Push for Houston to join the Big 12

[SoonerNorm]

http://newsok.com/lawmakers-support...article/3469182?custom_click=headlines_widget

 

[Sid]

It is already starting. OU fans had better get used to putting up with that kind of rubbish coming out of Texas because it is just the beginning of their BS. Thank you, Joe. The following link provides a lot more detail. Here are some excerpts from the article.

More than two dozen Houston-area legislators put in writing their support Thursday for the University of Houston to gain admission to the Big 12 Conference.

Coleman, whose District 147 includes the UH campus, said the Houston delegation isn’t about to give up that easily.

“I don’t quit,” Coleman said. “I don’t start something I’m not going to finish. If I didn’t think this was a worthy endeavor, I wouldn’t have started it. This is the beginning of this effort, not the end.”

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/college/houston/7058391.html

 

[Sooner79]

How many votes do they need for admission? Don't think they'd have them right now.

 

[Seymore Cox]

I'd love to move to the north.

 

[Cheno]

Let's add Memphis and Louisville and have the dominant basketball conference.

 

[stoops4pres]

Let's add Memphis and Louisville and have the dominant basketball conference.

N doubt it would be dominant. That league would be a full-fledged gauntlet.

 

[NickZepp]

Houston adds nothing else to the conference. They aren't really that good at football or basketball, already have the Houston market with the Texas teams we have anyway. Houston is more of a pro town anyway. The only 3 teams I would really like to see added to the Big 12 are Louisville, Arkansas, and BYU.

 

[Sid]

Houston adds nothing else to the conference. They aren't really that good at football or basketball, already have the Houston market with the Texas teams we have anyway. Houston is more of a pro town anyway.

According to their AD, they have big plans to build a new 40,000 seat football stadium and they have plans to spend another 40,000,000 renovating Hofheinz Pavilion. There is only one problem; they do not have the money yet.

 

[seniorsooner]

Wow, 40,000 seats? LOL that's pretty big time

 

[Sid]

Wow, 40,000 seats? LOL that's pretty big time

I forgot to mention the stadium can be expanded to hold an additional 10,000 people. For a 120,000,000 dollars, that is big time. lol Does Boone stadium average 50,000 people a game?

 

[seniorsooner]

I'm just saying that's what people don't understand when they say "let's just add TCU and Houston". TCU lost 1 game last year and they averaged like 35K per game in home attendance. I'd wager that even Baylor and Iowa State averaged more than that, and do we really need another Baylor or Iowa State in the league?

 

[NickZepp]

I'm just saying that's what people don't understand when they say "let's just add TCU and Houston". TCU lost 1 game last year and they averaged like 35K per game in home attendance. I'd wager that even Baylor and Iowa State averaged more than that, and do we really need another Baylor or Iowa State in the league?

Yep people think Texas teams add something to a conference just cause they are close or something. They basically add nothing. If the Big 12 went with TCU 15 years ago even with L.T. they wouldn't have been much better than last place most years in the Big 12 just like Baylor.

 

[Sid]

I'm just saying that's what people don't understand when they say "let's just add TCU and Houston". TCU lost 1 game last year and they averaged like 35K per game in home attendance. I'd wager that even Baylor and Iowa State averaged more than that, and do we really need another Baylor or Iowa State in the league?

The Cougars are lucky if they draw 25,000 people to a game. Their football program is a lot like Women's Basketball. They try to get as many old people and young children as they can to attend their games.

 

[thebigabd]

I think if Houston and/or TCU were in the Big 12 their fan bases would increase, they would recruit better, they would make more money for facilities, and their attendance would increase.

People don't go to their games because nobody cares to watch Houston play SMU, Central Florida, East Carolina, Memphis, etc.

 

[Max Power]

I think if Houston and/or TCU were in the Big 12 their fan bases would increase, they would recruit better, they would make more money for facilities, and their attendance would increase.

People don't go to their games because nobody cares to watch Houston play SMU, Central Florida, East Carolina, Memphis, etc.

But what do TCU and Houston add the the Big X? We already have the Texas market, we wont get into more households adding them. So it would be to the benefit of them and detriment to the rest of the teams. No added value and taking cuts of the pie = no win for the other 10 teams

 

[seniorsooner]

Well said.

 

[Sawyer]

The new deal is a short-term fix anyway. The Big East was and still is very weak as a BCS conference and the Big 12 hasn't done anything to strengthen itself. The BCS will eventually need to solve the Big East automatic bid issue, and I'd bet that when that time comes another round of conference realignment comes with it. I believe the BCS contract with ABC/ESPN lasts another 3-4 years, so my money is on 2013 being when we begin seeing some new smoke.