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Trading places with Baylor.
Posted:
Tue May 26, 2009 9:56 amby Caballo
For all of you who say that you would never trade places with Baylor in the Big 12 due to the Bears continually getting their rear ends handed to them in football, here is an article showing the benefits of membership.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4198421
Getting a piece of a $130M pie is not too shabby. Now that is a reason to have a few body bag games within your own conference.
I would be happy to trade places with Baylor, even though it will never happen. A couple of pay days like that and all our programs would be supported for years to come.
Pony Up!
Posted:
Tue May 26, 2009 10:12 amby abezontar
In all my years reading ponyfans, I don't think I have ever seen anyone state that they wouldn't trade places with Baylor to be in the Big 12.
Posted:
Tue May 26, 2009 10:39 amby RednBlue11
i 2nd that, its not like we would have to change the name of the school ....its just a spot, i'd take it any day.
Posted:
Tue May 26, 2009 11:57 pmby Hal
abezontar wrote:In all my years reading ponyfans, I don't think I have ever seen anyone state that they wouldn't trade places with Baylor to be in the Big 12.
I'll say it  I damn-sure wouldn't want to trade places ... if it meant having to live in Waco.
Posted:
Thu May 28, 2009 1:50 pmby MustangStealth
We wouldn't trade places with Baylor because the Big 12 doesn't want us.
Posted:
Thu May 28, 2009 6:27 pmby BUS
The Big 12 wanted us first. We just made the crazy proposition that the Big 12 use our academic standards for admittance.
Nope.
Posted:
Thu May 28, 2009 6:46 pmby ALEX LIFESON
Thank Ken Pye
Posted:
Thu May 28, 2009 7:44 pmby ThadFilms
ALEX LIFESON wrote:Thank Ken Pye
Nope. Thank Anne Richards.... we would have been in the Big XII had we not had a governor in office who went to Baylor.
Posted:
Thu May 28, 2009 8:41 pmby ALEX LIFESON
Wrong, Ann Richards was opportunistic, AFTER Pye dealt us the death blow.
Posted:
Fri May 29, 2009 11:51 amby BoazHoes
Not having a baseball team didn't help.
Posted:
Fri May 29, 2009 12:55 pmby PonySoprano
Maybe God likes baptists more than he likes Methodists?
Posted:
Fri May 29, 2009 3:06 pmby Caballo
If someone was throwing $10 million plus our way this year as part of our membership share, I'd bet we could probably field a baseball team with no problems. We might also be able to support a men's track team.
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Fri May 29, 2009 3:20 pmby RednBlue11
Caballo wrote:If someone was throwing $10 million plus our way this year as part of our membership share, I'd bet we could probably field a baseball team with no problems. We might also be able to support a men's track team.
don't forget to include a softball and one other womens team...if we got two mens teams we're really having to get 4
Posted:
Fri May 29, 2009 4:04 pmby DiamondM75
RednBlue11 wrote:Caballo wrote:If someone was throwing $10 million plus our way this year as part of our membership share, I'd bet we could probably field a baseball team with no problems. We might also be able to support a men's track team.
don't forget to include a softball and one other womens team...if we got two mens teams we're really having to get 4
We could finish what Pye started. Get rid of Men's football.
Posted:
Fri May 29, 2009 5:00 pmby Insane_Pony_Posse
Although we're not there yet, but personally I'd much rather be winning 8-10 games a year in CUSA or the Mountain West, going to Bowl games, and being in the Top 25 like TCU is doing vs being a Big 12 bottom feeder like Baylor is. In my opinion SMU shouldn't aspire to be anything like Baylor, they should aspire to be like TCU.