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Houston Chronicle: Texas, Oklahoma reach out to SEC about joining conference

Bowlsby is a stooge. The power broker kept a weakling there to ensure this would all fall apart. He might be downright complicit with the whole deal and gets a Cush job with the cabal in the end.
If he had a pair, we would go get the Arizonas, Utah, and the Buffs.
It isn’t all about money and football. The PAC 12 is a proud academically prestigious conference, and a best geographic fit for all those schools, Colorado being borderline as it was once part of a good Big 12. They have stability, and some brotherhood that the Big 12 has demonstrated none of. People keep thinking the PAC is vulnerable; well, they are too proud to breakup, they stick out their chest as a conference - complete in academia and all athletics, not just as individual football schools. Many proud Texans do not seem to understand that the Big 12 does not have the prestige and tradition that the three Alliance conferences have. Academically, Rice, Texas and Aggies brought something, but they are gone.

The only thing the Big 12 now has is Texas high school football players, and Kansas basketball. Time for some humility and reality. If lucky enough to be in the PAC 12 you are on prestigious bedrock.
 
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Hemingway

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Talked to a Tech guy today….he said he has heard that Tech is going to go with UT and OU to the SEC after all.

Because….you know….they’re the cream of what’s left in the BIG XII.
They just can’t fathom being left behind... it’s sad really. When you look at it. UT had multiple chances to make the Big 12 amazing. But it drove away all those schools and hollowed out the B12 and then left it. We could have had Clemson before it was this Clemson, but DeLoss chased Norte Dame instead. Disregarding the rest of the conference leadership.
We’ve always known what UT was , and OSU and Tech were and are in denial.
 

Brevity Frog

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Iowa State fan. One of the best moments of the Big 12's history was reading about TCU's invite to the Big 12 and the celebration of TCU students and alums. Del Conte's story on how it unfolded was great. When Del Conte went to Texas, I thought it was great news as was hoping Del Conte would help keep the Big 12 stable. Totally bummed with UT sneaking to the SEC under him. Curious what TCU fans think now of Del Conte. Was he just not strong enough to fend off the President and UT BOR or was he in cahoots and screw any past association? I am sure it has been discussed here but not going to read all the past posts.

If I see him in this town I will ask him to leave. He doesn’t belong here anymore. He’s a traitor to his conference, his friends at TCU, and to the State. scheiss Del Conte forever.
 

hiphopfroggy

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On June 30, 2020, the city of San Diego approved the sale of the SDCCU Stadium site to San Diego State University and on August 10, 2020, the university officially took control of the property.[5] San Diego State bought the entire 135 acres, including the existing stadium, from the city for $88 million. Groundbreaking on the new stadium took place on August 17, 2020, just one week after SDSU took control of the site.

The entire $3.5 billion SDSU Mission Valley project includes housing, office and retail space, hotels, and 80 acres of parks and open space, including a 34 acre river park on city property, and will be developed in phases over 10-15 years.[6] The stadium will seat 35,000 fans and is being built to support college football, non-football NCAA championship games, professional soccer and special events such as concerts.[7][8] The stadium was designed to be expandable to a capacity of 55,000 or more (complete with a plan and renderings for such an expansion) to accommodate a prospective NFL return to San Diego and/or future needs of the Aztecs football team.[9]

Aztec Stadium is scheduled to open September 3, 2022.

Construction cost $310 million
 

SuperTFrog

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Talked to a Tech guy today….he said he has heard that Tech is going to go with UT and OU to the SEC after all.

Because….you know….they’re the cream of what’s left in the BIG XII.
Weird, because I talked to two different Tech fans that are friends with people in the board of Regents that told me they were going to the PAC 12. They are so delusional when it comes to where they are in the pecking order. 64-71 since 2009 and that includes probably twenty wins against cupcakes in non conference.
 

CountryFrog

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Do Tech fans come out in droves to Amon Carter when y’all play them there?

All I hear about from Tech fans is how they own the DFW area.
Tech fans don't even come out in droves when we play them in Lubbock. The last 2 times we've been out there the place has been half empty.
 

Hoosierfrog

Tier 1
On June 30, 2020, the city of San Diego approved the sale of the SDCCU Stadium site to San Diego State University and on August 10, 2020, the university officially took control of the property.[5] San Diego State bought the entire 135 acres, including the existing stadium, from the city for $88 million. Groundbreaking on the new stadium took place on August 17, 2020, just one week after SDSU took control of the site.

The entire $3.5 billion SDSU Mission Valley project includes housing, office and retail space, hotels, and 80 acres of parks and open space, including a 34 acre river park on city property, and will be developed in phases over 10-15 years.[6] The stadium will seat 35,000 fans and is being built to support college football, non-football NCAA championship games, professional soccer and special events such as concerts.[7][8] The stadium was designed to be expandable to a capacity of 55,000 or more (complete with a plan and renderings for such an expansion) to accommodate a prospective NFL return to San Diego and/or future needs of the Aztecs football team.[9]

Aztec Stadium is scheduled to open September 3, 2022.

Construction cost $310 million

https://www.sdsu.edu/magazine/issues/2020/summer/mission-valley
 

TCUdirtbag

Active Member
On June 30, 2020, the city of San Diego approved the sale of the SDCCU Stadium site to San Diego State University and on August 10, 2020, the university officially took control of the property.[5] San Diego State bought the entire 135 acres, including the existing stadium, from the city for $88 million. Groundbreaking on the new stadium took place on August 17, 2020, just one week after SDSU took control of the site.

The entire $3.5 billion SDSU Mission Valley project includes housing, office and retail space, hotels, and 80 acres of parks and open space, including a 34 acre river park on city property, and will be developed in phases over 10-15 years.[6] The stadium will seat 35,000 fans and is being built to support college football, non-football NCAA championship games, professional soccer and special events such as concerts.[7][8] The stadium was designed to be expandable to a capacity of 55,000 or more (complete with a plan and renderings for such an expansion) to accommodate a prospective NFL return to San Diego and/or future needs of the Aztecs football team.[9]

Aztec Stadium is scheduled to open September 3, 2022.

Construction cost $310 million

Their new 35,000 capacity stadium is “on campus” in the sense that they bought a bunch of land across town and are building a second “campus.”
 
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