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If they take Texas, they're gonna have to take TAMU, I believe is the understanding. Missouri/Oklahoma could be interchangeable. I like the Big East picks better... Though I would like to see WVU, SU/Pitt/RU makes more sense.
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I think this is a good move for the Big 10 in terms of their tv network. It brings the Texas and the states around Texas (A lot of people are Texas fans) into the Big 10 Network for TV deals. However, why would Texas really leave the Big 12? Travel is farther for conference games and there isn't a huge price jump (at least I don't think it's that big, I could be wrong.)
Didn't someone say that Texas couldn't get into the Pac 10 before? I'm not too familiar with the whole Texas trying to leave the Big 12 so it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Oklahoma/Texas is a great rivalry too, as well as playing Tech and TAMU. I don't think Texas vs Penn State every year would be as big of a draw as Penn State/Pitt or Texas/Oklahoma.
If it's for money, the Big 10 bringing in Texas is a done deal. They bring in more money football then either of the other schools mentioned (Pitt, Missouri, Rutgers, Syracuse just don't bring in that type of money). The other question would have to be do teams like Penn State/Ohio State/Iowa etc. want to travel to Texas for a road game every year? The location of it sucks, but the whole money aspect could outweigh that decision.
I just wish the Big 10 would announce their decision or make an offer and get it over with. Don't drag it along.
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I figured as much. I just like their football program.Comment
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How the fuck does a team in Texas get invited to play in a Midwestern Conference?
Oh, right, why everything ever gets done in college football, money. This would be absolutely horrible IMO.
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This has nothing to do with money and everything to do with academics, as strangely as that sounds. Texas has been trying for years to get into a conference with a better academic standing than the Big XII.
The Big Ten demolishes most conferences in the US for academic prestige and Texas is desperate to be noted in the same regard.Comment
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I don't know about having nothing to do with money... Everything in sports, especially so-called 'amateur' college sports, has to do with money.Comment
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Texas will make money and lots of it regardless of what conference it plays in. Could they make more in the Big Ten? Sure, it has the richest of all contracts and the most followers of any conference. But to say it is influenced by money when Texas already makes as much or more than nearly any Athletic Department in the country is delusional.
This has far more to do with academics and the push by faculty to be thought of like Michigan or the other Big Ten Schools than it does money.Comment
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I don't think - due in large part to the aforementioned Texas legislature - Texas will be going anywhere without TAMU and TTU.Comment
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Having Tech in the Big 10 would be a disgrace, their academics are horrible.
A&M and Texas makes sense though.Comment
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Fucking Notre Dame should be in there, fucking pussies.
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Definitely. Almost every team they play in their "Independent" schedule is a rival... Two of which are in the Pac-10 (SC, Stanford) two are Independent (Navy, Army)... The rest of them are in the Big Ten right? (Purdue, Michigan, Michigan State... Am I missing anyone?)Comment
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It's not You People. It's just me...
Then I guess it can't pass through period. Because it's my understanding that Texas legislature is gonna want all three to go...Comment
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They are noted in that regard, they are considered a "Public Ivy". I get what the Big Ten is academically, but this seems to make no sense from that standpoint, as Texas already has some of the highest admission standards and academic rankings among public schools as is.
Was the Big XII really bogging them down that bad? Geographically this makes no sense whatsoever, and Texas is already considered on par with Michigan academically.
Last edited by NAHSTE; 02-11-2010, 08:09 PM.Comment
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