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    ISU WBB @ Baylor

    I'm confused, attendance that is Top 10 in WBB attendance sucks? Where the hell is the criticism of, say, Texas' attendance? It's a university with 50,000 students in a town of a million people that all, supposedly, bleed burnt orange. There isn't a pro team within 3+ hours of the city. And...
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    ISU WBB @ Baylor

    No offense but that's a misguided statement. Baylor is consistently in the Top 10 in the nation in WBB attendance. Keep in mind, Baylor has half the enrollment of ISU (15,000 vs 31,000) and half the living alumni (120,000 vs 220,000). Waco is a city of about 125,000 people while ISU is 30...
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    Any Cyclones in Waco?

    Anyone on the board in Waco already? I'm getting a late start today, but should be setting up the tailgate within an hour. Would love to share a beer or two and talk about the craziness of this past summer.
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    Houston or SMU

    Neither Houston or SMU excite me, but I see Houston becoming another Tech IF- and only IF- they play their cards right. SMU is smaller and more of a niche school like Baylor. They could be competitive but will start at a bigger disadvantage. This assumes UH gets a new stadium or agrees to play...
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    Updates from Texas

    I know several of the Cyclones on the board are from Texas, but here is what I'm hearing right now: House Higher Ed Committee announced a hearing on A&M to SEC on 8/16. Chip Brown interviewed Dan Branch, the Chairman of the Committee and here are the results of that conversation. For what it's...
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    *****The Super, Mega, Huge Big 12 Expansion Thread*****

    Actually, there is nothing in there to allow a renegotiation of amount if teams are added. That's why we didn't add anyone last summer- we couldn't renegotiate the deal. However, the contract assumes that the existing 12 members are all in the league (amended to reflect the 10 existing members)...
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    Question about Big 12 TV rights

    Things aren't any different. The two big fears A&M had were: 1. HS games on LHN 2. Additional conference game and ESPN strong arming a school into a LHN televised game as opposed to another option. Both of those have been addressed. But Aggy is as Aggy does and they have convined themselves...
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    *****The Super, Mega, Huge Big 12 Expansion Thread*****

    That's the thing about the big east. The ACC will lose a school to the SEC within the next 12 months. And the ACC will likely raid the Big East as a replacement. And within the next 36 months, the Notre Dame contract is up and, assuming 14 team leagues become the norm, the Big East will likely...
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    *****The Super, Mega, Huge Big 12 Expansion Thread*****

    It always bothers me that people reference only baylor about politics and don't include Tech (who used just as much- or more- political pressure to get into the Big 12). But I digress... In my opinion, the BU alums had very little influence over the process last summer and have little...
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    Kerkhoff: Big 12 can survive with 9 teams

    A few thoughts: 1. If A&M leaves, we could easily replace with BYU. BYU has nothing to lose (as previously mentioned) and could maintain their BYUtv or whatever it is while still being able to sell to they are not compromising their reason for going indy (which was supposedly to spread the...
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    Houston asked UT for support for move to Big 12

    My experience with Baylor is that they are generally a bit more passive. They want to encourage people to "buy into" their faith and not be told "this is your faith"- if that makes sense? Someone once said that they want you to "own your faith"- in other words, buy into because you know it and...
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    Houston asked UT for support for move to Big 12

    I can't imagine that would ever be an issue. While Baylor is technically baptist, a majority of the school is not and even the President is a different denomination. There are large numbers of other religions on campus as well. Baylor is proud of it's roots and certainly encourages faith, but it...
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    Houston asked UT for support for move to Big 12

    I cannot imagine why Baylor would be...?
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    Houston asked UT for support for move to Big 12

    I think it was someone on CF that mentioned it, but markets are not what matters- market penetration is what matters. Market penetration matters because that's what draws TV sets, which brings in ad money, which makes the whole world spin. It's why the Big East, despite having a billion markets...
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    The Texas Issue

    I disagree on BYU. I think they would join in a New York minute. They left the MWC because it was collapsing around them. Their biggest rival- Utah- had just been invited to the Pac 12. BYU truly believes their program to be better than Utah's. The fact that they weren't invited was a slap in...
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    The Texas Issue

    I think adding BYU and Louisville would be beneficial. If we brought back the CCG it would add probably $15M to our contract. And certainly BYU and Louisville add value. Let's be very conservative and say $10M for BYU and $5M for UL. That's a total of $30M added in value between the CCG and the...
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    Houston asked UT for support for move to Big 12

    Yes, please. BYU and Louisville.
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    tailgating at Baylor

    And, for what it's worth, I'm not trying to defend what was a very crappy fanbase for 10 years. That I fully acknowledge. But I think it goes deeper than that because there were folks- like me- that had horrid experiences when we tried to get tailgating going many years ago.
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    tailgating at Baylor

    Fair enough as that was your experience. I think by 2008 things were getting a bit better. I don't disagree on the parking- it's a good feature. However, I've had plenty of problems in the past that I don't think a one time visitor would notice. In fact, my experiences were so bad during...
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    tailgating at Baylor

    I recently spoke with Chad in Baylor's AD about my tailgating spot when renewing. They have 300 full season spots (which are 30'x30') sold so far with quite a few more requested for individual games. I'm with the other Baylor fan on here. When you came in 2008, the Baylor admin was still, in...
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