In a pretend land where the Big XII knows what they're doing, some college presidents in the Big XII realize that the South is where college football reigns....and from this premise, they push forward with expansion, adding Houston, Tulane, Memphis, and UCF (or one of the Florida schools).

This set up would bring the lucrative and upcoming Houston market and school. It would bring New Orleans, and a great academic institute in Tulane (as well as former SEC school). It would bring one of the hot Florida teams with a large student body, great recruiting, great market and great destination. And it would bring in Memphis (and FedEx??), a great school that would loosely connect all points of the conference.

This move would be geographical in nature and create an east and west wing that overlap with Texas schools:

Big XII WEST
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Kansas
Kansas State
Iowa State
Texas Tech
Houston

Big XII EAST
Texas
Baylor
TCU
Memphis
West Virginia
Tulane
UCF

This would keep old Big 8 rivals together, while bringing in Houston as a prime Texas destination for Oklahoma, Kansas, and Iowa teams.

It would allow Texas a new set of competitors for the LHN, and help out West Virginia with some Eastern schools.

That said, I doubt this happens

Tulane hasn't been a SEC school in a half century.

If they cared about the future they would take the 2 largest schools currently bigger than all existing b12 teams, who in 15 years will have more living alumni than than any school in the b12, located in the fastest growing state, in the #1 recruiting state, with the #4 TV market in the country, in the middle of their toughest competitors home turf (ACC/SEC).

(08-02-2016 11:56 PM)Sellular1 Wrote:  If they cared about the future they would take the 2 largest schools currently bigger than all existing b12 teams, who in 15 years will have more living alumni than than any school in the b12, located in the fastest growing state, in the #1 recruiting state, with the #4 TV market in the country, in the middle of their toughest competitors home turf (ACC/SEC).

How will USF overtake Texas in # of living alumni? Texas has more students, a higher graduation rate, and gigantic head start (450,000 compared to 296,000 for USF)

Why wouldn't they take a school that already has more living alumni than every Big 12 school except Texas AND has a $1.2 billion endowment that proves the alumni actually care about the university?