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    Quote Originally Posted by MHettel View Post
    I dont get it. Look at the process that Uconn has gone through over an extended period of time trying to get into the B12. And they went so far as to take a vote. Usually if you clearly dont have the votes, then no vote is taken. The fact that they voted and barely missed speaks to the analysis that was done.

    what am I missing?
    I think the biggest thing you’re missing is that it was (for the most part) a tongue-in-cheek comment.

    Generally speaking, I think most decisions that are made, especially including those that involve realignment, are poorly and inadequately analyzed to the point to where you wonder if anyone did any actual analysis at all. What’s happening with the PAC 12/2 and MWC may be an even more extreme example than what we normally see, but I don’t have a lot of confidence that the people who make these decisions fully and methodically analyze much of anything. Many of these people are some of the same yo-yos that want a 96 team NCAA Tournament.
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    Apparently now Sac State is reaching out to the Pac 12. This is just getting both more sad and more hilarious!!

    Everyone could have saved themselves a lot of money and stress had Oregon State and Wazzu just joined the Mountain West as full members. They still owned the rights to the Pac 12. They could have rebranded it the Pac 12 if they really wanted to. Instead, we will end up with two separate conferences, neither of which will be as good as the merged P12/MWC would have likely been.
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    In some ways, it's good that Bill Walton passed away before the Pac-12 became a "truck stop" conference that he always loved to call the mid-major programs. He never got to be a celebrity in locales like Bloomington and Minneapolis in the B1G.

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    Zags to the Pac-whatever.
    ...he went up late, and I was already up there.

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    The Mountain West is now in talks with Tarlton State.

    We have now officially reached the 'Tarlton State Phase' of realignment! When you reach this stage, you need to acknowledge that without the interest being generated in college sports from online gambling, there would be virtually no interest at all.
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    What is a Tarlton? And why do they have a state?
    We've come a long way since my bench seat at the Fieldhouse!

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    I'm hearing rumors that the Ivy League has no plans for expansion.
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    Tarleton is on the list with Stephen F Austin, Houston Baptist, Texas State and UTSA for me as Texas schools with some potential. Probably one of them will "hit", but hard to know which one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoMuskies View Post
    Tarleton is on the list with Stephen F Austin, Houston Baptist, Texas State and UTSA for me as Texas schools with some potential. Probably one of them will "hit", but hard to know which one.
    I agree with three out of those four. Tarlton State actually is putting a lot into athletics, and they do have potential in both football and basketball.

    Houston Baptist??? As great as their alternate uniforms are, and as much as I love the massiveness of their arena (both of which are on display in the link below), I can't say I agree that they have any real potential at all...

    https://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/01/the...owback-jerseys
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