I can't see the alumni base or student body being fine with that. By brand name alone, USC would be the biggest program to play in Austin in many years. Is selling out a 100,000+ seat stadium every week so disappointing that we've got to play a game in Mexico City? Yes, the NCAA is as much of a commercial enterprise as the NFL. But, the more the "amateurism" façade keeps crumbling, the more ideas like this become see-through.
I think Patterson cleared this up in a press conference recently, stating that it wouldn't change the home&home schedule with USC. I may be shortsighted, but I'm a little hard-pressed to see what a global brand really does for UT athletics. Seems like there is plenty to shore up domestically before we even start thinking about global brands. Would it be awesome to have a game in Mexico City? Would I go? Yes and yes, but I don't really know how much it does for UT athletics besides take away revenue generated from a home game.
I agree. The only home games I'd be OK with moving are the scrub games like UT vs. North Texas or NMSU, but I don't see why on earth those schools would do it - they couldn't care less about exposure in Mexico City. I'd think you'd have to basically just pay them a lot of money to do it.
Well, I think the Mexico City game would still be vs. USC, so we would boot one of the less-than-marquee home games in favor of the neutral site game in Mexico City. I'm guessing USC's AD is also chasing a global brand, so both schools would be equally incentivized to play the game for whatever weird reason.
Oh OK - so the idea is that they'd add a 3rd USC game? I'd be OK with a 3rd USC game in Mexico City at the expense of playing North Texas at home.
Becuase times have changed - a game against Notre Dame or USC whatever positions the school beyond the region, rather than the narrow footprint of the Big12. A game vs. Texas A&M, not quite so much. The long term aim is that games against Iowa state go away in a post-Big12 universe which is coming.
The argument could be made, though, that they need to re-position themselves in Texas. It's already the largest brand in college sports. How long does that last with 8-5 seasons and continuing to lose more and more in-state recruits to A&M, Baylor, etc.?
When can we get some basketball games with UCONN? They need to be #11 in the Big 12, with UCF as #12.
I agree with that part - but I think this is one of those ideas that sounds good in theory because people are just looking at the negatives of the NCAA, but not so much in practice. Once anyone actually starts working on the details of how this would work, I think they will realize (a) there is very little agreement on that topic and (b) how much they benefit from the NCAA/conference structure.
I don't think schools will even have a choice - IMO the spectre of massive antitrust liablity that's been looking more and more likely will eventually cause the NCAA cartel to break like a dam.
Ash granted medical redshirt; Texas QB battle builds <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Texas QB David Ash has a fracture in his left foot and will miss the rest of spring practice. He's expected to be back by fall camp.</p>— Longhorn Network (@LonghornNetwork) <a href="https://twitter.com/LonghornNetwork/statuses/454741447875776512">April 11, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>With David Ash out, your Texas spring game QBs: Tyrone Swoopes, walk-on Trey Holtz, former WR/TE Miles Onyegbule.</p>— Max Olson (@max_olson) <a href="https://twitter.com/max_olson/statuses/454742605050302464">April 11, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Anyone planning on going to the spring game? Should be some terrible offense, but I'm considering going since I've never been and I'm excited about Texas football for the first time in a while.
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I think Swoopes wins the job over Ash. If he can continue to improve his accuracy, he will be very dangerous.
