🏈 Been looking on Texags.com

[rammerjammer]

It is about 50/50 over there as far as the folks that want to become SEC members as opposed to Pac 10-12-14-16

They keep referring to the money they would make being in a super conference and the LA market. I think the only good thing about aTm going to the Pac conference would be not having the competition of a lot of teams.

All of the cfb traditionalist want to be in the SEC, but there are alot of folks California dreaming.

 

[JoshB]

Supposedly some of the Big XVII teams that are going to jump ship elsewhere have threatened to blackball A&M if they go to the SEC. Dont know how true or untrue that is. OU is supposedly thinking about coming to the SEC (which would be huge).

 

[LBS]

Beyond Commissioner Slive, the player(s) who swing the biggest hammer is one that we have heard nothing from either; the Networks.

Without a promise (spoke, written, or implied) of playing on television, ZERO teams would leave a current paying gig to join one that is not. This addition consitutes a change in the original contract, thus opens the door for a complete redo for both conference's contracts. We all have run with the assumption of greater dollar signs, but I have yet to hear any terms of these new deals.

It is the specifics of these new deals that define the "MONEY" angle that everyone cites as what is driving this Expansion Bus, and yet there are not details, no numbers even rumored. If funny, because its little more than one confernece saying "Well my (network) can beat up your (network)" thus far.

So consider the Sugar Daddies of this deal. Big TEN and their BTN. The SEC with her two Daddies, ESPN and CBS. The PAC-10 with FOX. And finally the Big XII who seems to be up for adoption with the creation of a BTN-esque arrangement an option.

Thus far, what do we know about the deals?

 

['65 Cobra]

The PAC-16 as proposed makes very little sense over the long haul and has legs only because of potential glamour and greed. It threatens to ruin one of the basic appeals of college football - proximate rivalries. When you look at the geographical span between the farthest Big-12 schools (Texas) to the farthest PAC-10 schools (Washington) you are talking about a huge distance. Even Texas to CA is farther than Texas to just about any SEC school. If the grouping of leaving Big-12 schools in TX and OK are only going to lumped in a Division with AZ schools, then that leaves only one more conference game and perhaps a champhionship game to play the CA, OR, and WA schools. In that case, it's not really a conference.

To me it's a major stretch to call, OK and TX schools Pacific Coast - even Colorado is a stretch. If anything the OK and TX schools should come to the SEC because of proximity.

At the end of the day for me, it's just another example of short term greed winning out over wisdom and temperance. This is all about TV markets and TV revenue. If anybody really thought this through and looked at potential lessons learned from the WAC, they would see that over time, this super conference would be unworkable and will ultimately erode one of the basic appeals of college ball - the rivalries that are made between relatively close schools with history.

 

[mhardiman]

Supposedly some of the Big XVII teams that are going to jump ship elsewhere have threatened to blackball A&M if they go to the SEC. Dont know how true or untrue that is. OU is supposedly thinking about coming to the SEC (which would be huge).

What do you mean by "blackballing" A&M? I'd rather this all go away and return things to normal, but since that's not going to happen I'd love to see A&M in the SEC, with Oklahoma (if there serious and not just using us in some kind of way), Mizzou and VT. I know there is an East/West imbalance there, but take those teams and figure it out later. I don't get that Oklahoma and A&M can't survive without Texas; to be honest A&M in the SEC kind of scares me, because look at all the talent in the state of Texas that leave Texas for the SEC because they want to play in the SEC. A&M would have first dibs at those kids, plus they wouldn't have Texas (Longhorns) breathing down their backs and holding them down. Pac-10 can have Texas (although I'd hate to see the Big Ten get them) there ego and demands are too big for the SEC and they would be trying to control everything, it is believed they are the big reason the SWC went belly up and now the Big XII is doing the same, so they can go a control someone else’s conference and run it down to the ground.

 

[psychojoe]

I dropped in on a Sooner board yesterday and they think theywill land whereever Texas does.