Big 12 in 2016

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[Lobot]

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

[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.

[red_n_black_attack]

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.

If anything, that win only hurts their cause. It proves the OSU coach's comments on importance of being able to recruit Houston area.

[bobestes]

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.

This will be Tuberville's last year coaching.

[longtimefan]

Interesting, I'd go for this.

Greg Flugaur on Twitter: "BTM:OU Contacts "Kansas would support first 2 additions Cincinnati and UConn in Expansion if BYU & Airforce are included as FB only adds""

[red_n_black_attack]

This will be Tuberville's last year coaching.

Tom Herman can be replacement when we get Big 12 invite and Tom's current school doesn't.

[slimm]

1 hr ago on Flugaur... 4 then 2, back to 4 then 2, interview 20 + now back to 4..... lol........ https://twitter.com/flugempire/statu...76764019159040

[blackattack]

1 hr ago on Flugaur... 4 then 2, back to 4 then 2, interview 20 + now back to 4..... lol........ https://twitter.com/flugempire/statu...76764019159040

LOL. I'll bet anyone on here a steak dinner that we're all sitting here a year from now waiting on the Big 12 to make a decision about expansion.

[Lobot]

So this is a ridiculous article from Dodds. He's not liking us very much lately for some reason.

http://www.cbssports.com/college-foo...d-byu-houston/

[blackattack]

Never did like Dodds. He's probably just trying to get back at the Big12 after he was made to look silly for writing that piece back on July 6 quoting the Oklahoma AD that "expansion is dead". A lot of media outlets took that as gospel and ran with it (including the 50,000 watt radio station in Cincinnati).
On the other hand, the Big 12 has kind of done this to themselves. I still maintain that the longer this "process" goes on, the more likely it is that they end up doing nothing. Which if the truth were really known, is probably what Texas would prefer anyway. It's still all about Texas.
Oh yeah, almost forgot.....don't look now but Texas is back. And we thought they were arrogant when they were losing. Just wait.

[TheDog]

I still think the Big 12 expands by 4 with BYU football only.

This was my prediction in mid-August and I still think this is the case IMO. I don't follow anyone on Twitter, don't read blogs and have no sources.

This is a money grab and four teams give you the most money. The only locks are UC and BYU (football only). The other two will be either Air Force (football only), Houston or UConn.

Just a disclaimer...I'm slightly biased in regards to UC and I can't remember the last time one of my predictions came true.