User talk:Sasmemphis

Big 8
I have to disagree with you on the Big 8/ Big 12 championships issue. The Big 12 is NOT just the Big 8 plus a few teams, the Big 12 officially does not carry over any of the Big 8 history in it's record books and is an entirely new conference. Thus, the Big 8 page should not list Big 12 events as they are two entirely separate entities with no connections other than that they had some of the same teams. Would you list Texas's 2005 title on the southwest conference page? That wouldn't make sense to me and is the same thing. Ryan2845 (talk) 16:51, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Ryan2845,

I apologize for my delayed response; I only recently became aware of your message. I prepared a detailed answer for you, but it got erased when I accidentally hit another link on the page. When I re-read the entire MVIAA/Big 8 page, it became clear to me that despite the changing membership and informal name changes along the way (i.e., Big 6, Big 7 and even the Big 8 until 1964), the MVIAA and the Big Eight have remained a single entity from 1907 to 1996. Also, it is clear that the Big 8 and Southwest Conference are both defunct conferences. Therefore, I concede that it would be inappropriate to litter the MVIAA/Big 8 page with post-1996 championships or previous member schools; those championships can be maintained on either the Big XII site or the individual University sites.

Regarding your questions, I also concede the points made by the rhetoric nature of the questions.

Thank you for forcing me to understand this topic more completely; it was an enlightening and educational.

I formally withdraw my proposed edit.

Respectfully Submitted, Scot Sasmemphis (talk) 02:26, 12 February 2009 (UTC)