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in the end, EMAW will always win.
Quote from: Panjandrum on July 22, 2016, 10:22:51 AMQuote from: KITNfury on July 22, 2016, 10:18:56 AMYea let's add a school for basically no good reason except it helps UT get a campus in Houston. Great long term thinking behind this. If you want to know why the Big 12 can't stop tripping over their dick, it's because they make decisions like this for these types of reasons. sheesh.Keeping Texas happy is what keeps this conference together and further tethering them, politically, to the Big 12 helps keep it together.Does adding Houston keep UT happy in 5 years? 10 year? 20? It's short sighted at best. Doesn't mean crap going forward. But I don't expect the leadership of this conference to make good decisions, never have and no reason to believe they will going forward. It makes me sad, but I don't blame the schools with options to leave for wanting to do so.
Quote from: KITNfury on July 22, 2016, 10:18:56 AMYea let's add a school for basically no good reason except it helps UT get a campus in Houston. Great long term thinking behind this. If you want to know why the Big 12 can't stop tripping over their dick, it's because they make decisions like this for these types of reasons. sheesh.Keeping Texas happy is what keeps this conference together and further tethering them, politically, to the Big 12 helps keep it together.
Yea let's add a school for basically no good reason except it helps UT get a campus in Houston. Great long term thinking behind this. If you want to know why the Big 12 can't stop tripping over their dick, it's because they make decisions like this for these types of reasons. sheesh.
ECU plays tougher non cons, and Cinn is swallowed up by Ohio State whereas ECU beats ACC teams including UNC. Population growth, no contest.
Quote from: sonofdaxjones on July 22, 2016, 12:51:53 PMECU plays tougher non cons, and Cinn is swallowed up by Ohio State whereas ECU beats ACC teams including UNC. Population growth, no contest.Stop
This conference is about to go from pud to stud
Quote from: kim carnes on July 22, 2016, 12:53:38 PMThis conference is about to go from pud to studThoughts on San Diego State
Hey SDSU, next week you're playing at the equivalent of 7am your time. Don't worry, WV gets their 11pm kick next year.
WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT OF CONFERENCES OMG
Quote from: KITNfury on July 22, 2016, 10:37:14 AMQuote from: Panjandrum on July 22, 2016, 10:22:51 AMQuote from: KITNfury on July 22, 2016, 10:18:56 AMYea let's add a school for basically no good reason except it helps UT get a campus in Houston. Great long term thinking behind this. If you want to know why the Big 12 can't stop tripping over their dick, it's because they make decisions like this for these types of reasons. sheesh.Keeping Texas happy is what keeps this conference together and further tethering them, politically, to the Big 12 helps keep it together.Does adding Houston keep UT happy in 5 years? 10 year? 20? It's short sighted at best. Doesn't mean crap going forward. But I don't expect the leadership of this conference to make good decisions, never have and no reason to believe they will going forward. It makes me sad, but I don't blame the schools with options to leave for wanting to do so.The schools with options (UT and OU) seem to be the dumbest and most shortsighted of the bunch. (Assuming there is something to this rough ridin' grad school theory)
Another Texas school and the weirdo Mormons are 2 I dont want...goo
UT should care about what U of H does or doesn't want because UT royally pissed off some VERY important members of the Legislature (including Whitmire) when the Houston campus land purchase was announced. There will be repercussions for the way that was handled, but handling it in a more pubic and transparent manner would have caused the land cost to soar. McRaven still has to deal with the fallout from that next session when appropriations are discussed. Very powerful legislators have already stated that if the UT system has that much money for land purchases, then maybe it has too much money. How the political ramifications of the UT Houston initiative seem meaningless to some people escapes me. It is a VERY significant problem for the UT System over the next few months. The primary concern about the initiative is what it will mean to the U of H system, because UT's presence in Houston will create competition for researchers and graduate level faculty. The UT Houston initiative has not been approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. It can't move forward without THECB approval. The THECB will take a hard look at UT Houston's impact on U of H. If they want to, the U of H side can cause tens of millions of dollars of headaches for Bill McRaven in trying to make the UT Houston initiative a reality.If UT can get an agreement in place with U of H prior to the hearings by the legislature and the THECB, then the approval process (and the university's appropriation request) will be much less problematic. If the educational mission of the overall UT System gets set back by the anyone in the athletic department puffing their $#@!ing chest out saying some bull$#@! school "isn't worthy of inclusion in the Big 12", it will be humiliating for Bill McRaven as well as the entire Board of regents. I support UT athletics, but if the athletic department's arrogance over who can and can't be in the same conference with the football team $#@!s up a $1 billion academic initiative, expect some pissed off Regents, and rightfully so. If you care about the core mission of UT, you care about whether U of H signs off on the UT Houston initiative and if Cougar High in the Big 12 is their price for signing off on an agreement, give it to them in a heartbeat. We aren't some piece of $#@! SEC school, we put academics first.
FWIW, per BITB, Houston (not UT or aTm) gets the highest tv ratings for football in the Houston tv market.
Quote from: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on July 23, 2016, 01:09:13 PMFWIW, per BITB, Houston (not UT or aTm) gets the highest tv ratings for football in the Houston tv market.houston texans maybe
Houston Cougars I didn't know what the Houston U mascot was until that tidbit from bitb.
