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It's absolutely pathetic that those schools want to leech off of us because they don't have a real fan base and barely generate money unless they play ebil Texas. That's when people care and want to spend their money on tickets. Not Baylor/Tech/UH playing one another or Cincy, ASU, UA, BYU, Utah, etc. 

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4 hours ago, statsman said:

Do you have a point? You clearly don’t understand the conversation. 
 
We were talking about UH Bleachergate, after which, Texas stopped playing UH, because, fuck them. Until the B12 invited them in, and absolutely made sure Texas would have to play them, there in Texas’ final year. 
 
I can link articles where Tech has complained to the governor about Texas not wanting to schedule them. Economics studies by Baylor about how vital those games are to Waco. 
 
I have no idea why you are upset by our off season talk. 

He doesn’t get it, he went to a school in Oklahoma.

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7 hours ago, statsman said:

Do you have a point? You clearly don’t understand the conversation. 
 
We were talking about UH Bleachergate, after which, Texas stopped playing UH, because, fuck them. Until the B12 invited them in, and absolutely made sure Texas would have to play them, there in Texas’ final year. 
 
I can link articles where Tech has complained to the governor about Texas not wanting to schedule them. Economics studies by Baylor about how vital those games are to Waco. 
 
I have no idea why you are upset by our off season talk. 

We never played SMU OOC after the SWC broke up and their pay for play death penalty. We never played UH OOC after the whole Bleachergate debacle. I hope/assume likewise we will never play Baylor OOC due to their many issues including the Briles rape scandal.

Texas has no need to play more games in Waco or outside of the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. We would benefit with a Houston game but Rice can checks that box for us.

I could see us eventually scheduling a home and home with Tech or TCU. I wouldn’t advocate for it personally as neither will excite our fan base, bring many eyeballs, nor help with recruiting, but I could see it being politically expedient to offer it as a goodwill gesture.

That being said if we never play another OOC away game in Texas other than Rice, I won’t lose any sleep over it.

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5 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

We never played SMU OOC after the SWC broke up and their pay for play death penalty. We never played UH OOC after the whole Bleachergate debacle. I hope/assume likewise we will never play Baylor OOC due to their many issues including the Briles rape scandal.

Texas has no need to play more games in Waco or outside of the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. We would benefit with a Houston game but Rice can checks that box for us.

I could see us eventually scheduling a home and home with Tech or TCU. I wouldn’t advocate for it personally as neither will excite our fan base, bring many eyeballs, nor help with recruiting, but I could see it being politically expedient to offer it as a goodwill gesture.

That being said if we never play another OOC away game in Texas other than Rice, I won’t lose any sleep over it.

We should let that 57-7 scoreboard with the last game with Tech live for infamy much like the FG with aggy had we not joined the SEC.   

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6 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

We never played SMU OOC after the SWC broke up and their pay for play death penalty. We never played UH OOC after the whole Bleachergate debacle. I hope/assume likewise we will never play Baylor OOC due to their many issues including the Briles rape scandal.

Texas has no need to play more games in Waco or outside of the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. We would benefit with a Houston game but Rice can checks that box for us.

I could see us eventually scheduling a home and home with Tech or TCU. I wouldn’t advocate for it personally as neither will excite our fan base, bring many eyeballs, nor help with recruiting, but I could see it being politically expedient to offer it as a goodwill gesture.

That being said if we never play another OOC away game in Texas other than Rice, I won’t lose any sleep over it.

There was a dynamic with the old SWC and Texas-based B12 schools (except the Ags), that is so old (over a century) that we took it for granted, and didn’t recognize how odd it was. That was how we would play regular away games in sites like Waco, Lubbock, DFW and Houston, where if the tickets were sold in an open market, Texas fans would easily dominate the attendance. Yet, because we shared a conference, they were allowed to limit Texas ticket allotments to a few thousand (and benefit from Texas fans seeking more tickets on the secondary market). 
 
There is no reason to do that anymore, and we shouldn’t do it anymore. A few years ago, TCU and LSU agreed to play a game in DFW, but LSU insisted it be played at ATT Stadium (Jerryworld). That made sense- LSU fans easily bought half the tickets. There really isn’t a reason Texas should play any games in this state in a stadium smaller than that, or Reliant. 

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15 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

It's absolutely pathetic that those schools want to leech off of us because they don't have a real fan base and barely generate money unless they play ebil Texas. That's when people care and want to spend their money on tickets. Not Baylor/Tech/UH playing one another or Cincy, ASU, UA, BYU, Utah, etc. 

Cough...Tech...cough...Lubbock...cough

Fuck them putos btw.  Assholes.

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3 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

We should let that 57-7 scoreboard with the last game with Tech live for infamy much like the FG with aggy had we not joined the SEC.   

This.  And same goes for the obliteration of Oklahoma St in the Rig12 title game. 

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