The Big 12 expansion groundswell

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  • YOhio
    Hipster Mode
    • Nov 2008
    • 26165

    #12481
    Originally posted by Mormon Red Death View Post
    How did okst keep byu out of the big12?

    Sent from my SGH-T839 using Tapatalk 2
    Probably something to do with anti-Mormon bigotry.

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    • OSUCougar
      Junior Member
      • Aug 2010
      • 233

      #12482
      Originally posted by Mormon Red Death View Post
      How did okst keep byu out of the big12?

      Sent from my SGH-T839 using Tapatalk 2
      Don't know. Just speculating on original CB post.

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      • TripletDaddy
        sweet triple
        • Nov 2008
        • 58186

        #12483
        Bleacher Report sez: Brethren don't want no stinkin' focus on academics

        With news that college football will be moving towards a four team playoff after the 2014 season to effectively change the format of the four Bowl Championship Series games, where ...
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        • Jeff Lebowski
          Corporate lackey for Jesus
          • Nov 2008
          • 69519

          #12484
          Originally posted by TripletDaddy View Post
          Bleacher Report sez: Brethren don't want no stinkin' focus on academics

          http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...d-independence
          lol.

          Man, these Bleacher Report articles are hilarious. I am literally wiping tears of laughter from this one:

          It's fairly obvious some of the Brethren simply feel that the BYU faculty and student-body shouldn’t be out competing for federal research grants with Utah State. There are genuine fears that BYU being part of a league of such research institutions might further diminish Utah State's academic and athletic relevance to that of Weber State, Utah Valley and Southern Utah Universities.
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          • TripletDaddy
            sweet triple
            • Nov 2008
            • 58186

            #12485
            hey, don't shoot the messenger!

            If BYU were to join the Big 12 (seven AAU affiliated schools prior to the losses starting in 2010) or even more so the Pac-12 (next to only the Big-Ten in overall AAU affiliation), BYU becomes more exposed to the academic culture that promotes graduate research level work.
            Fitter. Happier. More Productive.

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            • Jeff Lebowski
              Corporate lackey for Jesus
              • Nov 2008
              • 69519

              #12486
              Originally posted by TripletDaddy View Post
              Bleacher Report sez: Brethren don't want no stinkin' focus on academics

              http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...d-independence
              I wonder where they get these authors. It looks like just about anybody can be a BR "correspondent". Here is the profile page for the author of that article:

              From BleacherReport.com, your destination for the latest news on your teams and topics in sports.


              I'm a career federal government employee with USDA, and a 1985 graduate of BYU (B.S. Geography). I love BYU Sports and feel BYU is the Rodney Dangerfield in academics!
              "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
              "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
              "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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              • SoCalCoug
                Ragnar Lodbrok Descendant
                • Nov 2008
                • 5214

                #12487
                Originally posted by Moliere View Post
                I hope someone takes one of Pickens' windmills and shoved it up his....
                ass? That's what I'd do.
                If we disagree on something, it's because you're wrong.

                "Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney." — Last words of George Harris, executed in Missouri on Sept. 13, 2000.

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                • Viking
                  Banned
                  • Jun 2009
                  • 6470

                  #12488
                  "The Brethren" sounds like a 1950s male trio singing group.

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                  • Mormon Red Death
                    BYU Delenda Est
                    • Nov 2008
                    • 8077

                    #12489
                    Originally posted by Viking View Post
                    "The Brethren" sounds like a 1950s male trio singing group.
                    I think it sound more like a secret society bent on controlling the world!
                    "Be a philosopher. A man can compromise to gain a point. It has become apparent that a man can, within limits, follow his inclinations within the arms of the Church if he does so discreetly." - The Walking Drum

                    "And here’s what life comes down to—not how many years you live, but how many of those years are filled with bullshit that doesn’t amount to anything to satisfy the requirements of some dickhead you’ll never get the pleasure of punching in the face." – Adam Carolla

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                    • Omaha 680
                      Senior Member
                      • Jul 2011
                      • 11171

                      #12490
                      Originally posted by Mormon Red Death View Post
                      I think it sound more like a secret society bent on controlling the world!
                      Would you believe it's actually both?

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                      • byu71
                        Senior Member
                        • Nov 2008
                        • 22070

                        #12491
                        Originally posted by Omaha 680 View Post
                        Would you believe it's actually both?
                        Not for one minute. That is Satan's plan by taking away our free agency.

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                        • Paperback Writer
                          Signature won a Pulitzer
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 5211

                          #12492
                          Originally posted by TripletDaddy View Post
                          hey, don't shoot the messenger!
                          If BYU were to join the Big 12 (seven AAU affiliated schools prior to the losses starting in 2010) or even more so the Pac-12 (next to only the Big-Ten in overall AAU affiliation), BYU becomes more exposed to the academic culture that promotes graduate research level work.
                          Not to mention that the seven AAU universites in the Big 12 is now just three:
                          Iowa St., Kansas, and Texas

                          Here's a quick AUU breakdown by BCS conference:
                          Big Ten: 11
                          Pac-12: 8
                          ACC: 6 (counted Ptt in ACC)
                          SEC: 4
                          Big 12: 3
                          Big East: 1

                          So the SEC now has more AAU universities than the Big 12 and few would make the claim that joining the SEC "exposes a university to the academic culture that promotes graduate research level work".
                          “Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory.”
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                          • Coach McGuirk
                            1
                            • Nov 2008
                            • 12109

                            #12493
                            Now that BYU has added billions to its coffers, we don't need no stinking Big 12!

                            http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2022...cid=featured-1

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                            • Viking
                              Banned
                              • Jun 2009
                              • 6470

                              #12494
                              Originally posted by Coach McGuirk View Post
                              Now that BYU has added billions to its coffers, we don't need no stinking Big 12!

                              http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2022...cid=featured-1
                              hundreds of millions sounds more fun.

                              I've used Ray Quinney in the past; they are really good. I'm glad the church didn't leave this to the nice folks at the firm of Kirton and Bruce R. McConkie.
                              Last edited by Viking; 05-01-2012, 10:10 AM.

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                              • DU Ute
                                RIP CUF
                                • Dec 2008
                                • 7393

                                #12495
                                Originally posted by Viking View Post
                                hundreds of millions sounds more fun.

                                I've used Ray Quinney in the past; they are really good. I'm glad the church didn't leave this to the nice folks at the firm of Kirton and Bruce R. McConkie.
                                What is your gripe with Kirton?
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