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There is not a coach in America that wants to play a freshman if they don't have to.

I agree with the fcs/d1aa stuff, but what's wrong with playing LSU? Small time is playing an fcs team. Playing the national champ is as big as it gets.

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A couple of realistic thoughts. 1. The NCAA has a ban on new bowls (thank god). 2. Its not SMU's bowl, its TCU's. 3. The TCU new's home in the B12 and MWC-CUSA merger will likely change the bowl's tie-in. 4. The Armed Forces Bowl and Ticket City bowls are actually reasons for UNT to get the last spot in the merger. Its hard to sell 15,000 tickets to a Friday morning DFW bowl. We stand a better chance of doing that than say Arkansas State.

If a tree gets a new coach in the forest, does anyone on this board care?

So what was UTEP's record the decade before they got the 12th spot in CUSA. What great political allies did they have? How is an $80 million dollar stadium a step backwards? Dodge was a horrible hire and should have been cut after year two, but the AD was focused on finalizing the new stadium. Instead of moaning about every move this schools makes because it will never me enough, why not do something that can actually help the university's position to get into CUSA. If your a student attend the games, even basketball. If your an alumni by season tickets. Attendance and season ticket sales are what matters, but until we get to that point we need payday games to pay the bills.

More like Reality vs. Fiction. I wish we didn't have to play the payday games, the reality is we do. An OOC win over Ball State isn't going to put an extra 50,000 paying fans in the seats that season.

Good we can use the money. If you hate payday games all you have to do is find away for the team to make an extra $750,000 and we don't have to play them.

I agree with 1885 on everything accept UTSA. San Antonio is currently the #2 longhorn market and will stay that way, but San Antonio is a big enough media market that the roadrunners can be the second team in the market and still draw.

Not every Big school, just the Big 12. and of course it's a meaningless rant. It's the off season and just trying to get something going on this board.

I call for a man card ruling. I don't even comment on my friends Facebook photos and this guy wants a thread about a photo of our back QBs.

Anybody else notice how no media outlet picked up this story. Guess San Jose isn't the missing piece of the puzzle.

Take away the mid majors from the B12 schedule and they don't have 8-9 bowl eligible teams. Or we can keep rolling over and accepting scraps off the AQ table.

I'm not talking about how the match ups worked out. The Big 12 is the only conference that does not have a bowl game with a tie-in with a mid-major. SEC has the Liberty Bowl with CUSA. Big Ten has the Pizza Bowl with the MAC. There's no reason the Big 12 with it's nine bowl tie- ins couldn't schedule a game with any mid major conference. And no the B12 didn't just add a mid major. The B12 wouldn't touch TCU until they were in the Big East.

I just noticed the Big 12 is the only AQ conference that doesn't play a mid-major in a bowl game. ACC and PAC-12 play 2 bowls against mid majors and th Big Ten, Big East, and SEC all play one bowl game against the little guys.

Couple of thoughts. 1. WVU isn't going to win it's lawsuit against the Big East. The BE won't be able to force them to stay, but WVU is going to have to pay to leave. 2. The Big 12 isn't in a hurry to expand. They'll sit at 10 until they can get who THEY want (not Boise and BYU). 3. MWC won't get an autobid. The powers that will show the record of the remaining MWC teams vs the inflated numbers they submitted with Utah, TCU, and Boise's wins that the MWC is basing their BCS appeal on. 4. The merger isn't just a response to conference realignment it's a proactive move by two conferences that are getting ignored. 5. The SEC is going to go to 16 and change everything again. But I'd rather talk about UNT. One point that hasn't been discussed is the alliance will change the bowl tie-ins. Which means UNT maybe a more attractive prospect to the alliance as they work to keep tie ins with the Armed Forces Bowl and Ticke City Bowl. Any team that can sell 15,000 tickets to a DFW bowl game has to be on the radar.

Cost containment is the name of the game. With something like 70 out of 120 D1 schools losing money on athletics the schools can't afford to just roll over and go with the Big Ten/BCS flow on this one.

Even if San Jose is the 18th team in the merger (which I doubt) this is still good news. It means the WAC is dead and the Sun Belt can LA Tech and UTSA to get to 12.

The correct answer is they have 16 all sport members, I was just poking fun at leaving out Hawaii. The MWC isn't going to get an auto-bid. The MWC/CUSA merger is going to be in all sports. HI is going to become a full member. The Big East is looking for another "western" school and not a football only ECU. Our chances for the last spot in the merger are alive.

"That will cut the C-USA–MWC membership to a number of 16 in 2013, but both Thompson and Banowsky are open to adding more teams. C-USA will likely have nine teams at that point with the Mountain West featuring seven. Groth said the alliance will have the options of forming an east and a west division or potentially breaking up into four divisions. “I think that’s what makes this exciting and doable for all of us,” Groth said. “We have many options and any of them could work. Right now, we have 17 or 18 teams out there. That’s nice that we’re not dealing with seven or eight.” So help me out here. How is the merger at 16 teams? MWC = WY, AF, CO St, UNLV, NM + Fresno St, NV, HI that's 8. CUSA = So Miss, ECU, Marshall, UAB, Memphis, Tulsa, Rice, UTEP, Tulane, that's 9. This post has been promoted to an article

So basically what we already knew. If MWC gets an auto-bid they won't need the merger, and will be slow to add teams because they don't want to split their new found BCS Cash. If MWC doesn't get the AQ, they go forward with the merger and the collective needs to add 1 to balance out at 18. If there are no more automatic qualification they don't need the merger, but need to get to 12 to stabilize and the same goes for CUSA.

TCU traveled a 1,000 miles for a bowl they didn't want to be in.

Umm... the man did 20+ years at BYU and 3 years at all of the other stints. Hardly ping ponging. They guy is 65 and going home to finish out his career. Why hate?

Norm Chow is from Hawaii and runs a pass heavy spread offense. What's not to like?