Smack your own conference

Terry in Crapchester · Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:16 pm

Sky wrote:
Terry in Crapchester wrote:Miami would be a good fit in the Big Ten
No fucking way. Have you ever been to Miami? Have you ever seen their stadium? While they have a beautiful campus, they only carry 13000-15000 students per year. Not near enough to fill a stadium and be even a mid-tier Big10 school.

You cut off part of my quote. I said they'd be a good fit geographically and academically. I didn't say they'd be the ideal choice for the Big Ten.

I know NW only has like 18000 buy why would we want to add another primarily academic school?

Northwestern has 18,000 total, about 14,000 at the Evanston campus. http://www.registrar.northwestern.edu/s ... enroll.pdf

To be honest, I thought Northwestern was smaller than that. Notre Dame is only about 1/2 that size, in terms of enrollment. So if enrollment is your sole criterion, you wouldn't want ND.

If I were to pick, I would say Pitt, Louisville or WVU. Plus, we could use some teams with more E Coast influence to avoid canabilazing the MWest more than we already do (along with the Big12).

Pitt is probably the only one that's an option, academically speaking. But in any event, the Big East has substantially tightened its rules for leaving. And on balance, I'd say all of these schools are better off staying put -- certainly, they're all in better position for a BCS bowl where they are.

Spinach Genie · Post by **Spinach Genie** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:09 pm

Mike Slive. The most useless conference commissioner in college football.

Vito Corleone · Post by **Vito Corleone** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:09 pm

Believe the Heupel wrote:The Big 12: Enough Champions in our Southernmost State to Satisfy any Conference.

Fixed it for you

Sky · Post by **Sky** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:02 pm

Terry in Crapchester wrote:You cut off part of my quote. I said they'd be a good fit geographically and academically. I didn't say they'd be the ideal choice for the Big Ten.

Northwestern has 18,000 total, about 14,000 at the Evanston campus. http://www.registrar.northwestern.edu/s ... enroll.pdf

To be honest, I thought Northwestern was smaller than that. Notre Dame is only about 1/2 that size, in terms of enrollment. So if enrollment is your sole criterion, you wouldn't want ND.

Pitt is probably the only one that's an option, academically speaking. But in any event, the Big East has substantially tightened its rules for leaving. And on balance, I'd say all of these schools are better off staying put -- certainly, they're all in better position for a BCS bowl where they are.

I think I made it obviously clear that enrollment was not the only factor and the main reason I brought it up was because Miami can't even fill their 20-30,000 stadium now. After going 2-10 for a few years, I doubt that will improve.

Maybe, if they were in Cincy or a larger city where they could have a stronger local draw they could be an issue. As it stands now, I don't see a change for a long time. The Big11 will go w/out a conference championship until something drastic changes.

Terry in Crapchester · Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:24 pm

Sky wrote:As it stands now, I don't see a change for a long time. The Big11 will go w/out a conference championship until something drastic changes.

I agree with you on this. ND doesn't want a conference affiliation, and if the program continues to improve, that would only improve their ability to stand alone. I'm not sure that Pitt wants to leave the Big East, but even if they did they couldn't do it right away.

Missouri is the only option I've ever heard associated with the Big Ten that is probably viable, although it may take some changes in the Big 12's landscape for that to happen.

SunCoastSooner · Post by **SunCoastSooner** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:27 pm

Big 12: Eight of us decided to take our foot off off texass' throat.

the_ouskull · Post by **the_ouskull** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:10 am

Vito Corleone wrote:
Believe the Heupel wrote:The Big 12: Enough Champions in our Southernmost State to Satisfy any Conference.
Fixed it for you

See, that's what's funny about Texicans. They think that 1 every 35 years is enough. At least that's their track record. We've won four since your last one... before this year. I like your spirit, but somehow I don't think 1 every 35 is enough to satisify any conference...

...except maybe the SWC. ...oops.

the_ouskull

campinfool · Post by **campinfool** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:44 am

Oh but that football trophy is just a small piece of the whole greatness that comes in Burnt Orange. We Texicans also seem to enjoy success other places in addition to owning scoreboard on the gridiron.

SunCoastSooner · Post by **SunCoastSooner** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:35 pm

the_ouskull wrote:
Vito Corleone wrote:
Believe the Heupel wrote:The Big 12: Enough Champions in our Southernmost State to Satisfy any Conference.
Fixed it for you
See, that's what's funny about Texicans. They think that 1 every 35 years is enough. At least that's their track record. We've won four since your last one... before this year. I like your spirit, but somehow I don't think 1 every 35 is enough to satisify any conference...

...except maybe the SWC. ...oops.

the_ouskull

What's even funnier is that in National titles this year at the DIA level the state of Oklahoma has more titles than the state of texass does this year.

Edit: Oh BTW I just looked into it and it just so happens that Oklahoma and Oklahoma State not only have more national titles than Texass and Texass A&M this year but all time as well. By a margin of 22 as a matter of a fact.

I guess we have to go through and count all of Texass Tech's, Baylor's, Rice's, UTEP's, SMU's, and TCU's to make it more even for our state to the south.

Care to rephrase that remark now vito? Nothing like KYOA on yet another thread huh?

campinfool · Post by **campinfool** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:04 am

Thanks to TOB Texas finally won a championship that mattered and Texas fans are still getting ass plungered by the OU contingent. Thanks for making me feel shameful for relishing in the Burnt Orange glory