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[Sparkplug]

Location is also decided by the presentation/offers/perks offered by the city bidding to host.

Dallas may not have thought it was worth it to put together an inviting package

 

[brianhos]

Baylor fans won't even show up to a home game, and they want the tourney closer to them?

 

[EnkAMania]

The geographic center of the Big 12 is Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

We should have this tournament in Tulsa every year.

Why not Broken Arrow?

 

[alarson]

The geographic center of the Big 12 is Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

We should have this tournament in Tulsa every year.

Funny joke, but it does raise an interesting point- if you were to identify all big 12 basketball fans and create a geographic center between all of them, i'd guess that center would probably be somewhere not far from kansas city

 

[madguy30]

LOL quote from first comment:

That city is a dump with a high crime rate.
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Imagine what the crime rate would be in Waco if the cops actually filed reports.

No crimes here.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Funny joke, but it does raise an interesting point- if you were to identify all big 12 basketball fans and create a geographic center between all of them, i'd guess that center would probably be somewhere not far from kansas city

The WVU fans (and me) would appreciate one in Washington, DC -- tons of West Virginia exiles around here -- or at least something like Pittsburgh.

 

[NoCreativity]

 

[jdoggivjc]

**** Baylor and their ****** fan.

"Fans" (plural) doesn't accurately describe how many fans they actually have, so FIFY.

 

[Cydkar]

None of the southern schools care about basketball. Just look at their average attendances from last year. This is why its in Kansas City, the north schools fill the Sprint Center.

Baylor averaged 6,300 fans/game last year. If they don't go to home games, why would anyone expect them to attend games they need to travel for?

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/2019/Attendance.pdf

Texas is upgrading to a smaller arena. Couldn't they have just borrowed Baylor's tarps?

 

[Cydkar]

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This lost me.

 

[HoustonClone]

Funny to see BAY fans busting on KC as a "dump" city - hello ever been to WackoWaco ??

My worst memory is driving into town for a Clone-BAY football game and seeing some yard slugs roasting a chicken, jammed on a twig branch, over an open pit fire, in their front yard. Not to mention a few rusted out junk cars off to the side of the driveway.

I must say, you'd never expect to see all the gorgeous coeds, but probably some old-money Dallas girls, with Daddys who "do oil".

I think I was with you on that trip, Go2.

 

[CyBobby]

**** baylor they didn't show up when it was in Dallas or OKC. KC is the spot it should be forever.

You Be the Man CyCrazy...I just knew when they had the tourney in Dallas it was going to be a bust...and it was ....the southern schools only care about Football and Baseball and thats just about it....

 

[CyBobby]

I always love when people in Texas try to play the “Iowa is only farms” card. 99 percent of Texas is a desolate wasteland of oil rigs, tumble weeds, and trailer parks.

Tumbleweeds...how dare you...LOL...you must be talking about the Tumbleweed Capitol of Texas....aka Lubbock....

 

[nfrine]

Whoa that McDougal guy lost his mind lol.

Turns out YeahBuddy must be on the Baylor site too....

 

[CySmurf]

I like how he calls Kansas City a turdhole...What the hell is Baylor then???

 

[mctallerton]

Probably just upset chip and Joanna aren’t on tv anymore showing what a ******** Waco is.

 

[EERwax]

And when was the last time a team from the south won the tournament championship? OSU in 2005 was the last time and the last time a school from the south even made the championship game was Baylor in 2014. Hell maybe we should host it somewhere near West Virginia some year so everyone but WVU can ***** about it too like the Big 10 schools did when they had theirs in NYC. I mean WVU has been in the championship game the past 3 years so don't they have a legit gripe about how far they have to travel too?

I'm fine with them keeping the FB championship in the south and keeping the BB tournament in KC. I've always felt that way and thought it was stupid when they rotated both events around. Those are the ideal markets for each sport's fanbases anyways and you'd know the south schools would all ***** about playing a FB game outdoors in the north in late November when the 2 teams are likely going to be from the south anyways. Would be curious to see what the economic impact of each event is if the FB championship being just 1 game but much larger attendance is more or about the same as the 4 day BB tournament in KC. Probably pretty close I'd bet since FB usually brings in more $.

I love how a school from Waco is calling KC a dump. What would you consider Waco then?

Big 12 Tournament coming to Pittsburgh in 2025.

 

[EERwax]

They also pulled out the tired 'theres no big 12 team in missouri' garbage.

Nevermind that there are 3 schools that are about the same distance or closer than mizzou ever was

They hate it because they barely win games in the tournament. WV was poopy diapers this year and still went 2-1 while Baylor went 0-1.

 

[Bret44]

I met at a nice old Baylor fan at a tiny little taco joint north of San Antone.

But I didn't ask his opinion on Art Briles so I can't say if he wasn't an ass or not.