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Gov. Abbott says Houston Is #11

Flynn4Heisman said:
I thought it was TCU that was supposed to be in, but the Governor of Texas at the time was a Baylor grad, and she flipped **** over Baylor being snubbed.

It was years ago I read that though. Not sure if entirely true.
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According to my Texas grad nephew the Texas Legislature had to vote to disband the Southwest Conference, and in order to pass this, with so many Baylor grads in the legislature, Baylor went in over TCU, Rice, and Houston.

I am also not sure if this is entirely true.
 
I am beginning to think they do go to 14 teams. Especially if money remains the same per team. Cinci, for sure. BYU, quite likely. Houston, because Texas wants it. Now it comes down to Memphis or UConn.

Two divisions 7 teams each. And which teams in each division?
 
IzzoClone said:
According to my Texas grad nephew the Texas Legislature had to vote to disband the Southwest Conference, and in order to pass this, with so many Baylor grads in the legislature, Baylor went in over TCU, Rice, and Houston.

I am also not sure if this is entirely true.
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Gov. Ann Richards was a Baylor grad.
 
NetflixAndClone said:
the governor was a Baylor grad at the time and many say that was the reason they got into the big 12, but funny thing was a few years ago they asked the former governor if they did anything to get BU in and they said no. She didn't even go to the meeting about it and didn't mind if BU didn't make it in. At least according to them.
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You may find this hard to believe, but politicians have been known to lie. Every once in a while. I hear.
 
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If the state of Texas and UT wants Houston in, KSU, KU, ISU need to stay together and only vote them in if the GOR is extended to match the ACC.
 
So we lost schools like A&M and Nebraska with venues that draw 80,000-95,000

~ and some want ex-WAC schools that draw 25,000/game

Makes sense ..... Unbelievable
 
I think UT is talking out of the side of their mouths. What do they gain by bringing Houston in? With the success of Baylor and TCU they would be stupid to bring another Texas school in.
 
BeachAve said:
So we lost schools like A&M and Nebraska with venues that draw 80,000-95,000

~ and some want ex-WAC schools that draw 25,000/game

Makes sense ..... Unbelievable
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you gotta understand playing Texas, tcu, Baylor, ttu and Oklahoma wild draw a much bigger crowd than any AAC games. Think about it this way, Des Moines has minor league sports, if all the sudden we had a major league sports team the attendance would be 3x what it is now. Maybe more
 
Big 8 wanted ut and aggy. Texas leg said you are taking baylor and Tech also who were also clearly the 3rd and 4th best choices at the time. Baylor and Tech got included due to politics but not at the expense of anyone else. It was baylor and Tech or no one.
 
The texas pres is playing a political game. Either he is getting a great deal on something and will shoehorn them in, or he's publicly posturing so he can keep them out of the big12 and say it wasn't his fault.
 
baylrballa said:
Big 8 wanted ut and aggy. Texas leg said you are taking baylor and Tech also who were also clearly the 3rd and 4th best choices at the time. Baylor and Tech got included due to politics but not at the expense of anyone else. It was baylor and Tech or no one.
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I think it's quite a stretch to say Baylor was clearly a better choice than anyone else at the time.
 
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There already is too much power by Texas in the Big 12. IMO that is why Missouri, Nebraska, and Colorado bailed. It would be a bad thing for ISU, KSU, KU, and WVU if another Texas team is added. Might as well rename the conference as SWAC2. I think we need a few geographic clusters . Add Colorado with BYU along with Cincinnati and Missouri. No teams would be isolated giving the B12 a balanced footprint.
 
BeachAve said:
So we lost schools like A&M and Nebraska with venues that draw 80,000-95,000

~ and some want ex-WAC schools that draw 25,000/game

Makes sense ..... Unbelievable
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you know it wasn't planned, right?
 
Some context for Texas getting behind a Houston-to-the-Big-XII-movement





[h=1]Max Olson ESPN Staff Writer [/h]
Some political context to consider as Texas leadership offers its support for Houston's Big 12 bid: UT System Chancellor William McRaven has been pursuing expansion into Houston with ambitious and controversial plans for a research center. The UT System is planning to spend $450 million over 30 years for the research center's 300 acres of land. UH regents are not happy with that plan, fearing it's an invasion of their territory. Might they be appeased by UT backing their Big 12 hopes?
 
There has been little to zero evidence of any former big 12 teams would come back. I don't know why so many people are hung up on the idea. I've accepted that the big 12 can be controlled by the state of Texas because it pretty much already is. On a positive note I just read on Wikipedia that the UH's stadium was built with future seat expansion in mind. Would potentially go from 40 to 60k
 
isu81 said:
you know it wasn't planned, right?
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What wasn't planned ? People craving CSU, MEMPHIS, etc?

-and others here would love to boot Texas?? Wtf

Do you realize Texas has an $150 million/yr athletic budget?
Do you realize Texas holds ISU's future in the balance ?

Bringing in crap schools will jump start Texas and OU's exodus to the SEC

be careful what you wish for
 
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