Nice Article On How Herman Will Do Things At Texas

[vol1981]

First step in Tom Herman's takeover of Texas: alignment - Big 12 Blog- ESPN

 

[butchna]

Texas is set,game match. Start of a monster.

 

[tnburban]

Alignment????

Need to align the Big 12 to an actual Big 12. Put on your big boy pants and take in Houston. Take in someone else like BYU, Colorado St, Air Force, or even Cincinnati. That would help, that way they can have a championship game that means something.

And quit letting Baylor play East Nobody State for their non-conference games. Sick of hearing about Baylor in the playoff hunt (until they blow it) when they play some Directional Neverheardofthem State.

 

[butchna]

Texas blocked Houston and benefitted. Conference didn't.

 

[tnburban]

Texas blocked Houston and benefitted. Conference didn't.

Totally get that. Just don't know why they think they are entitled to all the riches. It seems like they would rather only get $100M as long as Houston gets zero, rather than get $200M and Houston gets $100M. At the end of the day Texas is going to be better off with a strong Big 12 conference vs the weak conference they have now.

Do they have that big of an inferiority complex? I know everything in Texas is bigger, so I guess that applies to this as well...

Ultimately, it's the fans of college football that suffer from their complex, as a weak Big 12 has virtually power to change things in the NCAA. And then the coaching talent will realize it and move to PAC 12, Big 10, ACC and SEC, making the Big 12 on the same level as the MAC.

 

[butchna]

Totally get that. Just don't know why they think they are entitled to all the riches. It seems like they would rather only get $100M as long as Houston gets zero, rather than get $200M and Houston gets $100M. At the end of the day Texas is going to be better off with a strong Big 12 conference vs the weak conference they have now.

Do they have that big of an inferiority complex? I know everything in Texas is bigger, so I guess that applies to this as well...

Ultimately, it's the fans of college football that suffer from their complex, as a weak Big 12 has virtually power to change things in the NCAA. And then the coaching talent will realize it and move to PAC 12, Big 10, ACC and SEC, making the Big 12 on the same level as the MAC.

The Longhorn Network...them in a nutshell. Of course that's a failure as a TV entity...but a money tree and enabler for the program. I think they're counting on themselves,Oklahoma,TCU, Oklahoma State and Baylor being viable enough to warrant P5 status. West Virginia's season didn't hurt.