The Big 12 expansion groundswell

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  • Maximus
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2009
    • 5999

    #17386
    Originally posted by myboynoah View Post
    it was fun while it lasted

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    • Color Me Badd Fan
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2009
      • 12519

      #17387
      Originally posted by TexTechCoug View Post
      Well, BYU to the BigXII is dead. If the NBA refuses to have an All-Star game because cross dressers can't use the restroom of their choice there is no way in Hell the Big12 is going to risk homosexual ire by adding BYU.
      The SJW ire only lasts for so long. Unfortunately, this is not well-understood by decision makers in these cases -- and it's something I didn't really understand myself until recently. Remember how outrage mob was pissed at Chick-Fil-A? A couple years later Chick-Fil-A opens in Manhattan and the line is around the block. The all star game doesn't happen for another 6 months -- that's an eternity for these people. Nobody would have been talking about it by then.

      The uproar over the Redskins' name flares up once every 10-15 years like clockwork. Peter King and Bill Simmons decided they wouldn't use the mascot name when all the outraged whites were jumping on that bandwagon a couple years ago (or whenever Harry Reid mentioned it in the Senate). Now it's old news to talk about it.
      Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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      • TexTechCoug
        Carbonite
        • Nov 2010
        • 891

        #17388
        Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
        The SJW ire only lasts for so long. Unfortunately, this is not well-understood by decision makers in these cases -- and it's something I didn't really understand myself until recently. Remember how outrage mob was pissed at Chick-Fil-A? A couple years later Chick-Fil-A opens in Manhattan and the line is around the block. The all star game doesn't happen for another 6 months -- that's an eternity for these people. Nobody would have been talking about it by then.

        The uproar over the Redskins' name flares up once every 10-15 years like clockwork. Peter King and Bill Simmons decided they wouldn't use the mascot name when all the outraged whites were jumping on that bandwagon a couple years ago (or whenever Harry Reid mentioned it in the Senate). Now it's old news to talk about it.
        Unfortunately, this is time sensitive. I'd imagine that other schools/ADs/boosters would have been wise to recruit help on this end.

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        • cougjunkie
          *Banned*
          • Nov 2008
          • 23223

          #17389
          Why are you guys upset? All the insiders including one who you sucked off on this very site, says it's already a done deal and they have signed in the dotted line. That was almost a month ago. So why are you worried now?


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          • Uncle Ted
            The Big 12 money shot.
            • Apr 2010
            • 28853

            #17390
            Originally posted by myboynoah View Post
            I guess the Big 12 should kick out Baylor as well... and maybe TCU.

            Baylor University is a conservative institution which didn\'t even lift a ban on dancing until the 1990s and still retains a ban on alcohol on campus.
            "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
            "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
            "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
            GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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            • Color Me Badd Fan
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2009
              • 12519

              #17391
              Originally posted by TexTechCoug View Post
              Unfortunately, this is time sensitive. I'd imagine that other schools/ADs/boosters would have been wise to recruit help on this end.
              Yes it is. Daniel Snyder is a bad owner for other reasons, but he has had rare testicular fortitude with respect to keeping the Redskins name. I don't expect the Big 12 to exhibit the same just for the sake of admitting BYU.
              Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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              • HuskyFreeNorthwest
                Time to camp
                • Nov 2008
                • 26082

                #17392
                Originally posted by cougjunkie View Post
                Why are you guys upset? All the insiders including one who you sucked off on this very site, says it's already a done deal and they have signed in the dotted line. That was almost a month ago. So why are you worried now?


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                Whoa, I don't check the board everyday and all of a sudden we are sucking each other off? Someone let the LGBTQ groups know!
                Get confident, stupid
                -landpoke

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                • USUC
                  Chronic Poseur
                  • Apr 2010
                  • 8775

                  #17393
                  Terrible timing. The zeigeist, the power of social justice warriors in the universities, and a willing national media to make this a big story will all but ensure the university presidents will avoid the ire of these lgbt groups. I am no longer confident.

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                  • Green Monstah
                    Royal Rooter
                    • Aug 2010
                    • 13888

                    #17394
                    I don't think this letter has any effect on the school presidents' decisions. They already knew BYU's affiliation to the LDS Church and our stance on LGBT issues. They already knew that they'd face pushback from LGBT groups, faculty, and staff. That said, this is the issue that will keep BYU out of the Big 12.
                    Jesus wants me for a sunbeam.

                    "Cog dis is a bitch." -James Patterson

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                    • Uncle Ted
                      The Big 12 money shot.
                      • Apr 2010
                      • 28853

                      #17395
                      Originally posted by Green Monstah View Post
                      I don't think this letter has any effect on the school presidents' decisions. They already knew BYU's affiliation to the LDS Church and our stance on LGBT issues. They already knew that they'd face pushback from LGBT groups, faculty, and staff. That said, this is the issue that will keep BYU out of the Big 12.
                      So is it safe to say that ND is out of the Big 12 as well? I am sure the LGBT groups don't discriminate and sent letters to the Big 12 and ACC about that christian school as well. Not to mention those SOB's at Baylor.
                      "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                      "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                      "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                      GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                      • Blueintheface
                        Senior Member
                        • Sep 2009
                        • 15382

                        #17396
                        Originally posted by Green Monstah View Post
                        I don't think this letter has any effect on the school presidents' decisions. They already knew BYU's affiliation to the LDS Church and our stance on LGBT issues. They already knew that they'd face pushback from LGBT groups, faculty, and staff. That said, this is the issue that will keep BYU out of the Big 12.
                        You are going to get whiplash using that kind of argument.
                        "Either evolution or intelligent design can account for the athlete, but neither can account for the sports fan." - Robert Brault

                        "Once I seen the trades go down and the other guys signed elsewhere," he said, "I knew it was my time now." - Derrick Favors

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                        • myboynoah
                          Senior Member
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 21719

                          #17397
                          Stoopid

                          Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

                          For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

                          Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."

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                          • BigFatMeanie
                            Senior Member
                            • Nov 2008
                            • 7079

                            #17398
                            Originally posted by myboynoah View Post
                            Persevered?

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                            • Green Monstah
                              Royal Rooter
                              • Aug 2010
                              • 13888

                              #17399
                              Originally posted by Blueintheface View Post
                              You are going to get whiplash using that kind of argument.
                              ???
                              Jesus wants me for a sunbeam.

                              "Cog dis is a bitch." -James Patterson

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                              • YOhio
                                Hipster Mode
                                • Nov 2008
                                • 26165

                                #17400
                                DAMMIT!! SHIT!!! I was hoping we'd be able to sneak in without them knowing that Mormons weren't tolerant of homosexuals.

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