re: AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

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That's one bit of silver lining out of all this.

Was just laughing with a coworker yesterday about how pissed tech and Baylor must be

frick Baylor. They deserve this.

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They are not going to land in P5 confernce, they are probably FCS bound and the irony is this was put into motion around 2010 and A&M had nothing at all to do with it. This s totally lost on 80% of their shitty uninformed fan base. Good riddance on their way to complete irrelevance.

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I say all this with no malice to Baylor graduates. I live next to two and they are nice people and great neighbors. The little football smalltalk we make is just good natured ribbing.

Baylor's problem is that they're a small private school in a rural area. There is no market for that in big boy football.

Pac12 has Stanford, which is in a major metro area.
B1G has Northwestern, which is in a major metro area.
SEC has Vanderbilt, again, metro area.
ACC has Duke, which is not, but Duke has considerably more prestige than Baylor and has a long history of dominance in a revenue sport and therefore a national fanbase.

Baylor brings nothing to the table. Absolutely nothing at all. No prestige, no fanbase, no metro area, no nothing. They never belonged in the B12 at all, they just happened to have the governor at the time as an alum. They should have been in Conf USA or the Sunbelt, where they would have fit in.

This wasn't put into motion in 2010, the motion was delayed in 1996, and its simply resuming. Baylor in a major conference was a quaint legacy of football from yesteryear: back when there were only 8 bowl games, people weren't sure if this "NFL" thing was going to stick, and you could drop M80s down storm drains on the quad and no one would call the FBI.

We decided to expand our culturally tight, tiny military college into a major university of 50,000 students, and Baylor decided to stay a small private school and even part out their medical school. Decisions like that ripple into athletics and fanbase size. All of this was going to happen eventually, it was just a matter of time.

Ole Lobo

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dillusional

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I honestly think the remaining big 12 teams are going to be so much better off without UTrans in the conference

In the long run, they won't. The Big12 doesn't have that anchor school anymore that attracts viewers or gives them legitimacy.

At some point, the networks and playoffs are going to completely leave out the Big12. Realignment has been a precursor to the inevitable creation of a new subdivision inside Division 1.

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they are growing in popularity

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Cincinnati and UCF grew in popularity because they were playoff/NY6 busters. How popular are they going to be when they're not winning 10+ games each year anymore?

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and are in pretty big markets.

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In markets where nobody cares about them. Cougar High couldn't even sell out their first game as a "Big12" representative vs UTSA.

For the past decade, the Big12's most watched game of the week has involved Oklahoma or Texas almost every week. There have been exceptions, but the appeal of the conference really revolved around OU and Texas.

For example last year, our miserable game vs. Florida on cable had better ratings than the TCU vs TTU game on Fox. Both games kicked of at the same time. The only difference is that TCU was in playoff contention while A&M and UF had losing records.

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They just needed to be in a big name conference to get more respect and recognition.

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The teams that were added only got attention when they were undefeated or playing a big brand such as Auburn, LSU, Oklahoma, or Notre Dame.

Those brands don't exist in the Big12. And I highly doubt that the new schools will go undefeated at the same time every single year. If success if the only thing that keeps these schools popular, then their popularity is about to fade away.