Doesn’t sound like he got clearance from his boss in Austin. The water down theory does not fly when you have ISU, KU, and Baylor. Also, I don’t see FSU or Clemson joining the 12. They have options, and its clear everyone who can us running from Texas’ arrogance. Look at it realistically, the only teams that have not left or tried to leave are teams that are still shocked that they are in a BCS league to start with.

The Big 12 office had the full support of Deloss Dodd’s on this. There never would have been a waiver requested if Dodds didn’t want this. Think Godfather. If the commissioner had acted without
Deloss’s permission he would have been like
Luca Brasi, “sleeping with the fishes.”

then they drove 4 teams out of the Big Dumpster Fire Conference. All because they wanted a disproportionate share of the television revenue generated in the conference.

Having grown been born and raised in Tulsa, I am the last guy to ever defend UT, but A&M and Nebraska both voted in supported (including voting in favor of) unequal revenue distribution.

As mentioned above, they destroyed the SWC. And then they drove 4 teams out of the Big Dumpster Fire Conference. All because they wanted a disproportionate share of the television revenue generated in the conference.

Think about that. They want more money than the rest of the teams in their conference, just because they are Texas. Texas once ran off 15 victories in a row against A&M. Not one of those games was ever played on the road. And A&M did actually have a football field at the time.

I’m glad that my guys packed up their bags and went to the SEC.

And if you want to call it butthurt that A&M went to the SEC, beat Alabama, won a Heisman, took OU out behind the woodshed (who beat Texas 63-18 I think), then so be it.

So long to the orange and the white, indeed.

Clemson and either other ACC school move to the Big 12 at their peril. Why? because if you go to the Big 12, you give the conference your TV rights. You want to leave, Big 12 says fine, your TV rights stay with us.

As long as ND is affiliated with the ACC, the ACC is fine.

Just think about this for a moment. (Substitute Deloss Dodds for the name Big 12 and you’ll see the merit for the thought process, because Deloss controls the Big 12.)

1. The Big 12 has a tie in with the SEC to create a “Rose Bowl” type game between the Big 12 and the SEC.

2, The Big 12 looks to have a cross scheduling tie in with the ACC for access to the Florida region.

3. The Big 12 looks to apply for a waiver for a conference championship game in football.

Who does this directly benefit?

Bueller? Bueller?

Anyone?

Texas. Texas needs more markets to develop the LHN. What better way than to have agreements and bowl tie ins in order to secure the necessary TV markets in order to build your own network.

The ACC doesn’t Texas. The SEC doesn’t need Texas. Texas is wanting to use both conferences to build it’s own brand at their expense.

There were reasons why Arkansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Mssouri and finally Texas A&M left the Big 12. Texas. Those schools left in order to control their own destinies and not have Texas manipulate the conference to what always benefited
Texas first and foremost.

You want facts? Explain why Texas sought B1G admission mere days after Alabama
beat them in the National Championship game? When rebuffed by the B1G, why did Texas look west to the PAC-12 taking OU, OSU and Tech with them and the PAC-12 declined to take those teams? The B1G, the PAC-12, so what does Texas do
next, it tries to gain admission to the ACC and when they’re rebuffed there, they try to solicit FSU and Clemson to join the Big 12.

FSU was right to NOT to join.

Texas uses teams to get what it wants. They destroyed the old SWC, they destroyed
the Big 12 to make it what they want it to be and now that everyone is wise to them conference wise. they want to now use conferences to build the LHN and it will be
at the expense of the other conferences.

Stay away from the University of Texas, all they want is money and prestige for Texas and no one else.

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Very insightful drummerhoff, very insightful indeed!

After the NCAA says they will not change the bylaw, the Big12 can poach schools from the ACC under the guise of a need to have a championship game to improve SOS and therefore better ACCESS to the 4 team playoff… it will be portrayed as a matter of survival.

They had better put the Championship game on the Longhorn network so nobody has to watch it.

You can’t then grant them a waiver to play a championship game with only the 10 teams and therefore secure even more money for their teams. The B1G and the PAC both had to add (and therefore dilute the per team earnings, if just momentarily) in order to hold their championships.

You don’t think the PAC would like to subtract Colorado and Utah and STILL be able to hold a championship?

That championship game means a lot, even if just to show a full stadium somewhere else in college football besides SEC country.

If NCAA says no – I see Big12 telling SEC they are raiding teams in their territory. And say goodbye to the ACC – grab Clemson, FSU for starters…

Texas trying to “control” this conference is the reason why a lot of the above mentioned teams left the Big 12.

A&M left laughing and running to the SEC and now is getting themselves in a position to compete on equal footing with UT for the top recruits in Texas.

DeLoss Dodds & Mack Brown are BOTH dinosaurs and UT is paying the price as their football program has deteriorated over the past few yrs!!!