agreed. and even further, it was the longhorn network that really started all this realignment shit.
tbh, i think THINK the p12 network has greater distribution than then LHN, go figure.
Scott Larry was soooo close. The other Big-12 teams realized they’re the Mountain West with no mountains if Texas bounces along with A&M, Nebraska, and the Okies. So they caved and gave Texas free use to do what they wanted.
Imagine if there were two divisions of the Pac-8 and the Desert Mountain Plains shit: Arizona schools, Colorado, mountain west Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, and then Oklahoma State and either Texas Tech or Kansas or anything.
We’d have more hicks but the conference wouldn’t be a laughingstock the way it is now.
i have no idea if the 'ou/texas are coming but only if texas keeps LHN revenue' rumor was true (i have to think it was) but larry scott is fucking stupid to not say 'sure, bring that dreck of a network that only texas fans will give a shit about, we'll figure out the revenue with the other teams later.'
larry scott is fucking stupid.
i think i just talked myself into the 'ou/texas are coming' rumor.
fuck.
If you’d like I can try to find the mini essay I wrote about it years ago, but the short version is: if Larry Scott and the Pac-## accommodated Texas the same way the Big-12 did then it would have happened. Gambled and lost. Larry didn’t want the Pac-12 media rights to have an extra wrinkle in it because everyone was going to be filthy rich once his plan works. Just needed to wait out the Big-12. After being used to Tom Hansen the Pac-10 presidents thought that Larry was a visionary and would have sponsored a monorail if he asked.
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Thank you, DDJ.
The board is definitely slipping.
Thank you for the Ts &Ps RE: Vorel.