Big 12 in 2016

[longtimefan]

Yeah, Houston won 33-23, there were a few flukes in the game like a returned FG for a touchdown, but there was no denying the energy and enthusiasm Houston played with. I look at Houston and I see what we used to be under Brian Kelly. When Tommy Tuberville was hired, we were far ahead of Houston in football, but while we have regressed every year under him, others have moved on. The sad thing is I seem to remember Tom Herman mentioned, however briefly, as a replacement for Butch Jones, and had we stuck to our old pattern we may have hired the up and coming coach. I get why Babcock hired Tommy Tuberville, it was to show that we were a big time program and ready to move to a P5 league. So after all the major expenditures on Nippert, Varsity Village, and now 5/3 we seem to have done everything the right way but our football team continues to decline.

Hopefully I'm wrong, and what we saw on Thursday was an anomaly and this team will be better than it seems now. Perhaps we'll beat Purdue and have a massive home field advantage against Houston and we can turn things around. But teams seem to match the intensity of their coach, and under the laid back TT, I have never seen a UC team play with the desire that Houston played with today. Perhaps the laid back approach would work in the NFL or someplace like Auburn where the talent is better than almost everybody they play; but it does not work here.

I keep thinking how funny it is that Tommy Tuberville was hired to help get us into the P5, and if we don't make it the decline of our football under him will be the only reason why.

[Lobot]

It won't help. They don't have the votes.

[blackattack]

Do you mean UC, UH, UConn and a Florida team, or UC, BYU, UConn and a Florida team? If it is UC, Uconn, a Florida team and one more, I'm kinda pulling for Houston because it would gut the American and possibly help us get a lower exit fee if the conference dissolves.

Houston leading #3 Oklahoma 33-17 with 12 minutes remaining in game. The calls for Houston to be in the Big 12 are only going to get louder now.

[Chewbacca2099]

Do you mean UC, UH, UConn and a Florida team, or UC, BYU, UConn and a Florida team? If it is UC, Uconn, a Florida team and one more, I'm kinda pulling for Houston because it would gut the American and possibly help us get a lower exit fee if the conference dissolves.

My reasons for wanting a Florida team are selfish because there is a high likelihood I'm moving there in the next few years to get closer to family go help watch the kiddos. I'd love to still be able to see the cats in person a few times per year. I'd rather have Houston over BYU to be honest. They are the hot team and I have a good friend who went there that I make bets with every year. I told him no bet this year ha

[red_n_black_attack]

So watching the Reds on Fox Sports Ohio and commercial comes on..... Its a 30 sec highlight reel of Big 12 football with the announcer saying 'Dont miss all the big games, Big 12 football all season long on Fox Sports Ohio!'..... Have they always been showing Big 12 games ? Or am I just reading to much into this? Or maybe a Freudian / Fox slip precursor...

Fox Sports is a major TV Partner for the Big 12. I cannot say if FSOhio has been showing Big 12 games in this region, but they don't have much else in the way of content in this region.

[red_n_black_attack]

I've seen us and byu or us and Houston for weeks now. While I'll be happy either way I hope it's 4 teams with one of the Florida schools and UCONN

Do you mean UC, UH, UConn and a Florida team, or UC, BYU, UConn and a Florida team? If it is UC, Uconn, a Florida team and one more, I'm kinda pulling for Houston because it would gut the American and possibly help us get a lower exit fee if the conference dissolves.

[slimm]

So watching the Reds on Fox Sports Ohio and commercial comes on..... Its a 30 sec highlight reel of Big 12 football with the announcer saying 'Dont miss all the big games, Big 12 football all season long on Fox Sports Ohio!'..... Have they always been showing Big 12 games ? Or am I just reading to much into this? Or maybe a Freudian / Fox slip precursor...

[Chewbacca2099]

I've seen us and byu or us and Houston for weeks now. While I'll be happy either way I hope it's 4 teams with one of the Florida schools and UCONN

[longtimefan]

Per McMurphy Temple is out as well.

[Lobot]

Fire the Hunger Games cannon. DMN is reporting that Memphis is out of contention

[red_n_black_attack]

28,520 is a decent crowd for UTMartin on a Thursday night in which it was one of those rare occasions we went head to head with a Bengals game. UComn had 29,000. While we all hoped the invites would've been sent before this game, it doesn't hurt to keep generating good data points.

[longtimefan]

Man I'm getting tire of all this delay, and I can't imagine why they are doing this unless there is no team with the necessary 8 votes and these last interviews are to address specific concerns. On the other hand because this was out in the open the rest of the AAC should not feel like they were stabbed in the back, which is exactly what Syracuse and Pittsburgh did to the Big East.

[bearcatbret]

Just a minor correction - that isn't the old Big 8 it's very close to the old SW conference that went out of business because nobody outside the state of Texas (except for Arkansas) gave a hoot about it. The Big 8 absorbed 4 of their teams, became the Big 12, and they found out that was such a good deal that 3 of the original 8 left. UT is such a wonderful partner that A&M jumped ship the first really good chance they had. Beggars can't be choosers, but I would so much rather be in the ACC than this nut job amalgam called the current Big 12.

I was not saying that the old Big 8 is what I listed. I was just saying with a lot of cynicism nature, that TX deserves to be in a league of just TX schools. They can be the all ruling of the lesser schools of TX. The TX politicians can live with what they sow. I agree with others, most conferences would not take TX as is. In the Big 10, they would take a back seat to tosu and UM. In the SEC, they would take a back seat to 'Bama, LSU and others. The PAC would not take them and with ND associated with the ACC, the ACC would not take them. I am not sure if UT will ever be relevant again in the national picture. Today's youth looking for a school look for the current best thing. The longer that UT is out of the picture, the longer they will stay out of the picture. What coach are they going to steal? UH's coach?

[red_n_black_attack]

Yep, unless Texas cuts loose of that network, the other leagues really do not need to deal with that.

I think it is more than the LHN...both Missouri and A&M would block adding them to SEC and Nebraska would rather leave the B!G than share it with Texas.Let's hope cooler heads prevail and the number of Texas schools in the second round of interviews is Texas playing nice for the politicians so they can say they tried, but failed. I'll grant that Houston is intriguing as they are a legitimate football school for the Big 12, in both terms of recent and past success, as well as the fact that while Houston is in Texas, the SEC owns that city.As long as UC is included, I'd have no issues with Houston being added. I'd understand, but not like if they added Houston and BYU without UC. I'd laugh at them if they added two or three old SWC Texas based schools no matter who else was added. I mean even a BYU/UH/UC and either Rice or SMU slate is really absurd. The whole issue I have with the Big 12 is the same issue Iowa State and others have, Texas is a single entity that acts like their vote carries the weight of 6 schools leading everyone to believe what they see, which is Texas cares about Texas and not the success of the other conference members.

[coach]

Yep, unless Texas cuts loose of that network, the other leagues really do not need to deal with that.