Would Coogfans be in favor of a move to the B1G? Why or why not?
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Nah, holding out for the SEC invite.
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think Longhorns and A&M wouldn’t block us from joining the SEC if they could?
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I think we should try being competitive in Football in the Big 12 first 
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Sure we’d be in favor, for the media money ($90 million per year), if nothing else.
That said, as long as we aren’t AAU, it isn’t happening, and even when we become AAU, it’s unlikely given the size of our football brand, which is NOT large.
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Without hesitation. I’d love to be a B1G alum.
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I prefer the NFC East.
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Being in the same conference as tu is suicide. B1G please.
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Rutgers?
The Big 10 is not the least bit interested in UH as a conference member. UH should concentrate on building the best football brand it can and increase attendance, so that when the next round of realignment occurs, UH can have a seat at the table.
As much as I would love for UH to be a part of the Big 10 media contract and share research with other Big 10 schools, UH is years away from being in a position to even consider Big 10 membership, let alone be voted on by members. Until then, my brain has limited capacity and does not do well with unrealistic hypotheticals.
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I’m thinking Merge the B1G & BIG12 together. That way the mods can make 1 Thread out of the 2. 
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UH is destined for the B1G just a matter of time, needs AAU. Once that’s achieved, they’ll come a knocking… UH/KU to B1G or UH/ ASU, lichpin is UH not the other way around.
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I think Message Board Geniuses runs out of material from time to time, and when it does it opens threads like this just to restock the pond.
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Rutgers was admitted at a time when markets, rather than brand size, were the primary expansion criteria. The goal at the time was to get the B1G network on as many TV sets as possible in order to take advantage of cable carriage fees. Rutgers and Maryland fit the bill at the time due to their locations in the large NYC and DC markets, respectively.
Since then, there has been a lot of cord cutting. Times have changed.
The big thing now is brand size in the age of streaming media.
That’s mostly determined by the size of your football fan base. Ours isn’t big enough.
Consider this: Washington and Oregon are both bigger football brands than UH, and they could only get in at half shares.
How do you assess our odds of getting in as a comparatively smaller football brand, given that?
Remember also, basketball WON’T get us in.
If basketball drove this, then six time national champ UConn would already be in a power conference, and the B1G wouldn’t have turned down Kansas. So why are they where they are instead? Answer: crappy football brands that make them undesirable, regardless of the size/strength of their basketball brands.
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I loved watching us kick the crap out of Rutgers that one season we were in the Big East together…
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Yep we are lucky to be in the Big 12. We just don’t have the national brand other schools have and will probably never have the fanbase that would get winks from the Big or SEC.
Of the Big 12 schools Tech and BYU and maybe Iowa State are the closest to that caliber.
It’s about brand to some extent it’s about markets to, even though some think that’s not the case any longer. Houston sits in market of 7.2 million people. Don’t believe for a second that doesn’t matter…B1G has shown it will accept urban high research Universities in its fold and will accept more strategically. UH sits in one if the hottest beds in the country for collegiate talent don’t believe for a second B1G isn’t aware of that and wants that. Little brand as some think be damn. Little brand don’t generate 18M viewers in in the NCAA final one of the largest in recent memory yes it’s BB but also dollars for any conference UH in…UH has shown it capable of carrying its own water in winning historically given the right resources. Next 3 yrs are crucial imo to continue to make that case but AAU is absolutely the key. If and when that happens is critical.
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NO. Our rivals are in the Big 12. Win it, and you make the playoffs with a chance to win the NC…We dont need to go to the BIG.
I am happy with the Big12 until we can get 40k Cougars to show up in Indianapolis. I think we are in the perfect conference for where we are right now.
The B1G, we would have no rivalries and very little traveling support because we would be so far from any other school, but visiting fans would still fill our stadiums because Houston is Houston.
The SEC would literally be a 50/50 split at many of our home games, I guess we could enlarge the stadium to sell more visiting tickets.
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