Houston wants into the Big XII

[8timechamps]

Here's a portion of the article, and they actually make some valid points:

The Legislature should pressure the presidents of the Big 12 schools to "step up" and let the University of Houston into the conference, the chairman of UH's Board of Regents, Tilman Fertitta, said Thursday.
"Put pressure on the presidents;, say, 'If you don't do this, we're not going to fund you for this,'" Fertitta said in a meeting with the Houston Chronicle's editorial board Thursday. "It's just the way it is. That's the way to do it."
Fertitta said it's "an embarrassment" that the namesake university of the fourth largest city in the United States has not been welcomed into the conference.
"Be a big boy, step up and put this school that has almost 50,000 students and is so high profile, has so many of the top schools in the United States, it's a tier one university -- we belong in the Big 12," he said. "We're a big, major school with an unbelievable history in athletics and academia."

Here's a link to the rest of the article.

[SicEmBaylor]

No.

[KantoSooner]

No

[WA. Sooner]

No more Texas schools!

[bluedogok]

As the sole owner of the Landry's restaraunt group which includes The Golden Nugget Hotel and Casinos, Morton’s The Steakhouse, Rainforest Cafe, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood & Steaks, Saltgrass Steak House, Claim Jumper, Chart House, The Oceanaire, Mastro’s Restaurants, Vic & Anthony’s Steakhouse and many others Fertitta is used to getting his way. I can see why he would push for it. He started out selling Shaklee vitamins, I remember when they had a plant and warehouse out on Highway 9.

[BoulderSooner79]

Houston, you have a problem.

[olevetonahill]

Let the state of Saxet have their OLD SWC back.

[Breadburner]

Bring them on....And Arky too.....

[KantoSooner]

Arky 100x before houston

[SicEmBaylor]

Let the state of Saxet have their OLD SWC back.

I wish. =(
SWC! SWC! SWC!

[Eielson]

TU wants to join the Big XII. So do UNT and Rice. Maybe UTEP.

[aurorasooner]

We might as well let them in, along with 3 or 4 more directional "east popcorn state" type schools. It's about the only choice we have now due to mismanagement by this conference school's Prezs and ADs. Although personally I'm not for any more schools from the state of Texas being admitted, I'm not sure if we have any other choice now beside the Houstons, SMUs, Texas States, Tulsas, or Colorado State, if we want to get back to having a conference CC game in FB.

I read somewhere earlier tonight that the Prez or AD of USCe said that each school in the SEC would get ~ a 5 mil share each from the 1st year payout of the SEC network, and this conference still doesn't have a combined TV network up and running even though Weiberg originally proposed that this conference start the 1st conference network.
Sitting on their azzes and not looking past their noses to the long term future of the Big 12 by this conference's administrators will probably be studied in business schools 30 years from now as one of the biggest ""fails in sports.
Texass (because of their ESPiN LWhN gift) and to a lesser degee OU (Fox) and KU (due to BB) are somewhat insulated short-term, but in the long term, if this conference even survives, I'm afraid all of this conference's top sport's schools will be sucking hind tit financially to even the doormats of the other power-5 conference schools in sport's revenues.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Prestige will be added to U of H, to help them in recruiting, as if we need more recruiting competition.

[soonergirlNeugene]

Go home, Houston. You're drunk!

[Breadburner]

Like they don't recruit here already.....???

[SoonerMarkVA]

Let the state of Saxet have their OLD SWC back.

Yes! A 1000 times, YES!

[EatLeadCommie]

Like they don't recruit here already.....???

But they recruit as a member of whatever lame conference they're in and not as part of the BXII, which is to our advantage. No to Houston, and no to any other SWC schools.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

But they(U of Houston) recruit as a member of whatever lame conference they're in and not as part of the BXII, which is to our advantage. No to Houston, and no to any other SWC schools.

What, you don't want Rice and SMU too? How rude!

[Breadburner]

Bring them all on......

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Bring them all on......

After the old SWC is reconstituted, THEN would be a good time to jump ship(and NOT take orange aggy with us)