Grand Canyon and UC Davis aren’t playing football in the MWC, they are non-fb members. If you’re including non-fb members you’d need to add ND to ACC, Gonzaga to PAC, and Wichita State to American.
I’m sure they’d look at them, but not sure they are the most attractive option. Without Texas State their western most members are within an hour of the Mississippi River.
IIRC last time around the Sun Belt was interested in Missouri State, Eastern Kentucky, possibly bringing back Western Kentucky and maybe even MTSU returning. FIU would be a good return pickup for their market/enrollment as well and Florida recruiting (both athlete and student) is like more applicable to the SBC than Texas.
Yeah not having a medical school will make it difficult but the AAU is about half small/private and a few like Rice don’t have med schools. They would need to significantly increase (5X) their research dollars but if they can get close I have no doubt they could get the votes.
With their perception/status and top 100 ranking they fit it with Rice, Tulane, Vandy, Emory, and are now affiliated with the ACC which has 9 AAU members it’s seems like the votes will be there if they can raise their research budget/profile.
While I don’t think this is something that will be easily accomplished, I also don’t think it would be unreasonable to set as an aggressive 10 year goal (assuming they are able to separate from the church).
I agree but ESPN does get hot and wet whenever they get games from Ohio St, Michigan, and Notre Dame. FOX does the same with Texas (why they made us switch our schedule so they could air our games at Michigan and Ohio St).
Lots of bad opinions here. He was a good (not great) president. Got Texas through multiple hard years/situations and left it better than he found it. I wish him well.
More concerned with who they bring in next. “The devil you know” and all…
Reminds me, there was a poorly drawn cartoon of two guys talking one was labeled as the SEC and the other was Mizzou I’ve been trying to find without success.
It was something like this…
Frame 1: SEC guy says “So did you hear Texas and Oklahoma moving in soon” - blank face Mizzou guy
Frame 2: awkward silence-blank face Mizzou guy
Frame 3: silence, SEC guy looking frustrated - and still more blank face Mizzou guy
Frame 4: SEC guy yells “Get the Fuck OUT!” and Mizzou guy cringes
Agree to disagree. aggy doing meat judging is pretty much one of their main purposes in this world. They verify that the ribeye I buy is grade A so I don’t have to be an expert. That is one of the foundational pillars of an ag school that provides a societal benefit.
3 games involving non B1G/SEC team are Clemson, Notre Dame (both who could join a P2 conference), and Georgia Tech (who due to being located in Atlanta is a dark horse candidate for the P2)
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