****The official NEW new conference realignment thread.****

[Saul Good]

the second thread has been pronounced dead.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

What did I do again? I asked if Paul Rhoades needed to win this game in order to save his job. Tulsa is one of the worst teams in college football. Losing to them after already losing to an FCS school would likely have put him on a very hot seat. Not sure how that blew up in my face.

Sounds like you have resorted to pulling for Iowa State to beat Tulsa in order to prop up the Big 12. That might be a new level of sad.

Who's propping up Iowa State? Most power rankings have Iowa St last in the Big 12. Not exactly the team the conference is hang their hopes on. I'm sorry they didn't come through with that loss you were hoping for.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Mosbonian

Maybe in your small social circle they don't....but here in SEC and B1G country I find all kinds of people who not only know about Mizzou, but can actually carry on a pretty good conversation about them.

While you try to make yourself feel better by putting your fingers in your ears and pretending that MU's affiliation with the SEC doesn't give them better coverage the opposite is exactly true.

Wasn't Missouri's first game on PPV? Sucks you guys still have to deal with that.

[eazyb81]

Originally Posted by Bambi

Who's propping up Iowa State? Most power rankings have Iowa St last in the Big 12. Not exactly the team the conference is hang their hopes on. I'm sorry they didn't come through with that loss you were hoping for.

Iowa State is hot garbage, but we all know they're nowhere close to being the worst team in the conference.

[eazyb81]

Originally Posted by Bambi

Wasn't Missouri's first game on PPV? Sucks you guys still have to deal with that.

Not for long!



How's the Big 12 Network coming along?

[Prison Bitch]

It's interesting. KU basketball student section fills their entire 100K seats (20 games x 5,000 seats). Georgia football can only fill 77k seats (7 games x 18,000 seats). Utterly pathetic.


It's even worse, given football is 2 Saturdays per month in the best time of the year whereas KU students go during Jan & Feb at night, half of them Wednesdays, when it's freezing cold. I guess KU fans > Georgia + Alabama fans.

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by Bambi

Wasn't Missouri's first game on PPV? Sucks you guys still have to deal with that.

Honestly...I could give a crap about whether or not I got to see MU beat up on a small school there for the paycheck (cupcake game).

I've seen almost every MU game for the past 3 years....and I have lived in both the SEC and B1G areas so seeing them has never been an issue.

Hey...had I known there was going to be a decent contingent at the game last week I would not have given up my ticket.

Instead I was forced to have to settle for watching it on the B1G Network.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by eazyb81

Iowa State is hot garbage, but we all know they're nowhere close to being the worst team in the conference.

Perhaps they get a boost from this weeks win. We'll have to wait and see.

http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_...kings-week-4-4

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by eazyb81

Not for long!



How's the Big 12 Network coming along?

Why have a conference network when you have your own?

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

It's interesting. KU basketball student section fills their entire 100K seats (20 games x 5,000 seats). Georgia football can only fill 77k seats (7 games x 18,000 seats). Utterly pathetic.


It's even worse, given football is 2 Saturdays per month in the best time of the year whereas KU students go during Jan & Feb at night, half of them Wednesdays, when it's freezing cold. I guess KU fans > Georgia + Alabama fans.

The SEC football schedule is a joke. I don't blame these fans for not going.

edit- and the crazy thing is that Georgia has the best one.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by Cochise

It really is a problem everywhere. I have attended games in Big 12, Big 1G and SEC stadiums recently and the student sections are usually pretty spacious.

WHy hasn't this phenomenon hit Allen Fieldhouse yet?

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Shifts to b ball again...pathetic.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by PGM

Shifts to b ball again...pathetic.

Nope, we're talking about SEC football attendance. Why is it worse than KU basketball? I thought it was religion down there? It's not even a religion in Tuscaloosa or Athens apparently. Maybe they're waiting for a competitive team.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

WHy hasn't this phenomenon hit Allen Fieldhouse yet?

I don't think Nebraska Football has this issue either.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Nope, we're talking about SEC football attendance. Why is it worse than KU basketball? I thought it was religion down there? It's not even a religion in Tuscaloosa or Athens apparently. Maybe they're waiting for a competitive team.

Neither is Texas Tech

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews....tendance.html/

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Nope, we're talking about SEC football attendance. Why is it worse than KU basketball? I thought it was religion down there? It's not even a religion in Tuscaloosa or Athens apparently. Maybe they're waiting for a competitive team.

Seriously....LOL. So what you are doing is comparing KU BB attendance to BB attendance at traditional FB schools?

How about comparing it to UK basketball which is really a better comparison.