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Texas Longhorns (big hat, no cattle; please don’t Horns Down us)

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ORD_Buckeye said:
Great place to visit. Arguably the best college town in the US. The only caveat is that for visiting fans with thin skins who expect to be welcomed with open arms and told how wonderful they and their school are, I'd suggest they avoid it.
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Compare them with Penn State's gameday atmosphere. You gotta watch your team in one or the other - which do you pick?
 
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Seem to remember that the B10 courted Texas and Oklahoma, but Texas sniffed, and Oklahoma wouldn't join unless Okie light was included. Now both are going to SEC (w/o Ok St), so they'll play LSU and Ga versus TT and Baylor. Don't really see them making an impact at the top levels of the SEC for awhile, maybe upper half of league, but no higher. Will be enjoyable to see the elitist pricks at Texas whine about that. Maybe they open the NIL spigot a bit, and pour some more money into the program? Heck, maybe after a few years, they offer to buy the leftover B12 and try to recapture their status of old? Stay tuned.
 
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calibuck said:
Seem to remember that the B10 courted Texas and Oklahoma, but Texas sniffed, and Oklahoma wouldn't join unless Okie light was included. Now both are going to SEC (w/o Ok St), so they'll play LSU and Ga versus TT and Baylor. Don't really see them making an impact at the top levels of the SEC for awhile, maybe upper half of league, but no higher. Will be enjoyable to see the elitist pricks at Texas whine about that. Maybe they open the NIL spigot a bit, and pour some more money into the program? Heck, maybe after a few years, they offer to buy the leftover B12 and try to recapture their status of old? Stay tuned.
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Many of them still think they'll be able to call shots in the SEC like they did in the Big12.

They are in for a RUDE awakening.
 
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calibuck said:
Seem to remember that the B10 courted Texas and Oklahoma, but Texas sniffed, and Oklahoma wouldn't join unless Okie light was included. Now both are going to SEC (w/o Ok St), so they'll play LSU and Ga versus TT and Baylor. Don't really see them making an impact at the top levels of the SEC for awhile, maybe upper half of league, but no higher. Will be enjoyable to see the elitist pricks at Texas whine about that. Maybe they open the NIL spigot a bit, and pour some more money into the program? Heck, maybe after a few years, they offer to buy the leftover B12 and try to recapture their status of old? Stay tuned.
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What I heard is that OUT approached the B1G first and was told that OU was a non-starter academically. UT didn't want live without their sidekick, so they turned their attention to the SEC.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
What I heard is that OUT approached the B1G first and was told that OU was a non-starter academically. UT didn't want live without their sidekick, so they turned their attention to the SEC.
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In 2008, 09, or 10 - somewhere in there - the rumor was that Texas and Notre Dame to the Big Ten was a done deal. I think it was before Nebraska joined, but that doesn't make sense, since the conference would still be at an odd number. So maybe it was after Nebraska joined in 2011. (I really think it was before Nebraska joined.) Anyway, there were all these special rules that were going to be in place for Texas and Notre Dame - something like they'd each only have to play 7 conference games (compared to 8 for the rest of the conference teams), and how they both agreed that if they went 7-0 in conference, they'd be behind an 8-0 team in the standings. Seemed like a pretty dumb deal to me. Anyway, pretty much a year after I heard that rumor, I heard it again. I said that if it wasn't true last year, it isn't true this year.

Then, when Colorado left for the PAC-12, and Nebraska joined the Big Ten, the next rumor I heard that was a "done deal" was about how pretty much the whole Big-12 south was going to the PAC-whatever. I think we laughed about that on this site, for a minute.

I seem to remember reading ORD's rumor, and I think that it seems the most plausible.
 
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