The Pecan Park Eagle

Time waits for no one. When it comes to getting anything done, it's always now or never.

Each of us starts this day with some kind of agenda for what we hope to get done by nightfall. Maybe it’s highly organized and equally improbable that all the items on our list are accomplishable in the time available. Maybe it’s everything the other way, from disorganized to apparently non-existent, but that’s a daily plan too. Some people, perhaps many people, simply live a daily plan of drifting along the line of least resistance until they hit something. The something they usually hit is lunch.

Yesterday I wrote a piece on the City of Houston needing to get behind the bid for UH going after a place in the now altered Big 12 athletic conference. We of UH don’t have all our ducks in a row on commitments for building our new stadium and upgrading all our facilities, but I felt that we had no good alternative Tuesday, but to plan our time for making our case before the Big 12 now, while the door seemed to be open.

My friend Bob Hulsey wrote a gentle comment suggesting that UH was barking up the wrong tree, that the Big 12 had no interest in a market area they already had covered, and that UH would be better served building its new facilities and bigger ticket sale packages over time for the sake of attracting future interest from the SEC in expanding into Texas and the Houston market.

I still think we always have to respond to these apparent openings with a plan as they arise, but developments over the past 24 hours pretty much support that Bob Hulsey was right on target about this one. The Big 12 has announced that they have no interest in expanding to fill the two spots abandoned by Nebraska and Colorado, nor will they consider new members from this geographic area, if they ever do consider expansion again.

We’ll have to take the Big 12 at their word as we move on at UH to prepare for something longer term elsewhere, as Bob Hulsey suggests.

This much is also clear. UH needs a plan for the future that entails real and meaningful action now in preparation for something better than C-USA down the road. We won’t get there by sitting around, watching the clock, and waiting for the lunch bump in our day.

Tags: Houston Cougars

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