(10-17-2016 03:12 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-12-expansion-league-is-so-unpredictable-that-anything-could-happen-monday/amp/

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(10-17-2016 08:29 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  My turn to crow about "calling it"!

(10-17-2016 07:28 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  I place two $1.00 bets on Houston and Cincinnati to get the invites from the Big 12.

BYU will not get an invite for religious and political reasons. SMU or Rice will get an invite before BYU.

Colorado State is a long shot but would make sense.

UCF, USF, and UCONN are way out of the footprint. Tulane....is just Tulane.

(10-17-2016 08:58 AM)pablowow Wrote:  

(10-17-2016 07:28 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  I place two $1.00 bets on Houston and Cincinnati to get the invites from the Big 12.

BYU will not get an invite for religious and political reasons. SMU or Rice will get an invite before BYU.

Colorado State is a long shot but would make sense.

UCF, USF, and UCONN are way out of the footprint. Tulane....is just Tulane.

Excuse me? Really. You must implying we're a lock.

Quote:They include an expert in plant science, a former key contributor to the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center and a former chair of a department of mathematics and statistics. They include the former highest-ranking U.S. military officer as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a former U.S. senator (and Oklahoma governor before that) and a man who has been president of five universities. They include a former “Professor of Christian Scriptures,” a former practicing lawyer and a university president who still teaches a freshman class at the TCU College of Education.

They include a woman, Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, who spent 38 years in various key positions at the University of North Carolina, including chairing the psychology department.

The 10 university presidents of the Big 12 Conference, with their various degrees from places ranging from Yale to Cornell to Saint Louis University to Utah to the University of California at Berkeley and back to Oklahoma Baptist, will spend Monday together near Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport addressing a topic some will consider their loudest: whether the conference will expand, or whether it will expand in football only, or whether it will not expand at all. Two of the presidents — the former Christian Scriptures professor, David Garland of Baylor, and the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers of Kansas State — are interim.

They will meet with the backdrop of what has become the key quotation, University of Oklahoma President David Boren’s assessment to the OU Daily in June 2015 that the league was “psychologically disadvantaged” because of size. Among the country’s biggest five conferences, three have 14 members, one has 12 and the Big 12 has 10. That number arguably has caused it some constraints since the 10 settled in 2012 when Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas A&M exited, then TCU and West Virginia joined.

(10-17-2016 10:28 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  Pony,

Guessing that Sparks quote is taken way out of context. Would love to see the whole thing.

e.g. "If the Big 12 selects the 'wrong' schools ... then expansion is probably harmful to the future of the conference."