No reason to bother RK with emails. She doesn’t need our input.
I think it would be a best of the rest conference which will still give us playoffs access and be far from an FCS as some of our doomsayers claim.
Still I will keep fingers crossed for a more lucrative spot in the ACC or pac.
It cannot hurt to have good programs but basketball has very little to do with these conference decisions.
It would also be very short-sighted for any of the conferences to base their decisions off the current success rate of the football program. So while ut/a&m would be tough to compete with in the SEC it would give all the other conferences an opportunity to bring in TCU and Houston to still create quite a big footprint in the state of Texas,
I don’t see why any other conference would want TT or Baylor
We would bring a lot to any conference not named the SEC.
If message board chatter doesn’t include UH in realignment discussion it just means those posters are ignorant & uniformed about college athletics. Shocking I know.
If this ends with four 16-team “super conferences” we will have almost no chance of being part of that, not because we aren’t competitive enough, but because of other reasons, including our geographical placement. There are too many programs in Texas, many not any more deserving than us, of course, that will get chosen ahead of us. The same biases that kept us out of the SWC for so long and out of the Big 12 will rear their ugly heads again. I certainly hope I’m wrong, but all these folks in positions of power have shown their true colors time and again, and always to our detriment.
With all this NIL crap and now these supposed super conference it is the end of college football. Just another minor league system for the NFL run by the Blue Blood College programs.
The original premise isn’t that we will play FCS or shutter the program. It is that this - in my opinion - is the last shuffle. Four 16-team conferences has been bantered about for quite some time, and it looks like it is finally here.
ESPN/ABC/Disney controls college football. Texas and OU would not be doing this without their blessing and probably their encouragement.
My opinion is the cartel said, why pay five conferences big dollars when we can offload some of these teams that don’t attract eyeballs and go to four conferences which will consolidate viewership. It lowers their overall outlay to the conferences in TV money. ESPN is trying to kill the BigXII. Just my thoughts.
I put our odds at 60/40 to we get left out/we get an invite.
Bultokid
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I think too many are selling UH and more importantly Houston short. IF it’s all about viewer numbers and $$$ there’s slim chance the soon to be 3rd largest city in America gets left out of one of the 4 Super Conferences…IMHO…there’s just too much $$$ here and a growing, thriving economy to ignore
What does the city have to do with us? Espn is making money off viewers in the city of houston without having a school here. The closest one is aTm.
If you’re talking cable subscribers, the new media model is for direct subscriptions so 3 million people means squat unless they subscribe directly with espn.
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Bultokid
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You think the Houston market isn’t attractive to outsiders ?
The Houston market is attractive and subscribers already get the market they want.
Based on attendance, the idea that UH fans will subscribe to espn3 in droves is fallacy.
Fans of Ohio state can already subscribe so ESPN makes that money already.
So there’s no need for a school in the city in order to reap more money for the network.
Bultokid
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I just think that there is too much $$$ in this town to ignore it…with all this NLI stuff, potential earnings or ability to generate $$$ here far exceeds 99% of the rest of the country
