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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #6425 on: November 18, 2010, 11:18:56 PM »
The University of Hawaii is close to ending the longest athletic conference affiliation in its history and leaving the Western Athletic Conference to join the Mountain West Conference, officials said.

UH President M.R.C. Greenwood said the school has been asked to "enter discussions for the Warrior Football team to join the Mountain West Conference."

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« Reply #6426 on: November 18, 2010, 11:31:04 PM »
Interesting.  I thought that Hawaii was going indy...

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« Reply #6427 on: November 18, 2010, 11:31:49 PM »
Wow, that is the greatest conference ever assembled. 

Congrats, 42, you've earned this one.   :cheers:

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #6428 on: November 18, 2010, 11:49:09 PM »
The University of Hawaii is close to ending the longest athletic conference affiliation in its history and leaving the Western Athletic Conference to join the Mountain West Conference, officials said.

UH President M.R.C. Greenwood said the school has been asked to "enter discussions for the Warrior Football team to join the Mountain West Conference."

I was afraid of this. There's a really good chance the WAC folds now. I'll be over in the corner hanging myself, kthx

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #6429 on: November 19, 2010, 09:02:36 AM »
The University of Hawaii is close to ending the longest athletic conference affiliation in its history and leaving the Western Athletic Conference to join the Mountain West Conference, officials said.

UH President M.R.C. Greenwood said the school has been asked to "enter discussions for the Warrior Football team to join the Mountain West Conference."

Does this solidify the MWC as the greatest road trip conference of all time?

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« Reply #6430 on: November 19, 2010, 09:14:03 AM »
Almost makes me envious we aren't headed there now.   :frown:
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« Reply #6431 on: November 19, 2010, 11:53:23 AM »
Almost makes me envious we aren't headed there now.   :frown:

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« Reply #6432 on: November 19, 2010, 01:32:01 PM »
Doesn't the Hawaii team stay on the mainland for several weeks at a time to minimize travel expenses?  Seems like I heard that somewhere.  If I was a good recruit, in any sport, I would definitely take an official visit to Hawaii.

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« Reply #6433 on: November 20, 2010, 09:41:50 AM »
A member of the Mountain West Conference board of directors says the league's tentative plans for football extend beyond the addition of Hawaii -- to a 12th team.

Stephen Weber, the president of San Diego State University, spoke to the San Diego Union-Tribune about the possibility of forming two six-team divisions with a cash-friendly postseason title game.

"But we're a long way from that," Weber said. "There's going to be a meeting in January. It's been scheduled for a long time, and we'll probably be making some advances in nailing this stuff down."

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #6434 on: November 20, 2010, 02:32:05 PM »
Doesn't the Hawaii team stay on the mainland for several weeks at a time to minimize travel expenses?  Seems like I heard that somewhere.  If I was a good recruit, in any sport, I would definitely take an official visit to Hawaii.

Great place to visit. Just meh to live here. Not much to do other than the beach. It takes about 30 days to do everything of interest on the island. Extremely expensive and mainlanders are not treated all that well away from Waikiki.

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« Reply #6435 on: November 29, 2010, 09:13:48 AM »
to the Big East.

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« Reply #6436 on: November 29, 2010, 09:15:28 AM »
In a move designed to prop up a weak football conference, The Big East has convinced TCU to leave the Mountain West and join the league as an all sports member, sources told the Daily News early this morning. Commissioner John Marinatto and Associate Commisioner in charge of communications John Paquette both flew to Dallas yesterday for the official announcement at 1 p.m. today.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/2010/11/29/2010-11-29_texas_christian_universitys_horned_frogs_invited_into_the_big_east_source.html#ixzz16gViyP51

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #6437 on: November 29, 2010, 09:30:49 AM »
UT wins again.

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #6438 on: November 29, 2010, 09:32:28 AM »
UT wins again.
By association, Baylor wins too.

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« Reply #6439 on: November 29, 2010, 09:33:19 AM »
to the Big East.

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« Reply #6440 on: November 29, 2010, 09:34:42 AM »
to the Big East.

I'm going to keep merging this post and see how many times he posts it before he figures out what's going on

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #6441 on: November 29, 2010, 09:35:53 AM »
This gives us a clear exit plan now should the B12 deteriorate.  TCU is out on an island in the BE right now.

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #6442 on: November 29, 2010, 09:42:14 AM »
This gives us a clear exit plan now should the B12 deteriorate.  TCU is out on an island in the BE right now.

definitely gives us some leverage.

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TCU to join Big East
« Reply #6443 on: November 29, 2010, 09:42:42 AM »
http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/ncf/news/story?id=5862368

Maybe I'm just way too optimistic, but I feel like this is the straw that broke the camels back on our chance to land GP.

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« Reply #6444 on: November 29, 2010, 09:43:58 AM »
Why can people not seem to see the "smoke your cigars" thread and realize that it hasn't been at the top of the topic list for a while.  It suddenly appeared for some strange reason today.  I wonder what that has to do with.
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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #6445 on: November 29, 2010, 09:52:45 AM »
Whoops! My apologies.

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Re: TCU to join Big East
« Reply #6446 on: November 29, 2010, 10:19:39 AM »
http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/ncf/news/story?id=5862368

Maybe I'm just way too optimistic, but I feel like this is the straw that broke the camels back on our chance to land GP.


I'm confused, why does this give you optimism?

Gary's ambitions had to have been a key element in this move.  The only real leverage we had in our play to get him to K-State was the lure of the Big XII and the BCS.  Escaping the mid-major crap pile of the Mountain West is out the window now, so I don't see how that plays in our favor.


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No G-Patt, EVER....
« Reply #6447 on: November 29, 2010, 10:35:16 AM »
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YahooSports - TCU moving to Big East after 2011-12 (AP)

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Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« Reply #6448 on: November 29, 2010, 10:43:44 AM »
Extremely jealous of TCU. 

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« Reply #6449 on: November 29, 2010, 10:45:41 AM »
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YahooSports - TCU moving to Big East after 2011-12 (AP)

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Recruiting in Texas just got much more difficult.