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They have a similar winning % in the SEC as they had in the B12 and the SWC. aggy has always done less with more. Only real success they ever had was with Jackie Sherrill and RC Slocum and they were cheating their asses off and still never won or played for a national championship.
A&M has an obscene amount of money and does ****-all with it. They've spent enough to have the 5th biggest stadium in the sport, and are currently spending almost $100M on a coach who's less successful than the guy they fired before him. His best result- by far- is the COVID season that produced wacky results (hi, Coach Dorrell!)They have a similar winning % in the SEC as they had in the B12 and the SWC. aggy has always done less with more. Only real success they ever had was with Jackie Sherrill and RC Slocum and they were cheating their asses off and still never won or played for a national championship.
UT's big fvck up was that they decided they needed to start forcing a Mack Brown retirement plan a decade before he was thinking of retiring.
...but, tradition.
The voices in your head are hardly ever correct.the voices in my head suggest this is almost over.
sometimes, they are correct.
I imagine the same is true with NYC and Rutgers. And yet, Rutgers is now the B10 doormat, contributing nothing except the big fat NYC cable carriage fee collected from the largest market in the US. A market that cares nothing about the crappy university sports teams thrust upon them unwillingly and probably unwittingly to most of the cable subscribers. But, at what, $10-20 per month x whatever million subscribers, Rutgers is the most valuable contributor to the B10 cable TV pie. So suck away, Rutgers, as long as cable can divert NYC cable money to the B10. Is that the game being played now? Is this the main consideration for any P10 additions?
Your rationale is flawed. McMurphy doesn't address the records of teams that stayed in their conf. A snapshot, most of which stayed home.
| Team | Win percentage | Record |
| 10. Iowa State | .447 | 122-151 |
| 9. Rutgers | .433 | 116-152 |
| 8. Arizona | .431 | 113-149 |
| 7. Syracuse | .414 | 110-156 |
| 6. Colorado | .412 | 110-157 |
| 5. Illinois | .374 | 98-164 |
| 4. Indiana | .369 | 96-164 |
| 3. Vanderbilt | .338 | 89-174 |
| 2. Duke | .327 | 87-179 |
| 1. Kansas | .306 | 80-181 |
I don't know, but under that theory NW and Rutgers are the most valuable, current B1G properties. I kind of doubt that is the end of the analysis.
Obviously. We're not getting a Big 12 school until GK takes a really, really good deal to the presidents.
on that.Agree
I agree. And to be clear, I brought up UTSA as a future expansion candidate but don't see them as viable today or in the next few yearsI do have to say that of the realistic TX school additions, SMU is probably my fav.
To be clear, "unrealistic" are UT & ATM.
Which would leave TT, **** Baylor, TCU, UH, & SMU as your "not unrealistic" options.
Anyway, out of those five, I'd pick SMU almost every time. Good tradition, fan support, game day atmosphere, etc. If academics are a consideration, you're taking a hit with all of them except Houston, so
Rice, UNT and UTSA just don't belong in the conversation.
Also, *if* there is any veracity to the idea of needing to have a non-public university in the conference, SMU also checks that box.
Here are the numbers for 5-year averages plus 2022 by itself to rank attendance at all FBS programs:
I mean, compared to the Cal/ Stanford/ WSU I guess...
Mack needed to go...He got lazy with recruiting and coaching hires. They just hired the wrong guys with Strong and Herman
Tradition & fan support? Gameday atmosphere is solid only tailgating but the seats are empty. Must not have checked in on them since the early 80's... lolI do have to say that of the realistic TX school additions, SMU is probably my fav.
To be clear, "unrealistic" are UT & ATM.
Which would leave TT, **** Baylor, TCU, UH, & SMU as your "not unrealistic" options.
Anyway, out of those five, I'd pick SMU almost every time. Good tradition, fan support, game day atmosphere, etc. If academics are a consideration, you're taking a hit with all of them except Houston, so
Rice, UNT and UTSA just don't belong in the conversation.
Also, *if* there is any veracity to the idea of needing to have a non-public university in the conference, SMU also checks that box.
It started when they made Muschamp "Head Coach in Waiting" in 2008. Mack had a contract through 2016, no plans to retire any time soon, and he was on his streak of 10+ win seasons. Things turned a couple years later and I believe that this was a big reason why it happened.
No question Texas whiffed on Charlie Strong. Tom Herman? Put up 17-10 in his first two years at Texas on his way to 32-18. Comparing him to Sark.......13-12.
Herman was a good gameday coach.
Why did he end up at FAU if he was such a great coach? Dude was a doooshe and a cancer inside of the program. My son had a roommate at Texas that worked in the football program and he said everybody hated Herman and his wife.
"Too forward thinking" = "not making his players participate in a UT tradition of singing a song steeped in racism"
