The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[PolyCougar]

Is BYU allowed to have 4 times as many players on the basketball team? Do they get to offer more hoop scholarships than the rest of the WCC?

Using that logic, my kids' Texas high school should be competing in the WCC as they fall within the 3,000 to 8,000 student range.

Couldn't most Texas High Schools compete with NCAA FCS Football? Or was Friday Night Lights not real... and don't you dare tell me it's not!!! I have this image of High School players that look like Hercules down there, and I like it. I wanna believe!!!

[SoCalCoug]

Couldn't most Texas High Schools compete with NCAA FCS Football? Or was Friday Night Lights not real... and don't you dare tell me it's not!!! I have this image of High School players that look like Hercules down there, and I like it. I wanna believe!!!

You'd better delete that image quickly, if any of them are minors.

Also, how do you know what Hercules looks like "down there"?

[PolyCougar]

You'd better delete that image quickly, if any of them are minors.

Also, how do you know what Hercules looks like "down there"?

Touche... upon further review... set myself up for that one.

[Green Monstah]

Yeah, gotta apologize for that... sometimes when a bad mood, dark humor, and my fascination with church history combine... bad happens. So yeah, didn't need to go there. Besides... going all Porter Rockwell on Chip if I get another "stay tuned" in reference to BYU and the BIG 12, would just be way more cool. Porter is one of my favorite all time Mormon Bad-asses... right up there with Teancum.

No worries. I think we're all feeling the same.

[Hot Lunch]

Couldn't most Texas High Schools compete with NCAA FCS Football? Or was Friday Night Lights not real... and don't you dare tell me it's not!!! I have this image of High School players that look like Hercules down there, and I like it. I wanna believe!!!

Lyla Garrity is real. She is waiting for me in Dillon.

[PolyCougar]

Lyla Garrity is real. She is waiting for me in Dillon.

She makes the world a better place.

[Paperback Writer]

Couldn't most Texas High Schools compete with NCAA FCS Football? Or was Friday Night Lights not real... and don't you dare tell me it's not!!! I have this image of High School players that look like Hercules down there, and I like it. I wanna believe!!!

It's real all right but I wouln't say "most Texas High Schools". Certainly the best probably could. I live in the middle of one of the best/most competitive 5-A districts. My HS has sent players to Texas, Texas A&M, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri, etc.

I moved to Texas after graduation from BYU and growing up in Nebraska. I had thought nothing could top Nebraska prep football after playing at the highest level, winning a state championship, and playing with/against future Nebraska and NFL players. All that changed when I started watching Texas 5-A football. Maybe the top 2-3 Nebraska teams each year could compete with teams in my Texas 5A district.

Yes, Friday Night Lights is for real. I'll be watching it next fall in a brand new $60 million; 18,000 capacity stadium. One can argue whether that's the best use of taxpayer funds in this economy but one cannot argue whether there will be quality football being played under those lights on Friday nights.

[TripletDaddy]

NY Post says BYU first in line

If the league goes to 12, BYU Louisville and West Virginia would all get invites. The Big East would then turn to Temple and hope Army can be convinced to join its football brethren. Most likely the Big East football conference will break and the league will go back to its basketball roots.

Operation: Destabilize the Big East is happening!

[kccougar]

Missouri Board of Curators meets when, tomorrow?

[TripletDaddy]

NY Post says BYU first in line

Missouri Board of Curators meets when, tomorrow?

Yes. And Friday, I believe.

[PolyCougar]

It's real all right but I wouln't say "most Texas High Schools". Certainly the best probably could. I live in the middle of one of the best/most competitive 5-A districts. My HS has sent players to Texas, Texas A&M, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri, etc.

I moved to Texas after graduation from BYU and growing up in Nebraska. I had thought nothing could top Nebraska prep football after playing at the highest level, winning a state championship, and playing with/against future Nebraska and NFL players. All that changed when I started watching Texas 5-A football. Maybe the top 2-3 Nebraska teams each year could compete with teams in my Texas 5A district.

Yes, Friday Night Lights is for real. I'll be watching it next fall in a brand new $60 million; 18,000 capacity stadium. One can argue whether that's the best use of taxpayer funds in this economy but one cannot argue whether there will be quality football being played under those lights on Friday nights.

That kinda love from the community is awesome to me. Two things that I just feel have to be that way, Texas Football and Indiana Basketball... where sport becomes religion. Maybe I'm too much into those traditions and things that makes small town sports almost poetic, but community support makes any sport better.

That's one reason when I was working local sports for the media I dug going to Morgan, Tremonton, and some of those small towns that lived for their High School sports, the whole town would shut down for a game, some even had season ticket parking... just a fun energy... minus the caliber of athletes in major recruiting beds.

[LiveCoug]

[lambdacoug]

Apparently BYU got back into the picture near the end of last week, when the LDS Church began to realize the landscape of college football is changing faster than they had anticipated. And if the Big 12 were to move on without the Cougars in this round of expansion they could find themselves without a conference home.

LOL

There is so much that can be said...none of it kind, all of it obvious...about this.

I, for one, thank common sense for finally speaking up...

[TripletDaddy]

I love that, except for the "Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific" font.

[Omaha 680]

I just came to the startling realization that the Big 12 has two purple teams.