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in a sense i agree that the formation of the bug 12 ruined the great ou-nebraska series, but only because of the limitation of partial qualifiers. nebraska made a career out of taking kids who could only get into a few major conference programs. that's why nebraska continues to rail at the...

if it comes to pass, i don't think we can predict how the rivalries will shake out. that stuff sorts itself out. our recent games have the potential to be the start of something, but multiple simultaneous rivalries wouldn't be a surprise. i remember back when arkansas was in the swc that we...

re-read your post, ord, and this really stuck out. i didn't know this about them, but that can be a real association killer. the bag 12 is rife with that kind of me-ism without the stratospheric self-impressions. probably a big reason the bog 12 sucks so bad. mack gets a lot of grief during...

ok, we see it pretty much the same. just your luck with the random hottie is better than mine. even jilted hotties don't seem to care any more for my odds than they do my evens, which lead me to see it as a dire prediction. : )

i understand how you feel, daddy b. like you, my hope is that we come this way. someone once termed the big 12 as the big 8 with fender skirts and baby moons, and that seems about right. i can't imagine how pleased our guys would be to participate in a truly cooperative conference. i wish i...

no, i didn't know that, ord. or maybe i didn't remember. great story. bo got it right, of course. what you say about the domers is right, too. i have serious doubts they could be a partner. and, yes, the problem isn't some of them, it is all of them.

i just re-read your post, brutus. what you say about nebraska is so on target. if my memory serves, texas originally said we wouldn't join a conference that allowed partials, but nebraska got so labia-twisted that we came off it and said only two. apparently only two isn't cutting it for the...

that's a grouping i could live with, max. i'm guessing that a lot of the discomfort with pitt comes from the jackie sherrill days. now that i remember him, i guess anybody that could be happy with him wouldn't interest me. might be other things, too, with joe-pa there. uhouston screwed texas...

absolutely agree, davey, with nearly all that you said. i do think the texas legislature is not anything like the problem it was 15 years ago. i have heard it said that the state officials might balk at us going our own way until the other texas schools find homes. i think the days of remora...

exactly on target, brutus, including your speculation that texas might not make a move. i'm guessing in my comments, but it is a moderately educated guess. i think the iron is hot, and nowhere looks as good to me as up here.

wow. thank you for the award and for the gestures of appreciation. much appreciated. and thank you, buckeyeskickbuttocks, for fixing the readability of the post. nice way to handle that. i realize that i should show the other schools being discussed in that post and will amend it. it...

how did i know that, ord? : ) see you guys in a bit.

i think you are right, leon. i do think texas in the big ten makes a lot of sense all the way around, and that having us in your conference would be a good thing for you guys as well. if the big ten is really interested in ut, this would be an especially good time to make an approach. maybe...

thanks for the kind comments, guys, and for the reassurances that there aren't any procedural concerns. also, realize this is one man's finger on the pulse. don't be surprised when others don't agree, but my opinions may reflect those of an awful lot of longhorns. the disgust, in general, for...

here is the academic comparator i spoke of earlier. i've had this together for a day or so but have been waiting for a quiet moment when i can collect what's left of my thinking in order to add some observations. these ratings come from the us news & world people. i know there are other...

i'm getting an education here. the situation appears to be more complicated than i had realized. for one, i had no knowledge of the cic. i don't know if that is any sort of impediment to a school like texas. i'm guessing not. more worrisome is the comment about membership in the aau. 'that...

rob, i just read your post, and i realize you are looking at the mileage from a fan standpoint, questioning whether you guys want to add a team that far away. i'm looking at it from an i-wonder-if-texas-might-spring-for-this standpoint. the big ten situation certainly looks more attractive to...

ok, here's what i came up with on air mileage. next to the school name is the city i'm guessing a visiting team would fly into. if i'm off on that, please let me know. next to that is the one-way air mileage that i got from austin, using this website: Mileage Calculator - WebFlyer :: The...

you're killin' me, dave, you're killin' me. see you guys later.

oh, i think you are right, mike. but that just me reading tea leaves. i do have faith in these guys doing the right thing. that's good to hear, ord. i'm hoping something like that isn't set in stone. i don't dislike the pac-10 at all. if they just showed some gonads now and then, you know...