYU and UConn locks as potential expansion targets, but the league would likely only take one of the universities.
Just take both and be done with it.
Couldn't resist a little tweak at this guy... Memphis fans are a special breed.Academic ranking: Memphis isn’t ranked by the U.S. News and World Report. It’s considered a Tier 2 school.
Current Learfield Cup ranking: No. 215, through the winter sports (164th in 2014-15). How that ranking places Memphis among Big 12 schools:
This Twitter loud mouth has been non-existent today:
TigerBronco @jay_256 May 24
TigerBronco Memphis just had over 260 student athletes to have a 3.0 GPA or better. Not too shabby for a "poor academic school".
Sure hope he's seen the write-up.
Agreed. I expect they will evaluate South Florida, Memphis and Houston (not sure about 4th team - SMU or ECU ?). It will be interesting to see the odds on Houston, may tell us a lot about the oddsmaker.
I would go 4. UConn / Cincy in the East and BYU / Colorado State in the West. Maybe have BYU / CSU for football only.I like our chances. If they don't want to add both UConn and BYU because it stretches the conference out too much I think they will add UConn and Cincinnati.
The Big 12 can have BYU on an island, and WVU and Cincy on another island
or
The Big 12 can have UConn, WVU and Cincy on the same island.
I'm thinking the conference would prefer fewer islands. Besides, BYU would have to resolve the no-play on Sunday issue and demonstrate the potential to bring in more money than UConn.
KU is in the KC market, so this is just wrong. OKC is also certainly a top 100 market (#43). Not sure where they got these "facts". Hell, even Tulsa is #60.
By the way, DFW beats Houston. For all the talk of Houston as the 3rd largest city, the DMA ranks 10th. Below even Boston. Once you leave the city limits, it's the boonies.
Academic ranking: Memphis isn’t ranked by the U.S. News and World Report. It’s considered a Tier 2 school.
Current Learfield Cup ranking: No. 215, through the winter sports (164th in 2014-15). How that ranking places Memphis among Big 12 schools:
This Twitter loud mouth has been non-existent today:
TigerBronco @jay_256 May 24
TigerBronco Memphis just had over 260 student athletes to have a 3.0 GPA or better. Not too shabby for a "poor academic school".
Sure hope he's seen the write-up.
Odds for the six schools that they have evaluated so far:
Boise St 20-1
Colorado St 20-1
Central Florida 12-1
UConn 10-1
Cincinnati 5-1
BYU 3-1
They plan on looking at 4 more schools over the next couple of days.
Slot in Houston @ 14:1 -- The Big 12 Expansion Tour: Houston | Hookem.com
You've obviously never been to Houston. The suburbs in Houston's SMSA have far more population than the city itself, and Galveston is also part of the metro Houston market. It's one continuous city N-S from Conroe to Galveston along I-45 (close to 100 miles) and from E-W from Baytown to Katy along I-10 (about 50 miles).
It doesn't matter anyway regarding the B12 because they already have a huge presence in the metro Houston market, considering there are tons of UT, Baylor, TCU and TX Tech alums and fans living there.