Realignment talk not going away

[Nicole44 22198]

3 minutes ago, jinx said:

At least he got the flagship part right. I remember all of the transparency of the Aggie move so well.

The replies are outstanding to Leach's tweet. Then you have Billy Liucci dive bombing every twitter feed he can find with "Big 12 sucks. Texas is admitting Big 12 is inferior and a dumpster fire." 

 

[Ricky Butler 2745]

29 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Who knew the University of Texas was a much cooler setting for the movie.

And he gave us this gem: "Reynolds was quoted as saying that "Kevin Costner should only star in movies he directs. That way, he can work with his favorite actor and favorite director". 

[Surly Bevo 25542]

TX, OU, Tech, OSU. NIL in west coast markets, and in Texas. 

[alphahorn 1637]

FUCK the Pac 12, would be the dumbest choice of all; those pricks might not even play football again this year or if they do might not have fans. Big 10 only if Delaney steps down. But in the end, nothing will happen.

[Zeus 6503]

[Tex-19 2902]

1 minute ago, MillerEP said:

From Facebook:

Ahhh yes, random FB poster news szn

That said, seems pretty clear this was an Aggy leak to try to kill it. The Chron reporter breaking it covers A&M and on the same day their AD just happened to be at SEC Media Day ready to oppose this, despite no other schools' ADs showing up all week.

[Zeus 6503]

1 hour ago, TexasBeta said:

If it does go down.. I will never watch his show.. ever.. He's an ass. On the SECRANT boards they are all up in arms about Texas and our gameday program on LHN. It would be great if we could keep that.. I don't like it but ... just a finger in the farmers eye is all I ask for. 

You underestimate the amount of nut sucking he will have for Texas the instant they are in the SEC.

Plus real Texas fans will be able to call into his show with a fake hillbilly accent like all his other fake callers.

[mdmost 43332]

2 minutes ago, alphahorn said:

FUCK the Pac 12, would be the dumbest choice of all; those pricks might not even play football again this year or if they do might not have fans. Big 10 only if Delaney steps down. But in the end, nothing will happen.

You might want to take a seat because a lot has happened in a year. 

[RGBIII 22843]

52 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

The next Podcast should be entertaining.

It absolutely will be. We are waiting for some more concrete shit to come out, which seems like it could be very very soon

[jinx 2635]

1 hour ago, Sbbruin said:

Enjoy your fellow football fans

and of course

I will counter with 

 

 

 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13568]

2 hours ago, cyatheart said:

100% correct, the writing has been on the wall.  Could not agree more.  That's why ISU built up the stadium, paying our coach 5M, paying assistants 1M.  I mean they built a top ten team the last two years and won the Fiesta Bowl.  Not much more you can do.  Again, I don't think it is anybody's fault, Texas is doing what they should do.  Texas has no responsibility to any university other than themselves.  There is only so much you can do.  It's just reality of being a smaller market team smacking us in the face finally.  But again, the issue that kills us is, so many really crappy teams that did nothing, did not try to compete, and are riding coat tails in EVERY SINGLE CONFERNECE....those teams are in and we are going to be out. 

I am yelling at the wind here.  I get it, nobody cares, I am going through he mourning process for my Cyclones here today, but I live in Austin.  And have come to really like the Longhorns over the years.  And it's a huge bummer.

You can be a Longhorn and Cyclones fan

[GTX Horn 1725]

3 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:

Ahhh yes, random FB poster news szn

That said, seems pretty clear this was an Aggy leak to try to kill it. The Chron reporter breaking it covers A&M and on the same day their AD just happened to be at SEC Media Day ready to oppose this, despite no other schools' ADs showing up all week.

On top of that I believe Bjork was the only AD to make an appearance at SEC media days. It was 1000% a last ditch effort to stop the move. Pathetic.

[Eskimohorn 5658]

Football can remain national with marquee OOC matchups. I'm a Pac 12 fan but that is not going to get a high profile recruit to come to Texas over Alabama, LSU, and even aggy. They want to play in the best conference that puts you in the NFL. That's not the Pac 12. They are not relevant in football. Sure, us and OU could go and make that happen or we would just further the gap between us and the SEC teams. 

I loved the Ole Miss road game. But it’s very inconvenient to get there. With cancelled DFW flights, we rented a car from ABIA and drove to Houston, then Memphis, then Oxford, where there are no hotel rooms and stayed at a friend of a friends. Give me Phoenix, LA, SLC, and Denver. You know, Civilization.

Upgrading the Pac-12 with Texas and OU would be best for college football. Bring Tech and Lite with us.

Pac12 East would be mountain and central time. You’d have 1 pacific road game a year.

[TrashMaster G 17785]

1 minute ago, jinx said:

I will counter with 

 

 

 

Needs some Ole Miss coeds.  And fewer sheep.

[MillerEP 30576]

So when is that SEC homer Finebaum going to start slobbing our knob? Is there a sign-up sheet or something? 

[BachelorTrek 3171]

2 hours ago, Texas Wahoo said:

 

 

Butthurt Rapelor grad who has delusions of grandeur to stop the freight train. You ain't Ann Richards, and the TxLege can't do shit.

Dead-enders, Welcome to Oblivion!  It's long overdue!

[The Dude 1253]

You PAC people are more worried about vacations. I’m not excited about playing any team in the PAC, except USC. Nothing else really moves the needle

[Dbeasy 15264]

4 hours ago, mdmost said:

But you know that was Texas driven and the others were to make it make sense regionally and get past any objections. Come on. 

Nope. Every single conference realized that super conferences were the future and every single school knew that something g would need to be done. So Texas and OU taking the lead to explore options is exactly what should happen. You can’t blame conference leaders for acting like leaders. That’s ridiculous. 

[mdmost 43332]

5 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

I loved the Ole Miss road game. But it’s very inconvenient to get there. With cancelled DFW flights, we rented a car from ABIA and drove to Houston, then Memphis, then Oxford, where there are no hotel rooms and stayed at a friend of a friends. Give me Phoenix, LA, SLC, and Denver. You know, Civilization.

Upgrading the Pac-12 with Texas and OU would be best for college football. Bring Tech and Lite with us.

Pac12 East would be mountain and central time. You’d have 1 pacific road game a year.

Your ease of getting to an away game is not why UT would look at moving conferences. It's about money and power and the Pac 12 has neither. 

[Al Czervik 1252]

48 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Some of our have been known to use it. 

I still love her.

 

 

 

[tbone_ 14299]

You PAC people are more worried about vacations. I’m not excited about playing any team in the PAC, except USC. Nothing else really moves the needle

Unfortunately this is true now. Wasn’t so much a couple years ago when we almost bolted for the pac. Bummer though. I don’t care for the SEC. can’t help but think out gross ineptitude over the last decade helped cause this.

[thunderlounge 8053]

[TexArcher 38447]

Just now, Dbeasy said:

Nope. Every single conference realized that super conferences were the future and every single school knew that something g would need to be done. So Texas and OU taking the lead to explore options is exactly what should happen. You can’t blame conference leaders for acting like leaders. That’s ridiculous. 

Yeah, it's clear with playoff expansion coming that four superconferences is the future.  So, either the Big 12 or the ACC will get ripped apart.  We can sit around and argue that it ought to be the ACC and not the Big 12, or we can be proactive and choose to be the first domino.

[South Austin 52765]

1 minute ago, The Dude said:

You PAC people are more worried about vacations. I’m not excited about playing any team in the PAC, except USC. Nothing else really moves the needle

No shit  I can take a long weekend in Pac 12 country anytime.  It's not worth that one awesome road trip to see a game at U Dub to be tied with that conference for several years.

[Tex-19 2902]

TX/OU banding together here is a pretty strong move bc they're really the kingmakers in the whole future superconference setup. ND is the only other big potential free agent out there and they'd only be ACC or Big 10. SEC has more to lose by saying no than casual fans probably realize. 

[Gatorubet 30437]

The Georgia tears are underrated right now. 

Not by everyone.

[InkaUtexas 26401]

1 minute ago, South Austin said:

No shit  I can take a long weekend in Pac 12 country anytime.  It's not worth that one awesome road trip to see a game at U Dub to be tied with that conference for several years.

It is also a pretty damn good recruiting ground. Remember a dude named Ricky? 

[Nicole44 22198]

 

[mdmost 43332]

The ACC has exclusive rights to Notre Dame being a member if Notre Dame were to choose a conference. It's part of their deal where Notre Dame gets ACC opponents each year. 

[A-Tex Devil 2470]

If this is going to happen, it needs to happen right.  

Four pods or two divisions with “implicit” pods   

Pods:

West 1
Texas
OU
Missouri
Miss St.

West 2
A&M
LSU
Ark
Ole Miss

East 1
Auburn
Florida
South Carolina
Vandy

East 2
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Tennessee

You play your pod, a rival in other pod on your side of conference (should be obvious above other then Kentucky/South Carolina), one other team from same side pod and one whole pod from other side each year, rotating. 

That’s 9 games, three non cons, an SEC semis and finals and then playoff.  Profit!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[South Austin 52765]

Just now, InkaUtexas said:

It is also a pretty damn good recruiting ground. Remember a dude named Ricky? 

It is, but Ricky is one of the very relatively few Longhorns from that region that amounted to much, and we didn't have to be in that conference to land him. 

[BurntOrange&White 40696]

8 minutes ago, The Dude said:

You PAC people are more worried about vacations. I’m not excited about playing any team in the PAC, except USC. Nothing else really moves the needle

The PAC's covid reaction is enough for me to never want to be in that fucking conference. 

[Valmy77 13455]

25 minutes ago, C-Man said:

 

I already told you. I am old and grumpy.

[Tex-19 2902]

10 minutes ago, The Dude said:

You PAC people are more worried about vacations. I’m not excited about playing any team in the PAC, except USC. Nothing else really moves the needle

Vacations, academics, and cultural fit (not that it's really a fit either, but very different from the slimy/backwards SEC). Also an easier schedule.

SEC is the obvious choice for $$, recruiting and likely overall relevance (assuming we can win)

I can see both sides tbh

Edited July 22, 2021 by Tex-19

[Horn Dog 10062]

Someone explain to me how  the aggie "get the legislature to stop this" strategy  is supposed to work?   Which one of these is supposed to happen?

1.  Let the state congress to pass a law making it illegal  for UT to go to SEC,  even though ATM did just that and get the governor, a UT grad, to sign that law ?   

2.  Get the legislature to take away UT's funding in order to protect 2 private school's athletic programs?   Really?  And even if this were to occur, how long do they suppose that will remain in place?   If I was UT admin and was threatened with this, I would call their bluff, announce a  tuition system-wide tuition hike of  100% titled the "Protect Baylor, TCU and ATM Tuition Hike" and watch that get reversed in days. 

3.  If UT is going, Okies state government is not going to prevent OU from going.  Period.

[Burt Macklin 19148]

2 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

It is also a pretty damn good recruiting ground. Remember a dude named Ricky? 

We will have a much easier time recruiting CA kids while in the SEC, than we would Southeast kids while in the PAC. 

[pearlandhorn 3333]

36 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

TxLege.....

Replies are outstanding...SIAP but this is moving really fast for a roughly decade old thread...lol...

Of course he went to Baylor.

[Surly Bevo 25542]

 

Needs more sizzurp

[mdmost 43332]

Just now, InkaUtexas said:

It is also a pretty damn good recruiting ground. Remember a dude named Ricky? 

You think Alabama doesn't reach into the West Coast to grab recruits like Bryce Young? We got a CA recruit coming in without playing a game in CA. 

[UncleSonny 6676]

10 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

Upgrading the Pac-12 with Texas and OU would be best for college football. Bring Tech and Lite with us.

You may be right with regards to what's best for cfb, but it's just not Texas' responsibility to prop up college football or any other program. The SEC move is the best move for Texas.

3 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

It is also a pretty damn good recruiting ground. Remember a dude named Ricky? 

I don't think an SEC move does anything to hurt West Coast recruiting, and probably helps. Austin and the University of Texas sure makes a lot sense for a recruit from SoCal who wants to play in the SEC.

[Valmy77 13455]

4 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Not by everyone.

What is Georgia mad about? Do they hate money?

[BurntOrange&White 40696]

2 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:

Vacations, academics, and cultural fit (not that it's really a fit either, but very different from the slimy/backwards SEC). Also an easier schedule.

SEC is the obvious choice for $$, recruiting and likely overall relevance (assuming we can win)

I can see both sides tbh

There is only one side if you truly care about football. Arguing for the PAC is stupid. SEC has better baseball programs, just as good of quality basketball programs, just as good quality softball programs, volleyball programs are slightly worse but defending national champ is Kentucky. 

 

Arguing for the PAC, arguably a worse conference than big 12 with more members is once again stupid.

 

 

Edited July 22, 2021 by BurntOrange&White

[InkaUtexas 26401]

Ok fuck it, I get it. Tuscaloosa and Knoxville here I come. 

[Mdhorn 6100]

3 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

Someone explain to me how  the aggie "get the legislature to stop this" strategy  is supposed to work?   Which one of these is supposed to happen?

1.  Let the state congress to pass a law making it illegal  for UT to go to SEC,  even though ATM did just that and get the governor, a UT grad, to sign that law ?   

2.  Get the legislature to take away UT's funding in order to protect 2 private school's athletic programs?   Really?  And even if this were to occur, how long do they suppose that will remain in place?   If I was UT admin and was threatened with this, I would call their bluff, announce a  tuition system-wide tuition hike of  100% titled the "Protect Baylor, TCU and ATM Tuition Hike" and watch that get reversed in days. 

3.  If UT is going, Okies state government is not going to prevent OU from going.  Period.

Aggy is relying on all the other Texas schools to intercede and not just them.  

Edited July 22, 2021 by Mdhorn

[Surly Bevo 25542]

It is also a pretty damn good recruiting ground. Remember a dude named Ricky? 

Who we landed when we were a member OF….

The Southwest Conference.

[Js1 85916]

3 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Yeah, it's clear with playoff expansion coming that four superconferences is the future.  So, either the Big 12 or the ACC will get ripped apart.  We can sit around and argue that it ought to be the ACC and not the Big 12, or we can be proactive and choose to be the first domino.

The ACC has double the playoff appearances (8) as the Big 12 and 3x as many participants (3) (yes, you have to count 2020 ND as part of the ACC).  So yeah, the Big 12 was the more natural target to rip apart - both based on results and geography. 

It's easy for the ACC to grab WV (if ND won't budge) and the B1G to pull from the Kansas schools/Iowa State to hit 16 (or WV if ND jumps to the ACC first).  Our central location means the Pac 12 can expand their territory to hit 16. 

[Jive Turkey 12780]

12 minutes ago, The Dude said:

You PAC people are more worried about vacations. I’m not excited about playing any team in the PAC, except USC. Nothing else really moves the needle

i'm worried about recruits.  they don't want to play on the West Coast.  they want to play in the SEC.

[South Austin 52765]

1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

What is Georgia mad about? Do they hate money?

They don't want to have to buy a new mascot every time we play them.

[conVINCEd 21474]

3 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

What is Georgia mad about? Do they hate money?

Bama potentially moving to the east.

[Goofyboy 3331]

We’re gonna have to listen to that SEC crap.