A&M fallout takes a crude turn

[Sid]

Byrne responds in kind to e-mail with crass tone as anger lingers over SEC decision

By BRENT ZWERNEMAN
College Station Bureau
June 16, 2010, 10:53PM

On Wednesday, A&M athletic director Bill Byrne apologized — sort of — for challenging a former student following frank and explicit exchanges about posteriors. What prompted Butt Flap?

A load of A&M students and former students are angered that the A&M administration chose to stick with the Big 12 this week after passing on an offer to join the Southeastern Conference, the nation’s elite football league.

Former student lets loose

Byrne received an e-mail from a former student that started, “Hey a--holes,” and finished with, “Dollar bill, I hope you have time to pull your tongue out of dodds butt to read this email.”

Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds has been portrayed as a big reason the Big 12 lived, after Nebraska and Colorado left the league last week. Byrne snapped at the graphic portrayal, and left a voicemail with the fan that included, “I’d like to talk to you in person. I’m 65 years old, but people don’t say those kinds of things to me.”

Byrne then left his office number on the voicemail and said, “Please call me. Someone who has no guts to write something like that needs to have his a-- kicked, so I’d like to hear from you. Thank you. Bye-bye.”

The former student, reported to be in his 20s, promptly posted his original e-mail and Byrne’s voicemail on the Internet. On Wednesday in his weekly online column, Byrne wrote, “For those of you who were offended by my response, I apologize, and I assure you that it will not happen again.”

Some cancel tickets

The organization paying the steepest price for Aggie Uprising ’10 is the 12th Man Foundation, the fund-raising arm of the athletic department that had nothing to do with the decision. In fact, the 12th Man Foundation likely would have enjoyed a big boost in donations had A&M moved to the SEC. Instead its office, too, has been flooded with protests and some season-ticket cancellations.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/college/texasam/7057274.html

 

[bocabull]

I like it. Good for Bill.

A&M got the same deal that OU and Texas got. All 3 were treated equally and it was a good deal. Better than what the SEC or Pac-10 could offer.

Why do people have trouble realizing this? Those 3 schools are guaranteed $20 million and any amount above that is based on appearances. All 3 have the right to start their own network.

It is laughable that people think the TV deal is just speculation. The networks came running to the Big XII because if every conference starts their own network who gets cut out? That's right FOX/ABC/ESPN etc.

 

[Hecubus]

Just because you got paid to take it in the rear doesn't mean that other people will respect you for it.

 

[Max Power]

Just because you got paid to take it in the rear doesn't mean that other people will respect you for it.

:clap

That has been my problem with OU's decision. We publicly admitted that we are Texas' B&*$? If we had come out and said "Look we are OU, We can go where ever we want because we are OU" and the stayed for the 20 mil I would have no problem with this

 

[coolm]

:clap

That has been my problem with OU's decision. We publicly admitted that we are Texas' B&*$? If we had come out and said "Look we are OU, We can go where ever we want because we are OU" and the stayed for the 20 mil I would have no problem with this

I have a problem taking increased money just for appeasement. IMO if it's increased money we're looking for then take the cash that comes from something of substance like an increased market vice other people's fear.

 

[NickZepp]

We still don't know for sure if anyone is getting paid. There is nothing on paper. It all might as well be mythical right now.

 

[Max Power]

We still don't know for sure if anyone is getting paid. There is nothing on paper. It all might as well be mythical right now.

Us, a&m, and UT get paid no matter what. We get KU's, KSU's BU's, MU's, and ISU's cut up until our totals equal 20 mil each. then they get whats left over after that. oSu is in the same position they were in beofre just getting their share.

 

[Sid]

It is laughable that people think the TV deal is just speculation. The networks came running to the Big XII because if every conference starts their own network who gets cut out? That's right FOX/ABC/ESPN etc.

Help me out here, Boca. Why would that be a bad thing for a conference? If Beebe held all the cards, why did he bend over and grab his ankles? Did the NCAA or the networks make some kind of threat? I cannot wait for this charade to make its way into court.

We still don't know for sure if anyone is getting paid. There is nothing on paper. It all might as well be mythical right now.

Details! The devil is always in the details.

Just because you got paid to take it in the rear doesn't mean that other people will respect you for it.

:clap

 

[soonersailor]

:clap

That has been my problem with OU's decision. We publicly admitted that we are Texas' B&*$? If we had come out and said "Look we are OU, We can go where ever we want because we are OU" and the stayed for the 20 mil I would have no problem with this

My sentiments exactly -- I couldn't have said it better.

 

[MsProudSooner]

Dave Sittler's take on the subject:

Tulsa World.com Return to Story Return to Story

OU has not ceded Big 12 to Longhorns

by: DAVE SITTLER World Sports Columnist
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
6/23/2010 5:11:21 AM


DUDE, where's my conference?

A guy returns from a few days of R&R to discover the league he's covered from Day One has morphed from the Big 12 into the Texas League?

OK, minor league baseball has had dibs on that name for the past 108 years.

How about the T-Party or the T-Sipping Ten? Maybe the Texas Nine Step League would work, as in Texas stepping all over the other nine schools remaining in a league that was officially called the Big 12 in 1994.

Those are a few names that came to mind when my summer vacation reading plans changed. Sebastian Junger's highly acclaimed "War" was replaced by a bunch of pulp fiction about how Texas not only saved the Big 12, but major college football.

If all those newspaper stories, columns and blogs were 100 percent accurate, the slimmed down Big 12's name change should center on that miracle-working university in Austin, Texas.

Or maybe not. Judging by the e-mails that piled up during my absence, a whole bunch of paranoid folks might revolt if Texas is given any naming rights.

It's the people who got their knickers in a knot over a quote from Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione that ran in my final column before breaking away from my laptop for a spell.

"I think it would be a horrendous decision for OU and Texas to break up," Castiglione said. "We're going to stick together if it's at all possible."

Sensitive OU fans read something into that comment that simply wasn't there. In the process, Castiglione unfairly caught a lot of flak at a time when he should have shared the spotlight with Texas AD DeLoss Dodds.

(Read the rest of the column here: http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/printerfriendlystory.aspx?articleid=20100623_202_B1_DUDEwh637133)

 

[Mr.B!!!]

Here is the reality of this whole situation, and I KNOW that this is a BB board, but all of this will go by the wayside if OU can beat UT in Dallas. That being said, I would have preferred that Joe had been a little more outspoken in regards to the marketability of the University of Oklahoma.

 

[SoonerNorm]

http://www.newsok.com/ous-david-bor...article/3470627?custom_click=lead_story_title

 

[Sid]

Boren: Sooners, Texas A&M got invite from SEC

By MURRAY EVANS Associated Press Writer
Published: 6/23/2010 12:22 PM
Last Modified: 6/23/2010 3:25 PM

ARDMORE — The president of the University of Oklahoma said Wednesday that his school and Texas A&M both received invitations to join the Southeastern Conference during the last round of conference realignment.

Boren said the SEC extended offers only to Oklahoma and Texas A&M, both of which opted to stay in a slimmed-down Big 12 after Colorado left for the Pac-10 and Nebraska left for the Big Ten. Because the SEC offer didn't include two of the Sooners' key rivals, Oklahoma State and Texas, Boren said he didn't consider it a good option.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/OU/article.aspx?subjectid=92&articleid=20100623_92_0_ADOETe915556

 

[Shooterms]

I actually enjoyed that read, even if Sittler did rip off Kipling.

(I was referring to the column MsProudSooner posted)

 

[Sid]

Winners and losers from college football expansion/realignment

Winner: Texas. Did athletic director DeLoss Dodds orchestrate the proceedings from the outset? We’ll never know. But by playing the Pac-10 against the Big 12, he doubled UT’s annual revenue (from approx $12 million to $24-25 million). Maybe Jim Delany and Mike Slive aren’t the most powerful men in college football, after all.

Loser: ESPN. A rough month for the sports media kingpin: After missing badly on the timing of USC football sanctions, the network got its clocked cleaned by Orangebloods.com on the final, fateful day. Maybe it should hire Chip Brown.

Loser: Kansas basketball: And you thought you mattered!

lol :clap

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/2010/06/22/winners-and-losers-from-college-football-expansionrealignment/

 

[Cheno]

Still obsessed huh?
I'll add another.

Loser: Anyone who talked smack prematurely about KU being left out in the cold.


Your the only one talking about this anymore. LOL