Houston Chronicle exclusive: Texas, Oklahoma reach out to SEC about joining conference.

[BigTenFan]

UMass to the Big10 is up there with the guy proposing to trade UN-L for Iowa State.

Big Ten is driven by Football and Basketball
Iowa State has won in both sports. Nebraska is on the bottom in BB and slowly becoming irrelevant in football. Uconn would do much better in ACC v Big 10

 

[billybud]

Why is that? How does a top tier athlete get NIL income from the bench and practice squad?

Top Tier athletes don't see themselves on a practice squad...they see an Alabama QB who has never started a game getting 7 figures.....A 5 star WR or RB would want exposure...

2019 Rivals Class Rankings...Alabama had 12 times as many five and four stars as the whole AAC together...

 

[superjohn]

I’d love to keep going on this - but don’t want to drag this thread down. If you think the long play in US real estate is outside of the south and west - god bless. AC, water conservation, new housing tech will conquer many problems ahead. The southeast and south central have so much space for growth to feed decades of growth. And no reason many SE cities won’t achieve substantial higher density too… low density US cities still have a lot of space to pack many more in.

Yep, the South is great and cheap to live in if you're cool with never leaving your house.

 

[superjohn]

Big Ten is driven by Football and Basketball
Iowa State has won in both sports. Nebraska is on the bottom in BB and slowly becoming irrelevant in football. Uconn would do much better in ACC v Big 10

What has Iowa State ever won in their football and basketball history? 1 Fiesta Bowl?

 

[phillionaire]

What has Iowa State ever won in their football and basketball history? 1 Fiesta Bowl?

They would have won the national championship if they didn’t have to play UConn in MSG according to their fans

 

[Jimdish255]

Not UMass, Buffalo. They're AAU and Cuse would shrivel up.

I take that back. My last crazy idea.
Virginia
UConn
ND
Army
-Cadets enhance facilities and come back to Football Prominence.

 

[CL82]

They would have won the national championship if they didn’t have to play UConn in MSG according to their fans

Plus they are a little bitter about the accident their mascot had while they were here.

 

[phillionaire]

Plus they are a little bitter about the accident their mascot had while they were here.

I completely forgot about that, didn’t it like fall down some stairs and then the accident got blamed on drunk fans?

 

[CL82]

I completely forgot about that, didn’t it like fall down some stairs and then the accident got blamed on drunk fans?

Yep pretty much.

 

[WestHartHusk]

Big Ten is driven by Football and Basketball
Iowa State has won in both sports. Nebraska is on the bottom in BB and slowly becoming irrelevant in football. Uconn would do much better in ACC v Big 10

Fess up, you have to be an Iowa State fan.

The Big10 is about money. Adding the #2 team in Iowa adds no money. Why is this so hard?

 

[zmart]

Texas - Oklahoma to SEC - 16 Teams
Baylor - Okla St - Kansas - BYU to PAC 12 Two Divisions West -Wash/Ore/Cal teams
East - Colo/Utah/Ariz/Ariz
St/ New 4 teams
West Virginia to ACC - If they can stand Louisville why not WV
Force Notre Dame in or UCONN - 16 Teams

What is left of Big 12 ( Iowa St/TCU/Texas Tech/Kansas St) merges with AAC

 

[Exit 4]

Texas - Oklahoma to SEC - 16 Teams
Baylor - Okla St - Kansas - BYU to PAC 12 Two Divisions West -Wash/Ore/Cal teams
East - Colo/Utah/Ariz/Ariz
St/ New 4 teams
West Virginia to ACC - If they can stand Louisville why not WV
Force Notre Dame in or UCONN - 16 Teams

What is left of Big 12 ( Iowa St/TCU/Texas Tech/Kansas St) merges with AAC

Would the PAC add religious schools like Baylor and BYU? I am highly skeptical they would.

 

[SubbaBub]

Why is no one talking about the remnants forming a Texas-centric league? A combo of the SWC and Big 8?
The B12's first move would be to grab SMU and Houston. The non-Texas teams would have to go along.

Poor financial move? Perhaps, but it's Texas (State of), they do stupid things out of spite all the time. You all of a sudden have an entire, very competitive, league of UCF clones that don't give a rip about academics and plenty of wealthy boosters to keep more Texas kids at home.

After a few years of UT and AM finishing 5th or 6th in a 16 team SEC, these other schools start to look more attractive, especially if the Texas politicians, enough of whom represent all the other schools, incl. Rice, stick it to UT.

This is a great move for OU regardless and they should plan on going even if the Texas legislature blocks UT.

In case you're wondering, Rule #1 applies when the number of Texas recruits heading north of Norman, OK drops to zero.

 

[Redding Husky]

I’m in Dallas and I’m an SMU alum (master’s). It will be so sweet to see fans of TCU, Baylor, and Texas Tech in agony. Schadenfreude.

 

[zmart]

Would the PAC add religious schools like Baylor and BYU? I am highly skeptical they would.

Money talks.

 

[tzznandrew]

Money talks.

BYU brings cash, maybe.

Baylor? Not so much.

 

[metsfan2323]

I’m in Dallas and I’m an SMU alum (master’s). It will be so sweet to see fans of TCU, Baylor, and Texas Tech in agony. Schadenfreude.

Be careful what you wish for. The remaining B12 schools could raid the AAC and not invite SMU to the party. SMU will certainly be begging to get in.

 

[Nostical]

Mizzou, which left the Big XII for $ and to get away from UT, would be a solid candidate to vote against UT.

Mizzou will ultimately be a yes vote.

 

[Redding Husky]

This is why I dont even try to figure out what might happen. Streaming has changed the model that drove previous realignments. You can't use the households logic that was so popular 10 years ago.

I have no idea how this affects UConn. My guess is not at all.

I see it the same way. Whatever happens will have the same impact on UConn as it will have on URI, UNH, and UMaine.

 

[phillionaire]

Money talks.

You know the old saying, “if you can add a tiny religious school in the middle of nowhere Texas that has a history of sexual assault scandals and a murder (!) in its recent athletic history you do it asap”

 

[Redding Husky]

Be careful what you wish for. The remaining B12 schools could raid the AAC and not invite SMU to the party. SMU will certainly be begging to get in.

I expect my schools (UConn and SMU) to get screwed. So I enjoy watching others get screwed whenever possible.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Exit 4]

Money talks.

Yeah, I just dont see in this political climate the the BOTs at the various P12 schools voting yes to Baylor and BYU regardless of the money and I dont think either of those bring money to the table that moves the needle relative to the existing P12 schools.

 

[UConnJim]

Texas and the rest of the south and southwest benefit from two big trends:

1) Water being treated as a free and infinite resource. Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Southern California are consuming water at a level way past replacement rate and will run out of reserves within the next 10-20 years. Texas is in a little better shape, but not much.

2) A staggering federal wealth transfer from the northeast and west coast to the south and southwest. Northern states basically send their tax dollars to southern states through block grants so southern states can have lower state taxes. This is completely unsustainable, and will likely be addressed within 10 years.

In Texas, they spend less than in Connecticut. Here are some facts, although we can all agree/disagree if Texas should spend more:

Annual spending per student: Texas $10k, Connecticut $21k

Average teacher salary: Texas $54k, Connecticut $76k

Annual spending per highway mile: Texas $73k, Connecticut $209k

State healthcare spending per capita (2014 numbers): Texas $1.409, Connecticut $2.235

State legislature annual salaries: Texas $7.2k, Connecticut $28k (FYI: NY $110k)

 

[Pudge]

we are just about the timing component ... when a Lawmaker from Oklahoma or some big Oil guy from Texas says: Nope. You are not taking care of my Cowboys in Stillwater or Raiders in Lubbock. There is bound to be a bumpy bumpy path forward. They aren't raised to play nice.

 

[zmart]

You know the old saying, “if you can add a tiny religious school in the middle of nowhere Texas that has a history of sexual assault scandals and a murder (!) in its recent athletic history you do it asap”

Baylor has 16,000 students in the second fastest growing state in the country.
Recent National Championships in Men's and Women's Basketball
The murder was in 2003 and of course no other school in the country has had problems with sexual assaults. At least they weren't children being assaulted.

 

[Nostical]

So it looks like we'll be strictly observers of the fun that lies ahead. But since dreaming is free, isn't there anything that could help UConn as these conference machinations start gearing up? How about a surprising season this fall. Is it impossible to think we could head to Clemson at 6-2? Then what if we hang close with Clemson and bring a large contingent of passionate fans. Do perceptions start to change? It's clear that Edsall leaving after the Fiesta Bowl stripped us of any positives we might have accrued as the shifting occurred. Now with his own recruits, Edsall has at least a puncher's chance to reinvigorate our image and with Benedict (the anti-Hathaway) at the helm, is it possible that whatever shine we had that was dulled 10 years ago just might begin to take on a brighter patina? Any dreamers out there?

 

[Drew]

 

[phillionaire]

Baylor has 16,000 students in the second fastest growing state in the country.
Recent National Championships in Men's and Women's Basketball
The murder was in 2003 and of course no other school in the country has had problems with sexual assaults. At least they weren't children being assaulted.

Waco is in the middle of nowhere and their football program systemically covered up sexual assault. Their women’s head coach told Britney Griner to cover up her sexuality. Garbage program and a garbage school that shouldn’t be involved at the highest levels of competition.

 

[UCFBfan]

I have seen some conference realignment scenarios so far on what could happen if the Big 12 dissolves. I've even seen a few what ifs.... For B1G or ACC expansion....but I seem to be missing something....


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