Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....

[kim carnes]

NSF Research dollar rankings of all of the schools in the keep and cut list.

Bold means Carnegie Tier 1.
Italic means Private/Liberal Arts
Strike means they were on the cut list

#41 USF
#50 Cincinnati
#75 Colorado State
#82 UConn
#91 New Mexico
#94 Temple
#105 UCF
#120 Tulane
#126 Houston
#128 Rice
#149 San Diego State
#184 Memphis
#201 Air Force
#201 UNLV
#214 BYU
#222 SMU
#229 East Carolina
#237 Boise St.
#281 No. Illiniois
#341 Arkansas State

It's not 100% confirmed that Memphis is really "in".  That's kind of up for debate right now.  Unless you're private or Liberal Arts, the only schools under consideration are Tier 1 schools with high research dollars.

If you cut it down to the four AAC group A schools (teams with more value per media contracts), BYU, and CSU, this is what that list ultimately looks like.

#50 Cincinnati
#75 Colorado State
#82 UConn
#94 Temple
#126 Houston
#214 BYU

Now, intermix that with the current Big 12...targets in green.

#34 Texas
#50 Cincinnati
#74 Iowa State
#75 Colorado State
#77 Kansas
#82 UConn
#83 Oklahoma
#94 Temple
#106 Kansas State
#116 West Virginia
#119 Texas Tech
#126 Houston
#135 Oklahoma State
#214 BYU
#257 Baylor
#346 TCU

When you cross map it all, you can kind of see why CSU is still kicking.

This is your list of six.  Cut 2-4 of those in green, and that's what your lineup will be.

NSF Research dollars eh?   Looks like we need to be going after Johns Hopkins, UCSF and UCSD and we would have #'s 1, 5, and 6 nationally $$$.  U cracked the code.

[Super PurpleCat]

NSF Research dollar rankings of all of the schools in the keep and cut list.

Bold means Carnegie Tier 1.
Italic means Private/Liberal Arts
Strike means they were on the cut list

#41 USF
#50 Cincinnati
#75 Colorado State
#82 UConn
#91 New Mexico
#94 Temple
#105 UCF
#120 Tulane
#126 Houston
#128 Rice
#149 San Diego State
#184 Memphis
#201 Air Force
#201 UNLV
#214 BYU
#222 SMU
#229 East Carolina
#237 Boise St.
#281 No. Illiniois
#341 Arkansas State

It's not 100% confirmed that Memphis is really "in".  That's kind of up for debate right now.  Unless you're private or Liberal Arts, the only schools under consideration are Tier 1 schools with high research dollars.

If you cut it down to the four AAC group A schools (teams with more value per media contracts), BYU, and CSU, this is what that list ultimately looks like.

#50 Cincinnati
#75 Colorado State
#82 UConn
#94 Temple
#126 Houston
#214 BYU

Now, intermix that with the current Big 12...targets in green.

#34 Texas
#50 Cincinnati
#74 Iowa State
#75 Colorado State
#77 Kansas
#82 UConn
#83 Oklahoma
#94 Temple
#106 Kansas State
#116 West Virginia
#119 Texas Tech
#126 Houston
#135 Oklahoma State
#214 BYU
#257 Baylor
#346 TCU

When you cross map it all, you can kind of see why CSU is still kicking.

This is your list of six.  Cut 2-4 of those in green, and that's what your lineup will be.

Alright.  Would take CSU and Houston.  12 team conference again.  Colorado trips again.  State of Texas happy with Houston. 

[Katpappy]

NSF Research dollar rankings of all of the schools in the keep and cut list.

Bold means Carnegie Tier 1.
Italic means Private/Liberal Arts
Strike means they were on the cut list

#41 USF
#50 Cincinnati
#75 Colorado State
#82 UConn
#91 New Mexico
#94 Temple
#105 UCF
#120 Tulane
#126 Houston
#128 Rice
#149 San Diego State
#184 Memphis
#201 Air Force
#201 UNLV
#214 BYU
#222 SMU
#229 East Carolina
#237 Boise St.
#281 No. Illiniois
#341 Arkansas State

It's not 100% confirmed that Memphis is really "in".  That's kind of up for debate right now.  Unless you're private or Liberal Arts, the only schools under consideration are Tier 1 schools with high research dollars.

If you cut it down to the four AAC group A schools (teams with more value per media contracts), BYU, and CSU, this is what that list ultimately looks like.

#50 Cincinnati
#75 Colorado State
#82 UConn
#94 Temple
#126 Houston
#214 BYU

Now, intermix that with the current Big 12...targets in green.

#34 Texas
#50 Cincinnati
#74 Iowa State
#75 Colorado State
#77 Kansas
#82 UConn
#83 Oklahoma
#94 Temple
#106 Kansas State
#116 West Virginia
#119 Texas Tech
#126 Houston
#135 Oklahoma State
#214 BYU
#257 Baylor
#346 TCU

When you cross map it all, you can kind of see why CSU is still kicking.

This is your list of six.  Cut 2-4 of those in green, and that's what your lineup will be.

Alright.  Would take CSU and Houston.  12 team conference again.  Colorado trips again.  State of Texas happy with Houston.

Only if we put OU in our division.

[Panjandrum]

NSF Research dollars eh?   Looks like we need to be going after Johns Hopkins, UCSF and UCSD and we would have #'s 1, 5, and 6 nationally $$$.  U cracked the code.

I'm not surprised that you missed the point.

[kim carnes]

NSF Research dollars eh?   Looks like we need to be going after Johns Hopkins, UCSF and UCSD and we would have #'s 1, 5, and 6 nationally $$$.  U cracked the code.

I'm not surprised that you missed the point.

So u listed out all that crap and that wasn't the point of your post?

[ednksu]

Is Houston too good for the Big 12?

[420seriouscat69]

Is Houston too good for the Big 12?

Word on the street is the SEC would love them

[BostonPancake]

Is Houston too good for the Big 12?

Word on the street is the SEC would love them

Wouldn't A&M have issues with this? 

[GoodForAnother]

Is Houston too good for the Big 12?

Word on the street is the SEC would love them

Wouldn't A&M have issues with this?

The sec hates A&M so I doubt they care

[Katpappy]

WELCOME HOUSTON; YOU'RE CLEARED FOR LANDING IN THE BIG XII!  Now if we could only land LSU.

[MakeItRain]

Is Houston too good for the Big 12?

Word on the street is the SEC would love them

That word is

[Pete]

Is Houston too good for the Big 12?

Word on the street is the SEC would love them

That word is

Agreed.  For many, many reasons.

[star seed 7]

Lol that people are fine with disgusting Houston just because they beat ou

[420seriouscat69]

Nobody said they were fine with it. They're a pretty good program right now tho..

[Panjandrum]

Houston is fine, has been fine, and will be fine.

[PIPE]

Houston adds jack squat

[420seriouscat69]

Minus the 3rd largest market in the US and a top 10 program right now. You're right, pipe.

[Panjandrum]

15 Houston vs. No. 3 Oklahoma (noon on ABC) had a 4.0 overnight and had a streaming average minute audience of 131,000 and 547,000 unique viewers. The game was the third best overnight and second most-streamed game, in both average minute audience and unique viewers on WatchESPN, on Saturday. There is no corresponding game last season.

The Houston market earned a 12.8 overnight for the Cougars-Sooners matchup, the market’s best overnight for an opening weekend game ever on ESPN’s networks.

http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2016/09/college-footballs-best-kickoff-saturday-espnabc-games-earn-top-four-overnights-among-networks/

But no one cares about Houston.

[Panjandrum]

Aside from the brand new football stadium, and the $25 million basketball practice facility, UH secured a $20 million lead donation for a renovation of Hofheinz Pavilion that will be called the Fertitta Center so Kelvin Sampson will have a state-of-the-art arena to build the program with.

http://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2016/August/082516FertittaCenter.php

But, yeah, garbage.

[mocat]

Just say "Houston" out loud tho. It doesn't pass the ear test

[wetwillie]

We will be lucky to get them with all the other conferences fighting over them.

[420seriouscat69]

Houston out loud sounds better than Baylor, Tech, TCU, K-State, Iowa State, etc.

[Pete]

Houston and Cincinnati seem inevitable at this point. 

[Panjandrum]

Houston and Cincinnati seem inevitable at this point.

I think they might get gun shy on BYU with the LGBT issues.

[MadCat]

Clarify something for me...when you all talk about the media market in Houston being so big, are we not already in that market?