Boren says Big 12 expansion decision should come this summer

[billybud]

You could have just edited the post, instead of creating a new one.

I could not find the edit button, usually it is at the bottom of the post

 

[Samoo]

Genesis 13:6

Ball don't lie.

That's a low scoring game; and who lost?

 

[FDNY99]

Like everyone else, BYU won't know until they are invited. If you're Bronco, and UVA offered big life changing money I believe, do you pass that up "just in case BYU gets invited" to the Big 12. I don't think you can do that and clearly he didn't think it.

Is it possible BYU was told were going East not West IF we expand? I suppose so.

I just found this on Coaching Search
( http://coachingsearch.com/article?a=News-Notes--Quotes--Feb-18)
...pretty interesting comments from Bronco Mendenhall yesterday re: BYU

- Bronco Mendenhall says BYU needs to join a conference. The current Virginia head coach had called for the school to join the Big 12 while he was there. It’s still his belief.

“After being the head coach at BYU, I don’t think independence is sustainable,” he told SiriusXM College Sports Nation. “What I chose to do was schedule the most compelling games on the biggest stages with the most difficult opponents to draw the most people and visibility and draw the exposure for administration that this is what we could be doing every single week.

“No one had more to lose than I did, but it was compelling me to want more for the university, now that there’s a divide between Power 5 and Group of 5.”

 

[MattMang23]

I could not find the edit button, usually it is at the bottom of the post

Only for the first ten minutes after the posting.

 

[HuskyHawk]

i guess good point, but im justing saying here you get into the big 12, and then it falls apart, its just more stress

It's a club. Aside from the obvious better money and better competition during that period (and better recruiting), once a school is in the P5 it is perceived differently. UConn has better metrics than many current P5 schools, yet they are perceived as belonging and we are often perceived as unworthy. In short, UConn's chances of staying in the future equivalent of the P5 is dramatically improved by getting a P5 invite now.

 

[NYUConn]

It's a club. Aside from the obvious better money and better competition during that period (and better recruiting), once a school is in the P5 it is perceived differently. UConn has better metrics than many current P5 schools, yet they are perceived as belonging and we are often perceived as unworthy. In short, UConn's chances of staying in the future equivalent of the P5 is dramatically improved by getting a P5 invite now.

I can't believe you just had to explain that to someone.

 

[Noworriesbro]

It's a club. Aside from the obvious better money and better competition during that period (and better recruiting), once a school is in the P5 it is perceived differently. UConn has better metrics than many current P5 schools, yet they are perceived as belonging and we are often perceived as unworthy. In short, UConn's chances of staying in the future equivalent of the P5 is dramatically improved by getting a P5 invite now.

i dont think anyone is saying uconn is unworthy, and those people have zero idea. honestly, all the schools are doing what they can to get a seat in the P5. From uconn, to houston. all the schools have positives and negatives. it really comes down to luck to be honest. if there was conferences being created today, a school like purdue would not be asked to join. its a market based decision. the question will be who delivers more tv money uconn or cincy or usf or ucf. nobody knows those answers except for the conferences that hire companies to find out. a school like houston has the texas state politics pushing hard vs the tv money, its really a coin flip decision and it comes down to luck

 

[Towney007]

To me it's pretty simple.

-If the Big XII moves for a TV network, we're in. Easily, at that.

-If they don't, we're less likely - but probably one of three major candidates and we profile better across the board than who I'd assume would be our primary competition.

The Big XII is a weird conference for us to be in, but it's feeling more and more likely.

 

[huskyniner]

The Big XII is a weird conference for us to be in, but it's feeling more and more likely.

Is it really weirder than our current conference?

 

[MattMang23]

Is it really weirder than our current conference?

Right. At least in the BXII we would be in a league with a team we had been conference mates with for 20+ years. Cincy/USF are our longest running mates in this league and we just barely hit our ten year reunion with them.