Sean Pendergast, who won Jim Rome's annual smack-off five times from 1999-2007 and leveraged it into his own radio show in Houston, has written an interesting piece on the future of the Big 12 in the Houston Press.

http://www.houstonpress.com/news/a-seism...12-7720862

Currently, Houston plays in the American Athletic Conference, a grouping that is considered the best of the non-power conferences but is a bit of a geographic mess whose roots can be traced to the old Big East. The AAC is a nicer neighborhood than Conference USA, the Coogs’ old conference home, but in the brave new world in which college football has a playoff that is virtually exclusive to the Power Five conferences, the AAC still has “property value” issues.

In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne writes a letter to the state every day in order to get funds to build a library for his prison. Even though there’s a good chance the state will never answer, he keeps writing and writing before eventually getting a response after years and years worth of attempts. When you’re a school like UH, realignment is kind of like that. (My apologies to the members of the AAC for comparing their conference to a fictional prison.) Every game you play, every recruit you land, every improvement you make to facilities is one of those letters to the state. All you can do is hope that the state, in this case the Big 12, answers.



In all seriousness, Houston would do extremely well in the Big 12. The question is whether or not the Big 12 sees it the same way.

Best part about that article was Clay Travis.

3 teams in the Big 12 hold the cards. Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The rest are just along for the ride, hoping to ride coattails.

Houston might be hoping for a Big 12 invite..but I'd imagine other teams are ahead of them in line.

FWIW Pendergast has ties to some big cigars at Ok St and OU, and is a college football junkie.

(09-01-2015 10:30 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  FWIW Pendergast has ties to some big cigars at Ok St and OU, and is a college football junkie.

He's a Notre Dame grad from Connecticut. And he quotes Clay Travis. Both knocks on him knowing what he is talking about. Also treats Chip Brown as some kind of realignment guru.

(09-01-2015 10:30 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  FWIW Pendergast has ties to some big cigars at Ok St and OU, and is a college football junkie.

Any idea why Khator was giving Ken Starr a U of H book?
I saw her twitter linked on Flugaur's twitter.

Actually, that's a pretty solid well rounded piece on the Big-12 situation.

(09-01-2015 10:45 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-01-2015 10:30 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  FWIW Pendergast has ties to some big cigars at Ok St and OU, and is a college football junkie.

Any idea why Khator was giving Ken Starr a U of H book?
I saw her twitter linked on Flugaur's twitter.

Starr is on the Big 12 expansion committee.

(09-01-2015 11:27 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  

(09-01-2015 10:45 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-01-2015 10:30 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  FWIW Pendergast has ties to some big cigars at Ok St and OU, and is a college football junkie.

Any idea why Khator was giving Ken Starr a U of H book?
I saw her twitter linked on Flugaur's twitter.

Starr is on the Big 12 expansion committee.

But what was the situation where she got a posed picture with him?

Her tweet said "It was an honor to be with Baylor President Starr and share the UH story."

You tell me. Why would she be sharing the UH story with Starr and giving him literature on UH if not for Big 12 purposes?

(09-01-2015 12:35 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  Her tweet said "It was an honor to be with Baylor President Starr and share the UH story."

You tell me. Why would she be sharing the UH story with Starr and giving him literature on UH if not for Big 12 purposes?

No doubt that Khator and Fertitta are visible and powerful ambassadors for UH. They are both relentless in the mission.

(09-01-2015 10:51 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Actually, that's a pretty solid well rounded piece on the Big-12 situation.

Agree. Just hope he whiffed at the end of the story, and that on September 26 Rice shows Baylor the Owls are not as hopelessly overmatched as SMU and Lamar.

(09-01-2015 12:35 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  Her tweet said "It was an honor to be with Baylor President Starr and share the UH story."

You tell me. Why would she be sharing the UH story with Starr and giving him literature on UH if not for Big 12 purposes?

I asked you Cougars. Its your president's tweet. Why would he pose for a picture of it? That's kind of strange.

(09-01-2015 02:16 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-01-2015 12:35 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  Her tweet said "It was an honor to be with Baylor President Starr and share the UH story."

You tell me. Why would she be sharing the UH story with Starr and giving him literature on UH if not for Big 12 purposes?

I asked you Cougars. Its your president's tweet. Why would he pose for a picture of it? That's kind of strange.

She has that hypnotic effect on folks....look into Starr eye's doesn't he look like he's hypnotized. You are very sleepy and repeat after me ..you are going to invite UH to the Big 12 ..you are very sleepy...you are going to invite UH to the Big 12...i am going to invite UH to the Big 12....I am going too invite UH to the Big 12..very good Ken

(09-01-2015 10:01 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  Currently, Houston plays in the American Athletic Conference,[i] a grouping that is considered the best of the non-power conferences ...

By whom???

(09-01-2015 06:45 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(09-01-2015 10:01 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  Currently, Houston plays in the American Athletic Conference,[i] a grouping that is considered the best of the non-power conferences ...

By whom???

College football fans in general.

(09-01-2015 06:45 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(09-01-2015 10:01 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  Currently, Houston plays in the American Athletic Conference,[i] a grouping that is considered the best of the non-power conferences ...

By whom???

MWC>than AAC overall in my books. Temple, Tulane, U. Conn., SMU and USF could lose to all the schools in the MWC anytime. Once Cincinnati, UCF, East Carolina and Memphis leaves for the Big 12, no MWC team will join the AAC for good reasons. AAC smells too much like the old C-USA right now, and C-USA was never that good except for Southern Miss, Tulsa and Houston for many years. Houston is the only one holding up their own end very well. If the above leaves? I could see Houston and SMU might defect for the MWC if the 4 that I mentioned leaves. AAC will become bery watered down soon and will get worried on who to invite. Marshall, Rice, UTSA and Old Dominion might be good additions to AAC, but who else could they add? Toledo, Northern Illinois and Buffalo from the MAC? U. Mass? James Madison, Delaware and Stony Brook from CAA?

Both conferences have a handful of programs that are really competitive as well as a group of essentially dead weight. One interesting difference is the MW is #1 in many of its markets (Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico) and #2 everywhere else but the AAC is really only #1 in Connecticut and in many cases the #3 conference (Texas, Florida).

(09-01-2015 10:51 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Actually, that's a pretty solid well rounded piece on the Big-12 situation.

Well rounded pieces on the Big 12 don't involve quoting Clay Travis.

(09-01-2015 09:51 PM)1845 Bear Wrote:  

(09-01-2015 10:51 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Actually, that's a pretty solid well rounded piece on the Big-12 situation.

Well rounded pieces on the Big 12 don't involve quoting Clay Travis.

lol....Clay Travis vs most any conference commissioner. Its a toss up as to who can be more misleading in a 30 second realignment answer.