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Of course the vast majority of them don't care, but the general consensus is that the Big 12 will completely disband. There will be no attempt on the remaining school's part to patch together a Big 12 with MWC/CUSA leftovers. Most likely the MWC will try to get to 14 or 16 and in every scenerio they've dreamed up, we aren't in it. It seems that outside of SMU, there is very little support for SMU to be a part of this realignment. Lots can still happen, but the Horns feel we'll stay in CUSA and likely not be a part of the realignment.

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what choice do Kansas and Mizzou have now? they will try to patch something together that they control, you can be sure of that. they ain't going hat in hand to wyoming.

Why should they care about us

Dallas...Kansas City chiefs could threaten to leave

smupony94 wrote:Why should they care about us

Top 10 TV market and Texas exposure for recruiting.

I wonder if Mizzou and Kansas would like to keep recruiting Texas, Oklahoma and therefore include others than Baylor....like SMU, Tulsa and Houston? Just a thought.

Its not going to be in the hands of the casual fan, its going to be in the hands of network executives to determine which conference alignment yields the most dollars in dealing with the leftovers. Everyone is going to be looking to see where the $$$$ are going. If the TV people suggest that SMU is a better choice than TCU or Baylor, guess who's going to get picked?

max the wonder dog wrote:

smupony94 wrote:Why should they care about us

Top 10 TV market and Texas exposure for recruiting.

Want to see how interested UT is in our ability to deliver a top TV market? Walk into a random sports bar in Dallas next season when UT is on and SMU is on, and see how many TVs are on our game and how many are on theirs (and how many people are watching). UT doesn't need us for Dallas/Fort Worth TV market. I wish it weren't true, but it is.

Another conference can use SMU to build their league in town. If the SEC were playing in Dallas they could fill Jerryworld several times a year, and get press coverage every weekend.

It is not whether we can compete vs UT on TV sets (we cant) - it is access to the Dallas market - which of course we dont fully deliver, but we do partially deliver. Also the inroads for others into Dallas recruiting is huge - which wont get it done but could be a tie breaker.

Those two things - plus Dallas being a bunch more fun for the TV guys to hang around then, say waco, will make us somewhat interesting to both the reconstituted Big 12 and MWC - and possible SEC although probably too many roadblocks for that one....starting with school size. Now whether it is interesting enough to make up for our size is the question.

I was told size doesn't matter....many times

If Texas leaves the Big-12(10 and going down) then for the new Big-xx to have a presense in this market they will need SMU or TCU or both.

Texas becomes a moot point in the discussion.

Its been over twenty years since we were relevant and during those years Dallas has changed. No telling what kind of following we could get if we were in a major conference, winning with June's offense. People have reminded me that Texas recently went almost twenty years without being in the top ten, and that USC before Pete Carroll was finishing in the middle of a middle rate BCS conference. All things cycle, but the school has got to be committed to it.
Last year's rap song wasn't pretty, but June knows that the city is still there to be claimed by alot of people that didn't go to A&M or Texas or Tech or anywhere for that matter. An SMU program like that would be a great return on the average fans sports dollar.