re: Texas is a conference wrecker

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but the fact it even happened showed what kind of attitude Texas had about the Big 12

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Deloss Dodds. He was an ego maniac and fricking asshat. I hated the guy at the time. Him and his "we are the jones'" bullshite.

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Fair enough but you do realize we never aired those games right?

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Never? bullshite. Poor Kansas WAS forced to play on your network. That should have been a Tier 2 game on fox, but ESPN let Fox have the OKlahoma State-OU game that year to make it so the Kansas game would fall to the LHN instead of a bullshite out of conference game like everyone in the Big 12 agreed to.

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It's true we tried to do it, however. Dodds was a sleazeball. Nothing new here.

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The problem wasn't just Dodds, back then Texas fans were quick to defend the move. That Shaggy forum is long dead so I can't prove it, but I will never forget their justification to me when I went there to call out the bullshite:

"Big dicks swing, Aggy"

Yup even back then Texas fans were obsessed with big dicks.

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I've yet to meet a single aggie that will admit they would have taken that espn deal for a network...because you're lying if you say you wouldn't have.

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Because we never got offered that deal. We got offered the "Lonestar Network" where Texas would have taken 70% of the revenue while utilizing 100% of our political influence in the state to pressure other teams to be on it too.

Now from what we know Alabama DID get offered the Longhorn Network deal and they told ESPN to frick off. That is what a good partner looks like.

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He was an ego maniac and fricking asshat. I hated the guy at the time. Him and his "we are the jones'" bullshite.

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Ok you are alright, I like you.

Any Texas fan not willing to defend the way Dodds treated conference partners (and A&M after we left the conference) is ok in my book.

He is the primary reason the two teams didn't play for so long, he pissed us off so much by the time he was gone we didn't want to have anything to do with Texas.

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Now from what we know Alabama DID get offered the Longhorn Network deal and they told ESPN to frick off. That is what a good partner looks like.

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that's because the SEC are good partners. You weren't in the SEC and would have taken that deal. The big 12 was every man for himself and yes I admit we played a huge part in that.

As for the games we never aired, I'm referring to the high school games which admittedly would have been an unfair advantage.

Lastly, we didn't all support Dodds' bullshite. The fan base was split with those supporting dodds and those that couldn't stand him. I was a member of shaggy at the time. I remember it well.
Still get triggered by Dodds. He cared about money far more than winning. Never seemed to have an issue seeing stoops tea bag our arse every fricking year.

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that's because the SEC are good partners. You weren't in the SEC and would have taken that deal

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Ironically we ended up making more for our AD over that period than Texas did with the LHN because yall were forced to share the money with the school for political reasons while our AD got to dump the SEC windfall into facilities. So sometimes things work out.

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The big 12 was every man for himself and yes I admit we played a huge part in that.

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Frankly it started that way Baylor should have never gotten in over Houston but politics formed the Big 12.

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As for the games we never aired, I'm referring to the high school games which admittedly would have been an unfair advantage.

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Yeah the NCAA shut that down, but only after the contract was made public (which Texas did not do voluntarily). At that point Texas was already going to get their money so they didn't care, it was ESPN that got screwed by that deal which is why the cancelled the last few years of the LHN contract to get Texas in the SEC.

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Lastly, we didn't all support Dodds' bullshite. The fan base was split with those supporting dodds and those that couldn't stand him. I was a member of shaggy at the time. I remember it well.

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Frankly I think its a Texas thing, I can admit we Aggies are just as bad about trying to play with a stacked deck (and then bragging about it) when we can.

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Still get triggered by Dodds. He cared about money far more than winning.

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Yall's program was really different in that era, Mack Brown has a hustle going trading billionaires like McCombs money for program access and Dodds leaned in on it.

Also yall's AD was bloated back then which drove the need for more revenue. At least yall have undone the whole "women's AD" BS that doubled the staff size.

Yall's current president really cleaned up the mess and I admire that. How he came to the SEC- giving the Big 12 programs that were left behind years to adjust- was very respectful even if I didn't like the move personally. Compared to how USC fricked over the PAC its night and day, yall are no longer the big villains in college football.

But I hate revisionist history where poor Texas isn't the reason the original Big 12 fell apart, Dodds's handprints were all over the murder weapon.

Tell me where anything I have said about Texas and the Big 12 isn't accurate.

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You have a slice of the pie. But that’s it. You don’t control others position in this conference.

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Sounds awfully communist to me.

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Big 12 would still be here if they did equal TV revenue sharing, but nope

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Hey retard… Big 12 is still here.
There’s another fact for ya

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Big 12 would still be here if they did equal TV revenue sharing, but nope. Texas thought they should get the most money.

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Do you think Texas had more than 1 vote? That big bad Texas vetoed a 1-11 vote to force unequal revenue down the throat of the conference?