(07-29-2015 12:29 AM)OkaForPrez Wrote:  

(07-28-2015 07:47 PM)Marge Schott Wrote:  

(07-28-2015 09:40 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(07-28-2015 08:41 AM)Okielite Wrote:  Oh buy. Now we are talking Houston to the B1G? Good lord this board is off the wall.

Only Texas school I could see them wanting aside from UT is Rice. Rice is an easy sell to university presidents. Rice also has enough money to buy whatever facilities or coaches they would need if they were to move. Endowment over 5 million. Plus they already have a big stadium and are located in a great spot.

But they are not a good fit with a conference that is almost entirely made up of state flagship and land grant schools.

And while Rice might tap into an endowment for sports facilities .... they can't just rely on the endowment for coaches salaries, since for one thing that eating your seed corn, and for another thing, the kind of people who contributed to the Rice endowment are not likely to be people who put expensive college sports first and foremost.

The only two Texas schools that the Big Ten conference would want are Texas and Texas A&M, and Texas A&M is (1) already building up equity in the SEC Network and (2) located in the most "Dixie" part of Texas, making the SEC West its most natural fit, so that realignment is already water under the bridge.

(07-28-2015 08:52 AM)kellernr Wrote:  

(07-27-2015 01:58 PM)CardFan1 Wrote:  It wouldn't Surprise Me in the least that at the first hint of Big 12 collapse with OU and Kansas leaving for B!G, The ACC would send out invites to Texas, Baylor, TCU, WVU. If Texas said No or went elsewhere, the ACC would probably invite WVU and grab Cincinnati to cut off Big 12 expansion replacement. that would give the ACC 16 plus Notre Dame and a very strong conference in Football and Basketball.

UConn will be picked over Cincy for the ACC

That's another football schools vs basketball schools fight like the one that UConn lost out to Louisville. I reckon Tobacco Road would go for UConn, UL, Pitt, BC, VTech, Clemson and FSU would go for UC. I don't have any inkling which way UVA or GTech would be inclined to go.

Not sure there's an obvious choice between UC and UConn.

Would be nice to say your conference has won 11 of the last 17 basketball titles wouldn't it?

I guess. I'm not an sec speed caliber circle jerker though, so it wouldn't affect me too greatly either way. Uc has better football, and the acc is already great in basketball.

UC has better football and it's not like their basketball sucks...