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  1. Charley Horse

    Thank you, UConn Fans.

    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...
  2. Charley Horse

    ISU AD goes on a rant

    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...
  3. Charley Horse

    Here's what's really happening

    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...
  4. Charley Horse

    Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

    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.
  5. Charley Horse

    Here's what's really happening

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

    Here's what's really happening

    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...
  7. Charley Horse

    Non-Key Tweets

    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...
  8. Charley Horse

    Non-Key Tweets

    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...
  9. Charley Horse

    Interesting article, Deseret News 9/19/16

    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.
  10. Charley Horse

    Sources Say BYU/UConn will join Big 12 for FB only

    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...
  11. Charley Horse

    Reports: UConn Presentation to Big12 in Dallas on 9/8

    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.
  12. Charley Horse

    Reports: UConn Presentation to Big12 in Dallas on 9/8

    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...
  13. Charley Horse

    Non-Key Tweets

    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...
  14. Charley Horse

    My analysis of the "List"

    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...
  15. Charley Horse

    Non-Key Tweets

    I like this one:
  16. Charley Horse

    Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

    OR... 1) Texas 886-353-33 .710 2) Texas A&M 717-466-44 .602 3) Texas Tech 556-429-32 .560 4) Houston 437-352-15 .541 5) TCU 627-531-57 .540 6) Texas State 505-431-57 .539 7) Baylor 581-551-44 .513 8) North Texas 493-489-33 .502 9) SMU 477-527-54 .476 10) UTSA 26-32 .448 11) Rice 466-586-32 .445...
  17. Charley Horse

    Non-Key Tweets

    Maybe. Or maybe not. The Sources aren't named, sometimes they even contradict each other and I've even seen these "journalists" quote each other. But I won't say no more about it lest somebody think I'm adding to your frustration by defending the Big 12. I can feel your pain. I'm frustrated...
  18. Charley Horse

    Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

    I thought "The Life of Pi" explained religion best: "which story do you prefer?"
  19. Charley Horse

    Non-Key Tweets

    You know, it occurs to me that Big 12 Expansion only seems like a clown show because of all of the tweeters and mediots. Basically the Big 12 said July that they'd explore expansion and then in August that they'd consider about 20 schools and now they're down to 12 or so. In a vacuum that...
  20. Charley Horse

    Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

    Admittedly, their vociferous twitter spokesman, Tiger Mike, lacks any semblance of tact, eloquence and charm... But as a group, BYU fans have struck me as the most arrogant. They honestly seem to believe that they are absolutely perfect and that anybody who disagrees is an unamerican religious...
  21. Charley Horse

    Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

    Dog and pony show? So UConn and SMU are in?
  22. Charley Horse

    Non-Key Tweets

    Resisting the temptation to critique Flug's narrative too much... let me just ask all of you: what do you suppose he means with "Iowa State's President is Big 12's Gandhi"? I doubt he means Iowa State will go independent as India did from Britain. Does he mean Leath is negotiating peace? Or...
  23. Charley Horse

    Commentary Thread for Premium Top-Shelf Tweets

    That is very true. But if Texas imagines for one instant that somebody like Iowa State or Oklahoma State is trying to tell them what to do, then UH could very well become the bloody battlefield expansion dies on.
  24. Charley Horse

    Commentary Thread for Premium Top-Shelf Tweets

    A month ago the UH to the Big 12 in exchange for UH's dropped opposition to Texas' Houston expansion seemed like an amicable quid-pro-quo deal. Today, not so much. It looks like Texas will have opposition to that campus from Houston-based state legislators no matter what. I'm thinking now it...
  25. Charley Horse

    Commentary Thread for Premium Top-Shelf Tweets

    I'm not sure support of Houston is tied to killing expansion. A month ago I was afraid it might be, but today I'm not so sure. The buzz today is that it's mostly lip service and the appearance of due diligence. But never underestimate Texas hubris.
  26. Charley Horse

    Commentary Thread for Premium Top-Shelf Tweets

    From my vantage point, I'm hearing that Texas will: not sign a GOR will half-assedly push for UofH and will kill expansion if annoyed Just reporting. Not defending. Thought you might want to know.
  27. Charley Horse

    Non-Key Tweets

    I always thought it was cool their teams were named after a glass of beer with a shot of whisky in it.
  28. Charley Horse

    Non-Key Tweets

    Months ago when I decided to root for UConn as my personal favorite choice for Big 12 expansion part of it was for logical reasons like reputation, academics and market. But deep in my heart I knew even then that there were some other tangibles that would clearly mean less to others: Like the...
  29. Charley Horse

    Non-Key Tweets

    Cause evrrrrybody loves the pink and the stink.
  30. Charley Horse

    Commentary Thread for Premium Top-Shelf Tweets

    Tramel may be a OU homer but even as a Texas fan I have always appreciated his journalistic integrity. Unlike some of his peers in other cities, he doesn't court the easy adulation of neaderthals in his local team's fan base by constantly bashing or blaming their rival. Instead his...
  31. Charley Horse

    What's your prediction for the Big 12 expansion announcement?

    Three weeks later, I'm still convinced the Big 12 will expand by only two. I'm still convinced BYU is out and Cincy is in. And I'm still convinced the 12th spot comes down to UofH or UConn, but I'm beginning to doubt that Texas' support of UofH's is geninely heartfelt. My thought now is...
  32. Charley Horse

    Non-Key Tweets

    I could be wrong and I'm loth to peruse the last 40 or so pages of this thread to see but I'm thinking he may be the guy with the theory that the Big 12 will announce the addition of Cincy and BYU in the next couple of months and then the addition of UConn and UofH at the end of the season...
  33. Charley Horse

    Non-Key Tweets

    I can't believe Greg Flugaur even dignified Orangebloods by reacting to them. I realize Flugaur is somewhat suspect himself, but at least he's not as notoriously reviled as stupid like Geoff Ketchum the guy who started this at Orangebloods. To give you an idea of the credibility Orangebloods...
  34. Charley Horse

    Non-Key Tweets

    Orangebloods has one good thing going for it, a writer named Alex Dunlap who Charlie Strong likes and grants access. Otherwise, they're meh. Like most University of Texas insider info for $9.95/month their actual information has all but stopped since the loquacious Powell, Dodds and Brown were...
  35. Charley Horse

    Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

    But don't forget that even before the Big 12 decided to explore expansion, they decided to bring back their CCG. I suppose they could have five team divisions or simply send the two schools at the top of the standings after round-robin play for a rematch but an expansion and divisions is really...
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