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Originally Posted by alanm
Well... Don't you think that was the catalyst?
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If that is what is needed to start all of this then it seems that there were some secret conversations prior. For a school to acknowledge that they will listen to any deal doesn't seem very damning to me, it just looks like they are doing what any business would do (and Universities are big time businesses). But if this tiny statement of "listening" sparked some kind of insecure rage in Texas or Nebraska or the entire Big 12, then it would seem they did so with a bit of convenience for themselves... think of trying to break up with your sig. other. You don't know how to go about it so you wait a while thinking it over and pondering until one day you get lucky and they come up to you and say they haven't been feeling the same about you and want to take some time off or look around just to clear their head... so you jump on it, blow it out of proportion and break the thing off guilt free or agree to look around without the intent of coming back... either way it was a moment that could be used to your advantage for you to do the exact thing they wanted, but hadn't had the balls/ovaries to say out loud, only now you are the guilt free party spitting hateful words at the other for trying to ruin what you have, all the while you had one foot out the door.
A case and point would be Tom Osborne who publicly stated several times that he did not want to leave the Big 12 and that it was a bad idea for Neb., yet when it came time he loved it and left kind departing words for everybody he didn't want to break up with just days before.