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re: LOTS of smoke coming from Aggie land that A&M to the SEC is done deal...
Posted on 8/9/11 at 3:33 pm to LSUdm21
Posted on 8/9/11 at 3:33 pm to LSUdm21
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staring down the barrel of the first super conference
Who would you want to be first in establishing a Super Conference? The SEC, Pac-12 or Big-12?
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Posted on 8/9/11 at 3:40 pm to Stuttgart Tiger
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If they are convinced of anything it seems to be that dealing with Texas + Espn doing whatever the hell they think is good for Texas/LHN
I always love it when a Husker fan jumps in to tell me how Texas is destroying the Big 12. A&M had voted lock-step, 100% of the time, along with Texas and on every major issue in the Big 12 (revenue sharing, conf HQ location, conf title game location, etc). In fact, every conference member voted lock-step with Texas (even Colorado) on every vote. The Big 12 didn't have a Texas problem, it had a Nebraska problem.
Now, aggie is all in a lather about the network (which it has known was coming for years) and HS football games being broadcast on the network (which was announced in January, but nobody cared until the season got close) but a Husker is in no position to talk about single school networks since your own administration admitted that Nebraska was further along than Texas in developing its own network before you guys ran off to join the Big 10........and after losing 9 games in 10 tries to Texas, I do mean ran off......
Posted on 8/9/11 at 4:17 pm to Stuttgart Tiger
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Who would you want to be first in establishing a Super Conference? The SEC, Pac-12 or Big-12?
SEC. It's going to come eventually, better to be proactive and pick the teams you want, than to be reactive and get stuck with what you can salvage.
For example, what if there is no A&M/SEC deal? And as a result, the PAC-12 offers to take A&M without Texas, which decides to go independent. A&M decides that the SEC isn't interested, they see a way out from under Texas' shadow and bolt.
Now what does the SEC have in terms of options in capturing the Texas media markets? Rice/Houston and TCU/SMU? Tech and Baylor? UTEP and North Texas? Maybe live with LSU getting some Houston eyeballs and try for OU or OK State for some indirect penetration of the DFW market? Or say to hell with it and try to hammerlock the Florida market with FSU and Miami?
The PAC-12 is going to 16 teams at some point. Book it. And they already tried to corner the Texas media market last summer. They will try again.
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