Oh don’t worry, uhlaw97 is always omnipresent!
I remember that when it was first posted here.
Listen folks. Unless someone can show me proof of a written offer from the SEC to join that conference, UH was never truly close to joining it.
UH certainly ATTEMPTED to join the SEC…we got close at one point in the 1950s, but were ultimately voted down.
As for this meeting, I’m sure that our Board, acting on the hope that an invite to the SEC might be coming, did indeed vote as described. This does NOT mean that any true written offer/invitation was ever actually extended. Without proof in writing, we were never offered.
The three great realignment lies of coogfans.com:
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UH is being “vetted” by the B1G; that rumor came up some years back, and the people that posted it claimed that they had gotten it from people inside the athletic department; of course, when asked, they said they couldn’t name names; fine. Then guess what. It isn’t true. Anyone who knows anything about the B1G (and I know a bit because I’m a B1G alum), knows that the B1G doesn’t even sniff, much less “vet” non-AAU schools like UH, unless they were Notre Dame before its AAU days. Today, that exception doesn’t exist. During the B1G’s most recent expansion moves, more than one news source posted names of schools that truly were being vetted by the B1G. Houston, of course, was NOT on the list. All the schools on the list were AAU members, or Notre Dame.
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UH “almost joined” the SEC. See above. We never received a written invite. No invite…then we did NOT “almost join” the SEC.
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UH is “negotiating” to join the PAC. One dude on Twitter wrote that TCU and UH were being considered by the PAC, which was ABSURDLY implausible, given that the PAC is known for NOT taking either a) religious schools, or b) schools that aren’t R1. TCU was both. Had the rumor only been UH, then it wouldn’t be implausible, but the minute I heard TCU’s name mentioned, I automatically dismissed it. It was RIGHT, of course. NO news source that covers the PAC, much less the conference itself, ever confirmed that rumor. Jon Wilner once wrote an article saying why he thought that the PAC SHOULD consider adding UH, but that’s a far cry saying that the PAC was actually interested (some have offered Wilner’s article to support that proposition, even though it does NOT do so), much less that we are “negotiating” to join. One guy here even posted that we were “negotiating” to join the PAC, AFTER we had already accepted a Big 12 invite, which was also absurd. No way after we’d fulfilled our decades long dream to join the Big 12, we would then turn right around to join a conference way out West with no local rivals, no local fan or recruit interest, etc. And given that negotiating to join a new conference requires a public vote by the Board of Regents, one which did occur for the Big 12, but did NOT occur for the PAC, any assertions about UH negotiating to join any conference other than the Big 12 were preposterous. Here’s the reality folks. Before disbanding the PAC REJECTED a plan to add four bigger brand Big 12 P4 schools. The idea that the PAC was then going to turn around and then invite three P5 schools…and a G5 school (Houston), or any other combination (TCU, etc) and a G5 school can thus be safely dismissed as well. You don’t turn down bigger brand P5 schools and then turn around and invite a G5 school (which Houston was at the time). That’s ridiculous.
Of course, within months of people making that claim on the board, the PAC promptly collapsed, proving the rumor to be nonsensical…and also proving that we had joined the RIGHT conference, one that absorbed four of the members of that other failing/failed conference: the PAC.
Could things change in the future?
Sure.
Is it likely to happen anytime soon?
No.
I can’t see an invite to the SEC coming as long as UT and aTm are members.
And unless/until we become AAU, an invite to the B1G isn’t even plausible, much less possible. When we do become AAU (which may be several years away), even then, it’s unlikely. The B1G has never had any desire to add a TX school, and if they did have such a desire, then they’d have at least two, and probably three, larger brands to choose from than UH.
