🏈 Texas Longhorns to Big Tenleven?!?!?!?!

[XXL TideFan]

Don't shoot the messenger!

A source with ties to the Big Ten said that while most people’s attention has been trained on the conference stealing Missouri, the Big Ten has engaged in “preliminary exchanges” with a much bigger fish from the Big 12.
“There have been preliminary exchanges between the Big Ten and Texas,” the source told the Journal-World on Wednesday. “People will deny that, but it’s accurate.”

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2010/feb/11/big-ten-making-overtures-texas/

 

[reger60]

The action in the attorney's offices might actually more fun to watch than watching Texas play a Bit Ten schedule.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

That would be a shocker, but it would return the conference to Oklahoma and Nebraska. If the PAC 10 follows suit by expanding, there could be some major realignments.

 

[UAgrad93]

If the Big 10 goes that direction and the Pac 10 makes a move, this could blow the whole playoff argument that Sen. Hatch has out of the water.

 

[XXL TideFan]

If the Big 10 goes that direction and the Pac 10 makes a move, this could blow the whole playoff argument that Sen. Hatch has out of the water.

That is what those two conferences want. PAC 10 and Big Tenleven don't want anything to do with a playoff. They would get EXPOSED.

 

[prothrofan4]

Yeah, I get flashbacks of all the talk about the ACC with Miami, VT and Florida State when I think of all these conference swaps we've been hearing about recently lol

 

[It Takes Eleven]

That is what those two conferences want. PAC 10 and Big Tenleven don't want anything to do with a playoff. They would get EXPOSED.

I don't think it's about fear of a playoff, but rather the fear of leaving money on the table. I think it's about the money the championship game brings and the extra reach (whether it's Colorado or Utah/BYU for the PAC 10, or TX for Big Ten) for TV audiences for their network agreements.

RTR,

Tim

 

[alagator]

The SEC needs to trade Arkansas to the Big 12 in exchange for Texas A&M. For most of the same reasons listed for Texas going to the Big Televen.

A&M would give the SEC a presence in the huge Texas TV markets.

The SEC made a play for Texas with the 1990s expansion to twelve teams, but was blocked by political interest there concerned (rightly so in my opinion) over what would happen to all the other Texas schools in the SWC with Texas removed from that league. With the subsequent demise of the SWC and the other state programs better protected in the more diverse Big 12 those political concerns must no longer be present. Now, if both Texas and A&M are removed, there might be some issues over how long Texas Tech and Baylor might be valued by the remaining Big 12 members. The state of Texas would have more interest in the Big Televen with Texas residing there and the SEC with A&M in our ranks than any league with Tech and Baylor the drawing card.

Not sure if I have shared it here before, but Jeremy Foley a few years ago was putting together a plan to take Florida and Georgia to the ACC in the development of a 16-team super conference that dominated the entire Atlantic Coast from Boston to Miami - and all parts between. The plan included bringing in two other teams from a list of Alabama OR Tennessee (but not both) as one new member and one of either Syracuse, Temple (hey, the leagues needed another football doormat to give the big boys a break every now and then and that would put Philly in play for basketball), Pitt, Louisville, and (of course) Notre Dame. The idea was to split into two divisions based on N-S geography, play a nine game football conference slate (7 in conference and two from the other side), a 20 game basketball schedule (14 with home-and-away with your division mates and six games from the other side), and the other sports mostly playing only a divisional schedule until the post season (kind of like a permanent playoff format heading into the NCAA postseason). Florida and Georgia were all for the move, but the UF President nixed the idea as too risky for football (although if Alabama and Syracuse had been the other two additions, the TV draw for a league with Boston College, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Alabama, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Florida, Florida State, and Miami would have been incredible all across the country). We had some interesting numbers on the projections board.

Frankly, as long as Alabama was included in such a development, I would be all for it still today. Removing Florida and Georgia and either Alabama or Tennessee from the SEC would all but kill this league. If we were left behind and the league could not pull in both Texas and A&M our program would be badly crippled. Us, and the other two, bolting for the expanded ACC would leave Auburn, Tennessee, LSU (who would probably move to the Big 12), and the Mississippi schools to their own histories and limited TV draws. And that would break my little bitty heart. Hell, if we were left behind, we would be better off becoming an independent like Notre Dame - or ourselves seek refuge in the Big 12.

 

[EuroTide]

i dont see it workin out, ofc there might be a lot more money in for Texas
read this on another board

The closest road game for UT would be in Champaign, Illinois. Roughly 800 miles.That's the closest. University Park is over 1300 miles away. That's for football teams, baseball, volleyball, basketball, swimming, and probably a few dozen other athletic teams. Boys and Girls teams. Coaches. Bands. Cheerleaders. How many UT fans are excited about this deal?

 

[bamaupsman]

Texas will leave the Big 12 shortly after Alabama leaves the SEC and USC leaves the PAC 10.

 

[porkchop]

Texas to the Big 10 is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Okay, maybe it's not stupid in terms of money that can be gained by UT and/or the Big 10. It's stupid because it makes no sense on soo many other levels.

Okay, Texas can keep their Oklahoma rivalry every year, if they wish. But what about the TAM game? Or does TAM get that slot? If Texas were to leave the conference it would throw traditional/historic rivalries into chaos.

Not only that, but what is the traditional layout, or idea of a conference? It's generally geographical location. I mean, from high school on up, that's how the conferences, or regions, or areas are formed. I mean, Hoover is not in the same "conference" as Central of Phenix City because it makes no sense. Geographically it's ludicrous. Look at the SEC. It's a regional conference with the teams in said conference...coming from the southeast. That's what we're looking at here with Texas to the Big 10. The Big 10 is predominantly a mid-western conference. To have a team from the south, and the southwest, for that matter, added to the conference is laughable. BAMA might as well join the PAC 10 at this rate.

This reminds me of that old Dave Chappelle skit where all the races get to draft existing superstars to reprasent their own race. It's a hilarious skit, but it reminds me of this. Heck, let's auction BAMA off the Pac 10, then offer the MAC the second pick in the draft so that they can attain Florida or USC. It's comical.

For the record, this will never happen IMHO. It's all about ratings and making some kind of news while things are slow. The idea is still ludicrous though.

 

[porkchop]

Texas to the Big 10 is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Okay, maybe it's not stupid in terms of money that can be gained by UT and/or the Big 10. It's stupid because it makes no sense on soo many other levels.

Okay, Texas can keep their Oklahoma rivalry every year, if they wish. But what about the TAM game? Or does TAM get that slot? If Texas were to leave the conference it would throw traditional/historic rivalries into chaos.

Not only that, but what is the traditional layout, or idea of a conference? It's generally geographical location. I mean, from high school on up, that's how the conferences, or regions, or areas are formed. I mean, Hoover is not in the same "conference" as Central of Phenix City because it makes no sense. Geographically it's ludicrous. Look at the SEC. It's a regional conference with the teams in said conference...coming from the southeast. That's what we're looking at here with Texas to the Big 10. The Big 10 is predominantly a mid-western conference. To have a team from the south, and the southwest, for that matter, added to the conference is laughable. BAMA might as well join the PAC 10 at this rate.

This reminds me of that old Dave Chappelle skit where all the races get to draft existing superstars to reprasent their own race. It's a hilarious skit, but it reminds me of this. Heck, let's auction BAMA off the Pac 10, then offer the MAC the second pick in the draft so that they can attain Florida or USC. It's comical.

For the record, this will never happen IMHO. It's all about ratings and making some kind of news while things are slow. The idea is still ludicrous though.