[NU Sports] Pac 10 to invite 6 Big XII schools to join?

[Exequiel Sevilla]

I must be the dull knife in the set, since I don't understand the sexiness
of Notre Dame for the Big Ten.  It would be the smallest school.  It shares
more academically with the SEC than the Big Ten (five of my HS classmates
went there - and my HS is in Virginia).  It would be the only school that
claims to be religious.  It would stick out like a sore thumb.  Getting the
football cachet doesn't explain it for me.

Kelly
Pasadena '96
San Antonio '00
San Antonio '08
Tampa '10

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Jason Singer <jintsjason at me.com> wrote:

> More to the point, is Texas really going to decide based on the weather?!
>
>
> On Jun 5, 2010, at 9:15 PM, "SjT (Stephen J. Truog)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>  but the Texas powers
>>> that be have always favored the  Pac 10 over the Big
>>> 10 (too cold, muggy
>>> and distant) and SEC (little academic  prowess as a
>>>
>>
>> Ugh, I guess we have to spell this out for the Texas folks ...
>>
>> * Average distance from Austin to the Pac 10 schools: 1,687 miles
>> * Average distance from Austin to the Big Ten schools: 1,209 miles
>>
>> The two Arizona schools are within about 1000 miles - every other Pac 10
>> school is further away than every Big Ten school save for Penn State (the
>> Michigan schools and LA schools are roughly the same distance).
>>
>> As for "muggy" ... yes, the midwest can be muggy in August. But Houston is
>> muggy 365 days a year. And as someone who's had to wade through the Houston
>> mugginess, it's waaaaay worse than anything in the midwest.
>>
>> And I guess they have us on the cold ... but do they want a conference
>> that cares about football where their games will be well attended and seen,
>> or do they want a conference where fans rarely fill stadiums and you might
>> find a game on at 10:30 Houston time if you have satellite.
>>
>> Join us or don't, Longhorns, but at least give us legit reasons. Notre
>> Dame was at least honest when they said they'll take pride and NBC $$ over
>> their academic faculty's wishes.
>>
>> GO CATS!!!
>> -SjT
>>
>>
>>
>>
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