The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[LiveCoug]

Ok... I did the count. There are 1515 posts by Ute fans and wuap (RF hasn't posted in this thread, so no need to add him to the banned list!).

Lot's of time. Lot's of time.

[Flystripper]

We haven't reached the real 12,000 post limit yet. I have here in my hand a list of 205 posts that don't meet the stated standards.

Oh brother! Another guy with his own "count". This mess is going to devolve into an argument like the followers of Mayan calandar and listeners of Family Radio.

[TripletDaddy]

All quiet on the Western front....

http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_...uture-with-wvu

Anyone else feel that? And by that, I mean nothing? The ground underneath the Big 12 has finally stopped shifting. Fans can stop wondering who's in and who's out.

Expansion seems highly, highly unlikely. Louisville, Cincinnati and BYU loom outside the Big 12's gates, but the league must be assured that any member that joins won't cause the 10 current members' slices of the financial pie to grow any thinner. TCU's and West Virginia's admittance was about bringing in Top 25 programs with BCS success more than admitting a team with a huge fan base, though the Mountaineers possess both.

If any of the Big 12's three most obvious options had those things, they'd likely already have joined the Big 12.

[Green Monstah]

How do you know we haven't been invited/accepted but that it just hasn't been announced yet?

How do you know we have been invited/accepted? I'm going to go all Jacob on you and shift the burden of proof back on your shoulders.

BOOM!

[Uncle Ted]

BOOM!!!





TCU gets the Thanksgiving game with Texas. (Boom seems like the new word of the day around here.)

Here is the rest of UT's schedule....

Sept. 1 Wyoming

Sept. 8 New Mexico

Sept. 15 at Ole Miss

Sept. 29 at Oklahoma State

Oct. 6 West Virginia

Oct. 13 Oklahoma (at the Cotton Bowl)

Oct. 20 Baylor

Oct. 27 at Kansas

Nov. 3 at Texas Tech

Nov. 10 Iowa State

Nov. 17 Bye

Nov. 24 TCU (will be moved to Thanksgiving Nov. 22)

Dec. 1 at Kansas State

[Omaha 680]

So the Big 12 still doesn't want a championship game, huh? I don't blame them, I guess. It worked out so well for Okie State last year.

[dabrockster]

[QUOTE=TripletDaddy;769494]All quiet on the Western front....
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WTF.. That irritates me . WVU does not have that much clout. What a joke of a comment..

[Uncle Ted]

No, they don't have BYUtv. But they are also just interested in the awesomeness (great job!) of this thread.

Don't have BYUtv?!? Do the sources close to the Viking family live in North Korea?

[Jarid in Cedar]

Ok, now this is the best post in this entire thread

[Jeff Lebowski]

How do you know we have been invited/accepted? I'm going to go all Jacob on you and shift the burden of proof back on your shoulders.

BOOM!

This post by GM is post #12012. That sounds even more significant.

[wally]

Hey guys, I was reviewing my posts in this thread and decided to delete one that I felt was no longer valid (text quoted below) so I hope that you don't mind that Dabrockster is now the 12,000th poster. Sorry if I inconvenienced anybody!

BYU will be in the B12 by July of 2018. Mark it down.

[Scorcho]

rumor is that if thread reaches 18,000 it's the SEC

[Donuthole]

This post by GM is post #12012. That sounds even more significant.

Not nearly as cool as 12021.

EDIT: Damn you, monkey! That was my palindrome!

[creekster]

Not nearly as cool as 12021.

EDIT: Damn you, monkey! That was my palindrome!

There. Fixed. Man, this is like trying to deal with time travel.

[Jarid in Cedar]