re: TCU and Boise to Big 12

On The Herd one day he was saying that major conferences won't take Boise St. because they don't meet the minimum academic requirements for acceptance into the conference and/or they're not a research institute. I can't remember exactly how it was said, but it was something along those lines, and if that's true, it leads me to believe that Boise St. will be forever trapped in second-tier conference purgatory.