Mountain West Lurking Quietly, Like A Ninja In Slippers

“a jackal always feasts in the chaos when the lions battle the hyenas over an elephant carcass”

I always love old Cherokee proverbs

I first heard it in KwaZulu Natal, while sipping a G&T at the Appleby Mansions. It was related to me by a certain chap who had been with Chinese Gordon in Khartoum.

Is Iowa St. to vacuous for even the MWC?

It’s a bit of a hike. I think Iowa State goes independent with their own community public access television package.

Doesn’t the Big East have just eight football teams right now? Add Kansas, K-St, Missouri and Iowa St and they’ll have 12, enough to justfiy the Big East Championship Game nobody would watch. Those four teams plus Louisville and Cincinnati would be the western half of the conference for football.

The Big East seems to make more sense than the MWC for Kansas, at least.

Meanwhile Missouri is the obnoxious frat boy who complains about the food, drink and hotness of the girls at the mixer and decides to take up a casual offer from a buddy at the Sigma Chi house — only to have the door slammed in his face.

‘Don’t be a funk’, Gordon wired to the governor of Khartoum. ‘You are men, not women. I am coming. Tell the inhabitants’

The MWC is actually pretty good at basketball. Better than the (current) Pac-10 top to bottom anyway. They had four teams go to the tournament this year. None of them have any chance of beating KU except possibly BYU or New Mexico and those only if they play at home, and its still a tiny chance.

I like the reformed Big East rumor better. Of course that’s assuming both Syracuse and UConn are there to compete with. Not a fun time to be a Jayhawk but it could be worse as you’ve pointed out. The locals are reporting that A&M prefers the SEC. Sounds like a win/win? They fit better culturally there anyway and it opens up a spot for us, making the Pac 16 arguably the best football and basketball conference…

PS: How funny is this Missouri thing? I know you guys don’t have the animosity we have towards the slavers, but this whole thing is just so stereotypical Missouri. It sucks to be shut out, but it sucks worse to be shut out when you were claiming you were moving on to a better situation.

The MWC has about as many tv sets as San Antonio and not one stadium that seats as many as the Alamo Dome. Not likely to be BCS automatic qualifier any time soon.

I agree about the difference between big boy and mid-tier conference expansions, and for the Mountain West to go after the Big 12’s leftovers is a no-brainer. The problem is that while the MWC is looking for that name-brand credibility, the ex-Big 12 schools will still be trying to protect their bottom line first & foremost. The only legitimate BCS-caliber athletic programs in the Mountain West are BYU and Utah. Everyone else would be a financial leech on Kansas, Mizzou & co. Joining the Big East would be the best option, and the Big East would be stupid not to take them. Since the Big East is prone to stupidity, the other option would be for the Big 12 schools to invite Utah, BYU, TCU, and some other random turd (like maybe Memphis) to join THEM in a new 9-team lineup instead of them joining the bucket of suck that is the Mountain West. A lineup of Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Utah, BYU, TCU, Baylor, Iowa State, and School X is better than the Big East’s lineup, a pretty legit basketball conference, and way more appealing than a league of luminaries like UNLV, New Mexico, Wyoming, and San Diego State.

UH is trying to make itself more attractive for the inevitable 2nd tier/big 12 left over consolidation.

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/sports/local/100610-uh-considers-$160-million-stadium_arena-project

Scip -

With all that’s going on you write about the MWC? Ninjas in Slippers? NU out manuevers UT and you have no comment?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTbc98uqofI

If this has already been posted, sorry for duplicating. Aggie bashing never gets old.

You think NU outsmarted UT? You are dumber than a box of acorns.

But I agree Scipio’s take on all this is very welcome.

What do you think about Aggie)

Yes. When will the Scipion thoughts on the tamu situation be unveiled?

Butterman –
NU gets an academic upgrade, more money and a more balanced sharing of power in their new conference. They also lose the “baggage” of the Big 12 that we are still lugging around. NU has vastly improved their position.

UH could have the best facilities in the nation, but until they improve their attendance, it won’t count for much. Jim Nantz can erroneously blame Ann Richards all he wants, but the truth is that, despite being the 3rd-largest university in TX for a loooonnngggg time, UH has had crappy attendance, even when they were good (like during the Andre Ware days). UH belongs in a 2nd-tier conference b/c they’re a 2nd-tier school.

Major Cult,

Just because Neb improved it’s own situation, that doesn’t mean Neb ‘outsmarted’ Texas. It’s not a zero-sum thing.

Whatever UT does, PAC-10 or SEC or Big Tent — or even stuck in a shitty Big 12 for another year — we’ll end up better off than Neb in the long run. They had a lot more room for improvement than UT did.

Where’s this bilge that Nebraska somehow “outsmarted” UT coming from? The children of the corn grabbed their only available lifeline out of the Big 12 because they NEVER outdid UT in anything, except whining. Oh, and by the way, they shafted some longtime conference mates like Mizzou, KU, etc. in the process of getting their Big 10 invite. They capped everything off by a parting press conference in which Dr. Tom and the chancellor blamed everybody else, while making themselves out as blameless victims for the way things have gone in the Big 12. You stay classy cornshuckers.

UT’s gonna come out of this just fine, in the Pac 16 OR the Big whatever, or even in the SEC. (But I SERIOUSLY doubt that one!) We didn’t want to be the first one out the door…and our Boulder buddies took care of that. Nebraska, seeing a UT conspiracy under every bed and in every closet, closely followed Colorado, so now, nobody can say UT pulled an arkysaw and broke up a conference. We’re still the most attractive expansion target out there, and the only one (other than possibly Neutered Dame) that every conference worth its’ tv contract is willing to make major concessions to get.

We’ll probably wind up with the west coast teams, but a part of me would love for us to go to the Big 10, and at the first meeting in 2012, say to Dr. Tom…“Meet the new King, same as the OLD King!” One more quick thought for Nebraska fan here…you didn’t handle your dealings with UT very well for the last decade and a half. Good luck in your dealings with tOSU, Michigan, and Penn State. They’ve been running things in the Big 10 for a lot longer than the Big 12 was around, and I doubt they’re gonna abdicate any of their power to you newcomers.

Excellent. Good for Boise. Now if they can play all those 3 teams and come out unscathed, they deserve to go to the MNC.

Exciting stuff you talk about here. Nearly a a single sided argument don’t you think?

I make slipper socks all the time but don’t place something about the bottom, they’re just thicker yarn. I feel some craft stores sell a spray-on rubber grip that achievable to get, although, in case really actually feel you need it.

Slippers are fuzzy and usually do not have a heel. Sandals aren’t fuzzy and do have heels.