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The Big12 is mediocre. Texas athletic department is mediocre. Texas' revenue is #1. If Texas desires to stay #1 in revenue, it's going to have to make a move. The position we have in the Big 12 is going to be our death in the long run. We need to take some risk and get stronger. The Big 12 is not helping us. The thought of an easy path to the playoff is not helping anyone in the Big 12. Soon if we aren't already there, the Big 12 will not garner a spot in the playoff unless the champion is undefeated. A one loss OU or Texas will be percieved as weak because of OU's poor performances in the playoff. It's coming. The B1G and SEC will poach more and more Texas talent due to the perceived weakness of the B12. Right now, Texas is weak. We are not a great football school.

We will know soon. I don't think the money for the next B12 TV deal is going to be close to the Fox deal with the B1G or SEC and Disney. At best we are even with the B1G deal when adding the LHN money and behind the SEC. Should Texas be earning the same TV money as Purdue and less than Vandy? NO. Why will the B12 command less $$? Last year we had to prostitute our CCG to Disney because no one else wanted it. The only reason Disney ponied up was because of Texas' relationship with Disney. The desirable TV markets in the B12 are mostly in Texas. Right now Fox and Disney are trying to move Texas in their direction. Fox is making their power play with OU to pry us away. Disney just upped the ante with it's deal with the SEC. Our real problem are the doddering fools in our administration who can't make a decision. Disney is trying to make it easy by overpaying but some people have ideologies that can't be compromised. We shall see.

Going independent is a non-starter. Creating a new league without a TV contract is a non-starter. The fiscal hit taken by going independent without a NBC TV deal would be catastrophic. It won't happen. We aren't getting a TV deal like Notre Dame because we aren't Catholic. At this point, we have 5 options. 1. Stay in the Big 12 and add no teams. This is a loser in the long run. The Big 12's next TV deal will not be as good as the B1G deal with Fox or the SEC with Disney. The Big 12 will slowly die on the vine. TV deals will be progressively worse over time. 2. Stay in the Big 12 and add G5 teams/Az schools. This is a loser in the long run. The G5 schools are not profitable outside of TV money. The G5's need to be subsidized in down years. They do not generate enough revenue. They would drop the payout per team in the B12 because they don't command enough TV money. 3. Move to PAC 12. This is not palatable due to the TIME ZONE changes. It could be remedied by combining an eastern division with AZ schools, CU and Utah. The biggest drawback would be that the Pac just sucks. They don't generate enough TV revenue. They are not football States. The one thing that could save this option, would be for Apple or Amazon to break the piggy bank and grossly overpay for a league with Texas and OU added. 4. Move to the B1G. Fenves actually stated that this was his preference. Financially it is a viable choice due to the Fox deal but the closest competitor would be OU and next would be over 800 miles away in the frozen tundra of the north. This is not a good decision because we would be in the B1G West where the football stinks. It would not be attractive to fans to watch the conference opener against Illinois in early October. Blah 5. Move to the SEC. This is the best option. As stated above, we regain all of our historical rivals and then some. Our current LHN contract is with Disney. The SEC just hit the jackpot with it's current disney contract. They are a natural fit. We belong in a league with gomer, piggy, and blo u. They are who we want to play every year. They are our natural rivals. What are the obstacles to joining the SEC? 1. Belmont Hall has a stick up it's ass when it comes to academics and the SEC. The PC idiots who run our school think that we can have a PC University and make PC decisions when competing with Schools who run their athletic programs like a business. We need to reject the PC politics and get down to running a business. Dodds was excellent at bringing in revenue but was not good at making good football coaching hires. 2. Our current teams in the SEC would regularly be middle of the pack or near last place. Let's face it. We are soft. The money has made us soft. We don't demand excellence in our athletic department. Our fans demand it but the admins don't. In many ways, we are like the Dallas Cowboys. A move to the SEC would remove the ease of the Big 12 and force some changes which would be demanded by the fan base and BMD's. Personally, I think Texas choses option 1. We are lazy and it's the path of least resistance. If OU does the same, we will slowly become irrelevant in college sports, especially football. So it's up to OU to save us. Please OU, have some balls and kill this conference.

We are going to be fighting to stay out of last place. That new arena is going to be empty for a decade if Shaka isn't fired immediately and the transfers/bottoming out process allowed to take place. At some point we have to cut our losses. We should not let Mike Perrin or Fenves, who are responsible for the Shaka extension, anywhere near another athletic department decision. They are pathetic. Keep political correctness out of our athletic department.

CDC should fire him now. Give Yaklich the rest of the season to try out for HC before the crybabies start to transfer.

Would these boosters happen to be alumni from OU? At this point, that's the only thing that makes sense.

Not happy that he was gone but he had been here too long and the team had become stale. I did have high hopes for Shaka but once I saw the regression after the huge failure of his first year, I knew we were in trouble. The same can be said for Herman. We are in trouble. Don't renew any season ticket subs for any sports. Buy a cheap big screen with the savings so when you throw it out your window while watching Texas sports you will still be in the black.

He's upset because I pegged him. He is one of the fans that thinks 5th or 6th place is acceptable because he really likes Shaka. He was probably calling for Rick Barnes head when we finished in 4th place in the B12 and was happy when we fired him. It's ridiculous to think that under Shaka a fourth place finish in the B12 is miraculous and worthy of a 5 year extension and 4th for Rick Barnes means termination. CDC better grow some balls because Texas athletics is going in the toilet in all sports except for Swimming and Golf.

I loved watching this movie over and over with my dad. He died 15 years ago. So incredibly underrated!

Kenpom ranks us as the 7th best team in the B12. If we finish 7th and make the tournament, will we still fire SS? I bet we don't and the mediocrity of Texas athletics will continue.

Just under 2 weeks until this team has to strap on the big boy pants. A 5th-6th place finish in the B12 won't cut it for me. Gotta be better.

No thanks.

When was the last time we lost a coordinator to another school? Was it Robinson to Syracuse? If that is true, that is truly pathetic.

Apparently he didn't give a shit about winning the B12 either. He didn't get it done. He hung onto comfort hires for too long. Now he is staring at year 4 with many new coaches and a deadline. From an objective view, it's not looking good for him. We will likely overpay for an OC and underpay on the comfort hire for DC. We've seen this before. TH"s hubris and arrogance cost us and him this year. IMO, the overly physical practices were the foundation for all the injuries. Did he really think drinking 8 glasses of water a day would keep players from typical football injuries?

If Harrell were coming, we would know by now. Herman playing this close to the vest because he knows we won't like his hires unless it's GH or better.

I was trying to be positive in a Mack Brown sorta way.

He won't. We'll be the perpetual 9-10 game winner, yet never make the playoff. Figures.

He was non existent with Beck and TH. We did have Sam tho. Any wonder why Sonny beat CS? Herman needs to not screw this up. He needs to not meddle with the play calling. THE way to know if Mensa is meddling: If we are going for 1st down while on the opponents 35 with 4-5 yards to go while the game is within 7-10 points. Also if we TURTLE at any time with the lead, we will know that Mensa is meddling with the OC.

Does Lashlee get those results without SB? Herrall was dealt a hand of crap and turned it into prime rib. I prefer Herrall with Greg Lewis as WR coach.

Sooner trash won't pay.

Sonny Dykes is a "Leach" disciple. Refer to my reference of above regarding the modified "Air Raid". I like Sonny. I used to hang out with him on Spike's house boat at PK.

The modified "Air Raid" is so much better than the QB "Power Reads". The current Texas offense under Herman is hard to watch as well as boring.

This program is unraveling fast.

It's become comical. The games look like a meals on wheels convention. So many blue hairs in the stands with nothing better to do.

500 at best.