The team I root for has never been "wronged" by Texas.

They (UT) are already pulling back on their dumb LHN programming.

KU makes tons of $$ on their third tier network.

I keep looking to find reasons to get mad at Texas but I just don't see them.

I love it when they spend, build, and pay everyone in their program more than all the other schools then field a 5-7 football team.

I enjoy that kinda thing.

There will always be someone on your block that has more then you do. You don't get mad at it and leave, you fight back and win.

This is where I find complete solidarity with K State.

There isn't a school out there with less resources than K State and they achieve so much more then what they're expected to.

I hate to say it but that's pretty awesome.

Because of Texas and them having their way with Beebe, the Big 12 has lost 3, soon to be 4, members.

No, KU is saying, "have fun" and then whining like a little bitch. You guys are shackled to Texas, and are bitter beyond belief that Mizzou is not willing to be happily shackled there with you.

You really didn't answer the question. Do you trust Texas to do what is right for the Big 12?

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ClayTravisBGID Clay Travis
Interesting. RT <s>@</s>ChipBrownOB: Sources: TCU, BYU & Louisville leading candidates to join B12 with West Virginia also in mix.

All of which are improvements over aTm and Missouri.

If Texas had what they wanted, they would be playing in the Pac 12 right now and most of the Big XII would be out on life rafts trying to find a boat to cling onto.

I don't even root for any of these Big XII teams... but to me it looks like you all had a hot girlfriend, she tried to leave you... the other guys wouldn't put up with her excrement, and she came running back to where she started acting like she's changed. I think we all know how that story usually ends.

Indeed. If Tulane joins, the SWC II is going to rape the TV networks when contract negotiations begin.

I don't think Texas runs the league.

The teams involved run the league.

So in that case I don't see what you mean by "Texas doing right for the Big 12"..

Everyone signed on for unregulated third tier rights. Kansas was happy to do so knowing they would make a ton of $$ in doing so, and they have.

Texas has done nothing to Kansas to harm the institution.

And I still trying to figure out what they've done to Missouri.

What do you think all the negotiating going on this week is about then?

A new sharing deal was just announced yesterday. It's not like all these schools are just sitting around looking out the window at the clouds all day.

So.. Texas is your rival in Football?

Just so not correct I can't begin to explain.

But we each have our opinions and that's fine.

No. K-State is.

no, MU is our rival in football

It is simple really. Texas is your business partner, do you trust them enough to be in business with them and that they won't steal your money and destroy your business?

No, it really isn't.

I am seeing the beginning phases of different Kansas fans having an intervention for Wickedson.

http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/fi...tervention.jpg

There is no cure for Wickedson. He is in his own world.

DanBeebe Fake Dan Beebe
Maybe I'm just cynical 'ol Beebs, but I assume that KOMU, the Mizzou-owned TV station, shows no high school highlights, right?

Well they've been business partners for about what? 16 years now?

And Kansas has an endowment of over a billion dollars?

So yea, I guess I would trust them to continue making my school money which helps educate students, build facilities, and invest in technology.

Texas has been a pretty good business partner.

The only reason Texas came crawling back is because no one else wanted to put up with them. Which is saying something considering how much money they are worth.

The real question though is not about 5 or 6 year deals... this kind of stuff, you have to think 15-20 years into the future. I am definitely not saying the Big XII is going to dissolve in five years... but long term, the Big XII and Big East are definitely on shakier ground than everyone else. There's been so much backstabbing and turmoil, it just looks ugly. But things can change in 5 years.

Fair enough. Thanks for being honest

Given the way this sentence ended, the bold would have sufficed.

You do realize you are the only one, even among KU fans, that thinks Texas is a good partner, right?

Question for MU fans.

If tomorrow morning it was announced that TCU, BYU and Louisville were joing the Big 12 would you still want to leave?

LMAO

Get back on your corner! = "Partner" through KU eyes.

If Tulane would be in the mix, I'd definitely want to stay.

I think you are trolling. This statement is absurd. They tried to leave your conference. If they had their way, they would have left your school out in the wind to fend for itself. There is nothing about that is remotely definable as "pretty good business partners." That doesn't mean you can't co-exist amicably in a professional setting, but otherwise your definition and my definition of a decent business partner is widely different.

Not without the concessions on LHN and Tier 1/2 length.

This isn't about the teams in the conference so much as it is about the instability caused by the LHN.

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Well then those KU fans aren't looking at numbers.

It's Kansas. There are millions of people with millions of opinions.

The Big 12 is dealing with this issue because UT is just simply so much more massive in scale then any other school in the league.

Admittedly its hard for them to do anything without it looking like;

"woah! What's UT up to now?!?"

I'm not saying you just blinding go into the future. Obviously the laws and terms of this league need to be reevaluated and rewritten.

And if it took UT getting told by another league that you better fix your shit or no one would want you then so be it.

They are an extremely powerful ally to have in college athletics. I don't think you just push and push to get out unless you have some REAL specific reasons for doing so. Reasons MU does not have at this time.

You can't seriously be thinking that Louisville is competitive in football?

You know who thought Texas was a horrible business partner?

Mark Mangino.

Maybe he was on to something after that game.

I agree tk. I certainly wouldn't be business partners with Texas. They have tried to screw their business partners multiple times. I don't get why anyone would trust them.

Which is really what the MU going to the SEC is all about...Trust. MU doesn't trust Texas and they feel like the first chance Texas gets they will screw everyone over and blow everything up. Who would want to be in business with somebody like that?

What instability??

Its their network.

I completely agree with the high school shit. And that is being scaled back as we can see from tonight.

The LHN needs to be more concerned about getting subscribers before anything else. After that then feel free to start your own.

That's what KU did. And they did it years ago.

Well, they just made some more concessions tonight.
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Longhorn Network Won't Air Any High School Athletics, According To Report

Oct 05 10:07p by Russ Oates


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Texas' Longhorn Network wasn't going to air any high school football games after the NCAA barred them from doing so in August, but there were still questions on what coverage of high school athletics would be allowed. The NCAA had allowed a highlights show, but on Wednesday night it appears that the Longhorn Network won't even air that. According to Orangebloods.com, Texas has decided to avoid any high school content (for six years) as a means to bring peace to the Big 12.

With the Big 12's livelihood settled now that Oklahoma and Texas have decided to stay in the conference, the latter is attempting to make nice by making concessions. This is part of a broader television rights deal for the Big 12. Texas had to agree to the 13-year television rights deal that the conference already had in place last April.

It is possible this television rights deal could keep Missouri from leaving the conference, but the deal isn't likely to be finalized until Thursday.

You're welcome.

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Th University of Missouri

P.S. Deuces.

Bobby Petrino was 40-9 there and they won the freaking Orange Bowl.

So yeah, they can be competitive.

And having Pitino in the league would be great.

If that what happened then I commend MU for taking it to the point where they dropped it.

I think it would have happened anyway but losing Mizzou was probably the straw.

Bwahahaha

That was rough.

Good thing KU corrected that a few years later though.

Texas is like a really hot step sister, you really want to bang her ( get her monies), but you are afraid you might lose your sister ( be shund )

its a lose lose here.

But I would totally bang my step sister.


wait wut

One year does not a giant make...they barely beat a pathetic Kentucky team this year. Last year they sucked worse that Kentucky....

You're living a dream thinking they are a football power.

And just for edification....most of Kentucky residents are UK fans...not Louisville fans...

If it's about money and markets, they also had the fastest growing athletic budget last year.

http://blogs.courier-journal.com/eri...hletic-budget/

What, no Tulane? **** that.

Sure, so a decent school should hire him. I bet he'd take an assistant position to be closer to Jayhawk nation, to feel the love of a caring, compassionate longhorn, who treats you like Europa.

Wickedson's diseased vagina. It smells up the place

wow intelligent.

I lol at your coach.

Way to make an impression.

They only capture the market around Louisville....once you get about 20 miles East it is all Kentucky Blue...

Louiville might be a BB power, but as for football them are "meh"

That, like, totally changes everything.

Go pull your pants down in front of a mirror. & lol your self to death.

I wish KU would go to the ACC, I really do

Probably nothing, but:

"I'm not much of an insider, but a real good friend of mine who is real good friends with Auburn AD Jay Jacobs told me a few minutes ago that Mizzou will be joining the SEC very shorlty and that Auburn will be moving to the SEC East.

This works well b/c Auburns permanent West rival will be Alabama and they will be in the East to take on UGA and UF. UF vs. AU was a growing rival during the 90's and that will work well for both schools to get to play every year again.

Anyway, not a shock here after the news over the last 24 hours, but this is straight from Auburn AD Jacobs (via one buffer who is a good source). Now lets see if it happens. BTW, none of this is secret information, just interesting b/c of who it came from. "

Go back to your Nebraska thread.

It's more diseased than your football program.

And that's pretty rancid.

Good one Farva.

:rolleyes:

I have no idea how their bball program has so much but it's busting at the seams.

I've said it before in this thread, I'd love to see Louisville in the league.

Some bball showdowns are needed.

Louisville, TCU, BYU, Tulane, etc. compared to NE, A&M, COLO, Mizzou.....it is a downgrade for the Big XII anyway you spin it.

Are there people who really think that under any circumstance the Big 12 is a better conference to be in than the SEC? Seriously?

If it's 2009, there's 12 teams and Beebe is looking for 2+ schools to join..

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lol.

HH is scouring TigerBoard.

lol, it was actually posted at a KU site. You really are a little person, aren't you?

I am not the one flailing to justify my perspective that constantly turns out to be wrong.

All I can say now is:

MU better go to whatever conference. After all this posturing if MU walks to the cliff and spreads wings made by ACME, leaps and does a Wile E. Coyote into the desert floor, the trail of shit you will eat will be Milky Way galaxy in length and breadth.

Heh...

Even then, SEC > Big XII

No, no one with a functional brain thinks that.

This is what it all boils down to. The SEC provides significantly more stability and trust, with the leadership to maintain it.

Everyone needs to stop lying to themselves and just come to grips with this.

The SEC would take OU in a second. They don't really want OSU, though.

It's over. MU might join the Big 10 in a few years, but they are sticking with the Big XII for now.

LINK?

:hmmm:

Not one single person in this thread has said this....or even hinted at it. Quit making shit up.

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MU staying or going?

Die in an AIDS hurricane.

Well this would be rich.

OKStateTweets Pistol Pete
@Gswaim Hearing Texas @ChipBrownOB was "administrator" quoted yesterday in story about preferring B10 over SEC to sabotage Missouri.

GSwaim BigTime TV/Radio
@OKStateTweets I've already had four media members and a Big 12 coach tell me the same thing. If found to be true, ouch!!
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