re: Corso's saying UT and Oklahoma leaving Big 12 in next 5 years most likely 4 SEC

It's interesting that you would consider an ESPN employee to have committed a recruiting violation for the Longhorns.

So does this NBC story at irish.nbcsports.com, written by an NBC employee, commenting about a recruit... by name... constitute a recruiting violation?

Where's the aggy outrage?

I also find it interesting that you also consider it blatant, when the NCAA had to adopt a new rule to ban schools or conference-affiliated networks from showing high-school games. How can it be blatant when there was no such rule?

Poor aggy. They screwed up their relationship with Texas teams (you know, people they see every day) to shack up with the SEC, and bragging at work or at church about getting your shite pushed in by Alabama, LSU, et al isn't really anything to brag about, is it? Enjoy it. Forever after.

Did you have to log out of your alter and log back in to your "Randy Duke" screen name? Or do you keep two devices logged in at the same time?

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Poor aggy. They screwed up their relationship with Texas teams (you know, people they see every day) to shack up with the SEC, and bragging at work or at church about getting your shite pushed in by Alabama, LSU, et al isn't really anything to brag about, is it?

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You think any of us are concerned about what Tech, Baylor, and/or TCU think of our university?
I don't doubt that bragging at church and/or work is your style, but I've never felt the need to do so.
I most certainly will enjoy the SEC; so far it's far exceeded my expectations.

Well this escalated quickly ...

So much ut-aTm-LSU-Arky hate flowing 'round the facts are getting lost.

- Those that have said aTm, Ark and Mizzou will never vote for Texas to join are correct. No amount of $ would ever make going back to dealing with Tex worth it.
- I don't think Bama would ever vote for them either. There's only so much room for alpha dogs, and I don't think Bama would want them in based on collective egos alone.
- OU on the other hand would be approved pretty easily. Expanding East would make more sense, but if OU wanted in and there was a viable partner (i.e., not Okie Light), I'd bet that would be approved.
- aTm did bring Texas cable coverage because they have a big enough following to bring the state cable subscriber-wise. UT obviously would have also. None of UH, TTU, etc. have a big enough state-wide following to have done so.
- The intelligent thing LeBlanc has said that is true is that Texas does control where this goes next. They are the most powerful and biggest domino left. But ...
- Texas knows this. The best place for Texas in Texas' mind is - the Big XII (-4+1+1). They get to keep their network, they get the easiest path to the CFP, and they get to push everyone else around. IF ESPN keeps paying LHN $, Texas isn't going anywhere.
- That only changes if OU finds a life raft and sails off B12 island for either the SEC or the B1G. Without OU, the B12 might stop being viable for Texas.
- None of this is happening until the B12 grant of rights gets closer to expiring.

Finally, reread the original article. It pulls one quote from Corso to a Texas dinner. It doesn't mention where UT and OU might be going, just that they would direct the next round of conference realignment. Well, duh! Like that's not something that every intelligent observer of conference realignment hasn't known for years.

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It's not really one school vs anybody in the sec. sure Texas and OU have controlled the big 12 but only because of the mentality and structure the big 12 has. The sec is a collective conference and each school has equal say. That's vastly different than the way the big 12 has been ran. Texas or OU would be positive additions to the sec any way you look at it.

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The SEC has collective value because every school brings something to the table. That isn't the case in the Big 12 and it wasn't in the SWC. If you take away Texas and OU from the Big 12 it becomes the AAC. That gives Texas the upper hand which they could never get in the SEC. They are just another school to us. Adding Texas and OU would just make the SEC the most powerful conference in all of sports, but the SEC is just fine without them still. It would make for some damn great games and would surely bolster the SECN content.

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and bragging at work or at church about getting your shite pushed in by Alabama, LSU, et al isn't really anything to brag about, is it?

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better than getting your shite pushed in by TCU, Okie State and K-State. You know, schools that wouldn't sniff a 8 figure t.v. deal without you.

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Texas or OU would be positive additions to the sec any way you look at it.

both literally provide no value

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acquiring the most valuable franchise in the NCAA wouldn't provide value?

On your terms or reality?

Value is in the eyes of the beholder... everyone in the country thinks Texas is a poison and overvalued. ESPN is already in a contract with you... they are not in a similar type of contract with an AAC team with a fan base as large as UCF. ESPN will have tons of influence if the SEC expands. Nobody wants you bruh

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A LeBlanc

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Not reading all 17 pages, but this texas poster registers here and posts the same drivel, in the same style and without punctuation, every other month.

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both literally provide no value

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tFear is real.