The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[SeattleUte]

We know that they have recently added two teams, neither of which are BYU. One of those teams makes sense to add because it's within the geographic footprint of the Big 12. The other makes sense only if the conference is pursuing an eastward expansion. There are other facts, but I consider those ones the most relevant.

Stop dissembling. You know good and well HFN's point. You never had any facts about BYU joining the Big 12. So nothing has changed.

GREAT POST HFN.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

That's not a fact.

Exactly if those are facts, science just froze over!

[FMCoug]

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Anytthing new here?

[TheBYUGuy]

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Anytthing new here?

SOS

[PolyCougar]

Can we just fight West Virginia in the parking lot... winner goes to the Big 12?

I can't believe I got over this topic a week ago, and then it comes back and reels me in... only to curb any jaw of hope that it could be a reality. Unreal, this has all gotta stop someday, right?

[Blueintheface]

Can we just fight West Virginia in the parking lot... winner goes to the Big 12?

I can't believe I got over this topic a week ago, and then it comes back and reels me in... only to curb any jaw of hope that it could be a reality. Unreal, this has all gotta stop someday, right?

If you resemble your avatar I will follow you in to battle anytime.

[PolyCougar]

If you resemble your avatar I will follow you in to battle anytime.

Actually a cousin on the Tongan National Rugby Team (aren't all Poly's cousins though?)... but the rest of my family averages 6'3" and 300 Pounds, with plenty of jail time for brawling. If it comes to that, we've totally got this.

[Goatnapper'96]

Actually a cousin (aren't all Poly's)... but the rest of my family averages 6'3" and 300 Pounds, with plenty of jail time for brawling. If it comes to that, we've totally got this.

Mormons usually have really boring stories, but the not so boring stories are the ones from the mission field that include a Polynesian Elder who just ran out of cheeks! My brother tells one from his mission in Brisbane in the early 80's where they lied to an Elder Fitesemanu that some Aussie punk kids had insulted his mother. One broken window and two broken noses later they decided to never come clean with him that the punks had only been calling them all pooftahs.

[jay santos]

Article on Notre Dame by a hack journalist who obviously has no inside connections. No mention of the BYU-Notre Dame alliance anywhere.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...,5667287.story

[PolyCougar]

Mormons usually have really boring stories, but the not so boring stories are the ones from the mission field that include a Polynesian Elder who just ran out of cheeks! My brother tells one from his mission in Brisbane in the early 80's where they lied to an Elder Fitesemanu that some Aussie punk kids had insulted his mother. One broken window and two broken noses later they decided to never come clean with him that the punks had only been calling them all pooftahs.

My brother has the best (who decided to go on his mission while in jail mind you). He made a companion, who refused to work, poop his pants when he picked him up while on his bike and screamed at him. Almost as good as the story of the thugs that tried to steal his bike... kid is a warrior I tell you... with a heart of gold though.

[Jacob]

ND did not favor prop 8. Your mistake is assuming a Catholic university is the same as the Catholic Church. They are not on BYU's model; only Bob Jones and a small handful of probably unaccredited schools, not widely known schools, are on BYU's model.

ND calls itself a Catholic university, maintains some physical improvements at the campus and tweaks the curriculum in homage to this tradition. That's about it.

You must be thinking of Georgetown. Notre Dame is not Georgetown. But facts aren't important, I know.

However, in a policy statement the University declares that "the Catholic identity of the University depends upon ... the continuing presence of a predominant number of Catholic intellectuals" on the faculty. As the provost has explained, the aim is "to have a majority of faculty who are Catholic, who understand the nature of the religion, who can be living role models, who can talk with students about issues outside the classroom and can infuse values into what they do."

University by-laws require that the President of the University be a priest of the United States Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross. Until 1967, when governance was transferred to a lay board of trustees, the university was entirely governed by the leadership of the order.

The university is the major seat of the Congregation of Holy Cross (albeit not its official headquarters, which are in Rome). Its main seminary, Moreau Seminary, is located on the campus across St. Joseph lake from the Main Building. Old College, the oldest building on campus and located near the shore of St. Mary lake, houses undergraduate seminarians. Retired Priests and Brothers reside in Fatima House (a former retreat center), Holy Cross House, as well as Columba Hall near the Grotto. Until the 1970s, many of the support staff were nuns and brothers.

[lambdacoug]

Mormons usually have really boring stories, but the not so boring stories are the ones from the mission field that include a Polynesian Elder who just ran out of cheeks! My brother tells one from his mission in Brisbane in the early 80's where they lied to an Elder Fitesemanu that some Aussie punk kids had insulted his mother. One broken window and two broken noses later they decided to never come clean with him that the punks had only been calling them all pooftahs.

There was a good one from my mission about a poly BYU football player (lineman, so a big guy) that happened to be put in a very bad part of town. Add to that the fact there are not a lot of other ethnicities in Chile, especially in that part of town. The local gaggle of Chilean thugs started giving the guy racially charged shit. I think the church ended up paying some hospital bills on that one...and not for the poly elder. Oh yeah, there were emergency transfers I as involved with as well...

[PolyCougar]

There was a good one from my mission about a poly BYU football player (lineman, so a big guy) that happened to be put in a very bad part of town. Add to that the fact there are not a lot of other ethnicities in Chile, especially in that part of town. The local gaggle of Chilean thugs started giving the guy racially charged shit. I think the church ended up paying some hospital bills on that one...and not for the poly elder. Oh yeah, there were emergency transfers I as involved with as well...

I'd like to think we give the church a little more character.

[lambdacoug]

I'd like to think we give the church a little more character.

The guy was not sent home. It was a very bad situation in a very bad part of Chile. Anyway, I wasn't implying any wrong doing on his part. The story was that he actually saved he and his companion as the group was well known for its violence. Whether that is true or not, *shrug*. Good story though.

[Green Monstah]

If you resemble your avatar I will follow you in to battle anytime.

Especially if we're fighting against the Mountaineer mascot.