(02-17-2019 04:25 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(02-17-2019 04:04 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(02-17-2019 04:00 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(02-17-2019 03:51 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  I have a weird feeling that Houston and Cincinnati will be joining the Big 12 North with ISU, KSU, KU & WV. Houston’s incredible money out they butts moves (coach and Arena) and Cincinnati just making too much sense adds to the crickets coming from the AAC espn negotiations right now lead me to this idea. Somethings rotten in Denmark

Ha! Nice try, but it won't happen. The Big12 (Texas & Oklahoma) are not going to expand the conference.

Exactly. Everything out of Austin is no need to expand

Good to see a good David post on a slow day

In all honesty, I think Texas and OU regret adding TCU. Even being a small private school, they have managed to funnel away some talent that would normally go to the Big 2. They probably wish they had awarded that spot to Cincinnati when WV was added. That move would have cut in to the Big10 market, much like A&M did for the SEC. And, adding Cincy would have helped preserve more top Texas talent for UT & OU.

I can't see them ever agreeing to add Houston with their size and resources. Houston needs to focus on building their program to the UCF/Boise level, and hope something shacks up the status quo among the P5's.

I don't disagree, but consider the context of the move at the time. With the SEC "breaking into" Texas through A&M, and the Big East, still with a seat at the major table, getting TCU off a freshly disposed "new major" threat of the then-MWC, I always saw the TCU grab not as "the next non-major standing in line" (although, they probably were when it came to football), but as a way for the Big XII to keep its Texas turf stocked and relatively exclusive to itself.

It wasn't a bad move. But, yeah, I could see some buyer's remorse. Especially after the Big East unwound itself not terribly long thereafter anyhow. Like, if the Big XII took Louisville or Cincinnati with West Virginia then...what *really* happens to the Big East? TCU doesn't help the conference keep its spot at the table.