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Pelado

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  1. Since 1970, BYU has just as many national championships as Texas. BYU also has the head-to-head advantage, going 4-1 versus the Longhorns. The last 3 victories have been by margins ranging from 19 points to 41 points. Texas' lone win in series was at Texas by 1 point.
  2. Could be. Maybe I'm just projecting since I want them in the conference with BYU for as long as possible.
  3. I think the Big 12 would like the new teams in before OUT are out. Everyone knows the new teams wouldn't have been invited if not for OUT leaving, but having them share a conference with the blue bloods, even for just one season, lends an aire of legitimacy to the newcomers.
  4. It looks like Gundy did actually talk about Boise:
  5. Are you sure? The post quality from some of their fans had me thinking they are way better than Ivy League level.
  6. The fact that the new B12 lacks a blueblood program is precisely why they're unlikely to lose anyone. There's nobody left in the conference that substantially increases the media dollars for another conference. Why pay a big exit fee and, possibly, entrance fee, just for the right to earn about the same as you were making before?
  7. Not necessarily. The school may believe it is within its rights, but it's possible the DOE will see things differently. That said, I agree with @RSF and @NorCalCoug that this is very unlikely to have any effect on the Big 12 invite.
  8. Interesting, but it doesn't tell the whole story. It shows how much was distributed to each member, but not why. Based on what we know about the WCC's distribution model, I would have expected Gonzaga to receive the most by far, then BYU and Saint Mary's in the next grouping, followed by everyone else. I think those are the only WCC teams who have made it to the tournament in the last several years. It was surprising to see BYU with the largest distribution. Also surprising to see Loyola Marymount so much higher than Saint Mary's. In fact, Saint Mary's was the second-lowest amount after San Francisco. It seems obvious to me that there is more going on than has been made public. Also, unlike with the MW, not all of the TV money earned by the members comes through the conference. My understanding is that Gonzaga makes a good chunk of change for the games that are carried by their local station.
  9. Millions of reasons. Weird. You badly misspelled BYU. Not even close.
  10. The North/South split is not official. It isn't even necessarily being considered. Dodd just threw it out there saying "Here's a projection of one way the Big 12 could organize its seven-team divisions in 2023". I'd be pretty surprised if that's how the divisions end up. I think they'll split up the Texas teams between the two divisions.
  11. I wouldn't presume to speak for the entire western US, but there are 5 in the Boise area, including one in Boise State's Student Union Building. Edit: Looks like there are around 15 Chick-Fil-A's within 10 miles of GCU's campus, with 2 on campus. To be fair, excluding the on-campus ones, students would have to travel 2-3 miles off campus to satisfy their chicken-sandwich cravings.
  12. Is there anything that could get a prospective student more excited about enrolling than knowing there's an on-campus Chick-Fil-A?
  13. Good point - Gonzaga has had some pretty crappy seeds coming out of the WCC. If only they were in the MW, they could get something better than a 1-seed.
  14. Before BYU joined, the WCC hadn't had any membership changes for something like 50 years. Now they're pretty much going back to what it was before (plus Pacific, I think). It may not be glamorous, but it's pretty stable. Going forward, the WCC will be comprised of schools that are very much like Gonzaga, even though the other schools haven't had near the level of basketball success that Gonzaga has had. The other schools are private, relatively small, and either currently or at least historically affiliated with religious institutions. They fit together. Gonzaga could definitely compete just fine in the MW - for now - but it would be the odd man out among a conference full of large, public, secular institutions. If they were to leave the WCC for the MW, they would leave behind a lot of earned tourney credit money. They would leave behind a potentially more lucrative TV contract. They would leave behind ESPN exposure. And they would lose their position as conference kingpin. And what happens when Gonzaga eventually comes back down to earth in basketball? Few will retire eventually and, at some point, Gonzaga will become a team that has to win the conference tournament to get into the Dance. When that happens, where would they prefer to be?
  15. The Big12 was not going to get as much as the Big10 or the SEC even if Texas and Oklahoma were staying. Making as much as or more than they do now would be a huge win for the Big12.
  16. You're probably thinking of the Badlands in South Dakota. lakebison was talking about the North Dakota version: I'm not exactly sure where in North Dakota to find Badlands, but lakebison has proven to be an unbiased and reliable source of information, so I can't think of any reason to doubt.
  17. From my quick research, it appears that every state with a current MW member has an elevation span (difference between highest and lowest elevations) in excess of 10,000 feet. North Dakota's elevation span is just 2,757 feet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_elevation In the Badlands, the highest point is 3,340 feet and the lowest point is 2,365 feet - an elevation span of just 975 feet.
  18. Is that what he said when they signed their new contract with ESPN a year or two ago?
  19. All college football games on broadcast channels and ESPN at the time were in HD. That's the primary reason why I bought my first HD television in 2006. And you don't have to explain to me when and where the mtn was available. Since I lived outside of a MWC market, I was very aware. DirecTV didn't start broadcasting the mtn until August 27, 2008 - two full seasons after the mtn started. The mtn never got onto Dish Networks, and it was added to very few cable systems outside of the MWC footprint. In other words, the only people who were watching the mtn - especially in those first two years - were the people who sought it out. That's kind of the opposite of "increased visibility". Then, for the 2009 season, DirecTV had a dispute with Versus, which also carried MWC games. So everyone who got DirecTV for the mtn had to find some other way to get Versus that season.
  20. I think we must have very different definitions of raising visibility. For the first several years of the mtn's existence, it was not available nationally and was almost only available on cable networks in the markets of the MWC teams. Additionally, it didn't broadcast anything in HD until its final few years - and then it was only for football games. All basketball games and other events were Zapruder-level quality.
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