The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

memphis and cincinnati are in, announcement to be made just after March madness

http://www.bcsnn.com/aac/777-big-12-looking-to-poach-memphis-tigers-and-cincinnati-bearcats.html

http://www.espn929.com/johnmartin/Na...ig-12/20457311

So how good a team is or isn't in football did not matter for inclusion.

[Sullyute]

With two teams already on the verge of making the football playoffs, bringing in schools that bolster your basketball presence makes some sense... i guess.

[Applejack]

Cool, I guess we can retire this thread and feel embarrassed that a school like Memphis got in to the Big 12 over us.

Guys, I know that this looks like an official announcement, since it comes from DJs on Nashville's 102.5 THE GAME, but let's at least wait until March to shut down this thread.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Cinci? Maybe.

Memphis? NFW.

[lambdacoug]

Guys, I know that this looks like an official announcement, since it comes from DJs on Nashville's 102.5 THE GAME, but let's at least wait until March to shut down this thread.

Have they even posted flight plans yet?

[Commando]

lol. Yeah- Memphis. Could you imagine the faces of the ADs at Texas, Oklahoma, etc. at that announcement?

[Jeff Lebowski]

This makes my heart hurt.

Seriously? The one billionth B12 expansion rumor?

[TripletDaddy]

Cinci makes some sense from a hoops and media market perspective. Uconn, even moreso. Not sure why Memphis wouldn't be considered feasible for the same reasons.

[Applejack]

Cinci makes some sense from a hoops and media market perspective. Uconn, even moreso. Not sure why Memphis wouldn't be considered feasible for the same reasons.

Can you support your assessment of UConn's feasibility with comments from DJs at 102.5 THE GAME, or are you just spouting off?

[Green Monstah]

Seriously? The one billionth B12 expansion rumor?

It may be false, but all indication is that if they expand, they will expand to the east.

[Jeff Lebowski]

It may be false, but all indication is that if they expand, they will expand to the east.

By "all indication", I assume you mean the DJ's at 102.5 THE GAME?

[Green Monstah]

By "all indication", I assume you mean the DJ's at 102.5 THE GAME?

That and the addition of West Virginia.

[myboynoah]

Well, Memphis is a commuter school, so it has that going for it.

[All-American]

That and the addition of West Virginia.

This has been my understanding, too. It was done when they added wv.

[TripletDaddy]

This has been my understanding, too. It was done when they added wv.

ive never understood this. the entire conference is going to expand in a certain geographic direction so that a single school can play one game a year much closer to its own campus?? ok.