Message board rumors: Texas to B1G?
Texas is playing the Big12 for fools. Oliver Luck learned yesterday that UT had entered a non-disclosure agreement with the Big10 a few months back and have been hammering out details for UT to join the Big10 with another school(GT-according to what Luck was told) to make 16. The LHN, which was once considered the biggest hurdle to overcome, would remain UT's and Espn's but BTN would also get UT content-just not as much as the other 15. UT would take a smaller share of BTN revenues(which will grow astronomically after adding GA and TX) than the other members but still stands to make over $50 million per year for all tv money(non-postseason ) according to projections from the B10. That's all the info I have been able to obtain in regards to this matter and what I have now was obtained from eavesdropping on my sources part. Luck seemed shocked and surprised at this news but it doesn't seem to have deterred him from taking the job even though during his interview he pitched a 12 team B12 with 8 games and a CCG. I won't pretend to understand how the big10 plans on skirting the GOR but everything I've been hearing is hinting that the answer is in the details of what the networks are actually paying for-yes, they are TV rights to a university's athletic games-but those games have a specific name and description. Failing that, the B10 has stores of cash to pay for a broken GOR or 2 if need be. Will UT move to the Big10 and what does that mean for WVU and the rest of B12? Before anyone jumps off a bridge keep this in mind: last year the Big10 had as many as 8 of those non-disclosure agreements in place with various schools and only 2 came to fruition. But if UT were to bolt the B12...well, that changes everything.
October 25th, 2013 at 9:08 PM ^
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October 25th, 2013 at 9:51 PM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 11:38 AM ^
67-65. Never forget.
October 26th, 2013 at 3:00 AM ^
Us playing real opponents would cause you to stop watching?
October 26th, 2013 at 7:42 AM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 8:01 PM ^
And 1997 Michigan.
October 26th, 2013 at 8:07 PM ^
And 1924 Notre Dame.
October 25th, 2013 at 9:13 PM ^
With giving no thought to this at all, Texas and GT in the B1G would be awesome!
October 25th, 2013 at 9:15 PM ^
Yeah, giving no thought to it at all would be the only way you could come up with that conclusion.
October 25th, 2013 at 10:05 PM ^
+1,000
October 26th, 2013 at 3:30 AM ^
Have we learned nothing by watching Texas wreck two conferences in a row?
If you insist on marrying a woman who's been divorced 3 straight times, chances are really, really good that she's going to divorce you. It's not different this time.
October 26th, 2013 at 7:43 AM ^
What if she's hot and gives a meeeeeeean handjob?
October 26th, 2013 at 11:02 AM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 9:54 AM ^
Texas and GT are WAY better (hypothetical) additions than Maryland and Rutgers. I know what you are saying but the time for putting the breaks on dumb expansion already has poassed.
October 25th, 2013 at 9:14 PM ^
I'm not sure why I should believe this now when it wasn't true the last twenty times it was supposed to happen.
October 26th, 2013 at 12:14 AM ^
Something something smoke, something fire.
October 26th, 2013 at 9:55 AM ^
"Smoke" over the past few years has had Texas ending up in three separate conferences other than the Big 12. They're still in the Big 12. Where they are staying.
October 26th, 2013 at 3:29 PM ^
But I've seen far more "Texas to B1G" rumors than anything else. Again, that could be because I'm exposed to more B1G/regional news than some.
October 26th, 2013 at 5:03 PM ^
"Texas to the Pac-10" and "Texas to the ACC" were also thrown out there at various points in the realignment years, but admittedly not as often as "Texas to the B1G." None of them have come to fruition, so I'm past putting any credence into this stuff.
October 26th, 2013 at 2:19 AM ^
Maybe because this time it is a rumor on a message board. That sounds pretty credible to me.
October 26th, 2013 at 4:49 PM ^
You really are the worst when you comment in conference realignment threads.
The worst. Just leave it be next time, man.
October 26th, 2013 at 5:01 PM ^
Why, is the thread not supposed to have cold water thrown on the speculation?
I don't see what was so offensive about that. "Texas to the B1G!" has been rumored for years. Several dates on which this was supposed to be announced have come and gone. They're like doomsday prophecies. Why is pointing that out so offensive?
October 25th, 2013 at 9:18 PM ^
exploring all of the minutiae of a possible agreement to join. But does NOT necessarily mean they come on board. This is probably just the half-sane way of going at the issue for a business-minded B1G.
We don't have to like it.
October 25th, 2013 at 9:25 PM ^
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October 25th, 2013 at 9:29 PM ^
October 25th, 2013 at 9:30 PM ^
I am fairly certain that the Grant Of Rights is not just something you can challenge and and assume you can walk away from. If it is like the ACC and the Texas has sold some of its voice on TV contracts to the conference, then leaving the Big XII would be a considerable financial burden and something which might effectively bar them from being on TV most weeks, if I understand these agreements.
I could be wrong, but I don't see how Texas puts all that at risk, at least until around the time the TV contracts are back up for negotiation - that's around the same time as negotiations with the Big Ten would take place, I believe.
October 25th, 2013 at 9:31 PM ^
Texas got confused that the Big 12 had ten members and the Big Ten had twelve, so they're leaving the conference of ten but purpotedly twelve and joining the conference of twelve but purpotedly ten, so that they will then be in a conference of twelve purpotedly and actually twelve. The only thing is under this arrangement the twelve purpotedly ten will then become thirteen purpotedly ten, and in any case it was fourteen purpotedly ten to begin with, because two other sans-math schools simultaneously decided the same thing.
Quite simple really.
October 25th, 2013 at 9:37 PM ^
My ghost salutes you.
October 26th, 2013 at 11:20 PM ^
Do you think he died?
October 26th, 2013 at 12:04 AM ^
What would make this even better is if I mispelled "purportedly" six times in a row. Oh wait...
October 25th, 2013 at 9:37 PM ^
...Just thinking about Black and Blue.
Georgia Tech and Texas in the B1G would certainly up the ante in conference golf competition.
October 25th, 2013 at 10:20 PM ^
Georgia Tech would be ironic......Just thinking about Black and Blue.
Was thinking the same thing. Fuck GT now and forever.
October 26th, 2013 at 2:18 AM ^
October 26th, 2013 at 3:36 AM ^
Yost was not exactly an angel in this regard either. But he's dead. Has been for quite a while.
Just as 2014 Michigan should not be unduly punished for 1914 Yost, 2014 GT should not be unduly punished for 1934 GT. They really did learn.
October 25th, 2013 at 9:42 PM ^
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October 25th, 2013 at 9:59 PM ^
U.Texas belongs in the Big Dumpster Fire.
They've been pumping the rumor that they're joining the B1G for years now. It's not happening
October 25th, 2013 at 10:03 PM ^
I don't think Oklahoma meets the B1G educational standard.
October 26th, 2013 at 3:27 AM ^
Ha! Like that matters anymore.
October 26th, 2013 at 1:32 PM ^
Examples?
October 25th, 2013 at 9:47 PM ^
until they're their own country; then they'll start putting the moves on Mexico.
Don't do it, B1G; the Cuernos will just use you as a stepping stone.
October 25th, 2013 at 10:02 PM ^
and will join the UT intramural league. The Longhorn network will have exclusive rights. Gerg might still have trouble, however.
October 25th, 2013 at 10:07 PM ^
I'd gladly take Ontario and give Texas to Mexico.
October 25th, 2013 at 10:15 PM ^
They don't actually want to be their own nation; they want to be part of the US and claim that they want to be their own nation.