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  • I don't buy any of it.
    Let's stop wasting energy on the idea. It's silly.
    At least the Big Ten went after a big-time addition in Nebraska; the Pac-10 wanted a game so badly, it added Utah
    -Berry Trammel, 12/3/10

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    • Originally posted by Coach McGuirk View Post
      You do realize that presidents and BOTs make these decisions and not the b-ball coach, right?
      Sure but UL has been a basketball first school for a long time. It's going to take a lot of convincing i suspect as to why they should leave the best hoops league in the country when football can arguably not get worse with the new BEast lineup.

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      • Originally posted by LiveCoug View Post
        Glad to be back. I missed me. Dabrockster isn't a very good replacement eeyore.
        He gives it a good effort, though.
        "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.
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        • Originally posted by Viking View Post
          Sure but UL has been a basketball first school for a long time. It's going to take a lot of convincing i suspect as to why they should leave the best hoops league in the country when football can arguably not get worse with the new BEast lineup.

          To jump to arguably the 2nd best B-ball conference and a football conference that might as well be the NFL compared to the Least?

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          • Originally posted by ERCougar View Post
            I don't buy any of it.
            Let's stop wasting energy on the idea. It's silly.
            I agree. These scenarios grow more and more far-fetched by the week.
            Fitter. Happier. More Productive.

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            • Originally posted by Viking View Post
              Sure but UL has been a basketball first school for a long time. It's going to take a lot of convincing i suspect as to why they should leave the best hoops league in the country when football can arguably not get worse with the new BEast lineup.
              KU and UL in the same league is a pretty good thing. Its easier than playing their current spate of bball conference foes for UL, and the KU program is every bit as good as anything in the BE.
              Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
              - Howard Aiken

              Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
              - Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule

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              • Originally posted by Viking View Post
                Sure but UL has been a basketball first school for a long time. It's going to take a lot of convincing i suspect as to why they should leave the best hoops league in the country when football can arguably not get worse with the new BEast lineup.
                crazy how Pitt and Syracuse (two damn good hoops programs) just up and left the best basketball league in the country.

                Them folks is crazy!

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                • Originally posted by Viking View Post
                  Sure but UL has been a basketball first school for a long time. It's going to take a lot of convincing i suspect as to why they should leave the best hoops league in the country when football can arguably not get worse with the new BEast lineup.
                  Big East took a hit in hoops with Syracuse, Pitt and probably WVU leaving. ACC might make a case for the best hoops conference now. The Big East is better than the Big 12 in hoops, but not by THAT much and even for a school like Louisville football brings in more money to the school. If Louisville is offered a Big12 lifeline I bet they take it.
                  Dyslexics are teople poo...

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                  • I'm ignoring this thread. I don't even want to acknowledge this as a possibility.

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                    • Originally posted by jay santos View Post
                      I'm ignoring this thread. I don't even want to acknowledge this as a possibility.
                      Yes, this is totally stupid.
                      Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

                      For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

                      Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."

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                      • Originally posted by jay santos View Post
                        I'm ignoring this thread. I don't even want to acknowledge this as a possibility.
                        It's like a cancer though, ignoring it doesn't make it go away.
                        Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
                        - Howard Aiken

                        Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
                        - Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule

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                        • Sorry, boys. Don't shoot the messenger. It is what it is.

                          IF you want the B12, then hope at least they get off their rumps and close the deal already.

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                          • Originally posted by Viking View Post
                            Sorry, boys. Don't shoot the messenger. It is what it is.

                            IF you want the B12, then hope at least they get off their rumps and close the deal already.

                            The messenger appeared to like the message, so he was shot.

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                            • The silver lining is that it's still a good basketball conference, though losing Syracuse, Pitt and WVU means you've lost three of your top 7 basketball schools. You still have UConn, Louisville, Georgetown, Villanova, Cincy and a resurgent St. Johns is still a really good core. The problem is that BYU would be relegated to the uber-shitty western part of the conference, so it's not like BYU would be playing the powerhouse east coast teams twice a year.
                              Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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                              • What I enjoy most about Viking's ever changing predictions, is that he absolutely believes them. Not like SU, who just makes up crap to argue with.
                                "Sure, I fought. I had to fight all my life just to survive. They were all against me. Tried every dirty trick to cut me down, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."

                                - Ty Cobb

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