The PAC has an interest in expansion into Texas. However, UH would prefer to play other teams in Texas and their graduates in the Houston area. Also, UH needs to move very soon. They have spent a great deal of capital on football and will not be able to continue to do so without getting into a major conference very soon. There is the Herman issue as well, they want to be able to sell him on being in a major conference right away and be in a position to fend off schools like LSU and USC from getting Herman.
Asked you this a few pages back but where are you reading that the PAC and/or ACC is interested in expansion? I've heard this from quite a few UH folks but still have seen nothing concrete other than chat room rumors.
All we have to fear is fear itself. Forget numbers, forget reason. What does B12 fear more? Creating a monster and getting their ass kicked every year by UH or UH getting invited to another P5 and their conference becoming that much more insignificant and eventually collapsing. They're damned if they do. F'ed if they don't.
UH and SMU for me. Although we suck in football, I think we can be a decent contributor in basketball/other sports as well as bring up the academic prestige. UH is definitely a lock at this point. They make up the grounds for whatever A&M had before.
You're not wrong. I do feel that UH would prefer to be in the Big 12, considering the travel wouldn't be as extensive as it would be with the SEC or the Pac-12. And I don't mean travel for the team, but travel for the fans. UH wants to make sure they sell those road tickets and they have no chance of selling any tickets in freaking Oregon or UCLA.
As a UT fan, let me warn you about football hubris: this **** can crash sooner than you know. I don't think anybody fears "getting their ass kicked every year by UH" - nothing in your program's history suggests staying power and when you've got to compete against universities with more pedigree (Texas and OU, USC, Stanford, UCLA, Oregon in the Pac 12 or Alabama, LSU, A&M, Florida, etc. in your SEC pipe dream), UH will find out what the big leagues are like. I hope y'all get into the Big 12. But I caution you against thinking you're suddenly a perpetual powerhouse. Keep focusing on the baby steps, Coogs.
Shorthorns? really? lol.....I'm no UT fan, but come on... the UH situation reminds me of the path TCU took to the Big12. Dominating smaller, weaker conferences. Beating the big boys whenever they played them, like TCU beating OU in Norman etc before joining the Big12. One step at a time, I'm hoping UH makes it to the Big12 though. I'd love to have some games to go to in Houston.
It's a legit question. Care to answer? I feel the same way about the ratings for that game as I do for the record setting ratings from the UT game last Sunday. It was the main game on. What else are folks who have been football deprived all summer gonna watch?
The same way I knew about the Sampson hire 3 weeks before it broke. The same way I knew about the Herman and Levine hires before they happened, and numerous other events; etc. Including Big XII expansion happening when everything in the media was that it wasn't happening. I worked for the Astros while in college, and as a lawyer I was employed by some of the same people making decisions on Cullen. Although I didn't graduate from UH, I have a relationship with two of the largest boosters and some of the administrators at the university. I don't push for the information, but I am friends (or at least friendly with some) that are involved and feel passionately about it. The PAC and UH have kept contact with one another, and have expressed a desire to expand into Texas. Again, UH would rather the Big XII as it is a better fit, and there is a strong need for UH to get in a large conference very soon. The amount of resources put into athletics at UH is above and well beyond sustainable in their current conference.
