re: Why did Texas and Oklahoma follow A&M and Mizzou to the SEC?

He’s right though

Nebraska reached out to the Big Ten because the rumor was everywhere that you guys were going to pack up and go to the Pac 10

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The SEC conference is nothing more than an aggregation of the most passionate fans in the country. That's why Texas/OU joined.

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No. You got humbled after you thought you ran shite.

You came to the SEC, hat in hand, on Aggie and Mizzou coattails.

We can go through all of your hubris again, point by point, if you like.

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TCU was supposed to be the "upgrade" over A&M

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I mean, it was

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Why leave it? Did those huge equal revenue sharing payouts to A&M and Mizzou bother you?

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You would have never gotten equal anything in the big 12 …. We make 20-30 more a season in the sec … OUs revenue number are pushing 300 million now … wait till the new revenue numbers come out and you have your answer …. Following someone 7 years later isn’t following lol…….. we left for money . Mizery is just a piss any state we have to travel to play one game every other year .

We were just looking out for our downtrodden little brother. To his credit, he struck out on his own, like Fredo going to work for Moe Greene in Vegas.

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You can just hysterically scream “gas lighting” like a woman or you could bring examples of how we destabilized the conference before Nebraska left.

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Stupid.

Why did Texas and OU come to the SEC? What conditions existed?

Push factors: Big 12 was a shell of its former self after the loss of Mizzou, A&M, Nubs, and Colorado. The teams added were poor substitutes. Media weren’t as interested, and revenues were a joke. The puppet commish was an idiot. Longhorn Network was a failure.

Pull factors: Mizzou and A&M had enhanced revenues and profile. All other major programs were in settled and stable conferences. Your “upgrades” proved meaningless and hollow. You wanted money so you finally agreed to equal revenue sharing-just like your former conference wanted.

You are in the SEC because you f-d everything up royally, and needed to follow A&M and Mizzou’s much wiser path.

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Since those programs are so wonderful (gag), and they don’t consider MU and A&M rivals, and Texas had their precious Longwhorn network, and OU is supposedly independent of their brother-lover Texas, why couldn’t they make the Big 12 work after A&M and Mizzou left for the promised land?

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Do you realy think the SEC wanted Missouri over OU or Texas in 2012?

Or did they take aggie, then need an even number and OU or Texas didnt want to move then?

Bingo

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Previous two posts from Mizzou posters still can’t seem to explain how Texas pushed Nebraska out of the Big 12. So I will do it for them. They went 1-9 against us in the Big 12, culminating in losing the Big 12 CCG where 1 second was left on the clock. So they took their ball and left.

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It was certainly a factor. But that ignores some other pretty big ones:

1. Texas destroyed partial qualifiers, which destroyed Nebraska's dynasty (this was the only good thing that Texas ever did for the Big 12).

2. The conference headquarters were moved from Kansas City to Dallas, pulling the conference from old Big Eight centric, to the Texas show.

3. At the time Nebraska left for the Big 10, Colorado had already announced that it was leaving for the Pac-10, and there were rumors about Texas and minions joining Colorado and forming a Pac-16. At this point, Nebraska came to the Big 12 table and suggested re-negotiating conference media rights. Texas balked and Nebraska took that as a sign that Texas was conference shopping. Nebraska then fled to the Big Ten.

4. After Colorado and Nebraska left, Texas and minions continued to flirt with the Pac. Suddenly, they recommitted to the Big 12, and the Longhorn Network was announced. This effectively precluded a Big 12 Network while allowing Texas to keep all the revenue from the Longhorn Network and not have to share with the other Big 12 schools. Texas thought this was their golden goose. They did not give a shite, nor have the foresight, to see that their reckless greed would ultimately lead to the end of the Big 12 as a top conference.