MeanGreenTeeth

But TSU does have Mamacita's next to the stadium which is just awesome. Aquarena Springs was cool back when they had mermaids and diving pigs (conservation types ruin everything)

Is it too late to have open tryouts for the PK position? Surely out of 30k undergrads someone can kick field goals. We do have a girl's soccer time right? At least one of them could make PATs. Wasn't there a movie like that once

So... it looks like Utah State ended up being hung out to dry for sticking with BYU. Should the Sunbelt consider adding Utah State as a condition to get BYU as a non-football member?

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I wonder if the CSU chancellor will allow Fresno State to leave and orphan San Jose State.

MWC and WAC are fighting each other for life right now. MWC needs to pull in Nevada and Fresno to 1)keep Boise from bolting back to WAC and 2)kill the WAC so there is no basketball conference for BYU to join (though I'm sure there are plenty others to join). We're about to witness the death a conference here I think.

I think I found a new signature quote

Holy freaking crap.. this is horrible. You really think this is good news? We got beat out by such academic powerhouses as UTEP and Couger High. I guess at least we didn't get beat by Texas Sta.... what!??!?..they beat us.?!?. Nobody even bothers to attend class at Texas State. Everyone is always drunk and/or at the river. Well, I guess at least we beat out Sam Houston State....barely. Yay us! We made the list. Take that ITT Tech!!!

Dude...honestly...if our program is doing its job (tutoring, hand-holding, etc) we should be able to get a old stump to graduate. Vince Young was passing his classes at UT and he was borderline retarded based on his (alleged) Wonderlic score.

Not impressed....

Well...the way I figure it..maybe all the bad luck last season was a Karmic offset to the "Miracle in the Desert". It takes 'a lot' of bad luck to offset that thing. Maybe we are straight with the football gods now.

If kickers can be considered a bust, then I nominate Dan Walker.

I thought that was what we recruited Grimey for?

Well hell man. You don't exactly have to 'build' a pee wall. Just go for it. I'm sure there will be a drain in the bathroom floor somewhere.

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Vic Trilli's hair?

I think it'd be great if Houston got in, but it won't happen. Houston doesn't add any new markets to the Big 12 and just divides the pot more. I think the Big 12 stays at 10 as long as UT stays most likely.

It's a good question. I just think at the end of the day the Big ? will have more leverage. Another possibility for them would be to go to 16 with what's left of the Big East conference (in a kind of time zone jump similar to the PAC-16). That scenario would probably result in a very strong basketball league. It would also put them well ahead of the MWC in football. Lots of interesting possibilities.

I apologize if this idea has already been posted, but I've been doing a little reading on all this re-shuffling and can't help but think that we might be able to do slightly better than this revised Sunbelt/WAC/CUSA talk. Let's make these (big) assumptions: 1. At the end of the day Texas A&M decides to go PAC-10 with Texas. 2. Missouri does not get an invite to the Big 10. 3. All further Big 10 and SEC expansion goes East. That leaves 5 schools: Kansas, K-State, Missouri, Iowa State, and Baylor. That is enough teams to accept the exit fees that the other 7 schools will have to pay. This makes me think that the Big 12 (-7) will poach instead of being poached. If they stand any shot of remaining BCS they'll have to get at least 7 teams. They'll obviously want to poach from the MWC. The cherry schools would seem to be UTAH, BYU, Colorado State, and TCU. These schools all play pretty decent football and have good followings and/or markets. TCU would seem to be an obvious choice because the league really needs some sort of presence in the Dallas market. But here is where its interesting. Baylor WILL NOT allow TCU to be invited. Since they are 1/5 of the league Baylor is going to be able to stop them. I think Baylor would also resist SMU which only leaves UNT as an option if the schools want a trip to DFW. So here is where my thought process is heading. I think the league could end up: Kansas, K-State, Missouri, Iowa State, BYU, Utah, Colorado State, North Texas, Baylor, Houston. The final 2 could be pulled from wherever (UNLV, UNM, Memphis, Louisville, Boise State could all be sensible choices). The football league would be pretty meh from a BCS perspective (though no worse than the current Big East), but it would cover all the TVs in the middle of the country.

Honestly I just want the legislature to stay out of it. I really don't care if Baylor gets in instead of Colorado, I just don't want the state legislature getting involved.

So recent rumor is that the Texas legislators are working behind the scenes to get Baylor included in the PAC-10 instead of Colorado. This is bull, if the Texas congress is going to bat for a school shouldn't it be a taxpayer-supported school? UH, UNT, and UTEP should pool their collective legislative strength to fight this - IMHO.

But Texas isn't going to care about the deadline. They have all the leverage. If worse comes to worse they can go to the SEC where they'll make more money than in the PAC-10 anyway.

Only thing I can figure is that the PAC-10 is trying to force Texas' hand by including Tech in the calculation. Tech wouldn't be included in Big 10 or SEC expansion so by including Tech in the expansion maybe the PAC-10 can force Texas politically. I'm just not sure this will work. Neither UT nor A&M are going to be left out of the BCS at the end of the day so they aren't going to be in a hurry to bite on this. I just also can't believe Stanford will go for this. They vetoed Texas last time didn't they and UT is one of if not the strongest academic institutions in this expansion.