re: Want a good laugh? Chip on realignment, 5 years later.

I think a big reason they are taking offense is they've been lied to for so long about revenue that they can't understand how or why they would do such things. Their accounting games have been a source of pride but now it's biting them in the arse.

Like every other athletic department, they need money. But every other fanbase opens their wallets because they need to keep up. The sips honestly believe they don't need to because they've been told they are Richey Rich for 15+ years.

I think the way the 12th Man Foundation is run is terrible. They're a pack of incompetent jerks. The way that re-seating was handled was terrible by itself and I think shameful in the way that they threw out lifetime promises they had sold people, but aside from all that, they've shown themselves again and again to be disorganized, sloppy, and unresponsive in everything they do. That definitely hurts their mission, and I won't give them any money. But, much different than UT, A&M hasn't been trumpeting to everyone that we're the Kings of Revenue for the past 10 years, either. And no one at A&M has been making 'we're the Jones'comments for a decade.

The situation that UT is facing with Patterson vs. the fans & Patterson vs. the University is worse than what A&M is facing trying to raise money from a tapped-out fanbase that's continually treated more like a customer of a major corporation than an alumnus though. Bill Byrne took on re-charting most seating areas vs donation levels and adjusting our ticket prices a decade ago. Patterson is just now having to deal with people's grandchildren using their dead grandfather's gandfathered $50 50 yard line prime seats at the same time as he is trying to sell a team that's going through the "wandering in the desert" years to a fairweather fanbase, at the same time as he's having to figure out how to pay for a new arena because the one he has is set to be demolished to make way for a hospital boondoggle and now he's been depansed because it has been revaeled that he was asking for money for a new tennis facility even though that money was already granted to him by the University.

So he's been shown to be super dishonest just as he goes about jacking up ticket prices into the face of poor seasons, just as he has to rebuild the arena. At least we're having good years and have endless empty acreage to expand into. Patterson on the other hand is the steward of a land-locked, losing program, that's actually losing facilities space, and has fairweather fans who he got caught trying to con. It's bad.

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Want a good laugh?

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I want to laugh last and linking Chimp get him hits, these hits keep him marketable, and this keeps him alive that much longer.

If you want to laugh at Chimp, don't feed the monkey and he dies. Then you get the last laugh.

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I didn't link to whatever horn site he works for.

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I did not click link so did not know

Still clicking FOX when he is on means they can track his affect on clicks. I would not give Chimp the sweat off my balls much less any click that might make him more in demand. I might however piss on him if he were on fire just because I am a nice guy that way. I would probably piss on Clay Travis if he was on fire too, as his commentary has gone downhill the past several years as he panders to media hits. Clay was actually decent when he first started, not sure Chimp was ever good.

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Clay still is good.

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Clay was good but now most of it it reheated old posts with the same old song and dance. His stuff now is aimed at getting hits. He will praise TAMU and slam tu because he knows he can get hits from both sides and that makes him look popular. He will troll Alabama and Kentucky just to rile up their fans for hits.

In the early days he was funny and had some fresh new stuff but now it is old and dated. TAMU fans love him now, but just wait till he turns on TAMU if he can get more hits going negative.

I think UTx eventually ends up in the PAC12. The recruiting disadvantage of languishing in the obscurity of the B12, combined with fan apathy due to a shitty schedule (and possibly shitty record against that shitty schedule), is going to produce pressure to make a move.

I think you are right with this. I believe they will try and create a new merger like they did with the big XII but I don't think it will work out the way they hope it will.

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Lots can change in that time frame. But if I were laying money, I agree they'll probably end up taking the Texoma 4 west

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That would be funny but I'm not too sure they will be that tied when it comes down to it.

Honestly, I think the absolute best move long term for them would be to join the Pac 12 w/Hawaii as their cross division rival and Pac12Net TV regional partner.

That would allow them to have a jumping off point for the Asian markets they so dearly covet and a give them an opponent they will beat 9 times out of 10 for the foreseeable future as the Rainbow Warriors play catchup w/their facilities.

Well said