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That is exactly how the SEC thrived. Funny you say it doesn't work then you go to a conference where that is the lynchpin.


Now we’re getting somewhere in the conversation. Texas has ALWAYS been looking for this type of relationship with its conference mates. The problem has been the imbalance between the have and have not schools. If the Big XII could have had revenue sharing and produced enough tv money to be in the neighborhood with the SEC and B1G we would have never left. The issue was that in the Big XII that would not have been the case, it knee capped Texas ability to recruit and compete nationally.

The Big XII was essentially asking Texas to forfeit all its fertile recruiting ground to the SEC and B1G and forfeit its natural resource advantage, fall behind the B1G and SEC financially as well, forfeit the fact that it’s a national brand that draws more eyeballs than everyone but Notre Dame and play on a third tier tv package. And do all of this so that Iowa State, Baylor, TCU, can maintain the illusion that they’re competing at the highest levels. Oh, and make all these sacrifices while being absolutely loathed by the schools you’re propping up.

The Longhorn Network was an attempt to both prop up all the welfare Big XII schools while giving Texas an opportunity to get whole again on the side. Nobody really loved that either preferring instead a conference TV network. Nevermind that Texas was the visionary here initially proposing the Big XII conference network as a solution to these problems. Yeah, it was widely rejected by everyone (nobody thought it would work). Next Texas goes to A&M and proposes a Lone Star Network. They tell us to pound sand. So Texas goes it alone and everyone leaves.

Texas will be quiet as a church mouse in the SEC. Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, Tennessee (and that’s not an exhaustive list) are plenty of firepower to pull along the few SEC schools who don’t produce at the same levels. It’s a balanced healthy marriage of schools that have the same primary goal — compete for championships in football.

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Never thought I'd agree with a Texas fan LOL, but you're right. When two schools are bringing in all the B12 money, and the other bottom feeders wanted an equal share, it didnt make sense to star anymore.

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I watched Manning for the first time Saturday. I was impressed with what I saw. Mateer is a little squirrelly

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Notice though, that when the game was on the line, Sark took the ball OUT of Arch's hands?

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Hey Texas
Monroe03
Always heard Lubbock is a different place

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Strange things happen at night tech football games

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nicholastiger
But I thought Florida and South Carolina could block FSU and Clemson?

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If this happens, they will fall in line quickly. THey realize keeping the B10 out of Florida is more important. Clemson i could care less about

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Usually on game week, opponents have convinced themselves a big upset is incoming. They usually reason that UGA is vastly overrated, offense is plodding -not explosive and the dawg defense just ain’t what it used to be.

Being an AARP age Dawg, I’m much more comfortable with upset talk vs OU fans counting themselves out mid-week.

Hoping Mateer doesn’t suddenly come alive but if you been around a while, you aren’t surprised by anything in the SEC.

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That is usually when OU is the most dangerous. I remember the sugar bowl against Saban and Bama where we were double digit underdogs, with a lot of fans writing the game off as an L, and Trevor KNight just went off and we won 45-35.

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We need to build a hospital wing attached to our practice facility.

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This, I believe Kip Lewis is the only player on Oklahoma's list that was injured in a game. THe rest were injured in practice. Been an issue for years.

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BV just said Stone is fine and not in pain

He may play Saturday. That’s why you don’t listen to Internet rumors.

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It wasnt an internet rumor, it was being reported on SI by the OU beat reporter.

And use those plays to set up the deep, play action

And you dont have to fire Arbuckle mid-season, just name KW as Co-Coordinator and give him the gameplan and play calling, After the season is over, if BA wants to leave, let him.

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It’s not so much the L… it’s the way they got the L… same old shite. No offense still and can’t even beat one of the other worst offenses in Michigan

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exactly, its not that we lost, it's how we lose. Defense held Michigan to 17 (10 if you dont count Mateer giving them the ball back on the OU 6) which should be plenty to beat them. Its the same old crap on offense again. Abandon the running game (Avant was averaging 4 yards a carry) and nit just miss wide open receivers over the middle, but not even see them and throw to Satenga in double coverage.

This year is the same as last year on offense , other than Witten getting our Tight Ends to actually play the game.

it would be OU -8.5 on a neutral field. Mich is getting 3 for being the home team