re: Texas destroyed the big 12 and now people want to let them in the SEC

What an idiot

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Keep pushing this bull shite narrative. Nobody gives a frick.

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Why not get Texas to try what is broken in the Big 12? If Texas and Oklahoma can't fix the Big 12 problem(s) then both of those schools deserved each other for life in the Big 12!

We already got Alabama level arrogance why the hell do we want Texas.

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Texas destroys every conference they ever join. I absolutely do not want them in the SEC.

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This right here.

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Hell I never wanted Arkansas or South Carolina either

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But here we are. 1992 seems like yesterday and long ago all at once. But...I'm sure you love us now. Right??!

They also destroyed the Southwest Conference which was a great regional alignment.

Of course you will!

Expanded playoff will be just like making the holiday or Alamo bowl each year….

Kentucky is gonna burn your house down for saying that.

Takes balls to talk shite about sec baseball…..

Texas destroyed the Big 12 because the Big 12 was structured in a way where teams did not have equal power or revenue. That will not be the case in the SEC. I would love to see Texas and OU in the SEC. Getting that Texas vs A&M rivalry game back without sacrificing the Red River Shootout is big, imo.

Hopefully, this is the impetus to move towards a pod schedule. You play the 3 teams in your pod every year plus 2 teams in each other pod on a rotating basis. The end result is that every 4 years, you will have played every SEC team home and away at least once.

Pod 1:
Texas
Texas A&M
Oklahoma
Arkansas

Pod 2:
LSU
Alabama
Ole Miss
Miss St

Pod 3:
Florida
Georgia
Auburn
South Carolina

Pod 4:
Mizzou
Kentucky
Tennessee
Vandy

The biggest downside to this schedule is that we would lose the following annual rivalry games (they would be played semi-annually instead):
LSU vs Florida
The Iron Bowl
Tennessee vs Alabama
Florida vs Tennessee
LSU vs A&M
LSU vs Auburn
LSU vs Arkansas
Arkansas vs Mizzou
Vandy vs Ole Miss

By creating the longhorn network, the big 12 could not create a Big 12 network. As a result, their tv rights were worth much less than other major conferences, and due to unequal revenue sharing, the deal was even worse for teams other than Texas and Oklahoma.

This tall tape keeps getting repeated over and over, and it is blatantly not true… Texas never killed a B12N and the biggest culprit in it never forming was the other member schools didn’t believe in the network model and didn’t have the $$ to get it up and going.

Texas wanted to start the B12N years before anyone thought conference cable networks were feasible. The rest of the Big 12 (including Mizzou, Nebraska, A&M and Colorado) said no because of its startup cost. The brain child of the project then left and approached the Big 10 and the rest is history…

Then Texas approached A&M to do a smaller scale version and they said no, they didn’t see it as a viable idea and didn’t have the startup capital. Texas offered then to foot the bill for the production and broadcast facilities but asked for a greater split of the potential revenue. A&M said no again, because at the time the conference network model still wasn’t really a big thing.

Texas then gets approached by ESPN and locked up their 3rd tier content and so the B12N idea became forever dead.