Well we won't have to play Oklahoma St.!!!
One thing you won't like is that they don't protect players. Late hits and cheap shots are often ignored. Targeting will still be a crap shoot. They never call holding on running plays, but do sometimes call it on pass plays.
What they don't mention in that article is that the season they announced, they were getting hit by the S-E-C, S-E-C chant in every SWC stadium. They went 1-7 in conference and only beat just back from the dead SMU.
https://www.on3.com/news/what-should-the-sec-do-next-administrators-weigh-in-after-latest-big-ten-big-12-expansion/
What is the SEC to do? In this interview with 3 SEC administrators (ADs?) they don't seem to be in any hurry. But the top candidates are FSU and Clemson.
It just means more!
Its really a better fit for our athletics.
Big 10 is a horrible fit. We don't have hockey and wrestling and they aren't that good at spring sports.
Sounds like Mizzou. They stayed in the union, but sued them!!!
And actually, Missouri was one of the 13 stars on the Confederate flag. There was a rump secession legislature. Same with Kentucky.
UH actually does pretty well in Houston. Its beyond Houston they don't do especially well. Back around 2005-2009 the Chronicle would list local TV ratings. Even being in CUSA, UH usually was ahead of aggy. Texas, of course, was off the chart.
Weird to hear all the handwringing over the collapse of the Pac. They even interviewed Missouri's football coach. Missouri!!!!! The one school the Big 12 would never take back.
One article even downplayed the stripping of the Big East and Big 12.
I never heard these complaints with the demise of the SWC or the 4 defections from the Big 12 in 2010-11 and the dribble from the Big East.
The Pac even split up on its own once. In 1959 UW and the 4 California schools left WSU and the Oregon schools behind (although they later took them back) and also dumped Idaho. Colorado and Utah have hardly been there. And Arizona and ASU spent more time in the Border and WAC than Pac.
I feel bad for Oregon St. and Washington St. fans, not that there are many of them. There is no 2022 P5 public school with worse attendance than those two. And both are decent size schools. They really are AAC/MWC type schools. Their budgets are near the bottom of the P5. And WSU has about a $15 million subsidy to maintain that.
Stanford made their own bed with their arrogance. Cal just doesn't seem to care much. Don't feel sorry for those two at all if they end up in purgatory.
That's a quote from the ASU AD who probably hasn't even talked to any Big 12 people. The Big 12 isn't doing divisions to keep the least enthused member happy.
There WILL be regional scheduling, however.
The Big 10 ADs were furious when they found out Penn St. had been added. They were not consulted. "Do you know how hard it is to get to State College?"
Mandel has been almost as bad as Canzano spreading Kliavcoff's bs propaganda the last few months. He's mad because he's been proven an idiot. He also brought Auerbach along with him yesterday and made the Athletic look bad.
Skimming through the Boneyard today. Not sure the UConn fan base isn't as delusional as the Utah and aggy fan bases. They know they are so much better academically than the C4 and a much better program than Utah,....
It would have been at Austin, but we honored our word. They were afraid we would lose to Oregon who barely lost to Oregon St., the Pac champ.
But we wouldn't cancel the game. We won 71-7.