re: BIG 12 expanding again?

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Taking Tulane means adding a charter SEC school and getting into an SEC state now that the SEC is back in TX. As AR and MO are single state schools, nobody to take there and going to the west means NM and nothing exciting there.

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I think the charter thing is nice to say but irrelevant for the dollars and national media concerns that dominate these types of decisions.

I agree that getting into a new state media market makes some sense but memphis (2 million more residents than LA) and cincinnati (7 million more residents than LA) offer much better markets if this is your driving force.

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If Cincinnati is the other school then they have the perfect model already in place. Bearcats play most all games at home but play Paul Brown (NFL Bengal) when they can sell 50K to 60K seats. Tulane could follow the same model.

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Tulane has just invested a lot of money (to them perhaps, not others) in an on campus football stadium. Politically speaking it would be exceptionally difficult for the same administration to reverse course and go back to playing football games in the Superdome... setting aside the revenue issues that go with having to use another financial organization's facilities.