re: Remember the talk of upgrades?

They're more interested in hiring Disney to refurb their trash cans and scheduling marquee games in cartel country than addressing any real issues.

It's probably not a possibility but if they were smart they would at least try to throw a bunch of money at the Arizona schools. I'm sure they wouldn't and couldn't leave the PAC but they could set up a nice south-north with the AZ and TX schools in the south. More likely they would end up with like Cincy and UCF or USF if they tried to expand though

if anything ever happens between PAC schools, it will be through USC and UCLA considering they run the conference for the most part. they wouldn't let the AZ schools get poached

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Agreed on that. Much respect to LSU for agreeing to play us at the end of the year. They didn't have to cooperate with that at all.

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I wouldn't go that far. I think the SEC kinda forced them into it, but they are being pretty good sports about it.

Slive wants us to succeed as much as we do. He basically rested his legacy on the 2011 expansion, and that is only a grand slam if we become THE program in Texas. A marquee game at a time when Texans look for a big game was needed to get us there.

That was the single and most fundamental mistake the sips did- they assumed that after we went to the SEC we would be the "same old aggy" and we would squander any advantages we have as a SEC team.

What they didn't realize, and still don't get, is that the smartest guys in the country when it comes to college football (as shown by SEC dominance) has made a huge bet on our behalf that they expect to collect on. We are not fending for ourselves anymore, the people who basically own college football have decided to remake us (as in our brand) in their image.

The sips wonder why we are more exciting than them despite the same regular season record. They blame Mack, or JFF, or the helicopter or whatever they can throw the dart at. What they miss is that the most powerful men in college football are gunning for their warchest so that the entire SEC can prosper.

Texas's revenues are not a birthright, and we have cut the deal with the SEC that we are happy to share the loot if they will help us with the plundering. Hence the LSU game on T-day, good CBS spots for our big games, tons of extra promotion provided by the SEC, and a brand overhaul provided by the SEC.

And Sharp is a smart enough guy to play ball and step up the game on our end (new stadium, etc.).

It really is lose-lose for our local competitors, even if they realize what they are fighting its too late to surrender. Texas was too stubborn to join the SEC and give them access to Texas's riches of recruits and money, so the SEC, using us as a proxy, are taking it from them.

Its the cold war all over again, and the Big 12 is the collateral damage we now call Afghanistan.

Poor freaking SMU and Houston. Thought they were upgrading to the big-boy table, only to have it all come crashing down around them.

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I feel like they are locked into expanding east now that they have WVU.

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This is probably true. WV is so geographically out of place in that conference. They basically have to add Cincy if they go to 12

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they really fricked up by adding TCU instead of UofL.

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Yeah, but did the AD from Louisville have a similar life story to Dodds?

Or did the AD from Louisville not like to get drunk at 12:30 in the afternoon like the TCU AD did.

either way, the sips got beer goggles when looking into TCU and I just find it so fricking funny