Big 12 expansion

[11thEagleFan]

Looking less and less likely. Reports out that TCU is voting against expansion. Also, the non-Texas schools don't want Houston because they're afraid Houston will beat them in recruiting. As I type this, the Big 12's top-ranked team in Baylor is trailing 1-3 Iowa State by 2 scores. What a mess that conference is. A part of me wants Houston to make the CFP this year while the Big 12 gets left out.

 

[patdog]

OU's president has flip flopped on expansion. After pushing it hard for 2 years, he's now saying maybe they shouldn't expand. I don't think any school is going to get the 8 votes needed. That conference is a huge mess.

 

[57stratdawg]

Seems like the clock is ticking on those guys.

 

[57stratdawg]

Well, when they were in "expansion mode" this summer they were talking to FSU and Clemson behind the scenes. I could see them being more enthusiastic about that.

 

[EurekaDog]

I'd like to see all non-UT teams leave the Big12, leaving UT alone in a one-team

conference.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

OU was really wanting to add BYU. However, their stand against Homosexuals is disconcerting towards the more liberal Big 12 schools (which is pretty much everyone except Baylor and Oklahoma State) and the NCAA.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

OU was really wanting to add BYU. However, their stand against Homosexuals is disconcerting towards the more liberal Big 12 schools (which is pretty much everyone except Baylor and Oklahoma State) and the NCAA.

I for one am glad we're playing them in 2016-17 rather than next decade some time -- it's probably going to get to the point where it becomes controversial to play them at all, and we don't need that kind of attention.

This wouldn't be unprecedented. Until God "changed his mind" in 1978, the Mormon church taught that black people were inferior, and by the late 60s/70s, BYU had a lot of trouble even scheduling opponents. There were protests whenever they went on the road, and Wyoming even had players refusing to play in their game against BYU.

ETA: My mistake - the Wyoming players didn't refuse to play. They only wanted to wear black armbands in protest of BYU's racism, and were instead kicked off the team for proposing it. Here's an article about it: http://www.wyohistory.org/essays/black-14-race-politics-religion-and-wyoming-football

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Guess someone should show the memo where God created Adam and Steve.