re: Buy or sell over the next 5 years: Texas & Oklahoma football

With NIL, USC and Texas are very well positioned to be powers in the sport.

OU could be in for an extended drop down, but it won't have any relation to Nebraska issues or because SECSECSEC. In the long term OU will still be OU, but in the short term it could be an unsettling down turn.

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OU could be in for an extended drop down,

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An extended drop down/downturn at what?

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An extended drop down/downturn at what?

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I think he may be alluding to NIL. That's what I meant to say earlier, but instead said facilities in error. There is chatter that our admin is dragging their feet with NIL and it might take a few arse whippings for them to get right in the head. This chatter, due to the loss Turnipseed. But you are right, nobody knows what might happen.

Don't shoot the messenger(s).

tExAS hAD tO plAY a WhOLE sEC scheDUle

Yep the Alabama plus 13 conference is sooo tough

Hmmm, another 'OU and Texas aren't ready for the SEC' thread. Very original! Y'all better hope you are right, if OU and Texas come in and contend there's going to be a lot of crow to eat.

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With NIL, USC and Texas are very well positioned to be powers in the sport.

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You can't buy a winning college football team. Too many moving parts. Too many egos - 85, not counting walk ons.

Granted, you can't play winning football without large sums of money. But as A&M has shown, you can't buy winning football with nothing more than a large block of money either.

I'll buy Oklahoma - because they have the required money, but also a culture in place that will produce the necessary hunger to win in stretches. I'll sell Texas - because they actually have, and spend, too much money.

And that's the irony that's going to run counter to the Austin mentality. The idea that you can get more by spending less. Not going to fly for the Austinites.

And yes, playing eight - soon to be nine games - is a different animal. There's no room to play off emotion with that many games. That is going to bite Texas right in the arse.

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Y'all just make this shite up as you go don't you?

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94.8% of this board is throwing shite against the wall and see what sticks.

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Jimmy and Joe are getting a lot of oil money to represent the best state in the in the best conference!

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Since when is Texas the best state in the best conference? I think Texas and Ok are coming in a bit overconfident. For example, looking down on Mississippi schools because they are in a poor state like Mississippi. Wait until you have to play them the week after playing Alabama or LSU. These "average" schools tend to pop up and bite you in the arse when you're not expecting it. This will apply even more if the SEC goes to a 9 game schedule. I suspect that both Texas and OU will have to learn this lesson the hard way at first.

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I think Texas and Ok are coming in a bit overconfident. For example, looking down on Mississippi schools because they are in a poor state like Mississippi. Wait until you have to play them the week after playing Alabama or LSU. These "average" schools tend to pop up and bite you in the arse when you're not expecting it. This will apply even more if the SEC goes to a 9 game schedule. I suspect that both Texas and OU will have to learn this lesson the hard way at first.

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I don't think this is necessarily an unfair statement other than to point out that most of the schools in the Big XII are usually about Mississippi or State's level.

SEC people believe that if Ole Miss or State were to play in the Big XII that they would be top teams. Not sure I buy that. Whether OU and Texas will be "hungover" after a Bama or LSU game is certainly something to consider but I don't think schools like Ole Miss and State will "out talent" Oklahoma and Texas on a routine basis.