You can tell this guy understands how conference expansion works...Discuss what? Adding metro/directional schools?
F*** to the no.
You can tell this guy understands how conference expansion works...Discuss what? Adding metro/directional schools?
F*** to the no.
From everything Boren has stated and the reports of the meetings, candidates and details will be discussed at the meetings. Doubtful there are votes lined up for anyone, they won't vote at this meeting, they will discuss. Lots of info to be passed along and scrutinized by the membership.
However, I have never seen a conference knowingly expand to include someone who may immediately come in and take the championship.
Something to take into account is that the expansion committee as working for a year on this issue and they have certainly conferred with all of the Big 12 members but have also been to a few campuses and are reported in the press as having spoken about expansion while on those campuses. I suggest that this meeting is further along than preliminary discussion. The mere fact that so much time has been set aside would indicate that there is a list of items to comb through and consider. I could be completely wrong on this but they will at least vote on whether to expand or not if they do not decide on candidates.
I believe that Cincinnati has the votes, but I do not think any proposed candidate partner has 8 votes. They are unlikely to expand by 1, but there have been 11 team conferences before. If they are going to devote the bulk of the meeting time to this issue, they are going to expand to at least 12 or not at all.
I believe the meeting ends with a move to expand with Cincinnati and _________ .
Just curious, why do you think Cincy has the votes, when it appears at this time there aren't even enough votes to expand.
That's laughable you would make that comparison. There are already several "State" schools in power 5 conferences, some with championships. And in terms of directional schools, Southern Cal is an exception, not the rule.Isn't adding the word State effectively the same as directional? If a school is a part of the state university system does it matter what the name is? Southern California is directional as an extreme example. Miami is a small private school you could call metro. As a matter of fact, TCU is a small private Christian school with only 11k students on campus and they fit quite well into the Big 12.
Why is there an issue with some regarding the name of a school? If they fit the criteria mandated by the collective votes of the conference membership, everything else is settled on the playing field.
That's laughable you would make that comparison. There are already several "State" schools in power 5 conferences, some with championships. And in terms of directional schools, Southern Cal is an exception, not the rule.
Miami is a metro school. So is Pitt. Do you not see empty stadiums when they play? There just isn't the same level of fan support at those schools unless they're having a damn fine year. You all are jumping up and down for a Cincinnati that fills its ~40,000 seat stadium when it's doing great.
And if you would read, I mentioned that the Big XII had private religious schools in TCU and Baylor. Given TCU wasn't the first religious school added, that argument doesn't hold water, plus they had paid their dues over a decade prior to joining. Cincinnati took advantage of having Brian Kelly and us having Bill Stewart to have two very good seasons, and haven't been that great since. They haven't done enough to earn their place.
I don't need to defend why I don't want us adding metro and directional schools. Just look to the reactive Big East that took on most of C-USA to see how well that went in terms of being a power/BCS conference. Those of you jumping at any option because they're the only options are the same types that really must miss the days of always being told "yeah, well, they have to play Directional U and Metro U, and if they played a real schedule they would suck!"
Two out of every three quoted tweets isn't showing up for me.
I went to a USF game and when White and Super Steve was playing. The stadium was half empty, and their fans had no idea how to cheer for their team. I actually had some lady sitting in front of me that we were cheering too loud. Say What????USF had 65k butts in seats when they played WVU last. The name of a school means nothing. If Miami changed their name to Florida Christian University would that make them better? Cincinnati has nearly as many on campus students as WVU, they are still going to bowls, also. What would you suggest they change their name to? Let the presidents and ADs do their jobs, then let's see what happens either way. The conference is liable to do anything.
That's laughable you would make that comparison. There are already several "State" schools in power 5 conferences, some with championships. And in terms of directional schools, Southern Cal is an exception, not the rule.
Miami is a metro school. So is Pitt. Do you not see empty stadiums when they play? There just isn't the same level of fan support at those schools unless they're having a damn fine year. You all are jumping up and down for a Cincinnati that fills its ~40,000 seat stadium when it's doing great.
And if you would read, I mentioned that the Big XII had private religious schools in TCU and Baylor. Given TCU wasn't the first religious school added, that argument doesn't hold water, plus they had paid their dues over a decade prior to joining. Cincinnati took advantage of having Brian Kelly and us having Bill Stewart to have two very good seasons, and haven't been that great since. They haven't done enough to earn their place.
I don't need to defend why I don't want us adding metro and directional schools. Just look to the reactive Big East that took on most of C-USA to see how well that went in terms of being a power/BCS conference. Those of you jumping at any option because they're the only options are the same types that really must miss the days of always being told "yeah, well, they have to play Directional U and Metro U, and if they played a real schedule they would suck!"
And, as predicted, nothing happened.
You may have missed the part where they are disseminating information now through May and June meetings before taking any actions.
Yaawwnnn, and I'm sure you'll be all over it until then and beyond. And then nothing will happen again.
Yaawwnnn, and I'm sure you'll be all over it until then and beyond. And then nothing will happen again.
See there's this magical thing you can do if you aren't interested in something...... DON'T READ IT!
But then stupid is as stupid does.......
BTW, if it upsets you so much, why do you go out of the way to read the posts
To answer you both: Because some jackass keeps clogging up this board with this crap, including endless posts about expansion, until there is nothing else to read on here.
And to answer you, some jackass can't see or count because on page 1 alone there are over 30 threads created by different people and even the expansion related threads are created by different people and total maybe five if that.
Meanwhile some asswipe is on this thread and others doing nothing but trolling and making moronic statements--and its not anyone talking about expansion, its the dumbass bashing people for having discussion on a board for discussion because he doesn't want someone else to discuss something-again on a board for discussing things like exactly he can't stand.
What a moron.
To answer you both: Because some jackass keeps clogging up this board with this crap, including endless posts about expansion, until there is nothing else to read on here.