Official: Potential UT move to Pac-12 ‘heating up’

Austin American Statesman ^ | 9.18.11 | Alan Trubow

[Nate505]

Ahh yes, living in A&M country would make you quite knowledgeable about losers.

[trumandogz]

The Aggies can’t win a Big 12 Championship. How the heck are they going to win a SEC championship?

[SeaHawkFan]

Lol. Florida and Vandy are the only ones that have academic weight in the SEC.

The PAC-12 presidents place considerable weight on academic reputation, which is why they are careful about who to accept in the conference. The Big-12 schools mentioned meet those standards.

[CommerceComet]

I have difficulty worrying about the fairness of UT’s having to kick money to less affluent schools when UT receives the $8.8 billion Texas PUF and other Texas universities do not (except A&M).

And they do all of that under a not-for-profit status tax status. I don't mind one iota that taxpayers are subsidizing universities but building athletic empires is not part of the university's basic mission. If someone wants to write a check to these greedy bastards to build another athletic shrine so the hacky-sack players can have a new studyhall, fine write it, but just don't expect the rest of us to subsidize it as tax deductible donation.