What about New Mexico to Big XII?

sounds like a hell of a reach to me. the big 12 is scraping the barrel right now; need bodies.

Why is it a reach?

They're geographically in place, the metro, and decent overall program, reasons stated above. It isn't like UNM is small school that just became a name. They have money and people required to sustain a move.

New Mexico? They have a team? When did this happen?

Uh is light years better than tulane smu louisville nevada or any one else the b12-2-1+1-1 could possibly add but tech texas baylor and osu are scared of uh.

You'd have a hard time naming a worse FBS team in America right now. They are 0-6 and 2-28 since 2009. I am not usually one to post team A against team B and team B against team C and so on, but ...

Sept 3
LSU 40 - Oregon 27

Sept 10
Oregon 69 - Nevada 20

October 15
Nevada 49 - New Mexico 7

And it isn't like they are usually good but down right now. Their last conference championship was in the WAC in 1964.

I'm not talking just football. UNM would be good overall add. The Big 12 needs more than football to survive right now.

They have good BBall history and B12 need some non-Texas teams, even though NM has a really small population (beautiful state though).

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Perhaps if the Big 12 was going to do their own network but it seems as if they aren't going to be able to make a proper one b/c of the LHN

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Part of the LHN contract is that the Whorns can't participate in a conference network. They are more important (to themselves) than any conference they might want to join.

I could name a ton of better adds then the lobos.

In no specific order.
Tulsa, UH, Air Force, tulane, Memphis, Louisville, WVU, Cincy, Utep, BYU, SMU, Boise, Utah State, Colorado State just to name a few.

The only team I can think of that would be an even pick would be U. North Texas.

They really might be a good pickup. They are solid in several sports and would give the Albuquerque and santa fe markets. New Mexico was supposed to be one of the original teams in the Big 12 back in 1996. The only reason they didn't get in was that a Baylor alum that had a lot of power over the negotiations lobbied hard to get Baylor in instead.