After the Dominoes Fall...

by **MeanGreenMachine** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:18 pm

In my mind, the A&M bolt to the SEC is the best thing that has happened to the non-AQ schools in Texas. It is obvious that the Big 12-3 cannot keep OU, Texas, Tech or OSU long term. This means that Beebe will have to find replacement programs. I think that the largest university by enrollment and the leading research institution in the largest media market in Texas is one of the real prizes for the reconfigured Big XII. I also believe that you guys would get the nod thanks to June's fine work.

Oh yes, the day is almost here when you come to Denton and face the Eagles' Wings in a Big XII South showdown! What will the new conference look like?

NORTH:
Iowa State
Kansas State
Colorado State
Tulsa
New Mexico
Air Force

SOUTH:
Baylor
North Texas
SMU
UTEP
Houston
Rice (for tradition) OR UTSA (For Media Market)

Gonna be great!

by **NickSMU17** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:25 pm

Not happening bud...

by **Junior** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:26 pm

UNT has a medical school?

by **Stallion** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:26 pm

No thanks we'll trade you for Southern Miss

by **RGV Pony** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:37 pm

Junior wrote:UNT has a medical school?

they acquired and renamed the former TCOM (Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine) in Ft Worth some time ago..now UNT School of Health Sciences or something to that effect

by **MeanGreenMachine** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:40 pm

Junior wrote:UNT has a medical school?

Yes. The UNT Health Sciences Center is located in the museum district in Fort Worth, not far from the Kimball. Couple that with the opening of the law school in Dallas and UNT has deep roots and institutional infrastructure throughout the entire Metroplex. With 30K-plus undergrads and professional schools anchoring both the west and east of the area, NT has clearly positioned itself to be a "winner" in the realignment lottery. It's not just about football - it is about the institutional value to a conference, the media market and the committment to a solid athletic department.

NT can check all three off. As mentioned, we have become a huge state school with graduate and professional programs that few schools that would be selected could match (you guys have law as well).

The media market works to both of our advantages being in a Top 5 media market. Favorable for us both to move up!

Last, few schools can match the facilities that NT has built or is in process of constructing. Between the new stadium and the olympic village concept - NT would have superior facilities to any other potential member that would be called on to replace and rebuild the Big 12. Note, you guys are well positioned from this as well.

by **35straight** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:46 pm

NO WAY THAT'S HAPPENING! :lol:

by **jtstang** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:55 pm

Come on man, you know we always blackball NTSU.

by **StallionsModelT** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:55 pm

LOL. Of all the crazy realignment scenarios I've seen on here, this one takes the cake. The only way we end up in the same conference with North Texas is if CUSA loses Houston to the Big 12 and we are stuck in what is left of CUSA West. If that happens I could see CUSA extending one invitation to the following, in order:

1. La Tech
2. Troy
3. New Mexico
4. Middle Tennessee State
5. North Texas

In other words, UNT is way down the pecking order. Realignment will have no impact on UNT at all.

by **mustangxc** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 5:06 pm

I don't see UNT being in the Big XII with us. That conference as proposed would be inferior to CUSA as it is constituted now. I could see UNT in CUSA with us if the proper dominoes fall for UNT, but that would not be a good thing for us. I could also see UNT joining the MWC if they are set on reacquiring the DFW market. If the Big XII dissolves, Baylor and Iowa State are more likely to just join CUSA than forming the new Big XII as proposed above.

by **Charleston Pony** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 5:14 pm

If/when the Aggies leave the Big XII, the other 9 will either remain together or the landscape will change so dramatically that Baylor and Iowa State will be the last 2 remaining charter members of thje Big XII...in which case, who knows what might happen

by **East Coast Mustang** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 5:21 pm

On an unrelated note, UNT should NOT be opening a law school in the current legal employment climate. Aren't nine law schools in Texas more than enough?

http://www.law.com/jsp/tx/PubArticleTX. ... hbxlogin=1

by **goldenstang** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:55 pm

East Coast Mustang wrote:On an unrelated note, UNT should NOT be opening a law school in the current legal employment climate. Aren't nine law schools in Texas more than enough?

http://www.law.com/jsp/tx/PubArticleTX. ... hbxlogin=1

I've read multiple articles saying that there is no way UNT should be opening a law school given the current environment, yet they are doing so anyway.

by **Comet** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:32 pm

I have done mental gymnastics trying to see how UNT could end up in the Big XII, it's just not happening. SMU getting in is still a big stretch, let alone UNT...

by **West Coast Johnny** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:23 am

MeanGreenMachine wrote:
Junior wrote:UNT has a medical school?

Yes. The UNT Health Sciences Center is located in the museum district in Fort Worth, not far from the Kimball. Couple that with the opening of the law school in Dallas and UNT has deep roots and institutional infrastructure throughout the entire Metroplex. With 30K-plus undergrads and professional schools anchoring both the west and east of the area, NT has clearly positioned itself to be a "winner" in the realignment lottery. It's not just about football - it is about the institutional value to a conference, the media market and the committment to a solid athletic department.

NT can check all three off. As mentioned, we have become a huge state school with graduate and professional programs that few schools that would be selected could match (you guys have law as well).

The media market works to both of our advantages being in a Top 5 media market. Favorable for us both to move up!

Last, few schools can match the facilities that NT has built or is in process of constructing. Between the new stadium and the olympic village concept - NT would have superior facilities to any other potential member that would be called on to replace and rebuild the Big 12. Note, you guys are well positioned from this as well.