American Athletic Conference

[MoValley John]

God bless Gene and Gilda!

[Aargh]

A player can usually play through a uvula injury, but an injury in the area of the patella can be season-ending for a volleyball player.

[atlwsu]

That is an interesting commentary of Georgia. You would know better than me obviously but my impression has always been that there are a ton of Bama and Auburn fans there too. Proximity to Auburn, AL is a big thing. Sort of similar to the OU/Texas thing and the fact that OU gets a ton of Texans with UT offers. Regardless, as good as UGA is historically, they are underachievers considering the amount of raw talent in that state.

Did not mean to imply there are not other fans. Based on fan apparel it would be Alabama, Kennesaw State (I live xloae to campus-they have 35K students), then GT. Saw an SIU shirt last week. Almost stopped to introduce myself but did not want ro ruin his lunch or worse get a sandwich thrown @ me.

[Dan]

There was a piece written today that stated that the Houston market TV ratings for the OU game were 50% higher than the highest rated college game last year (A&M/Alabama) and 78% higher than OU/Texas. There is a lot of local interest in the UH program, it's a sleeping giant, as they say.

[wusphlash]

http://www.kansas.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/bob-lutz/article100419542.html

Dr. Bardo and football again.

[shocka khan]

There was a piece written today that stated that the Houston market TV ratings for the OU game were 50% higher than the highest rated college game last year (A&M/Alabama) and 78% higher than OU/Texas. There is a lot of local interest in the UH program, it's a sleeping giant, as they say.

The latest sportswriters poll featured five Texas teams in the top 25:

http://www.expressnews.com/sports/colleges/article/Stunning-first-week-boosts-five-Texas-teams-into-9205688.php

Note that U of H was one of those ranked teams and won the Missouri Valley Conference football championship in 1957. Ironically, 1957 was the year Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State) left the Missouri Valley Conference for the Big 8.

U of H has had some success in football, but yes, they are a sleeping giant. As for basketball, let's see what Tillman's $20 million dollar gift does for the program. I know they rebuilt the basketball training facility and I'm hearing it's state of the art.

[SB Shock]

http://www.kansas.com/sports/spt-col...100419542.html

Dr. Bardo and football again.

MEH - just bob lutz beating the dead horse. Nothing new.

[shocka khan]

MEH - just bob lutz beating the dead horse. Nothing new.

Yes, but if it could be done right, I would like to see football brought back. I'd also like to see us leave the MVC. We have been loyal for many years and don't have much to show for it...

[wusphlash]

MEH - just bob lutz beating the dead horse. Nothing new.

So, do you believe Dr. Bardo considers football to be a dead horse?

[SB Shock]

So, do you believe Dr. Bardo considers football to be a dead horse?

Dr. Bardo wants to bring back marching bands and football (and all the other additional women sports) - that in itself would grow the student population. Only thing holding him back is money.

The "dead horse" I was speaking of was Lutz - he didn't have anything else to write about so I guess, so he just figured he write his token football story that had no new information or new insight - cause that might have required him to beat the bushes and work to get any new information. I'm suprised nobody has talked to some of the "money" people in wichita and got their insight into bringing football back.

[wu_shizzle]

Dr. Bardo wants to bring back marching bands and football (and all the other additional women sports) - that in itself would grow the student population. Only thing holding him back is money.

The "dead horse" I was speaking of was Lutz - he didn't have anything else to write about so I guess, so he just figured he write his token football story that had no new information or new insight - cause that might have required him to beat the bushes and work to get any new information. I'm suprised nobody has talked to some of the "money" people in wichita and got their insight into bringing football back.

Bob doesn't seem the type to hang around people who would give him info.

[SHOCKvalue]

Dr. Bardo wants to bring back marching bands and football (and all the other additional women sports) - that in itself would grow the student population. Only thing holding him back is money.

The "dead horse" I was speaking of was Lutz - he didn't have anything else to write about so I guess, so he just figured he write his token football story that had no new information or new insight - cause that might have required him to beat the bushes and work to get any new information. I'm suprised nobody has talked to some of the "money" people in wichita and got their insight into bringing football back.

I'm fairly split on the football issue; I might be 60/40 or 70/30 in the pro-football camp, but that's about it. That said, if WSU doesn't either get a new conference and/or football, then Bardo stands to lose quite a bit on the PR front among the WSU community, and a ton within the greater non-WSU world around us, what with all of the talk and twitter pictures. He either had the football booster start-up capital pretty well shored up early on, or he steered the ship towards the shore in a (seemingly nonsensical) result of his own creation. No amount of pre-faced "at the end of the day we might do nothing" talk is going to cover his rear.

[OregonShocker]

I'm fairly split on the football issue; I might be 60/40 or 70/30 in the pro-football camp, but that's about it. That said, if WSU doesn't either get a new conference and/or football, then Bardo stands to lose quite a bit on the PR front among the WSU community, and a ton within the greater non-WSU world around us, what with all of the talk and twitter pictures. He either had the football booster start-up capital pretty well shored up early on, or he steered the ship towards the shore in (seemingly nonsensically) result of his own creation. No amount of pre-faced "at the end of the day we might do nothing" talk is going to cover his rear.

Agreed. This whole process seems like a pre-conceived plan; whether just to feel for support or not I can't tell. But I've always thought Bardo had thought this out before tweeting a helmet and bus pic. That's too reckless to do unless you have a pretty solid base of financial support in the ready.

[Dave Stalwart]

I don't see why we can't just have an intramural team and beat Missouri State every year. Just put together a team with some frat guys and the baseball team players in their off season and then schedule Mo State, KU and a handful of other teams and there you go.

[Cdizzle]

I don't see why we can't just have an intramural team and beat Missouri State every year. Just put together a team with some frat guys and the baseball team players in their off season and then schedule Mo State, KU and a handful of other teams and there you go.

Perhaps the baseball players would be better served observing breaking balls during their off-season. In my assessment, most appear to have never seen such a thing before.