19 year old American wins the first gold of the Olympics. You gotta love it.Congrats to WVU student Ginny Thrasher
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The 1st gold medal of the 2016 Olympics was won by @WVURifle student-athlete, Ginny Thrasher. WVU currently leads the world! #HailWV
If Brown is a UT mouthpiece....
Quick FYI - Chip Brown is not a UT mouthpiece.
At times he was the confidant and/or tool of Mack Brown, DeLoss Dodds and Bill Powers but none of them are still at Texas and even before they left he had lost a lot of access at Texas by criticizing thin-skinned Mack.
I believe he still has connections on the fringe, like donors and secretaries - which honestly is about as close to the new Fenves/Perrin regime as any journalist has been able to get. But what makes Chip Brown more interesting and entertaining that other Texas "insiders" is that he also has a lot of connections at other Big 12 schools too. Like Oklahoma. Brown often cites conversations he's had with Joe Castiglione.
I wouldn't be surprised if people purposely throw him red herrings from time to time.
So two potential pieces of good news in the last 24 hours:
1) Flugs presenting a pretty good case for why the Big 12 won't get paid to stay at 10. This makes doing nothing less likely.
2) Memphis getting shredded by the Oklahoma writer. Nail, meet coffin.
The bad news is that adding only 2 teams seems to be picking up some steam, and that becomes a three way spring between Cincinnati, UConn and BYU, where Cincinnati seems to have a 20 yard head start. I have gone from hoping Houston was just a smokescreen that Texas had to throw out there because they were told to, to being a lynchpin for expansion. I don't think there is any way Houston makes the cut as one of two additions, but has a reasonable chance as a compromise choice as one of four.
Demonstrably wrong:There not a second college in their market. 40k students and a 1.5b endowment. O$U is not strong in southern Ohio.
Other than the fact that Cincy's former President totally out worked our President - one thing I can't understand is how they are reported to be a locked in top 2 and we are not?
They have had more football success - but they will always be a second college in their market. In other sports we are clearly superior. Academics - we are also better.
Other than the fact that Cincy's former President totally out worked our President - one thing I can't understand is how they are reported to be a locked in top 2 and we are not?
They have had more football success - but they will always be a second college in their market. In other sports we are clearly superior. Academics - we are also better.
Yeah this has been disproved multiple times, Cincinnati is clear #1, OSU has only about 25% support in the SW Ohio, with closer to 70-80% in the rest of Ohio.
What about Louisville, WVU, UK? Don't they all have decent range into SW Ohio?
Show me the data, please. I have never seen the data that suggests Cincinnati football is the clear #1 in the Cincinnati/ Dayton market. Not trying to be contrary, I just have never seen the data for that. Basketball I tend to believe more, but not football and overall fandom. OSU is to Ohio as the Packers are to Wisconsin.
Louisville and UK have some traction in SW Ohio, but WVU is too Far East to have an impact.
I don't remember the specific study, But it was Cincy/OSU/UK/UL then very small amounts of everyone else. The study I remember included SW Ohio, and the other "metro" areas of Cincinnati including northern Kentucky and SE Indiana.
I don't remember the specific study, But it was Cincy/OSU/UK/UL then very small amounts of everyone else. The study I remember included SW Ohio, and the other "metro" areas of Cincinnati including northern Kentucky and SE Indiana.
Any yeah there's no traction at all for WVU in Cincy.
I don't remember the specific study, But it was Cincy/OSU/UK/UL then very small amounts of everyone else. The study I remember included SW Ohio, and the other "metro" areas of Cincinnati including northern Kentucky and SE Indiana.
I found this one:
43% UC 35%
27% OSU 25%
7% ND 10%
6% Other 8%
5% Kentucky 11%
5% Don't have 6%
4% Michigan 3%
2% Miami 1%
1% Louisville 1%
Thanks. Do you remember who produced the study and what it measured? Was it football, basketball, athletics as a whole or overall fandom of the university?
Link please, thanks.
At least the link doesn't work.