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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 129509028" data-attributes="member: 1428007">And more about Cincy's bid:excerpt: In a splashy brochure dated November 2014, UC shows how it compares to the Big 12 schools in 10 categories – including annual giving, National Merit Scholars, total research expenditures, enrollment and endowment assets. Cincinnati would rank in the conference's top 5 in each category listed, except the U.S. News & World Report rankings, which would put UC seventh.More importantly, Cincinnati is a good-sized TV market. Its admission to the Big 12 would open up talent-rich Ohio to Big 12 football recruiters. UC basketball would be a good addition. If the conference also took Memphis or UConn, it could divide into two six-team divisions geographically, with UC, Memphis/UConn and West Virginia holding down the east.The Big 12 has not been eager to discuss expansion, partly because adding members slices thinner the per-school revenue pie. And now that <a href="http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2016/01/13/ncaa-members-ok-college-football-championship-games-all-conferences-big-12/78756848/">the conference has gotten the OK to hold a title game without adding members</a>, it could be less willing to expand.One of its power brokers, Oklahoma, seems to favor UC. The documents obtained show OU president David Boren as highly complimentary of Ono. The other big player, Texas, has not been as excited. And no one knows what ESPN thinks.<a href="http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/columnists/paul-daugherty/2016/02/13/doc-big-12-money-would-nice-uc/80341284/">http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/columnists/paul-daugherty/2016/02/13/doc-big-12-money-would-nice-uc/80341284/</a></blockquote>

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