Lance Armstrong
Well-Known Member
OK. Compare the best Big 12 schools to these Pac schools. Let me see who you think is comparable.
Southern Cal = Oklahoma
UCLA = Texas
Stanford = West Virginia
Washington = TCU
Oregon = Baylor
Arizona = Texas Tech
Cal = Okie state
Colorado = any big 12 school, i'll put Kansas for fun
And I don't mean just in football. I also want to see who you think is comparable in their endowments, their academic standing and their research grants. Go ahead. This ought to be good.
I'm not looking up academic standing or research grants, because unless you're joining the Big ten that doesn't really matter in sports conference affiliation. On the field the Big 12 is on par, probably better than the Pac. If you want to tell your friends OU is in a conference with Cal and Stanford, than more power to you. But if you really want to benefit academically and financially from a conference, then the Pac is not your answer. Go to the Big ten, then your argument of academic stand and research grants actually makes sense.