Trading places with Baylor.

[ALEX LIFESON]

I'm with you IPP. Should be interesting, when the Bears and Stangs renew their series in a couple of years.

[True Colors]

Being in a power conference means tougher hill to climb, obviously, but it is well worth it. You also get much more resources to help you make that climb.

When private schools like wake forest, stanford, or northwestern win major conferences then everybody notices. When private schools win or challenge for smaller conferences(e.g., rice or tulsa) then nobody really cares.

If TCU could somehow trade places with baylor then they would do so in a heartbeat.

TC

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

"If TCU could somehow trade places with baylor
then they would do so in a heartbeat"

TCU is better than most Big 12 Teams and they certainly are
light years better than Baylor. When was the last time Baylor ever even
sniffed the Top 25 in football? Sure TCU would like to be a BCS team and
get the money the Big 12 offers but if it meant being anything like Baylor
uh no...I don't think so.

[25times2]

The Big 12 wanted us first. We just made the crazy proposition that the Big 12 use our academic standards for admittance.

Nope.

Don't understand what you mean by academic standards? All you need at SMU is to meet NCAA minimum requirements....

[EastStang]

First, look how Baylor is spending those $$$$ from the BCS. Women's National championship in basketball. Great track programs. Solid women's soccer program. Great golf and tennis programs. Excellent baseball program. Competitive men's basketball program in the Big XII. Like Stanford and Duke, they take their lumps in football, and spend it in other places. Even if our football program went 1-11 in the Big XII every year, think of the extra scholarships and improved facilities that would generate for the rest of the athletic program. Given being 1-11 in football in CUSA or in the WAC, I'd choose the Big XII and the cash.

Every school (TCU, UH, Rice and SMU) has a story about why they were not added to the Big XII. The answer as I understand it is that it was going to be ten schools instead of 12 and that Baylor and Tech were going to be left behind as well as the rest of the SWC. Ann Richards and Bullock joined forces and told the UT and A&M regents that unless Baylor and Tech were added to the mix, no one was going anywhere. Thus, Baylor and Tech were added. Otherwise, if Tech and Baylor had been left behind, the SWC probably would have reorganized and added some other schools and still be around. Who they would have added would have been interesting. Would they have looked west toward the old WAC 16 schools or looked eastward toward CUSA schools like Louisville, Tulane and Memphis?

[ALEX LIFESON]

The Big 12 wanted us first. We just made the crazy proposition that the Big 12 use our academic standards for admittance.

Nope.

Don't understand what you mean by academic standards? All you need at SMU is to meet NCAA minimum requirements....

Prop 48's, and partial qualifiers.

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

"Even if our football program went 1-11 in the Big XII every year, think of the extra scholarships and improved facilities that would generate for the rest of the athletic program"

No question about it....I'd rather be TCU ranked in the Top 20...sometimes Top 10 in football.

[NavyCrimson]

You're dead right - EastStang!