(05-13-2013 09:39 PM)UNLVFan90 Wrote: Sorry Houston, but the only way you get a Big 12 invite is if a Texas team leaves. You need to look at the big picture and come to the MWC and bring along SMU and Tulsa.
This lazy, ignorant meme needs to be put to bed.
Let's say the Big 12 adds Houston.
Compared to other conferences, how would the team to state population ratio add up?
Big 12 / Texas - 5.21 million people per team
Pac 12 / Oregon - 1.95 million people per team
Pac 12 / Washington - 3.45 million people per team
Pac 12 / Arizona - 3.28 million people per team
SEC / Mississippi - 1.49 million people per team
SEC / Alabama - 2.41 million people per team
SEC / Tennessee - 3.23 million people per team
Big 10 / Indiana - 3.27 million people per team
Big 10 / Michigan - 4.94 million people per team
ACC / North Carolina - 2.43 million people per team
ACC / Virginia - 4.09 million people per team
Conclusion: It's time to shut the hell up about the Big 12 and "oversaturation" in Texas. Newsflash! Texas is huge. And it's growing faster than virtually every other state in the union, and has been for a really long time. Another important point, the average distance between a Big 12 school in Texas and the city of Houston is
285 miles. That's greater than the distance from Washington DC to Raleigh NC. This is not the SWC 2.0 we're talking about here. The SWC had 8 Texas schools. 5 would be significantly less than that, and of those 5, 2 are small private schools. The Big 12 has 6 teams outside of Texas in 4 states that stretch over 1000 miles, the SWC had 1 team in a singular neighboring state. There is
more than enough room for Houston in the Big 12.