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Message: [QUOTE="Dooley, post: 1718271, member: 2920"] I love all of the self-proclaimed bravado from a fan of a school with 0 wins against a school with 0 Top 25 football finishes. Look, Houston football had an awesome 2015 season. One. Awesome Season. Let's not forget a few things: the awesomest season in Houston history still features a loss to the team that you can't stop disrespecting. Point being, one great football season is a distant second to an established athletic department with success in several sports on a BCS/"Power" level, large TV market saturation in markets that are not already well within the B12 footprint, a large fanbase that stretches all over the northeast (including New York and Boston), brand value that compares with over half of the current P5 members, TV ratings that stack up against everyone (even in bad seasons), academic ranking that closer resembles higher learning rather than a community college for chimps, and most importantly, a school that can easily support/justify a $30M/yr buy-in. Let's be honest, if the B12 wanted to make a football-only grab, it would just add BYU and Boise and be done with it. But the B12 needs to weigh many more things that are far more important than one good football season (that still features a loss to the program that you can't stop putting down). [/QUOTE]