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Exit 4 said:
Not that I disagree with your point - CRA rule #1 has been to pick winning football or cable boxes and cable boxes have become a clouded metric. However, just saying the obvious: Houston (more friggen Texas?!), BYU (okay, I have nothing against this idea, I think its a winner, BYU has a national following), Cincy (I can't say anything bad about this idea either other than it is a city school, not a flagship state uni) and Memphis (Memphis does nothing for the long term need to get the B12 out of the sticks and in big cities).
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Houston and Memphis because the B12 doesn't make any sense. If they could add SMU and North Texas without too much fanfare, they would.

Neither UH or Memphis has anything close to P5 data to support their candidacy as a viable long-term P5 option. But the B12 isn't thinking long-term. All of that Boren talk about academics, markets, network, long term growth, blah blah blah...none of it is applicable any longer. What is applicable: getting a football championship launched ASAP so they can make sure their top team won't be passed over by the Playoff committee. That's their thinking. An ASAP championship game means they will want two programs who have won a lot lately. That's why I think BYU and Houston.
 
Dooley said:
My gut says they'll add BYU and Houston. No east teams whatsoever. BYU because it is the clear cut #1 football add. Houston because they won a lot of games last year and UT will get its demand met.

BYU won't hurt. Like UConn, they have the data that supports being added to a P5 conference. UH will feel like the hardest kick in the sack we've yet to endure because they don't even deliver the city of Houston. But they can be easily filled with another school that no UConn fan gives a hoot about and we can go on our blackout drunken merry way.
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Agree with your outlook.

Though, the Houston loss won't actually irk me that much for a couple reasons:

1) We were never a real fit for the Big 12, so not like we're losing out like we did for the ACC.
2) Cincy, our best sports rivalry in the American, would have lost out too.
3) Houston probably should never have been left out of the Big 12 to begin with, so really it's just correcting a mistake from 25 years ago.

Now, what's interesting is how does Houston get into the Big 12?

If I am the non-Texas Big 12, I make Houston's admission contingent on voting to oust Baylor. Baylor brings nothing market-wise to the conference and is a HUGE albatross around the conference's neck with zero history of success before the Briles/Starr regime sold it's soul for some athletic success.

Probably not likely to shake out that way, but if I'm David Boren, that's what I'd push for.
 
If I'm the Leftover 8 schools, I push expansion ASAP. You know the thing is blowing up in 6 years. Have 6 years to strengthen the teams you are going to pick anyway and perhaps save the conference. Otherwise you are looking at a pool of G5 teams six more years into the P5/G5 gap in money and exposure. No G5 is going to be more attractive than they are right now.

Does anyone remember how TCU and Louisville.were doing 6 years ago? No.
 
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NYUConn said:
Agree with your outlook.

Though, the Houston loss won't actually irk me that much for a couple reasons:

1) We were never a real fit for the Big 12, so not like we're losing out like we did for the ACC.
2) Cincy, our best sports rivalry in the American, would have lost out too.
3) Houston probably should never have been left out of the Big 12 to begin with, so really it's just correcting a mistake from 25 years ago.

Now, what's interesting is how does Houston get into the Big 12?

If I am the non-Texas Big 12, I make Houston's admission contingent on voting to oust Baylor. Baylor brings nothing market-wise to the conference and is a HUGE albatross around the conference's neck with zero history of success before the Briles/Starr regime sold it's soul for some athletic success.

Probably not likely to shake out that way, but if I'm David Boren, that's what I'd push for.
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I don't think they'll kick out Baylor. They'll let the NCAA impose their harshest 2 week probation sentence ever and a hefty $500 fine to the Baylor football program and call it fair justice. Besides, if you kick out Baylor, they're back to where they are now: needing to add another school to create bigger, equal divisions. If they have to add 3, that's when it becomes more difficult to lock out Cincinnati (or anyone else from the AAC). But I don't think it would get there. They'll add Houston and BYU as football only members, get their 2 divisions of 6 and then brace for the inevitable departures of Oklahoma and probably Kansas 5-7 years from now.
 
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Dooley said:
I don't think they'll kick out Baylor. They'll let the NCAA impose their harshest 2 week probation sentence ever and a hefty $500 fine to the Baylor football program and call it fair justice. Besides, if you kick out Baylor, they're back to where they are now: needing to add another school to create bigger, equal divisions. If they have to add 3, that's when it becomes more difficult to lock out Cincinnati (or anyone else from the AAC). But I don't think it would get there. They'll add Houston and BYU as football only members, get their 2 divisions of 6 and then brace for the inevitable departures of Oklahoma and probably Kansas 5-7 years from now.
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Given the financials stakes involved, it would be interesting to see if the B12 really had the power and resolve to kick out Baylor if it wanted too. Surely Baylor wouldn't go quietly. There is too much at stake for Baylor not to defend itself vigorously and exhaustively in such an event.
 
Exit 4 said:
Given the financials stakes involved, it would be interesting to see if the B12 really had the power and resolve to kick out Baylor if it wanted too. Surely Baylor wouldn't go quietly. There is too much at stake for Baylor not to defend itself vigorously and exhaustively in such an event.
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The media circus that would surround this would be more damning to the B12 than anything else. Of course Baylor would defend itself vigorously. It is a matter of making tens of millions of dollars in P5 revenue vs making a few hundred dollars in G5 revenue. They just built a brand new football stadium on the backs of covering up that program's criminal activity. And these days, their fans and administration look more delusional than Penn State JoePa backers in their own defense of the Art Briles' regime. There is no way on Earth that Baylor would go down without swinging with everything it has.

Sadly, the B12 needs Baylor too. Remember, B12 expansion is about NOTHING else other than football. They are only expanding because they paid a firm a quarter of a million dollars to tell them what we all knew all along: you have better odds of a playoff entrant if you play an extra meaningful game. They want to ensure that as many football programs in that conference remain strong and competitive while they cling for dear life to their Power conference label.
 
Wish Santa had gone all Marley...from one of my faves

Good friends we have, oh, good friends we have lost
Along the way, yeah!
In this great future, you can't forget your past;
So dry your tears, I say. Yeah!

No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry. Eh, yeah!


Baylor will start 2016 as #22 in ESPN's FPI...(a power index) which ESPN uses for their rankings. They are the third highest ranking Big 12 team in the preseason FPI ratings.

The conference may sanction them lightly, but they have been a valuable member. of late, to the conference.
 
Baylor will be limping for a while...they have now released six 2016 signees from their National Letters of Intent....to transfer.
 
NickyNewark said:
Weren't interested and told them behind the scenes....they knew where they should be and are there and rising..
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Oh good the only poster worse than Billy is back.
 
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Baylor has now lost 11 of its 2016 signees....half the class is leaving...ouchie. No need for sanctions, the kids have done it themselves.
 
Assault is not an NCAA violation. It is a criminal one. If crime were an NCAA violation every D-1 program in Florida would have already received the death penalty.
 
billybud said:
Baylor has now lost 11 of its 2016 signees....half the class is leaving...ouchie. No need for sanctions, the kids have done it themselves.
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Oh, they deserve sanctions...and so much worse.
 
The number of NBA, WNBA, and soccer first rounders are really impressive.

Especially the NBA first rounders. And I didn't even realize that Andre Drummond and Kemba Walker were out of UConn.
 
billybud said:
The number of NBA, WNBA, and soccer first rounders are really impressive.

Especially the NBA first rounders. And I didn't even realize that Andre Drummond and Kemba Walker were out of UConn.
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AD I could see, he played 1 year, on for us was a very disappointing team
(They lost in the first Round )
Kemba was a freshman on the 2009 FF team
Then had one of the greatest Post season runs in history leading us to a Big East and then a National Championship in 2011.
You apparently don't follow college BB
 
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billybud said:
The number of NBA, WNBA, and soccer first rounders are really impressive.

Especially the NBA first rounders. And I didn't even realize that Andre Drummond and Kemba Walker were out of UConn.
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One of the reasons why I first came to this board. Love Andre and his attitude.

BTW - He will become the highest paid Piston player ever with the contract he will sign this year. Never a doubt he was going to stay in Detroit. One of my favorite local pro athletes.
 
billybud said:
The number of NBA, WNBA, and soccer first rounders are really impressive.

Especially the NBA first rounders. And I didn't even realize that Andre Drummond and Kemba Walker were out of UConn.
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Lik AZ said, I think we can all forgive you for not knowing Drummond is a Husky. He was only here 1 year and the team had a disappointing season, given the expectations around here...

...but Kemba?? Kemba is a permanent fixture on UConn's Mount Rushmore. Watch this video below.

 
Interesting side note on Andre Drummond
We were being penalized with Scholarship reductions by
the NCAA in part for a poor APR score in 2008 and a very complicated recruiting violation which was pretty bogus . A former team Mgr provided transportation to and paid for minor surgery for a kid who had already committed.
Andre was a Connecticut kid who wanted to reclassify and play for UConn
We did not have an available scholarship so he ended up as a walk on .
There is some speculation that circumventing the NCAA punishment so outrsged Mr Emmert and his cronies that they invented the 4 year APR rule which retroactively used data from the 2008 year we were already being punished for as a personal vendetta against our HOF coach Jim Calhoun.
Using current year data and dropping 2008 would have made us compliment
The NCAA refused to use current data.
This caused us suspension from the 2013 Final Big East and NCAA tournaments
caused wholesale defections either by transfer or NBA
When UConn lost in CR and Jim Calhoun retired it was generally viewed as the destruction of UConn basketball.
UConn surprised everyone by amazingly coming back with a roster that on paper was decent but nothing more and winning the 2014 NCAA tournament.
The Hungry Huskie comment of Shabazz Napier could never fully be understood without this context.
A UConn fan without a hatred for the NCAA and sans a chip on their shoulder is not a real fan
 
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dayooper said:
One of the reasons why I first came to this board. Love Andre and his attitude.

BTW - He will become the highest paid Piston player ever with the contract he will sign this year. Never a doubt he was going to stay in Detroit. One of my favorite local pro athletes.
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You need to hook up with Chief00. He's in tight with Andre and the bitches.
 
I truly have only watched college BB lately....I watched pro ball and a few college teams.

I assume that many of you guys don't know this year's round 1 basketball pick from FSU....nor should you.
 
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billybud said:
I truly have only watched college BB lately....I watched pro ball and a few college teams.

I assume that many of you guys don't know this year's round 1 basketball pick from FSU....nor should you.
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90% of the people of the BB board regulars could tell you .
Might be among the most knowledgeable basketball fans anywhere .
There are some who could tell were he prepped or his AAU team ,
We also have a history with your coach. One of our losses in 1999 was to him.
We also have long memories ,
We take BB a bit more serious than most fans.
The other 10% are Syracuse,BC ,or Providence trolls
Their BB credentials are sketchy.
 
billybud said:
I truly have only watched college BB lately....I watched pro ball and a few college teams.

I assume that many of you guys don't know this year's round 1 basketball pick from FSU....nor should you.
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Kemba Walker was the most well known basketball player in the country in 2011. A legend. And by the way, most UConn fans are pretty aware of what goes on with FSU basketball, especially since UConn recruited kids like Xavier Rathan-Mayes, Beasley and Bacon.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
We also have a history with your coach. One of our losses in 1999 was to him.
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Memories... I watched that game in a DC sports bar with another UConn alum. After the game some random clown in the bar loudly proclaimed that that that UConn team could never beat Duke.
 
billybud said:
The number of NBA, WNBA, and soccer first rounders are really impressive.

Especially the NBA first rounders. And I didn't even realize that Andre Drummond and Kemba Walker were out of UConn.
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In the history of the NCAA tournament there is a small sample set of players who single handledly carried their teams to titles. Kemba, Danny Manning, Carmelo and just a few others. Hard to imagine a sports fan who wasn't aware of that. Particularly one who spends so much time posting on a UCONN message board.
 
As I have said many times...never been a basketball guy.

Many of us Nole guys don't follow BB...we may know much more about football.

The Warchant premium football board has tens of thousands of followers, the basketball board is combined with the baseball board on the menu.

I am interested in CR...not UConn basketball...nor Duke or UNC basketball.


While 1999 was a magical year for UConn...

....it was also one for the Noles who went undefeated in 1999 and won the football NC. I am sure you guys are up on that great team...7 draftees, three first rounders, Lou Groza kicker, Heisman QB...And Corey Simon, consensus All American NG, Peter Warrick All American WR, Jason Whitaker All American.

We, in Tallahassee just have a different focus...and that's all right for both of us...
 
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billybud said:
As I have said many times...never been a basketball guy.

Many of us Nole guys don't follow BB...we may know much more about football.

The Warchant premium football board has tens of thousands of followers, the basketball board is combined with the baseball board on the menu.

I am interested in CR...not UConn basketball...nor Duke or UNC basketball.


While 1999 was a magical year for UConn...

....it was also one for the Noles who went undefeated in 1999 and won the football NC. I am sure you guys are up on that great team...7 draftees, three first rounders, Lou Groza kicker, Heisman QB...And Corey Simon, consensus All American NG, Peter Warrick All American WR, Jason Whitaker All American.

We, in Tallahassee just have a different focus...and that's all right for both of us...
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Well since there isn't any CR to talk and none of us care about the 1999 FSU football team... time to delete your account.
 
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