Texas to Pac 12

[NFO]

lol you still being butthurt because your rumors were proven to be .

you must be on some good drugs.

[Blake]

Or you're asshurt and ran with it.

Neh. Even if it had been some other school besides tech, I still think your story sounds like bull .

Like I said, doesn't seem to matter now. Politics of Texas with Tech and Oklahoma with State won, so ideals now become maintaining this so the seminal ideal behind all of this in adding Texas and Oklahoma stays in place.

Aww. I guess you have no choice now but to take it when I say your Rice story is full of .

[Blake]

you must be on some good drugs.

your hurting ass appears to need some.

[Bill_Brasky]

Apparently unless you've talked to Larry Scott yourself, you have no room talking or speculating about any of this.

[NFO]

your hurting ass appears to need some.

your mentally re ed responses are pretty funny even if you don't know you imply that you are a raging sexual with the number of times you reference butthurt, or ass hurtings.

Keep it up bro

[Blake]

Keep it up bro

Freudian slip tbh

[coyotes_geek]

Not in the ideal I said was being discussed. The ideal was Texas and Okahoma plus two of Kansas, Missouri and Rice. KU for basketball. Once Missouri said no thanks they were discussing Rice for academics, baseball and Houston foothold.

Scott was wanting to improve the Pacls overall brand, not just keep up with SEC in football.

I'm having a hard time believing the Pac schools would be interested in forking over $20 mil/yr (or whatever their cut of the tv money would be) to a school like Rice over just a good baseball team and being able to say "look how smart our new friend is".

[JMarkJohns]

It was the potential of the ulative, not the specific. Rice has more potential for development than Vandy and Northwestern with the right conference affiliaitions due to being in a talent hotbed in a rabid sports state, brings enough early with academics and peripheral programs, and puts enough viewership of the Pac in a large market, helping keep Houston prospects in the Pac and not heading East to the SEC. It made plenty of longterm sense.

[coyotes_geek]

It was the potential of the ulative, not the specific. Rice has more potential for development than Vandy and Northwestern with the right conference affiliaitions due to being in a talent hotbed in a rabid sports state, brings enough early with academics and peripheral programs, and puts enough viewership of the Pac in a large market, helping keep Houston prospects in the Pac and not heading East to the SEC. It made plenty of longterm sense.

Still not seeing it. I lived in Houston for 15 years and at best Rice is the 5th most followed college program in that city behind Texas, A&M, UH and LSU. OU and Arkansas might even have bigger followings there.

Only Wake Forest has a smaller enrollment. There aren't many Rice students, there aren't many Rice alumni, there aren't that many people with a rooting interest to turn on the TV to watch them. Their academic standards cancel out any advantage to being located in a talent hotbed. They would be a perennial doormat in the Pac. They don't deliver TV ratings, nor do they have the potential to, especially if Texas ends up in the Pac.

Yeah, Pac schools like to recruit Houston, but that doesn't mean they're going to cough up a full revenue share to Rice just so that they can make a trip there once every four years.