Trading places with Baylor.

Caballo · Post by **Caballo** » Tue May 26, 2009 9:56 am

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!

abezontar · Post by **abezontar** » Tue May 26, 2009 10:12 am

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.

RednBlue11 · Post by **RednBlue11** » Tue May 26, 2009 10:39 am

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.

Hal · Post by **Hal** » Tue May 26, 2009 11:57 pm

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 ├â┬ó├óΓÇÜ┬¼├óΓé¼┬¥ I damn-sure wouldn't want to trade places ... if it meant having to live in Waco.

MustangStealth · Post by **MustangStealth** » Thu May 28, 2009 1:50 pm

We wouldn't trade places with Baylor because the Big 12 doesn't want us.

BUS · Post by **BUS** » Thu May 28, 2009 6:27 pm

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

Nope.

ALEX LIFESON · Post by **ALEX LIFESON** » Thu May 28, 2009 6:46 pm

Thank Ken Pye :evil:

ThadFilms · Post by **ThadFilms** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:44 pm

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.

ALEX LIFESON · Post by **ALEX LIFESON** » Thu May 28, 2009 8:41 pm

Wrong, Ann Richards was opportunistic, AFTER Pye dealt us the death blow.

BoazHoes · Post by **BoazHoes** » Fri May 29, 2009 11:51 am

Not having a baseball team didn't help.

PonySoprano · Post by **PonySoprano** » Fri May 29, 2009 12:55 pm

Maybe God likes baptists more than he likes Methodists?

Caballo · Post by **Caballo** » Fri May 29, 2009 3:06 pm

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.

RednBlue11 · Post by **RednBlue11** » Fri May 29, 2009 3:20 pm

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

DiamondM75 · Post by **DiamondM75** » Fri May 29, 2009 4:04 pm

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. :shock:

Insane_Pony_Posse · Post by **Insane_Pony_Posse** » Fri May 29, 2009 5:00 pm

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.