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THE GREAT NEGOTIATION: WILL THE BIG 12 CHOOSE HOUSTON AND LONG-TERM STABILITY OR STICK WITH SHORT-SIGHTED THINKING?
BY PETE THAMEL
09 AUGUST 2016
Imagine Warren Buffett not buying a stock for his portfolio because it may make too much money. Imagine a Major League Baseball general manager not promoting a player because he could outperform an established one. Imagine a college admissions office not taking a candidate because they might outsmart the other students.
Those scenarios are being bandied around in the Big 12 right now, as the league discusses admitting the University of Houston as an expansion candidate. Only a conference as shortsighted as the Big 12 would consider Houston's vast football potential as an argument against bringing it into the league. Even for a conference long defined by schools ignoring the conference's greater good, the discussion around Houston is stunningly myopic.
Until recent weeks, the Cougars were considered an outsider in the Big 12 expansion derby. They have inserted themselves into the conversion, but not based on their rising football program, elite recruiting territory or the fact that they are in the nation's fourth-largest city. No, Houston has become a bigger factor in Big 12 expansion because the University of Texas and Texas governor Greg Abbott began public lobbying for it.
There's still opposition, as schools like Oklahoma State and Oklahoma have mined Houston in recruiting for years and don't want added competition there. Others like Baylor and TCU are concerned about enabling another school that could someday leap them in the Big 12's pecking order. And because of that, the conference continues to be defined by the short-term thinking that has undermined its long-term stability since its creation in 1994. Iowa State president Steven Leath has called the league "Texas heavy."
"If they get into the Big 12 they will be tough to beat in recruiting because of the proximity," Kansas State offensive coordinator Dana Dimel told Kansas.com.
TCU coach Gary Patterson hinted at Houston when saying recently, "it's not the conference's job to make the university better." No, the conference's job is to look out for the greater good of the conference. And Patterson well knows what an affiliation with the Big 12 can do for a school. He's lived it.
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THE GREAT NEGOTIATION: WILL THE BIG 12 CHOOSE HOUSTON AND LONG-TERM STABILITY OR STICK WITH SHORT-SIGHTED THINKING?
BY PETE THAMEL
09 AUGUST 2016
Imagine Warren Buffett not buying a stock for his portfolio because it may make too much money. Imagine a Major League Baseball general manager not promoting a player because he could outperform an established one. Imagine a college admissions office not taking a candidate because they might outsmart the other students.
Those scenarios are being bandied around in the Big 12 right now, as the league discusses admitting the University of Houston as an expansion candidate. Only a conference as shortsighted as the Big 12 would consider Houston's vast football potential as an argument against bringing it into the league. Even for a conference long defined by schools ignoring the conference's greater good, the discussion around Houston is stunningly myopic.
Until recent weeks, the Cougars were considered an outsider in the Big 12 expansion derby. They have inserted themselves into the conversion, but not based on their rising football program, elite recruiting territory or the fact that they are in the nation's fourth-largest city. No, Houston has become a bigger factor in Big 12 expansion because the University of Texas and Texas governor Greg Abbott began public lobbying for it.
There's still opposition, as schools like Oklahoma State and Oklahoma have mined Houston in recruiting for years and don't want added competition there. Others like Baylor and TCU are concerned about enabling another school that could someday leap them in the Big 12's pecking order. And because of that, the conference continues to be defined by the short-term thinking that has undermined its long-term stability since its creation in 1994. Iowa State president Steven Leath has called the league "Texas heavy."
"If they get into the Big 12 they will be tough to beat in recruiting because of the proximity," Kansas State offensive coordinator Dana Dimel told Kansas.com.
TCU coach Gary Patterson hinted at Houston when saying recently, "it's not the conference's job to make the university better." No, the conference's job is to look out for the greater good of the conference. And Patterson well knows what an affiliation with the Big 12 can do for a school. He's lived it.
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