Baylor is crapping themselves. Why should the legislature care about a private school's wellbeing when it (legislature) abandoned the state's third largest institution for the gutter? Any decision made in the best interest of the state needs to consider UH. IMO if the legislature wants to hold the Big 12 together minus A&M then Baylor fans need to support UH as 10.
Desperate Much? "Don't Mess with Texas Football!" ... That's marketing folks http://www.baylor.edu/nation/index.php?id=84714 Anyone think Loftin, Powers, or Hance are going to change his mind because whiners from another school cry about "lost tradition" to them after said school posts their contact information?
Wow, this ish must be getting serious behind closed doors. What a load of fluffy poop that post is, Baylor in full panic mode.
Ball is in OU's court. If OU (and OSU) goes Pac 12, UT and Tech should follow. Only question is what UT will do with LHN. LHN could become the Pac 12's RSN for Texas, but will UT be willing to share its cut with everyone else (the reason why the Big 12 fell apart)? I just can't see the Big 12 surviving without OU.
" Will Texans stand by and watch hundred-year-old rivalries be cast aside as the state's largest universities align themselves with other states across the country? Will Texans sit and watch as Texas' flagship universities pledge their loyalties to other states? Will Texans stand by as our most promising student athletes are lured out of Texas by new rivals? Will Texans watch as our most precious resources—the great minds of the next generation—are exported to new conference institutions? " Baylor Website WOW you could say all those things about the SW conference breakup. Come on Baylor.
To most Baylor fans credit, it seems that most of their fans are totally embarassed by this. I just cant imagine what their leadership is thinking with this because this is not going to help them find a new home.
This is the worst rumor I've ever heard so far and that's saying alot considering what random rumors have popped up the last few weeks. Can we finally ignore Chip Brown?
Well according to http://brett-mcmurphy.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/29532522/31764547 it looks like the ACC is shutting that rumor down pretty fast.
See #4 above - there were no "real intentions" coming to light between summer 2010 and summer 2011 - the intentions, to establish the Longhorn network were and remain the exact same, were known to Texas A&M beforehand......literally nothing changed except for the Longhorn network deal being formalized. Maybe the intention to show a conf game on LHN is the "real intentions"? So you're going to argue that Texas vs. the Kansas Jayhawks being televised on LHN rather than Fox Sports Regional was the dastardly plot twist that drove the innocent unsuspecting Texas A&M Aggies off a cliff, and made their situation utterly unsustainable. Really?
of course they are. they're about to lose out on a contract that would have paid their athletic department somewhere in the neighborhood of $15 million a year for 20 years, which they just signed last summer. they've been very competitive in hoops of late on the national stage...and they're showing progress in football...so yeah, they're not real thrilled with this, i'm sure. behind the scenes, they'll work the phones trying to land somewhere...but out front, they'll be trying to put the brakes on the breakup of this deal for the same reason that A&M claims to want to go to the SEC...self interest.
can you remind me again how BU screwed SMU and UH? do you think for one minute that if SMU, UH, or TCU had been offered that spot they would have said, "oh, no..we can't take it because Baylor didn't get invited!!!" ??? i'm so tired of this line. BU didn't screw anyone. they had far superior facilities....their football team was ranked as high as #4 in the country in 1994 after upsetting CU in Boulder, as these decisions were being made...and they were drawing better than any of those schools. SMU was even closer to the death penalty years at that point...no way were they getting that invite. you can argue that UH or TCU should have been picked..but they weren't.
i don't know. i have a whole lot of "who cares?" going on in that discussion. i'd love to sneak into the Big East somehow with TCU, because i can see how that would give the Big East a bigger footprint in Texas...and i think BU would fit well there. but i have no idea if that's even possible. when you start talking about the non-BCS schools, i think BU will be set up well..the same way TCU was, except BU already has tons more momentum going into that. can you imagine this current BU squad playing in a non-BCS conference right now? RGIII against the Mountain West?
This is where the whole, "it's UT's fault!!" loses me. It comes down to the fact A&M hated the fact that ESPN was willing to pay so much money for the network rights...because the other stuff is incidental. The high school game stuff was slapped back by the NCAA...there was no possible way the A&M/UT game was gonna find its way on LHN. Whether the UT/Kansas game is on Fox Sports regionally or LHN is sooo insignificant, it's ridiculous.
I think for the Aggies it was one thing to see it on paper and another to see it in reality - $300 million, 20 years, pimped by ESPN, showing the nation's best HS games (foiled by NCAA, but highlights are permissible), and at least 2 football games a year. The funny thing is correct me if I'm wrong the Aggies did not support revenue sharing...the reason why Nebraska said F U. In the words of Deloss Dodds, it's not something we did, but rather something they did not do. Aggies could have joined Texas.
I really don't get why you keep answering my questions this way. All I'm asking for is your off-hand, fan-type opinion. I have a hard time believing that you don't care, given how active you've been in this thread, Max. (and I can only imagine how busy this has kept you off this BBS, apparently)
Max, can you see why there's no sympathy for Baylor when Baylor is using the same arguments in 2011 that were used by the forgotten four in 1994?
