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[brasssbonanzaa]

there are no direct flights from any nearby airport (CT, MA, Prov, NY) to DAL except commerical

There's 50 airports UConn could fly from and fly into.

Also, with regards to Flug hedging his bets with the different presentations stuff, and that's true but to be fair, he's been trumpeting these four schools since the beginning of these reopened realignment talks.

 

[Kevin Caliendo]

There's 50 airports UConn could fly from and fly into.

Also, with regards to Flug hedging his bets with the different presentations stuff, and that's true but to be fair, he's been trumpeting these four schools since the beginning of these reopened realignment talks.

and they don't have to fly directly to DAL, etc etc

 

[Fishy]

I'm almost certain that expansion is going to kill me in the next few years.

I don't fear death. I'm just afraid of leaving Mrs. Fishy alone.

I'm afraid she won't mourn appropriately.

 

[kyleslamb]

One thing is for sure... there won't be any reason to track flights to and from Greenville, N.C. If/when a presentation is made by ECU, they'll have a full press release before they step on the plane.

 

[billybud]

I'm almost certain that expansion is going to kill me in the next few years.

I don't fear death. I'm just afraid of leaving Mrs. Fishy alone.

I'm afraid she won't mourn appropriately.

She'll get you in the ground quick....a halibut on the beach smells bad after day two.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

there are no direct flights from any nearby airport (CT, MA, Prov, NY) to DAL except commerical

... sure for people without a clue about charter flights ...

 

[Husky25]

let me get this straight:
New schools won't reach full payout share to 10 years
They also won't have any voting power for 2 years & a half vote for the following 8?
There's as much aroma of manure in the air as when the winds blow from the cow barns on 195 in the direction of Towers.

Try living in East. I was lucky. My room freshman year faced towards Grange.

 

[mavblues]

Try living in East. I was lucky. My room freshman year faced towards Grange.

Um, I lived in Grange...

 

[CougarRed]

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 18h18 hours ago
@nathanmills UT, BYU, UH, TT, ISU, OKST, and Kansas in one.
OU, BU, TCU, WVU, UC, Uconn, Kstate in other. My guess based on rumors

And there you have it. Proof he knows nothing and his sources are crap.

One thing is for certain in all of this. OU will play Oklahoma St and Texas every year. So, putting OU in one division and UT/Ok St in the other will NEVER happen.

 

[Rewster]

What did he say. I turned on Sirius & only caught the last minute

When asked who was in he waffled and mentioned Cinci, BYU, and Houston and stopped there. Really wasn't to passionate about it though and went on to say they all have shortcomings......

Gall asked him if the ACC would be compelled to beat B12 to the punch and invite UConn and gain more NY share(maybe mention Boston too not sure) Dodd said no , with the old stand by comment if they thought UConn brought the NY market they would already have been in the ACC.

He was dogging the B12 for their ineptitude. Giving examples of their dysfunction.[/QUOTE]

 

[CoastAtlantic]

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 16m16 minutes ago
So to throw more gas on this fire: Houston telling UT they and another may have a P12 offer on the table by end of the week.

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 15m15 minutes ago
Could the Pac12 be in panic mode and trying to get schools they thought would always be available to them?

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 14m14 minutes ago
Or is it just a bluff to force the B12's hand?

Storrs South ‏@UConn6thBorough 14m14 minutes ago
@MH ver3 why would B12 care? They would just take next in line. Most in conference don't want them anyway.

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 13m13 minutes ago
@UConn6thBorough true enough but B12 doesn't want P12 in its territory or to strengthen its network subscriptions.

Storrs South ‏@UConn6thBorough 12m12 minutes ago
@MH ver3 that's a fair point. Anything new on the four schools expected to be brought into the fold?

Thoughts of esuortS ‏@bstrouse 4m4 minutes ago
@UConn6thBorough @MH ver3 let's all hope Houston takes off to the P12!!!! One less for UConn fans to worry about!

Beefman ‏@B33FMAN 13m13 minutes ago
@MHver3 I think it's a bluff. Who would the other be?

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 12m12 minutes ago
@B33FMAN I'm guessing either CSU, UNLV, or maybe Boise. Definitely not BYU. Liberals hate the conservative Mormons.

Beefman ‏@B33FMAN 6m6 minutes ago
@MH ver3 but they also believe Boise and UNLV don't live up to their academic standards so I don't see them being a fit either

Beefman ‏@B33FMAN 13m13 minutes ago
@MH ver3 wouldn't be BYU or CSU. Or Boise, or UNLV. Houston wants to assure their spot IMO

Howard Sprauge ‏@HSprauge 16m16 minutes ago
@MH ver3 // Who is the other?

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 15m15 minutes ago
@HSprauge wasn't told yet.



ME: More organ music for the circus.

 

[UConnNick]

And there you have it. Proof he knows nothing and his sources are crap.

One thing is for certain in all of this. OU will play Oklahoma St and Texas every year. So, putting OU in one division and UT/Ok St in the other will NEVER happen.

Agreed. If these are the 14 schools, it should look like this:

North - UCONN, UC, WVU, ISU, KU, KSU, TCU
South - UH, UT, OU, OSU, TT, BU, BYU

You don't break up KU/KSU or OU/OSU. TX and OU have to be in the same division for the rivalry game. This keeps the TX schools largely together, except the second newest newcomer TCU, which was going to join the Big East before the B12 came calling. UT would probably be happy not to have to play them very often anyway. This alignment also gives you UCONN vs. Kansas in BB, which could develop into an interesting rivalry.

 

[CardiffGiant]

Please provide any interpretation you wish because I really want to believe that he knows something

 

[Charley Horse]

Agreed. If these are the 14 schools, it should look like this:

North - UCONN, UC, WVU, ISU, KU, KSU, TCU
South - UH, UT, OU, OSU, TT, BU, BYU

You don't break up KU/KSU or OU/OSU. TX and OU have to be in the same division for the rivalry game. This keeps the TX schools largely together, except the second newest newcomer TCU, which was going to join the Big East before the B12 came calling. UT would probably be happy not to have to play them very often anyway. This alignment also gives you UCONN vs. Kansas in BB, which could develop into an interesting rivalry.

Zipper with permanent cross divisional rivalries. Texas hooked with OU, Kansas paired with K State, church school rivals Baylor and TCU cross divisional rivals too. Throw Tech in the same division as Texas and Oklahoma St in with OU. You now have a foundation of four in each division.

Put BYU, UofH and Iowa St in one of the two divisions and call it West. Put Cincy, WVU and UConn in the other and call it East.

So you Huskies could end up in a division with Cincy, WVU and either the two Oklahoma schools or the two Texas public schools already in the conference, plus a church school, plus a Kansas school,. And you'd probably have a permanent cross divisional rival like... Houston.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

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Please provide any interpretation you wish because I really want to believe that he knows something

No they just tease us. Did the same thing at noon today saying they had BIG news then deleted the tweet.

 

[sportsart]

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Please provide any interpretation you wish because I really want to believe that he knows something

It's blank.

 

[CoastAtlantic]

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 22m22 minutes ago
A school that doesn't get much discussion but actually is a dark horse to get in B12 if BYU and UH don't happen: Temple.

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 22m22 minutes ago
My source tells me Temple has been quietly climbing the ranks and has plead a great case.

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 21m21 minutes ago
Expands footprint greatly. Bridges gap between WVU and Uconn. Offers everything Pitt has plus a football team!

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 20m20 minutes ago
Seriously though it's good for thought. Don't count them out yet.
Coach Blair Redd ‏@brgredd 20m20 minutes ago
@MH ver3 why wouldn't BYU or UH happen?

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 19m19 minutes ago
@brgredd Houston still doesn't have enough votes yet but it's getting closer.

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 19m19 minutes ago
@brgredd BYU still controls their own destiny but has to give up certain things

JR McKee ‏@jr_mckee 10m10 minutes ago
@MH ver3 such as???

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 8m8 minutes ago
@jr_mckee scheduling liberties, BYUtv replays, certain financial practices, and a few other things.

Vince ‏@vjp3 20m20 minutes ago
@MH ver3 C'Mon Man!

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 19m19 minutes ago
@vjp3 I'm really not kidding. They're right there in the second tier with the Florida schools, Memphis, CSU, and ECU.

Mike Swearingen ‏@Swearingen20 4m4 minutes ago
@MH ver3 temple is NOWHERE CLOSE to where Cincinnati, Memphis, Houston & BYU are with the Big 12. Your Credibility is falling fast

MH ver3 ‏@MH ver3 49s50 seconds ago
@Swearingen20 I never said they were close to 3 of those 4

 

[CallMeBruce]

And there you have it. Proof he knows nothing and his sources are crap.

One thing is for certain in all of this. OU will play Oklahoma St and Texas every year. So, putting OU in one division and UT/Ok St in the other will NEVER happen.

This jumped out at me, too. I think the UConn/WVU/Cincy/ISU/TCU/Houston/Baylor division makes exponentially more sense.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

1. Big 12 Confirmed ‏@Big12Confirmed 4h4 hours ago
2. Some Big 12 presidents have voiced concern over the distance between UConn and all other schools.
3. 0 retweets 1 like

1. Big 12 Confirmed ‏@Big12Confirmed 4h4 hours ago
2. Memphis, UCF and CSU replace UConn in other packages. BYU, Cincinnati and Houston are virtual locks.
3. 14 retweets 12 likes

• 
  Big 12 Confirmed ‏@Big12Confirmed 4h4 hours ago

1. Trending toward BYU, Cincy, Houston and UConn. Three packages of teams to be voted on by Big 12 presidents.
2. 11 retweets 17 likes

Me: No idea who this is

 

[Slasher]

I think the Pac 12 would love to go to 14 but there's just not anyone out there if you don't take apart he B12. I can buy Houston (maybe) but there isn't anyone else unless they go further east than Texas.

 

[atom58]

I don't pretend to be a CR guru or anything like that but I do remember what ND's AD Swarbrick (I think it was) said about all of this - these decisions are made by school presidents and academics is important to them, not just athletics, geographic location, etc. Now I don't want to offend anyone but I have seen UH described as "Cougar High" by some Texas folks on one of the SB Nation blogs so I think it is extremely unlikely that the Pac 12 conference (which is interested in academics) would be the least bit interested. I have read that UConn has a good US News & World Report school rating but the Big 10 took athletically-challenged Rutgers instead b/c of the AAU angle. UConn was the better athletic school and had a good academic rating but the AAU academic angle made the difference as at one time all of the Big10 schools had AAU status but don't now (hello, Nebraska). I have also been reading Big 12 school blogs and a number of them are not in favor of UH b/c of recruiting competition in Texas, 4 schools are already there, and wanting schools in other states - there certainly can be more than 3 no votes IMO.

 

[CougarRed]

Now I don't want to offend anyone but I have seen UH described as "Cougar High" by some Texas folks on one of the SB Nation blogs so I think it is extremely unlikely that the Pac 12 conference (which is interested in academics) would be the least bit interested.

Cougar High is an Aggie chant that began in the 1950s referring to the fact our original campus in the 1920s was a converted high school. We moved to our current location in 1936. Here's a walking tour of just part of the campus:



ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance of a university. More than 1200 universities are ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published.

Houston ranks 201-300 in the world.
UConn ranks 301-400.

 

[UconnBoston]

Cougar High is an Aggie chant that began in the 1950s referring to the fact our original campus in the 1920s was a converted high school. We moved to our current location in 1936. Here's a walking tour of just part of the campus:



ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance of a university. More than 1200 universities are ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published.

Houston ranks 201-300 in the world.
UConn ranks 301-400.

I know that when I want to evaluate the quality of American academic institutions, my first source is always the Chinese.

 

[Marty Jackson]

Interestingly, Tulane is ranked right there with uconn.
I suppose to someone it makes sense. However just looking at some of the schools, you can see selectivity or competitiveness doesn't appear to be consistent or a significant factor.

 

[ninety-nine]

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings claim to " list the best global universities and are the only international university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook," based on "13 carefully calibrated performance indicators." The list is 800 universities deep, and showed the following:

201-250: South Florida
251-300: Tulane, Colorado State
301-350: Cincinnati, UConn
351-400: Houston, Temple
Not listed: Memphis, BYU, Central Florida, UNLV, Boise State, East Carolina

Top five: Caltech, Oxford, Stanford, Cambridge, MIT

Highest-ranked FBS schools: UCLA, 16; Duke, 20; Michigan, 21; Northwestern, 25

UT-Austin: 46
Iowa State: 251-300
Oklahoma State: 501-600
Kansas State: 501-600
Texas Tech: 601-800
Kansas: unlisted
Oklahoma: unlisted
West Virginia: unlisted
Baylor: unlisted
Texas Christian: unlisted

For what it's worth. I'd imagine these ratings systems compete with each other, and thus use different rankings metrics. Do we know which ones the Big 12 evaluators are relying upon?