Top G5 Expansion Candidates

[MCMLXXX]

The Pros for Number 8 are "Pros: Rabid fan base. Texas recruiting base. Great media market. Tier 1 research." 

Before you open the link take a guess on what school this is referencing. 

 

College Football Expansion Top 10 Candidates From Group of Five Conferences (msn.com)

[VideoEagle]

Ugg.

[UNT Texas Hooligan]

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Cons: Big stadium, but could use a different look and feel for a college market.

Lol, the con is that the stadium is big and not that they don't even own it? I would also like to know when "T-shirt fans" have been reclassified to mean a "rabid fan base."

[RBP79]

Is this article a joke????. 

[southsideguy]

UNLV really they don't draw flies

 

[Dannymacfan]

Saddened and disheartened to see this.  Wren played footsie with Seth too long and now we have to deal with the after effects.

[DeepGreen]

46 minutes ago, UNT Texas Hooligan said:

Lol, the con is that the stadium is big and not that they don't even own it? I would also like to know when "T-shirt fans" have been reclassified to mean a "rabid fan base."

nutsak cannon will offset any stadium negatives.

[UNTcrazy727]

18 minutes ago, Dannymacfan said:

Saddened and disheartened to see this.  Wren played footsie with Seth too long and now we have to deal with the after effects.

We're about to join the best conference we've ever been in and the latest realignment activity will likely lock SMU and Memphis in the AAC for awhile. We're fine. Things wouldn't be any different if we'd won 8+ games the last few years. 

[NT80]

Here are the key categories …

Enrollment: At least 20,000. The school has to be big – no SMU. 

 😎

[greenminer]

1 hour ago, UNT Texas Hooligan said:

Lol, the con is that the stadium is big and not that they don't even own it?

I get mixed messages about a program's facility.  Some people care that you own it, some people don't.

[Wag Tag]

SMU and Memphis are going to be $h!t out of luck with the Big 12 taking the PAC’s leftovers!

[El Paso Eagle]

2 hours ago, Dannymacfan said:

Saddened and disheartened to see this.  Wren played footsie with Seth too long and now we have to deal with the after effects.

Instead of taking shots at UTSA, maybe we should focus on why we have been a "Sleeping Giant" for 40+ years. Some point we have to stop bitching about others and raise our standards on what is acceptable success on the field. Sorry, paying what we do for our HC and AD we should expect more on the field and stop striving for #Hit6

[emmitt01]

They're RABID!!

[RBP79]

I guess the only metric they use is football. Start adding other college sports and it's a different list. 

[El Paso Eagle]

18 minutes ago, RBP79 said:

I guess the only metric they use is football. Start adding other college sports and it's a different list. 

So far it does not seem the other sports matter near as much as Football

[meanrob]

21 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

So far it does not seem the other sports matter near as much as Football

Kansas- Hey Big Ten, you want the defending national champs in basketball? 
 

Big Ten- Nah, we’re good. 

[El Paso Eagle]

2 minutes ago, meanrob said:

Kansas- Hey Big Ten, you want the defending national champs in basketball? 
 

Big Ten- Nah, we’re good. 

Exactly what I was thinking

[wardly]

6 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Instead of taking shots at UTSA, maybe we should focus on why we have been a "Sleeping Giant" for 40+ years. Some point we have to stop bitching about others and raise our standards on what is acceptable success on the field. Sorry, paying what we do for our HC and AD we should expect more on the field and stop striving for #Hit6

Agreed! Also, USF to the BIG 12 over Memphis or Boise seems like a no brainer. However the Big !2 have bigger fish to fry. Colorado seems to have expressed little interest in going back but Colorado State could make a good substitute. I am just amazed that Stanford and Cal may be left behind. PAC only survives if Oregon and Washington take a blood oath not to leave for BIG 10 if offered.

[meanrob]

16 minutes ago, wardly said:

Agreed! Also, USF to the BIG 12 over Memphis or Boise seems like a no brainer. However the Big !2 have bigger fish to fry. Colorado seems to have expressed little interest in going back but Colorado State could make a good substitute. I am just amazed that Stanford and Cal may be left behind. PAC only survives if Oregon and Washington take a blood oath not to leave for BIG 10 if offered.

The PAC 12 is dead. Oregon and Washington will always be looking to leave even if they stay this round. No way they survive taking any combination of AF, CSU and Fresno. There’s just not enough options and good teams out west. They’re dead no matter what but after they lose ANY teams to the Big 12 you can get the fat lady warming up. 

[NT80]

2 hours ago, RBP79 said:

I guess the only metric they use is football. Start adding other college sports and it's a different list. 

Football drives the Brand Bus.  Thus, the reason for us to get serious about our Football direction....looking at U Wren!! 😶

[DeepGreen]

It's hard to imagine the PAC 12 Conference without UCLA and Stanford.

[El Paso Eagle]

Part of me hopes AZ, AZ State and Colorado go to the Big12 and Utah stays (have seen comments where they have said BYU would need to be out for them to consider - screw them). Pick up a team from the east (perhaps Memphis) and then see what happens with the ACC. Then when Oregon and Washington go to the Big10 tell the rest of the Pac12 to enjoy the MWC. Hard to imagine Cal and Stanford joining the Big12 due to the church related schools and the Texas schools.

[meangreenbob]

1 hour ago, NT80 said:

Football drives the Brand Bus.  Thus, the reason for us to get serious about our Football direction....looking at U Wren!! 😶

It’s way way way too late for North Texas football. 
Bad leadership for decades, bad hires and lack of an honest commitment sealed our fate a long long time ago.

 
 

[meanrob]

The only metric for those left behind is not to be alone when the music stops. My guess is academics and past concerns are out the window. If this really goes to two “super conferences” of twenty teams there’s gonna be a lot of butt hurt west of the Mississippi. If the SEC and Big Ten shut the door, everybody else is minor league college football. 
 

Everybody’s been predicting this for years, kinda pisses me off the G5s continued to keep their head in the sand about it and not have a plan. 

[C Rod]

Rumors are the Pac12 and ACC are talking about a "loose partnership" that would be legally binding and align the two conferences together to fend off the B10 and SEC. 

https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/2022/07/05/acc-rumors-build-as-pac-12-tries-to-save-itself-and-stick-it-to-the-big-ten/