Richard Justice: Big 12 Looking to Add Houston, SMU, or TCU

[RednBlue11]

We need a damn BASEBALL team

which means a softball team too

[Pony ^]

We need a damn BASEBALL team

which means a softball team too

Woooof

[RednBlue11]

oh, and you said you want a men's track team? well that means we end the men's soccer team or come up w/ another women's sport to add...too bad cheer leading isnt a sport :/

[Water Pony]

Add Women's Lacrosse. Big roster, which is key.

[RednBlue11]

Add Women's Lacrosse. Big roster, which is key.

well, it's a club already so why not?

[Stallion]

Why not Bikini Trampolining

[Garret]

Since there already exists a 2-tiered payout system within the Big 12 and with the measly payout we currently receive from C-USA, one would think we could approach the Big 12 willing to accept the smallest payout possible, considerably lower than the other schools, say for the first 5 years of membership (that would be a lifetime given the current environment).

Have big donors make up the difference and we just may have that competitive advantage over Houston that we need, after all, $$$ is a big driver in all this.

The Big 12 already went to a new system that significantly reduced the difference in conference payouts. Apparently Nebraska was the biggest school pushing for the unequal payouts because they changed it to share the vast majority of the money equally.

[Garret]

If invited, we could also agree to have our game vs UT on the longhorn network so they could have two games on the network.

I don't understand why more of the bottom feeders of the Big 12 don't ask for that anyway. Didn't Texas Tech turn down $5 mil plus an extra 2 games televised on ESPN because they didn't want the UT-Texas Tech game on the LHN? The Big 12 rules that were recently passed require the LHN to pay any conference school if they appear on the network...so, they get their regular Big 12 TV money plus a bonus for playing on the LHN.