re: BIG 12 expanding again?

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TV market wouldn't infiltrate Nola with Tulane.


If you take Tulane, you are looking to build, not looking at what is there.

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Tulane would be a very long range vision kind of pick and it seems like gambling a lot for a conference looking to buck up their interests in the more short to medium term.

They have a 20k stadium in a place that it can't easily be expanded. Are they going to go back to hosting in the Superdome when they play teams that actually bring lots of fans.

The issue of being a primarily academic institution is an issue for college football as well. Although there are handful of really academic schools with BCS football programs (Stanford, NW, Vanderbilt, and Duke) IMO there is going to be more and more pressure in the coming decade on the primarily academic institutions to think about down-scaling or removing their football programs.

Memphis and Cincinnati make a lot more sense for a lot of reasons but that's JMO