How? What did Texas do to "ruin the big 12"?

Leave the conference? 4 schools already did that?

Collapse the conference? It will actually have more teams after Texas and OU leave?

Isn't OU doing the same thing Texas is? How come it's big meanie Texas' fault?

I'm sure I'll get tons of answers to this rooted in reality instead of people downvoting because they have no response

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Posted by DBird

Member since Nov 2023

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Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:26 am to Shea Vinnerbush

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I'm sure I'll get tons of answers to this rooted in reality

The LHN pissed off the entire conference. Texas reached out to us to partner the network and then launched it on their own. DDodds said that it was to get coverage for the "other" sports, they wanted to air high school football games on the network. We all know how much influence on recruiting if these games were to air. Dave Brown was quoted on Austin radio saying that they wanted to put Aledo games on the station because of Johnathan Gray. Bob Stoops told SI that Texas needed to play by the same rules as everyone else. Dan Beebe deferred to Texas in every turn, which pissed off much of the conference. Texas ran the Big12 and all the other members knew it.

The LHN launched many great careers during its time, including winning 33 Emmy's.

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Posted by Houag80

Member since Jul 2019

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Posted on 2/21/24 at 9:16 am to Shea Vinnerbush