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I guess I’ve found the one person who never got laid on OU-Texas weekend. Sucks to be you.

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Except your current offense sucks, and all fans know how hard a crappy offense is on a defense.

At Texas, Charlie flipped from the current crap style of offense you see at LSU to the Art Briles one (he hired a Briles assistant to be OC) and the results offensively were immediate. We're still struggling on D, but that will get solved as time goes on.

For LSU, Briles brings both an offense he can install in almost no time and a QB to run it. Hiring him is an easy decision to make.

All of you should just admit that you want him to play because it helps your team, not because care at all about him. You know no rational argument exists as to why he should risk further injury when he's a sure fire top-5.

To the guy who said the ankle injury will happen five more times in the NFL, Fournett will be getting paid all five times that it happens. He ain't getting paid when it happens at LSU.

Dez was suspended for lying to the ncaa and was a 1st round draft pick. NFL doesn't care about anything other than if you can play.

For those asking about a player who basically quit and for whom it did not hurt him, Dez Bryant.

Dez was suspended early his junior by the NCAA, still went in the first round, played great and got a huge second contract. The only reason Dez didn't go higher in the first round was due to off the field concerns specifically, that he was a head case. That concern would have been there regardless of what kind of junior season he had at Ok State. Remember, Dez was the player who a scout asked if his mother was a prostitute.

Fournette has none of those concerns. If he sits out this year, he stays healthy, signs with an agent for cash in the bank, goes to a camp to prepare him for the combine, has a great combine and goes in the top-5 next year.

All Fournette can do in college is get hurt.

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There wasn't a motherfrickin thing that could be done to stop the Aggies from joining the SEC. The legislature wasn't even in session, and the Governor was an Aggie.

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When Texas said that we wouldn't leave and thus, leave Baylor and Tech high and dry, that's when the legislature dropped the topic and let it go.

And don't forget, Governor Good Hair publicly advocated for the return of the SWC, because that's what politicians do. He didn't care at all what conference A&M played sports.

Where Texas did make a mistake, though, was in not pursuing Florida State, Miami, Clemson and Georgia Tech at all costs. Then we should have granted Notre Dame Big 12 status in all sports save football in exchange for them playing 6 games against the conference each year.

Once Nebraska and Colorado left, the conference needed to expand into TV markets or else it was going to be left in the same situation the old SWC was and that's just not a long term viable situation.

Had we been able to land the ACC 4, we could have reformed around a 12-team conference of the ACC 4, the Texas 4 (TCU, Tech, Baylor, Tech) and the Kansas-Oklahoma 4. That would have given the new Big 12 4 crown jewel programs (ND playing 6 games would have been massive), a historical power in Miami and solid second tier schools in Clemson, Tech, Ok State, Kansas State and Georgia Tech.

That's on DeLoss Dodds, Joe Castiglione and the rest as this should have been done.

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Texas is the architect of their own fate. They've made some poor decisions along the way and not surprisingly its come back to haunt them.

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Not true. The SWC was dead the moment the NCAA lost the right to negotiate TV contracts. Once the contracts were open for bid to multiple networks (including the embryonic ESPN), a conference of just two states is dead man walking. Arkansas then sealed the conference’s fate with Frank Broyles being a regular golfing buddy with SEC commissioner Roy Kramer. This gave Arkansas the chance to jump ship first when Kramer wanted to expand the SEC. Long term, that was a great decision by Broyles.

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Rumblings that Texas was looking to bolt the SWC helped to convince Broyles that taking Arkansas to the SEC was the best choice.

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Texas was not looking to bolt the SWC. Once Arkansas did leave, then everybody looked around but Texas didn’t leave the SWC for another 4 seasons after the Pigs left.

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Alienating former core members of the Big 8 in Nebraska and Colorado sent both of those schools looking for greener pastures.

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Nebraska was butt hurt because the conference decided to get rid of prop-48 players. I realize that this sounds crazy, but admitting a kid who has neither the SAT or GPA to be admitted into college is just ridiculous. By the way, that vote went 11-1 against Nebraska, so it wasn’t just Texas.

Colorado always made goo goo eyes to the West Coast because of the number of students that go to Boulder from the California each year. But Colorado was more of a Pac-10 checkmate against the Big 12 South bringing Baylor. No way was the Pac-10 going to take a private religious school. If they had wanted that, they would have taken BYU over Utah.

Long term, I still think Texas, Tech, OU and Ok State end up in the Pac-12, but that is still a ways off.

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Mizzou and Texas A&M both packed their bags and headed out after Texas began openly exploring the option of going independent or leaving the Big 12 for another conference.

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Texas never openly looked at going independent. We have known, do know and will always know that we need a conference for every sport not named football. You had media heads who didn’t know a damn thing writing about it but the possibility was never discussed. Texas would have joined the Big 10 and just taken Delaney’s blood money before we went independent.

As crazy as this sounds, Texas does feel responsible for Texas Tech and less so, Baylor. This gets to the heart of the “Tech Problem” that Bill Powers mentioned in his emails with Ohio State president Gordon Gee. As it stands, it was Texas agreeing to stay in the Big 12 and not leave Tech and Baylor behind that kept the state legislature from blocking A&M’s move to the SEC.

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Texas has always looked for the bigger better deal and it has come back to bite them. Meanwhile schools like Alabama, Michigan, Ohio State, and so on, cornerstone schools for their conferences, have displayed a lot more wisdom by sitting tight, not rocking the boat, and not cheerfully telling everyone in the world they'd happily cornhole their conferences if they thought they could get a very small advantage over it.

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Simply not true. Texas loved the SWC until it become economically unviable. Without question, the best thing ever to happen to Texas sports was the advent of the Big 12 and we would love to be in that conference now, but Big 10 dollars meant more to Nebraska and Tom Osborne and so the Big 12 died on the vine.

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In sports, as in life, you make a lot of your own trouble. Y'all can proudly stamp "Made in Texas" on your current woes.

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I only wish Texas had the power you seem to think we do. But we don’t and we never have.