[Canalejas]

Kansas is a better school than Utah and Colorado State.  But right now their athletic department is a bit of a mess.  Also, they may have a hard time leaving Kansas State behind.  Their basketball appeal is undeniable, but we all know that football matters much more.  Some rumors have the Kansas schools looking east to join the Big East.  Otherwise their only option may be the MWC.

Utah has had some recent success on the field.  They would bring a market about the same size as would be provided by Kansas, and one not already covered by the Pac11.  The thing Utah really has going for them is that they really want to join us.  It wouldn\'t be a shotgun marriage like it would be for aTm.  Geographically, they make sense as part of an AZ/CO/UT pod to go along with CA, NW and TX/OK pods.  (Not saying that we would schedule in pods for football, but maybe in other sports.)

Colorado State would be a more natural rival to CO, but we may not want redundancy in markets anymore, their stadium is much smaller than Utah\'s and, consequently, they have much smaller home crowds.  They haven\'t made any noise on the field recently, so Colorado State would not give the conference much more in terms of reputation.

My vote would be for Utah.

[Canalejas]

Kansas is a better school than Utah and Colorado State.  But right now their athletic department is a bit of a mess.  Also, they may have a hard time leaving Kansas State behind.  Their basketball appeal is undeniable, but we all know that football matters much more.  Some rumors have the Kansas schools looking east to join the Big East.  Otherwise their only option may be the MWC.

Utah has had some recent success on the field.  They would bring a market about the same size as would be provided by Kansas, and one not already covered by the Pac11.  The thing Utah really has going for them is that they really want to join us.  It wouldn\'t be a shotgun marriage like it would be for aTm.  Geographically, they make sense as part of an AZ/CO/UT pod to go along with CA, NW and TX/OK pods.  (Not saying that we would schedule in pods for football, but maybe in other sports.)

Colorado State would be a more natural rival to CO, but we may not want redundancy in markets anymore, their stadium is much smaller than Utah\'s and, consequently, they have much smaller home crowds.  They haven\'t made any noise on the field recently, so Colorado State would not give the conference much more in terms of reputation.

My vote would be for Utah.