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junglehusky said:
LOL - "Without expansion, the league has teams in four of the top 100 markets — Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Des Moines-Ames, and Waco — in the United States. "
Four of the top 100!
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LOFL at including Des Moines, which the B12 shares, and bloody Waco.
 
junglehusky said:
LOL - "Without expansion, the league has teams in four of the top 100 markets — Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Des Moines-Ames, and Waco — in the United States. "
Four of the top 100!
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Those four translate in to UT, TCU (but it's really UT), half of ISU, and Baylor (which is still UT).

So for those keeping score at home, Texas fans who live in Texas are sure to have Texas games on their TV, which is nice. It's hardly a winning model for a conference network as proven by the LHN and the giant bath ESPN is taking on it.
 
Who's left for "serious" candidates?
South Florida
Memphis

Last slot:
SMU?
East Carolina?
Tulane?
Temple?
 
junglehusky said:
LOL - "Without expansion, the league has teams in four of the top 100 markets — Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Des Moines-Ames, and Waco — in the United States. "
Four of the top 100!
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KU is in the KC market, so this is just wrong. OKC is also certainly a top 100 market (#43). Not sure where they got these "facts". Hell, even Tulsa is #60.

By the way, DFW beats Houston. For all the talk of Houston as the 3rd largest city, the DMA ranks 10th. Below even Boston. Once you leave the city limits, it's the boonies.
 
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By the way, different writers are doing each school, and their approaches have been different.
 
huskymedic said:
They've all been essentially the same format - no?
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Format, yes, but the discussions have been different. Some are pretty thorough, like Bohls. The Cinci one could have been written by a 3rd grader.
 
WestHartHusk said:
Some analysts consider BYU and UConn locks as potential expansion targets, but the league would likely only take one of the universities.

Just take both and be done with it.
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I like our chances. If they don't want to add both UConn and BYU because it stretches the conference out too much I think they will add UConn and Cincinnati.

The Big 12 can have BYU on an island, and WVU and Cincy on another island
or
The Big 12 can have UConn, WVU and Cincy on the same island.

I'm thinking the conference would prefer fewer islands. Besides, BYU would have to resolve the no-play on Sunday issue and demonstrate the potential to bring in more money than UConn.
 
junglehusky said:
Memphis gets 18:1.
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Academic ranking: Memphis isn’t ranked by the U.S. News and World Report. It’s considered a Tier 2 school.
Current Learfield Cup ranking: No. 215, through the winter sports (164th in 2014-15). How that ranking places Memphis among Big 12 schools:

This Twitter loud mouth has been non-existent today:

TigerBronco ‏@jay_256 May 24
TigerBronco Memphis just had over 260 student athletes to have a 3.0 GPA or better. Not too shabby for a "poor academic school".

Sure hope he's seen the write-up.
 
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huskymedic said:
Academic ranking: Memphis isn’t ranked by the U.S. News and World Report. It’s considered a Tier 2 school.
Current Learfield Cup ranking: No. 215, through the winter sports (164th in 2014-15). How that ranking places Memphis among Big 12 schools:

This Twitter loud mouth has been non-existent today:

TigerBronco ‏@jay_256 May 24
TigerBronco Memphis just had over 260 student athletes to have a 3.0 GPA or better. Not too shabby for a "poor academic school".

Sure hope he's seen the write-up.
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Couldn't resist a little tweak at this guy... Memphis fans are a special breed.
 
BlueHen said:
Agreed. I expect they will evaluate South Florida, Memphis and Houston (not sure about 4th team - SMU or ECU ?). It will be interesting to see the odds on Houston, may tell us a lot about the oddsmaker.
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As long as UT is a member of the B12, Houston is a 100-1 shot for getting an invite.
 
BlueHen said:
I like our chances. If they don't want to add both UConn and BYU because it stretches the conference out too much I think they will add UConn and Cincinnati.

The Big 12 can have BYU on an island, and WVU and Cincy on another island
or
The Big 12 can have UConn, WVU and Cincy on the same island.

I'm thinking the conference would prefer fewer islands. Besides, BYU would have to resolve the no-play on Sunday issue and demonstrate the potential to bring in more money than UConn.
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I would go 4. UConn / Cincy in the East and BYU / Colorado State in the West. Maybe have BYU / CSU for football only.
 
HuskyHawk said:
KU is in the KC market, so this is just wrong. OKC is also certainly a top 100 market (#43). Not sure where they got these "facts". Hell, even Tulsa is #60.

By the way, DFW beats Houston. For all the talk of Houston as the 3rd largest city, the DMA ranks 10th. Below even Boston. Once you leave the city limits, it's the boonies.
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You've obviously never been to Houston. The suburbs in Houston's SMSA have far more population than the city itself, and Galveston is also part of the metro Houston market. It's one continuous city N-S from Conroe to Galveston along I-45 (close to 100 miles) and from E-W from Baytown to Katy along I-10 (about 50 miles).

It doesn't matter anyway regarding the B12 because they already have a huge presence in the metro Houston market, considering there are tons of UT, Baylor, TCU and TX Tech alums and fans living there.
 
huskymedic said:
Academic ranking: Memphis isn’t ranked by the U.S. News and World Report. It’s considered a Tier 2 school.
Current Learfield Cup ranking: No. 215, through the winter sports (164th in 2014-15). How that ranking places Memphis among Big 12 schools:

This Twitter loud mouth has been non-existent today:

TigerBronco ‏@jay_256 May 24
TigerBronco Memphis just had over 260 student athletes to have a 3.0 GPA or better. Not too shabby for a "poor academic school".

Sure hope he's seen the write-up.
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"With the results of your final included below, I am pleased to inform you that you've achieved a 3.0 GPA this semester."

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UConnNick said:
You've obviously never been to Houston. The suburbs in Houston's SMSA have far more population than the city itself, and Galveston is also part of the metro Houston market. It's one continuous city N-S from Conroe to Galveston along I-45 (close to 100 miles) and from E-W from Baytown to Katy along I-10 (about 50 miles).

It doesn't matter anyway regarding the B12 because they already have a huge presence in the metro Houston market, considering there are tons of UT, Baylor, TCU and TX Tech alums and fans living there.
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I haven't. But it is 600+ square miles. Hartford is 18. So a lot of what people think are the suburbs are Houston. It's freaking huge. Close to half the overall metro population lives in the city itself (2.3m out of 5.6m).

This is a really good one for us.
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huskymedic said:
... and USF @ 25:1

To recap so far:

SMU 40-1
USF 25-1
Boise St 20-1
Colorado St 20-1
Mempis 18-1
Houston 14-1
Central Florida 12-1
UConn 10-1
Cincinnati 5-1
BYU 3-1
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"BYU is a national brand name. It also is the only candidate with Power 5 facilities in the major sports"​

I beg your pardon?

I also like the sliding view on travel distance.

Cons: Location, location, location. UConn’s location doesn’t work in its favor, as it’s way too far from the bulk of the Big 12 schools, situated nearly 2,000 miles away from Lubbock. ​

Yet we see none of that regarding BYU.

Let's compare the two:

Longest/shortest Big 12 road trip for Connecticut: Longest — 1,959 miles (Texas Tech); shortest — 530 (West Virginia).

Longest/shortest Big 12 road tripfor BYU: Longest — 1,929 miles (West Virginia); shortest — 872 (Texas Tech)​

So to recap BYU's longest road trip is 30 miles closer than UConn's but their shortest is 342 miles further away!

So why aren't people screaming about BYU as a geographic outlier?
 
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CL82 said:
"BYU is a national brand name. It also is the only candidate with Power 5 facilities in the major sports"​

I beg your pardon?

I also like the sliding view on travel distance.

Cons: Location, location, location. UConn’s location doesn’t work in its favor, as it’s way too far from the bulk of the Big 12 schools, situated nearly 2,000 miles away from Lubbock. ​

Yet we see none of that regarding BYU.

Let's compare the two:

Longest/shortest Big 12 road trip for Connecticut: Longest — 1,959 miles (Texas Tech); shortest — 530 (West Virginia).

Longest/shortest Big 12 road tripfor BYU: Longest — 1,929 miles (West Virginia); shortest — 872 (Texas Tech)​

So to recap BYU's longest road trip is 30 miles closer than UConn's but their shortest is 342 miles further away!

So why aren't people screaming about BYU as a geographic outlier?
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That might be misleading. Tally up TOTAL travel distance from BYU and UConn to EACH B12 school.
 
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Sky ball said:
That might be misleading. Tally up TOTAL travel distance from BYU and UConn to EACH B12 school.
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Why is someone going on a conference "world tour?"

Regardless, it their metric, not mine.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I haven't. But it is 600+ square miles. Hartford is 18. So a lot of what people think are the suburbs are Houston. It's freaking huge. Close to half the overall metro population lives in the city itself (2.3m out of 5.6m).

This is a really good one for us.
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Lucky for us Fairfield County helps bring New York City, and Houston doesn't have Fairfield County.
 
I honestly detest Memphis and their fans after all of this. Wish we played them this year so we could whoop em
 
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