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And give up their spot on the SEC teat ? Not a chance.

(09-09-2014 12:09 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  Perhaps MSU should give serious consideration to moving to the Big 12 .

(09-09-2014 01:06 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  And give up their spot on the SEC teat ? Not a chance.

While the SEC is the biggest spending conference for athletics in the NCAA, the median SEC school is spending only about $35,000 more annually per athlete (about $170,000) than the #2 conference median team which is in the Big 12 (Delta Cost Project figures). All other conference's median teams lag even farther behind. It may well be that the athletic budget for MSU is more in line with those in the Big 12 (other than perhaps UOK, OK State and UTX) than the top spenders in the SEC.

Instead of annually trying to avoid the #6 spot in the SEC West, they might be more competitive with the middle teams of the Big 12, and by adding one more team with MSU, the Big 12 could have its own Championship game again.

We should have moved to the sun belt a long time ago then, huh?

(09-09-2014 02:27 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  We should have moved to the sun belt a long time ago then, huh?

C-USA and the Sunbelt are not all that different in median athletic spending and neither are in the top 6 among conferences in the NCAA. They are both in the 5 figure annual spending group rather than the 6 figure groups in P5 (AU and UA EACH reported spending about $200,000 annually per athlete since 2008).

(09-07-2014 09:09 AM)BlazerGrad88 Wrote:  Slightly off topic, but Duke 34, Troy 17 makes UAB 48, Troy 10 look even better this morning.

Never mind.

UGa-66, Troy-0

(09-20-2014 06:08 PM)BlazerGrad88 Wrote:  

(09-07-2014 09:09 AM)BlazerGrad88 Wrote:  Slightly off topic, but Duke 34, Troy 17 makes UAB 48, Troy 10 look even better this morning.

Never mind.

UGa-66, Troy-0

That game doesn't matter for our perception. If Mississippi State holds on to beat LSU in Baton Rouge, however...

Doesn't matter?

Try losing it, 48-10.

(09-20-2014 08:01 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Doesn't matter?

Try losing it, 48-10.

I was referring to the UGA-Troy game. It doesn't really matter with regards to UAB's perception.

(09-20-2014 10:15 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(09-20-2014 08:01 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Doesn't matter?

Try losing it, 48-10.

I was referring to the UGA-Troy game. It doesn't really matter with regards to UAB's perception.

Gotcha. Yeah, Troy getting a mudhole stomped in them by Georgia doesn't change how the mudhole we stomped in them looks, either way.