Oso planning to go pro
Their basketball would not suffer like it did going to a mid major conference. They’d be leaving and joining the best basketball conference in the country, even with the realignment changes.
I bet Hurley prefers to stay in the BEAST...
Any time you have a chance to join a conference with South Florida & Cincinnati, you have to do it.
South Florida?
My bad Central Florida. lol. I get Kansas is in this conference and I get Houston is amazing under Sampson but people realize Oklahoma is leaving, right? And Texas?It's sh!tshow of mismatched schools. Take the under.
I’m taking the under of Big 12. If you join a non Big Ten / SEC power conference right now you better be coming from the Sun Belt bc everyone else is just rearranging deck chairs. The ship is due to sink.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Texas hurts, but Houston replaces them and there's no drop off at all. Oklahoma? Oh no, what will the Big Twelve do without Porter!?It's the best basketball conference in the country, and it's not even close. If it adds UCONN the gap just gets that much wider.
The new Big 12 is if you put Kansas in the American. It looks good on paper but it won't last. Houston could be irrelevant as soon as Kelvin retires. Texas / Oklahoma will always be relevant. It's like saying UWM during the Pearl years could fill in for Wisconsin. Cinci, Hou & UCF have almost zero national appeal. The Big 12 has lost Mizzou, Colorado, Nebraska, Texas & Oklahoma. Those are 5 of the 6 most important schools in their footprint. It's not sustainable.
The new Big 12 is if you put Kansas in the American. It looks good on paper but it won't last. Houston could be irrelevant as soon as Kelvin retires. Texas / Oklahoma will always be relevant. It's like saying UWM during the Pearl years could fill in for Wisconsin. Cinci, Hou & UCF have almost zero national appeal. The Big 12 has lost Mizzou, A&M, Colorado, Nebraska, Texas & Oklahoma. Those are 6 of the 7 most important schools in their footprint. It's not sustainable.
I think Colorado, Mizzou, and Nebraska miss the Big 12 much more than the Big 12 misses them.
The new Big 12 is if you put Kansas in the American.
I 100% agree that the Big 12 is the best conference in basketball.
I 100% agree that the Big 12 is the best conference in basketball. I also happen to know that basketball means very little in college sports. Baylor is the 4th most important scholol in Texas (UT, A&M & Oklahoma all have more fans / alums).
Or takes the Bucks job.
I don’t think it means very little, but how important the Big 12 being THE BEST COLLEGE BASKETBALL CONFERENCE is definitely overstated in these discussions.It’s very good, it’s been the best clearly lately. I doubt it will stay the best. No conference will. It has really only 2 (arguably) brand name programs (and I’m only counting Baylor cause of their title, does the casual cbb fan think of them like that?). Cincy and Houston will help though (Louisville and Memphis really do belong in this conference now). Basically it’d be very dumb for UCONN to move because it’s the best conference RIGHT NOW. I think it’s a good reason to not decide too quickly against moving, at least knowing your basketball program will be better supported by the conference this time around than the AAC. But some of those great programs right now that will be on their schedule will be very meh at some point soon (Tech, Iowa St, Kansas St and I grew up a KSU fan, Central freaking Florida, TCU).