re: Texas shouldn’t have joined the SEC. frick our incompetent leadership.

9/10. Can't get a perfect 10 unless there are boobs involved.

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False. It only took five. Texas led the charge, you are correct about the other hypocrites who joined. A&M need only look in the mirror when their fans bitch about who ruined the Big 12. Mizzou was the largest school by revenue to vote against it.

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I actually agree. I'm not under the belief that Texas has no culpability, but I will definitely push back against the "Texas killed the Big 12" narrative when the person saying it is an A&M or Nebraska fan. But even Mizzou, who voted more nobly than the rest, still hopped on the first train out of town alongside a school who'd done just as much as Texas to kill the Big 12.

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Because Texas blocked it.

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I can't find much information about this specifically. Some bloggers say Texas blocked it alongside the usual group of "haves." Others say Texas approached the conference about a network but the other schools rebuffed us. So I don't know. But I don't think it's fair to say "Texas blocked it" as though it was 11 schools wanting a network vs. Texas not wanting one. If so, it would've been done put to a vote and accepted.

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It was the SWC schools plus the dumbass Oklahoma schools who ruined it for us.

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Plus Colorado. So there was some misalignment within the Big 8 to begin with. Missouri's chancellor at the time said something along the lines of "Even if we accept the Texas schools, it doesn't mean Missouri is in it for the long haul."

Texas Tech and Baylor were forced in as tagalongs by Texas politicians Bob Bullock and Ann Richards, with the threat of withholding state funding from Texas and A&M if they weren't included in whatever happened post-SWC. This prevented both schools from heading to the SEC at the time.

The Big 12 was built upon a broken foundation, and the voting habits of many of its members -- Texas being one, yes -- doomed it to fall from what was a great group of schools.

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I actually agree. I'm not under the belief that Texas has no culpability, but I will definitely push back against the "Texas killed the Big 12" narrative when the person saying it is an A&M or Nebraska fan.

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If you want to drive game into a killing field you beat the bushes behind them.

The B1G had the most culpability, yet they never get blamed. Nebraska had tried to join the B1G several times in the previous 100+ years but was always rejected. Ohio State got the invite Nebraska was seeking at the time.

The PAC is next in line as their nose up the backside of the B1G has been in place since at least the end of WWII. When Colorado jumped with Nebraska the timing was too perfect to be coincidence

If not for these two conferences, the B12 is probably #2 behind the SEC today.


Where austin is most culpable is moving from KC to DAL. If you are the minority you let the majority keep the HQ (especially as the NCAA was also HQ'd there). While it may not seeme3d like much it was the bad blood that allowed the disharmony to fester. B12 moving to Dallas probably was instrumental in the NCAA moving to Indianapolis (B1G territory) and that allowed the B1G the best access to influencing policy. If the B12 stays in KC with the NCAA, they would have the catbird seat.

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OU has always followed Texas’ lead like a big, dumb puppy.

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literally never followed them to any conference not one time we joined together lol......doofuses

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We are going to get bent like Riley Reid in the SEC.

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Been here every day, Mojo. Nice to see you pussies lose as well yesterday

Congrats on the melt. It was SEC Rant worthy.

Sark is an OC not a head coach.

Move your DC coordinator up to head coach where he thrived at and you would be a lot better imo.