(10-19-2016 05:54 AM)exowlswimmer Wrote:  Hawaii Owl,
A long view would show that a PAC-14 expansion now
(Hawaii and Rice) prior to the big12 implosion sets up the PAC for picking up Texas after the big12 disbands. Hawaii gives the PAC teams a 13th game in years that they travel to the islands. Rice enhances the academic pedigree while offering a Texas showcase game for recruits with (at least initially) little downside of an embarrassing blowout by Rice. The two schools expand the PAC-12 footprint and at about 820 miles to the Pacific (SW towards Mazatlan) Rice is not as far from the Pacific ocean as some critics might think.

Go West young man, there are plenty of academic schools in the eastern conferences, provide those out west an academically rigorous option outside of the NE!

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