Recent content by Charley Horse

Forgive me for starting a new thread but I could not find an appropriate place to say this, and I suspect other non-UConn fans may wish to say something along these lines as well. Thank you for graciously allowing me spend time with you and share thoughts with you over the last several months...

Iowa State is a weird duck. With Nebraska and Missouri gone, they're not even contiguous with Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. And just about everybody else in the Big 12 (other than WVU) can be paired up with at least one other similar in-state school. They're as much of an outlier as WVU is...

Good question. Here's the oft-stated answer to that frequently posed question: things have changed. More money is at stake on success, and P5 conferences are more competitive than the Big 8 and SWC were. It's a boardroom perspective. Fans, coaches, players and ADs may not care. School...

If there are enough incentives to do so and too few viable options not to do so, everybody falls in line. Look at Nebraska and Texas A&M. In the Big 12, they were anti-conference network and anti-equal revenue sharing.

Or... to divert attention away from the unending ugly sandal in Waco.

I can see ESPN attempting to orchestrate such a thing. And I can see Texas and Oklahoma weighing their options. What I can't see is either Texas or Oklahoma actually joining any other conference unless they can stay together and take a few of their weaker sisters with them to maintain...

Having said all that about Flug and Tramel, I think I need to add something else. I don't think either one actually knows what's going to happen and if I had to bet, I'd say they're both wrong. I'm no insider and I have no desire to deceive anybody with lies. But I have reason to believe...

There have been broad similarities. Like Flug, Tramel once believed expansion was likely and he once identified BYU, Cincy and UConn as excellent additions. Unlike Flug, however, I don't believe Tramel ever included Houston in any scenario. And like Tramel, Flug has cooled his heels on the...

The most interesting thing about the article, IMO, was the line about how Boren had "long been considered a huge backer of BYU" because to me it's just more conjecture that seems to run somewhat contrary to other conjecture we've heard before.

Oddly enough, I'm familiar with okie lite too. I never really agreed with any of his absurd opinions but I believed he had a right to them and tried my best to defend him from the ostracizing hoard of xenophobe posters on the college football news big 12 forum. [I, of course, use the word...

Conversely, Austin is home to Whole Foods Markets: No Whole Foods Markets in Provo None in Fort Collins None in Colorado Springs 1 in Orlando 1 in Cincinnati 2 in Tampa 9 in the Houston metro and 9 in Connecticut Thus, I believe we have identified schools 11 and 12.

Yet another kindred connection I see between UConn and the University of Texas. They both conjure fun but inaccurate larger than life mental images. UConn - mushing huskies pulling a sleigh across the frozen tundra in a howling blizzard, and yet you're actually an academia with the basketball...

TCU was one of the strangest picks ever. To their credit, they have been quite competitive and have represented the conference well. But even up until a week or so before they were announced, influential Big 12 characters like T Boone Pickens and DeLoss Dodds were saying they added absolutely...

I think the inclusion of Rice and Tulane bodes well for UConn. It signals an affinity for academics (or at least a wink at academics). But we all know, Rice and Tulane (along with others) are not viable choices. Of those candidates who are widely believed to be the best candidates (Cincy...

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