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Did OU screw themselves
Posted on 9/21/11 at 6:45 am
Posted on 9/21/11 at 6:45 am
If the PAC-12 isn't expanding why would UT agree to OU's demands?
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Posted on 9/21/11 at 7:01 am to gringeaux
They can still come to the SEC
Posted on 9/21/11 at 7:16 am to gringeaux
well, let's see. The SEC needs at least one team. And OU is tired of UT's crap and the PAC-12 isn't adding. Hmmmmm
Posted on 9/21/11 at 8:20 am to gringeaux
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If the PAC-12 isn't expanding why would UT agree to OU's demands?
OU clearly doesn't want to come to the SEC, but unless those REASONABLE demands are met, saving the Big 12 is clearly a worse option. If TX doesn't agree with something close to that, OU will leave (I think the SEC would take OU, OSU and MO). The TX/OU game would probably be done. A&M would be stupid (unless forced, but they are are Aggies) to play them either. TX could find itself in a position where there won't be a decent team within a 1000 miles that will play them. High stakes poker.
Posted on 9/22/11 at 9:55 am to gringeaux
David Boren and OU screwed up royally.
You don't start making demands unless you know that you've got the leverage to make things happen. OU may have been misled by Larry Scott, who I think probably told OU that they had a Pac 12 invite if they wanted one (with OSU in tow), but, you really can't afford to be wrong about this. The Pac 12 rejection completely pulled the rug out from Boren, and now he probably has no leverage at all.
I say "probably" because, if the rest of the Big XII had any balls, they would realize that they have all the leverage they need. All they have to do is vote on a bylaws amendment reserving all TV rights to the conference (as the Pac 12 and Big Ten do) and, voila, the LHN is no more. Of course, Texas's response would probably be to leave the conference, but, to go where would be the question. While OU lost face in the Pac 12 deal, it should now be apparent to everyone that there is little chance of any attractive conference making a deal to give the Horns special treatment. So, if preserving the LHN is an imperative for Texas, and the Big XII says no to school networks, then it would be independence or defeat for the Horns, and indendence would just be defeat in another guise.
Of course, this won't happen because the cowards at Baylor, ISU, KSU, etc., will not call the Horns bluff. They won't even go so far as to hold Texas to the one out of conference football game on LHN that they agreed to last summer (which Texas then went and turned into an agreement with ESPN for TWO games, one of them being a conference game). Those folks are absolutely 100% subservient to the Horns. I can't believe that we endured 16 years in that hellhole of a conference. Next time I'm in Austin, I think I'll stop by the state cemetery and piss on Bob Bullock's grave--but for that old bastard (Lt. Gov. who engineered the Big XII deal in '94), we would have been in the SEC in '96.
You don't start making demands unless you know that you've got the leverage to make things happen. OU may have been misled by Larry Scott, who I think probably told OU that they had a Pac 12 invite if they wanted one (with OSU in tow), but, you really can't afford to be wrong about this. The Pac 12 rejection completely pulled the rug out from Boren, and now he probably has no leverage at all.
I say "probably" because, if the rest of the Big XII had any balls, they would realize that they have all the leverage they need. All they have to do is vote on a bylaws amendment reserving all TV rights to the conference (as the Pac 12 and Big Ten do) and, voila, the LHN is no more. Of course, Texas's response would probably be to leave the conference, but, to go where would be the question. While OU lost face in the Pac 12 deal, it should now be apparent to everyone that there is little chance of any attractive conference making a deal to give the Horns special treatment. So, if preserving the LHN is an imperative for Texas, and the Big XII says no to school networks, then it would be independence or defeat for the Horns, and indendence would just be defeat in another guise.
Of course, this won't happen because the cowards at Baylor, ISU, KSU, etc., will not call the Horns bluff. They won't even go so far as to hold Texas to the one out of conference football game on LHN that they agreed to last summer (which Texas then went and turned into an agreement with ESPN for TWO games, one of them being a conference game). Those folks are absolutely 100% subservient to the Horns. I can't believe that we endured 16 years in that hellhole of a conference. Next time I'm in Austin, I think I'll stop by the state cemetery and piss on Bob Bullock's grave--but for that old bastard (Lt. Gov. who engineered the Big XII deal in '94), we would have been in the SEC in '96.
This post was edited on 9/22/11 at 9:58 am
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