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

phillionaire said:
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.
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Do you suppose Penn St. systematically covered up sexual assaults of children?
Let's ban them from the highest levels of competition.
Can't you come up with with a better adjective than garbage?
 
zmart said:
Do you suppose Penn St. systematically covered up sexual assaults of children?
Let's ban them from the highest levels of competition.
Can't you come up with with a better adjective than garbage?
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Yeah I think penn state shouldn’t be allowed to compete at the highest levels either. They should have gotten the death penalty. Now that the whataboutism is done, why should a program that has shown that it puts money ahead of morals be rewarded?
 
UConnJim said:
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)
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Balance of Payments Portal | Rockefeller Institute of Government (rockinst.org)

I didn't make this up.

And the analysis in the link does not account for net federal debt incurred, which would put Connecticut WAY into the red.
 
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phillionaire said:
Yeah I think penn state shouldn’t be allowed to compete at the highest levels either. They should have gotten the death penalty. Now that the whataboutism is done, why should a program that has shown that it puts money ahead of morals be rewarded?
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I'm sorry but if that is the criteria there would be no college athletics.
 
zmart said:
I'm sorry but if that is the criteria there would be no college athletics.
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O ... It is NOT just the murder of the basketball player. It is Bliss tried to paint the murdered kid as a drug dealer and rotten kid. As the parents looked on in horror. That he was slipping dollars into their pockets ... he thought - in the greatest leap - that smearing the dead was ok. And then we looked on and saw NOT a whit of horror of the administration or community. Then the football sex romp.

That should make a Christian religious school drop sports. Or ... seriously be proponent of new ethic in all student behavior. Nope. Business as usual.
 
Pudge said:
O ... It is NOT just the murder of the basketball player. It is Bliss tried to paint the murdered kid as a drug dealer and rotten kid. As the parents looked on in horror. That he was slipping dollars into their pockets ... he thought - in the greatest leap - that smearing the dead was ok. And then we looked on and saw NOT a whit of horror of the administration or community. Then the football sex romp.

That should make a Christian religious school drop sports. Or ... seriously be proponent of new ethic in all student behavior. Nope. Business as usual.
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OhhK
 
zmart said:
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.
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Baylor is an absolute cesspool, they covered up their football team raping coeds all over campus but if they think Baylor will bring them more money they will bring them in, money is the only thing that matters to these people.
 
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I think this can only help UConn. An increase in independent schools equals easier construction of schedules. Our Olympic sports are safe in the Big East. Our state flagship is capable of weathering the new policies on athlete rights to image.

This will undoubtedly hurt the bottom feeders that have fed off of other large flagship schools for too long. But we're finally not going to be the ones getting the kick in the cojones...
 
UConnDan97 said:
I think this can only help UConn. An increase in independent schools equals easier construction of schedules. Our Olympic sports are safe in the Big East. Our state flagship is capable of weathering the new policies on athlete rights to image.

This will undoubtedly hurt the bottom feeders that have fed off of other large flagship schools for too long. But we're finally not going to be the ones getting the kick in the cojones...
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It'll help until it doesn't. At some point it feels like the end game is these schools leaving the NCAA and they're going to send out an invite to everyone.
 
JMick said:
It'll help until it doesn't. At some point it feels like the end game is these schools leaving the NCAA and they're going to send out an invite to everyone.
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With the new rules of player image benefits (which I don't truly understand but which Bueckers is one of the top recipients), UConn becomes much more attractive than many "P4" schools. I think this storm is the first one that will blow at our backs instead of in our faces...
 
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The city of Austin clearly also wants a pro football team, so this is the path. Interestingly, this just might be the pinnacle move in realignment and the rest of the seats are taken from here. UMass is going to have to start a facilities war with Buffalo.
 
Source on Big 12 call tonight told
, league wants to know Texas & OU’s motivations to leave for SEC. “Is it financial? Or other issues? What would it take for them to stay?” Neither UT & OU participated on the call. Source added: “I don’t think it’s 100% they’re gone”

Mod Edit: cut and paste the url.



 
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Doesn't take much business acumen to understand that Texas and Oklahoma want to play in one of two of the richest and most powerful conference.

The Big Ten may have to counter this move one day soon. No idea who'd be their best options.
 
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