Well, their best argument seemed to be "but the other Texas schools are gonna save on travel costs if they can drag us along with them!".
That argument makes me :lol: Nothing better to get yourself invited to a new conference than to make an argument that will make it obvious to the current conference members that picking you over the other choice will increase their travel costs. I actually got curious about how far those trips would be, so I ran them through Google Maps:
Distance between schools:
Washington/Baylor 2,170 miles
Washington/Colorado 1,297 miles
Washington St./Baylor 1,988 miles
Washington St./Colorado 1,141 miles
Oregon St/Baylor 2,176 miles
Oregon St./Colorado 1,304 miles
Oregon/Baylor 2,098 miles
Oregon/Colorado 1,223 miles
Cal/Baylor 1,794 miles
Cal/Colorado 1,225 miles
Stanford/Baylor 1,779 miles
Stanford/Colorado 1,263 miles
USC/Baylor 1,418 miles
USC/Colorado 1,035 miles
UCLA/Baylor 1,433 miles
UCLA/Colorado 1,046 miles
ASU/Baylor 1,042 miles
ASU/Colorado 883 miles
U of A/Baylor 935 miles
U of A/Colorado 923 miles
Oklahoma/Baylor 271 miles
Oklahoma/CU 711 miles
Oklahoma St./Baylor 349 miles
Oklahoma St./Colorado 664 miles
Texas/Baylor 102 miles
Texas/Colorado 951 miles
Tech/Baylor 355 miles
Tech/Colorado 568 miles
aTm/Baylor 91 miles
aTm/Colorado 971 miles
Total miles: Baylor 18,101
Total miles: Colorado 15,205
Basically bringing in Baylor instead of CU involves almost 3,000 extra miles of travel for each complete cycle of visits to/from Waco over Boulder. And THAT was one of their better arguments for getting in.... :lol: :lol: I was a bit surprised to see that Tech would be our closest conference rival, geographically... Actually, they really aren't that many miles farther away than Stinkoln is.... :huh: