[College Football] Big Ten, Texas have initial talks

LMAO...Just when the MWC were hoping for a BCS bid and playing with the big boys. Now you have to potential for 3/4 untouchable major conferences, dominating the entire scene that the MWC can only hope to touch. Sucks for them. Back down to Earth with the other Mid-Majors.

 

Rivals Radio is reporting that BU is going to get the Pac 16 invitation over CU...citing that the academic progress sanctions and the state of their athletic program hurt CU down the stretch.

Grain of salt.

 

Baylor is not even top 20...

Hell UTSW is better.

 

That's not true. Ahmad Dixon, national top 100 defensive back and prime target for Texas, received and offer and committed to Texas just last year and then switched to Baylor at the end.

 

Sorry - that should say defensive back who was a national top 100 player.

 

If I'm not mistaken after that he switched his commitment AGAIN to Tennessee, amid rumors of him being pay for play, and then ended up being stuck with Baylor in the end after the lane kiffin saga because essentially nobody else (including Texas) really had room for him at that point.

Don't think he wouldn't have been at Texas in any event. But anyway, are you positing Rip van Rocket's theory, that Texas is trying to keep Baylor out of the Pac 10 gold mine to avoid losing critical recruiting battles for the Ahmad Dixon's of the world?

 

hyperbole for point the actual ranking is not the issue.

Nobody is taking issue with the Baptist political influence I see.

(F#&*ing lawyers)

 

I don't think it's so much the Baptist political influence as it is politicians that have ties to Baylor. I know a lot of Baptist people and plenty of Baptist preachers, and aside from the ones who actually went to Baylor, none of them have some divine loyalty to the university. In fact, the Baptist preachers I know couldn't care less about the university. They refer to it as a "so called Baptist university."

 

When I was there, BU was taking heat from fundamentalists because my New Testament professor taught that Revelations was more about the early Church describing its persecution from Rome than about end times events.

BU has political influence because it has a law school that pumps out people who find themselves in the positions of power in the Texas legislature.

 

Exactly what I said! :grin:

That's why I was amused yesterday that the Pac10 schools were put-off by Baylor's religious ties. I think Baylor even fired a professor last year for saying they believed in intelligent design or something like that. (Edit: I got that second hand so I don't know if it is true, nor do I care)

The idea that Baylor is some devout Baptist stronghold in Texas is crazy.

 

No - I'm just pointing out that Baylor does get the occasional really good recruits.

These decisions aren't being made by coaches or athletic directors. These decisions are made by school Presidents, who look at a whole different set of factors (mostly money related) - recruiting is not going to be anywhere near the top of the list.

 

Occasionally being once or twice a decade or so you are correct. As far as posing a threat to the big boys, not even close, no matter what the conference.

 

Doesn't Baylor require (and monitor) its faculty to attend chrch on a regular basis?

I couldn't think of a concept more alien to people at Stanford, UW, Cal, etc.

 

I can think of one:

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Again, no one has referred to Missouri as a "leftover" of the Big 12 aside from Chip Brown, and there might be just a slight warped perspective there.

 

Saying Baylor has the number #1 med and law school is not hyperbole. It's a fact you presented that is all kinds of wrong.

People don't care about Baylor nor should they. They are a private university. The state legislature shouldn't be doing anything to insure they get to the pac 10.

 

By the way, Matt Hayes from TSN is reporting that Colorado will announce today that it is going to the Pac10. We'll know in a few hours whether this one is true...

http://www.sportingnews.com/college-football/article/2010-06-10/colorado-set-announce-move-pac-10

 

Care to elaborate? If not, please don't talk about something you don't know about...

Either way, as was stated earlier, Baylor Med has nothing to do with BU

 

Certainly - and I didn't say or imply that. I just was pointing out that Odell James was not the last recruit Baylor got that Texas would have liked.

 

Just got an e-mail from a beloved UH chem professor; I guess houston 4 bosh . com has produced something more ridiculous than houston 4 darko .com, lol:

http://houstontopac16.blogspot.com/