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RE: Temple University to the Big 12 ?
Look at the map picture in the philly.com link, it seems Temple can at least do something on the scale that Tulane did recently.
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05-22-2016 04:37 PM |
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RE: Temple University to the Big 12 ?
(05-22-2016 02:08 PM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote: Getting back to the question posed in the OP, Temple is an interesting dark horse candidate but if the Big 12 is going to add a member on the Atlantic coast (a big if) I think it will invite UConn instead. Neither program has a great football pedigree but UConn's elite status in basketball tips the balance in its favor.
Storrs is just so freaking FAR from the Big 12. People don't realize how far east the northeast juts away from the rest of the country. It's almost in the Atlantic time zone.
Storrs is about 240 miles further away from the Big 12 than Philly already is, and Philly already is a LONG way away.
I mean, believe it or not, there are parts of Greenland, yeah, that ice covered Danish island in the north Atlantic, that are closer to Storrs than Austin or Lubbock is.
(This post was last modified: 05-22-2016 06:34 PM by quo vadis.)
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RE: Temple University to the Big 12 ?
(05-22-2016 06:33 PM)quo vadis Wrote: (05-22-2016 02:08 PM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote: Getting back to the question posed in the OP, Temple is an interesting dark horse candidate but if the Big 12 is going to add a member on the Atlantic coast (a big if) I think it will invite UConn instead. Neither program has a great football pedigree but UConn's elite status in basketball tips the balance in its favor.
Storrs is just so freaking FAR from the Big 12. People don't realize how far east the northeast juts away from the rest of the country. It's almost in the Atlantic time zone.
Storrs is about 240 miles further away from the Big 12 than Philly already is, and Philly already is a LONG way away.
I mean, believe it or not, there are parts of Greenland, yeah, that ice covered Danish island in the north Atlantic, that are closer to Storrs than Austin or Lubbock is.
I give you an A in geography. Yay Google maps!
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