Posted on 06/13/2010 12:22:28 PM PDT by trumandogz
Let's not make things more complicated than they are. In the end, Texas A&M is sick and tired of living in the large shadow of the University of Texas. Sick and tired of Texas' success and money. Sick and tired of the never-ending arms race for newer and better facilities. Forget those arguments about travel and culture and television revenues. If Texas A&M jumps to the Southeastern Conference, it'll be because the Aggies have had enough of being compared to and defined by the Longhorns.
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Texas brings some major juice. So will a Pac cable Network. Its been a huge $ generator for conferences like the Big10. Nebraska basically doubled their take overnight by joining the Big10.
For the Pac-10, its a great move because schools like UCLA, USC, and Washington need significant upgrades to their stadium facilities which have been put off for may years now. I love my Huskies and its stadium is one of best settings in all of NCAA sports, but it needs a lot of love. For a public university, it barely recieves any financial support from the state anymore. Christine Gregorie and the dems have put this state in such a financial black hole, there is no way UW will get any help from the state for its stadium.
In what time zone? They don't play until after prime time in ours!
So Texas will quadruple the current PAC 10 deal? No chance.
Missouri is no slouch in Basketball and football either. Other programs are good too, baseball, softball, wrestling.
This whole shakeup of conferences is a mess.
Missouri talked nothing. All the “talk” was media hype and speculation. I don’t believe Missouri wanted the Big 12 to break up. Ultimately the others in the conference had other ideas and talked a different game.
I couldn’t give a crap if some Pac games end up being broadcast at 7pm or later on the east coast. We’ve learned a long time ago that trying to get any respect from the baised east coast sports writers or it’s networks is utterly pointless. So everytime I hear someone from EST timezone rant about it, all it sounds like is a foghorn.
LA, SF, Dall/FW and Houston in the top ten.
Phoenix, Seattle, Denver and Sacremento in the next ten.
Texas would play most of their conference division games in the Central or Mountain TZ.
The Pac 10 will be getting a new TV contract in a year and will include TV markets in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix, Denver, Houston, Dallas and Austin.
The SEC includes the markets of Jackson, Mississippi, Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Baton Rouge.
We will see who has the better contract and even without the contract Texas takes in more cash than any other NCAA program.
Everybody plays non-conference powder puffs. Name somebody who doesn’t?
As a Washington Husky, I think that settles the deal. UT can join the PAC and I will welcome them bringing their full cheer squad to any game at UW, A&M can go join another conference. That’s just wrong on so many levels.........
Texas is ducking the SEC because they know they can’t push the SEC around financially or on the field like they can the Big 12 or PAC-10, period. There is no one in the PAC 10 worth squat now that USC has been hobbled.
Don’t give me the academics argument because I’ll respond with two words, “Vince Young.”
Just like FSU in 1992 they are proving that they want only patsies and mediocre competition for all but one football game. Shameful, really.
Yes, but Texas also plays powder-puff conference games as well, save for OU.
“I don’t believe Missouri wanted the Big 12 to break up. Ultimately the others in the conference had other ideas and talked a different game.”
Missouri is not a power player in the Big 12.
However, the good news is that Missouri will win lots of games once they join Conference USA.
As opposed to who?
A large percentage of the Big-12 teams are in bowl games each year.
I thought the original move from the Big 8 to the Big 12 opened up a lot of potential problems and would be a mistake as we now have seen.
This whole deal is nothing but a BCS conference monopoly move by 3 or 4 conferences.
Makes me think that antitrust actions against the BCS would not be a mistake now with the creation of a handfull of mega conferences dominating tv time and revenue, and the majority of meaningful bowl games.
What are they doing? The Hokey Pokey?
Texas is ducking the SEC because they know they will have a tough time against Florida, LSU and Alabama.
Texas also ducking the SEC because joining the SEC means that we would have to Tuscaloosa, Starkville, Oxford, while joining the PAC 10 means we can travel to Phoenix, Denver, San Francisco and Eugene.
I'm standing on the sidelines photographing a Baylor-A&M game and all I hear from the stands is "Beat the hell outa tu!"
It also cranks the Aggie wagger that Texas is their big rival and Oklahoma is Texas' big rival. Aggies think it bothers UT people that they call us "Texas University," and when they write it, don't capitalize it, as in "tu."
Here's the Aggie War Hymn:
So long to the orange and the white
Good luck to dear old Texas Aggies
They are the boys who show the real old fight
"the eyes of Texas are upon you"
That is the song they sing so well
Sounds Like Hell
So good bye to texas university
We're gonna beat you all to…
Chigaroogarem , Chigaroogarem
Rough, Tough, Real stuff, Texas A&M
Saw varsity's horns off
Saw varsity's horns off
Saw varsity's horns off
Short! A!
Varsity's horns are sawed off
Varsity's horns are sawed off
Varsity's horns are sawed off
Short! A!
WHOOP!
Having gone to the University of Texas, it always seemed creepy to me that the entire Aggie War Hymn is about another college. The Aggie War Hymn is a BIG DEAL to A&M. A lot of Aggies have it played at their funeral.
OTOH, it could be a good thing for A&M to go to a different conference. They're way too fixated on UT.
Course, they'll have to change their fight song and all the Aggies will have to get rid of those "Saw em off" window stickers on their pickups.
Supposedly if A&M go the the SEC then the Pac Ten will extend an offer to Kansas. Should that happen I hope the Jayhawks tell them to go pound sand. The Mountain West is also interested and I think they'd be a better fit for KU and K-State.
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