UNI to join a conference with Kansas and ISU?

[TH1974]

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Texas is close to joining the MVC. Announcement could come as early as tomorrow.

[06panther10]

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Texas is close to joining the MVC. Announcement could come as early as tomorrow.

Just a side note; Does anybody else get really annoyed when these people say something could happen "as early as tomorrow"? There has been a ton of that on ESPN lately.

In other words, they don't know anything, and have nothing to report.

[casbern]

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Just a side note; Does anybody else get really annoyed when these people say something could happen "as early as tomorrow"? There has been a ton of that on ESPN lately.

In other words, they don't know anything, and have nothing to report.

I'll tell you how I feel about that, as early as tomorrow.

[Newsbreaker]

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If the story of UT staying in the Big XII is true, this could actually be very bad for UNI here at home. Here is why: ISU might be, through no fault of their own, days away from financial self-sufficiency. That could ratchet up the pressure on UNI.

[UNIpanther99]

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If the story of UT staying in the Big XII is true, this could actually be very bad for UNI here at home. Here is why: ISU might be, through no fault of their own, days away from financial self-sufficiency. That could ratchet up the pressure on UNI.

On the contrary. I feel the experience of the last few weeks has been an education to the members of the board of regents as to just how important it is to have a first class athletic program.

[SteinPizza]

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I am reporting that Texas is dropping academics, and joining the NFL and NBA.

Texas should go for this. They'll lose every football game by a score of 60-10, and every basketball game by 120-60. You could tie Lebron James' left arm to his leg and he'd still put up 30 against Texas.

[Big_Al]

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If the story of UT staying in the Big XII is true, this could actually be very bad for UNI here at home. Here is why: ISU might be, through no fault of their own, days away from financial self-sufficiency. That could ratchet up the pressure on UNI.

However, it would also present a teaching moment for Troy Dannen -- namely, look at how close ISU came to having a $7m hole to plug.

Heck, they still might.

Even if Texas "saves" the Big XII (X?), I don't think it really has much of a future in it's present state. They need to add teams, and especially some high-profile ones, at that. The danger there is, while they need to add 2 programs to regain their championship game, they might find another one or two that looks more attractive than ISU. If I were Texas (and, by extension, the rest of the Big XII), I'd add UAB, Southern Miss & Memphis from C-Usa so you can start poaching SEC-type players and dump ISU.

[cydave]

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However, it would also present a teaching moment for Troy Dannen -- namely, look at how close ISU came to having a $7m hole to plug.

Heck, they still might.

Even if Texas "saves" the Big XII (X?), I don't think it really has much of a future in it's present state. They need to add teams, and especially some high-profile ones, at that. The danger there is, while they need to add 2 programs to regain their championship game, they might find another one or two that looks more attractive than ISU. If I were Texas (and, by extension, the rest of the Big XII), I'd add UAB, Southern Miss & Memphis from C-Usa so you can start poaching SEC-type players and dump ISU.

hahaha if you are at least bringing up the idea of the Big 12 dropping members, you could have found 3 more Universities that are better than that.

[Big_Al]

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hahaha if you are at least bringing up the idea of the Big 12 dropping members, you could have found 3 more Universities that are better than that.

I'm not saying they're any good -- just that they'd bring more money in than ISU.

[Newsbreaker]

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On the contrary. I feel the experience of the last few weeks has been an education to the members of the board of regents as to just how important it is to have a first class athletic program.

You have more faith in their talent for long-term memory and recall than I do.

[UNIChippewa]

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I'm not saying they're any good -- just that they'd bring more money in than ISU.

Do you have any concrete, objective links or numbers to back that up or are you just trying to pass off your opinion as fact?

[06panther10]

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I'm not saying they're any good -- just that they'd bring more money in than ISU.

Do you have any concrete, objective links or numbers to back that up or are you just trying to pass off your opinion as fact?

Here is a fact: Even the Mountain West (a mid major conference) does not want Iowa State.

[UNIChippewa]

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Here is a fact: Even the Mountain West (a mid major conference) does not want Iowa State.

And that has to do with my question to Big Al because.......?

[06panther10]

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Here is a fact: Even the Mountain West (a mid major conference) does not want Iowa State.

And that has to do with my question to Big Al because.......?

Because you are talking as if Iowa State is clearly better off than those schools mentioned.

[Scrambler]

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On the contrary. I feel the experience of the last few weeks has been an education to the members of the board of regents as to just how important it is to have a first class athletic program.

Yeah but I don't think there are saying UNI isn't 1st class... They are saying at what cost to the tax payers..... I think if the Big 12 stays and ISU starts getting 17 million per year, ie..self funded... this hurts UNI. ISU getting money from the state helped us as they were fighting with us cuz they needed the money too... Now we are on a island and I don't think the BOR really cares what happens to UNI as long as the 2 "bigger schools" stay afloat. To me it makes UNI look worse.

If the economy comes back and the state can increase funds/income somehow this will be a dead issue.... They have serious budget problems so they were looking for ways to save money. If they can fix the problems people will stop talking about the money UNI is getting.