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  1. TSU is Texas Southern, the HBCU in Houston.
  2. Davey was probably the only 5'7" guy to win a Heisman or to lead the NFL in passing. He was pretty tough.
  3. TCU lost a load of starters. It was a very junior-senior laden team last year.
  4. It looks the same way the last 10 years. As for recruiting, who knows. But then has TCU had a top 15 recruiting rating, ever? There are only about 20 schools who have the capability to run a string of top 15 ratings.
  5. You're behind. Texas St. is in the Sun Belt and has been FBS for a decade.
  6. I know you hate the R8, but you didn't address my points. 2022 Massey composite: 1 SEC 32.65 2 Big 12 39.09 3 Big 10 47.67 4 Pac 12 49.85 5 ACC 53.94 Take out UT 17, OU 43 and add Cincy 39, UCF 42, UH 57 and BYU 59 and the Big 12 average is 44. Still in 2nd. Throw in Utah 11, Arizona 71, ASU 95 and CU 119 lowers it to 51.5, but ACC is adding SMU 63, Cal 79 and Stanford 92 lowering theirs to 58.2, still well below. Except for KU, the bottom half of the Big 12 can beat you on a given day. Same isn't true of the ACC. Clemson being really good doesn't change the bottom half of the ACC being bad. Kentucky and Florida making several trips to the final 4 doesn't make the SEC 14 a good basketball conference.
  7. For at least the last 5 years, SMU has been spending more than any G5 program but UConn and sometimes BYU. In 2019-20 they were #68 just behind WSU and ahead of Houston and $7.5 million ahead of #70 Memphis. Hasn't translated into great success, but they have been spending.
  8. The ACC has pretty consistently been well behind the Big 12 in average strength in both football and basketball for a number of years. The additions probably balance OU and UT in basketball in the short run as both of us have been down. So basketball stays the same. The Big 12 will drop in football strength, but its not clear it will drop below the ACC. While Clemson has been great, despite UT's struggles, we do have a better record than the Seminoles, Canes and Hokies over the last 6 years.
  9. https://sports.yahoo.com/it-is-insane--how-the-accs-contentious-back-and-forth-expansion-deal-ultimately-got-done-170122627.html ACC was trying to go full Big 10, negotiating with AU, ASU, UU as well as Cal and Stanford when AU/ASU/UU lost patience.
  10. They go to the team that earned them. 5 or 6 years ago, if you lost half your members it went to the team that earned them, but apparently they changed that rule (at least I've seen it stated lots of times that WSU/OSU can keep them). Seems like as long as you have a member, reload members and don't dissolve, you keep the credits. With the Big East they had to reach an agreement on where the credits went (to the remaining 3). At that point I remember the rule would have sent it back to the schools that earned them without that agreement. The NCAA bb money gets distributed over 6 years, so you've got a good chunk still due the conference.
  11. Like I said earlier in the thread-jumping the shark. But hey, its good for Dallas hotels and restaurants.
  12. No. I was saddened by the end of the SWC. I still have the cup from the last SWC game. After watching UT finish off A&M on TV I went over to Rice Stadium to watch the last half of the UH-Rice game in 1995. I was happy when TCU and UH made it back to the big time. I wish the best for Rice, although they really need to stay out of the big time. They are in a good place now. Don't have any sympathy for SMU. Their death penalty hastened the end of the SWC and created a scandal plagued 80s in the conference.
  13. Someone said there was a Stanford professor who proclaimed himself a media expert, so that is a possibility (president said a professor told him they should be worth $50 million was the story).
  14. UNC has never met an expansion they liked. Duke hadn't previously.
  15. Well AAC announced they aren't looking west. So unless WSU/OSU can peel off some AAC schools for a non-existent TV contract, their choices are: 1) Join MWC; or 2) Invite MWC to join you.
  16. Its been pretty unanimously reported that Stanford and Cal had no real interest in the Big 12. One report a few days ago made a comment that the Stanford president had ticked off everyone in the Big 12, including Yormack. They looked down on the Big 12 schools.
  17. McMurphy said 7 years, so there are two different reports. He said Cal/Stanford were 30%. Maybe NCSU wrung out 2 more years from SMU.
  18. Nah. They deserved to stay in purgatory. The only good thing they did was getting aggy to pay for Dickerson's Trans Am.
  19. I figured this would happen. But if it dragged on another 2-3 weeks common sense would set in. The UNC board of trustees and a Raleigh paper had it right. This is minimal extra revenue--and maybe negative when the contract gets renewed. Its just not worth it. Certainly not the Cal/Stanford part. Final vote was 12-3. NCSU flipped. The way Clemson was talking I though they might flip also. It also made no sense from the Cal/Stanford viewpoint. They really should have been begging the Big 12 and pointing out to ESPN that they would have to pay for 100%, not just 67% in the Big 12, if they went to the ACC. Its official now. Realignment has copied Fonzi.
  20. Figured it would be a 7 am meeting to schedule on short notice. No open time slots for all the presidents.
  21. Well Simms gave CU the 2001 ccg. Applewhite came in way too far behind but got within 2 points, 39-37. Not sure who started the first game against CU that year, but UT won 41-7. Had UT won, we would have gotten stomped by Miami in the title game instead of Nebraska. Only time I didn't mind not getting in the title game.
  22. Well we know that. I was just pointing out that I think he admitted it on his player evaluations. I know he admitted in general he got complacent.
  23. For some reason we got great QB recruits, but didn't have a really good college QB (not counting James Street who was wishbone and was not the planned starter) from Bobby Layne in the 50s until the Applewhite/Simms duo.
  24. Not all the time. Mack's last class fell apart when Charley came in. Charlie had a top 10 class based on 4 highly rated Florida players. Only one made it to the first game and he was a backup receiver. Without them its probably mid 20s. His last class was horrible. He only had 6 or 7 commits and Hermann had to scramble. And Mack's classes were pretty highly rated, but it seems like he didn't look closely into the people. I think he may have admitted he got complacent in evaluations. Didn't have many high impact players recruited after that 2005 class. And Charley ran off quite a few. Charley's last teams were very average in talent for the Big 12. Hermann had no depth when he arrived. And everyone knew he was gone so Hermann's last class was 20 something rated.
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