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    Best Fried Chicken Chain

    Bojangles, and it's not even close.
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    ***Official Big 12 Expansion Thread '16***

    Not that I'm defending Bowlsby at all, but what exactly justifies the label of "elitist"? I've seen that term thrown around a lot lately, so I'm just curious.
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    ***Official Big 12 Expansion Thread '16***

    FYI, should Notre Dame ever decide to join a conference, they are contractually obligated to join the ACC.
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    ***Official Big 12 Expansion Thread '16***

    Have you ever been to Missouri? Who would blame them? (and that's saying something when it's compared to the state of Nebraska!) :D
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    ***Official Big 12 Expansion Thread '16***

    This would be concerning if it was up to a vote of society in general. However, the people that make the decisions are academics - university presidents of which 99% of them were college professors with PhDs before moving up the ranks of university administration. If there is one set of people...
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    ***Official Big 12 Expansion Thread '16***

    It does matter, especially for presidents of land grant universities that will actually cast votes on whether or not to expand. I could care less if we expand or not, but if we do, I'd rather one of the teams be a land grant if possible.
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    ***Official Big 12 Expansion Thread '16***

    Rank of preference for expansion: 1. Cincinnati 2. Colorado State 3. UConn 4. Tulane 5. Houston My preferred and pretty much impossible conference membership would be the original Big 8 and nobody from Texas.
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    ***Official Big 12 Expansion Thread '16***

    Good. I'm not surprised. During my 6 years at NC State I thought the ECU fans were incredibly annoying. Easily in my top 10 of my least favorite fan bases, and probably in my top 5. Also, I can't count the number of times I met people who, when asked why they chose ECU, said "because I wasn't...
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    ***Official Big 12 Expansion Thread '16***

    WVU was chosen over Louisville because it is a land grant institution. The Big 12 had just lost three land grants and were looking to add two non-land grant institutions (TCU & Louisville) as replacements. ISU, KSU, and OSU basically would not allow a vote on anybody unless one of the two...
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    ***Official Big 12 Expansion Thread '16***

    If you read into methodologies of ranking universities, you'll realize that these ranking systems are kind of bunk. A slight switch of methodologies could result in vastly different rankings. Plus they are well know to be biased towards universities on the coasts, and areas with a higher cost of...
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    ***Official Big 12 Expansion Thread '16***

    In a scenario where the Big 12 would add a small, private, AAU member school, I'm not sure how great Rice would work out. Though it is an AAU school, Rice only has 6,000 students, compared to TCU (10,000) and Baylor (16,000). I feel like a school of that size would sort of limit it's game...
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    Top 28 arrested programs

    Given present day society's apathy towards and lack of knowledge of the bill of rights, I'd be more interested in the number of convictions for each team. Thinking like the scientist that I am - a more fair index of the criminality of each football team would be the total number of days in...
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    ***Official Big 12 Expansion Thread '16***

    FIFY. It worked for the Big 10 for a few decades. You just have to be willing to not play one team each year and declare a fake conference champion (unless they do a conference championship game anyways).
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    ***Official Big 12 Expansion Thread '16***

    That's cute. OU would be to B1G/Pac-12 as WVU is to the Big 12.
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    ***Official Big 12 Expansion Thread '16***

    You're about 7 posts and a half hour too late on this one.