(11-01-2010 09:14 AM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  

(11-01-2010 09:04 AM)brista21 Wrote:  

(11-01-2010 08:57 AM)JunkYardCard Wrote:  

(11-01-2010 08:34 AM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  Thanks for the link. It looks like the 12/20 is really being considered. So we would be adding:

TCU
Houston
Central Florida
Villanove or Temple

Memphis and East Carolina or not mentioned! What's you take?

From what little I know about Houston, this looks like the best hope for long term stability. The only negative would be if the Longhorn Conference imploded the next day and we could have had Kansas, KSU, Missouri and ISU instead. And even then, that may not be better in the long run.

If the Texas Ten/Longhorn Conference/Big 12/Big XII-2 imploded the day after it would mean the dawn of the superconference and it would be time for a split and time to add those 4 schools probably as the Big 16. I think a conference with
Big 16 East - UConn, Syracuse, Rutgers, Temple, Pitt, WVU, USF, UCF
Big 16 West - UL, Cincy, Mizzou, Iowa State, Kansas, K-State, TCU, Houston
would be a very, very good one.

Spot on brista21! I agree 100%.

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This is probably true. But we would still have invited at least three programs into the mix that may not have been there otherwise. Not sure if that help or hurts us really. But it definitely makes it more complicated and interesting.