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I have to say that the most overrated football road trip ever was my trip to A&M in 2004. It's a flat ugly concrete jungle in a cult like atmosphere of dorks.

The funny thing is that A&M thinks this sticks it to Texas and gets them out from under the shadow of big brother. Nothing could be further from the truth. This opens up Texas to do whatever they want without having to haul around the ball and chains of Texas (A&M, Tech, Baylor, etc).

The bigtime move would be if somehow we can get Texas, OU & Kansas to the Pac-12/16. Let Texas Tech, Okie State and Kansas State fight for the other spot. Actually since none of those 3 qualify academically I would even vote for Mizzoou over them.
 
Looks like Missouri may go with them.
 
bocabull said:
I have to say that the most overrated football road trip ever was my trip to A&M in 2004. It's a flat ugly concrete jungle in a cult like atmosphere of dorks.
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Ugliest campus ever...looks like communist Russia.
 
Supposedly an SEC offer on the table for Mizzou with a 24 hour window to accept (SEC doesn't want to be leverage for a Big 10 offer; they want Mizzou or they want to move on to the next one).
 
Hopefully everyone involved is asking themselves the proper questions. Namely, "How can we best screw Kansas?"
 
Missouri learned its lesson last summer. No matter what, don't say anything that would even hint slightly that you might, maybe be a little teeny bit interested. One or two comments that go beyond "we're not looking and haven't spoken to anyone" can turn into a complete sh*tstorm really quick.
 
Missouri to the SEC would be OK I guess.

The best deal is OU, Texas, Kansas & Mizzou to the pac. That would be the best for those 4 schools combined. Screw everybody else.
 
Sources: Missouri officials say school not headed to SEC

By DAVE SITTLER World Sports Writer
Published: 8/13/2011 4:12 PM
Last Modified: 8/13/2011 4:18 PM

If the Big 12 Conference loses Missouri along with Texas A&M to the Southeastern Conference, the 15-year-old league will undoubtedly be history.


But high-placed Big 12 and University of Oklahoma sources said Missouri denied rumors that it was leaving for the SEC during a Saturday afternoon teleconference.

The teleconference, which included commissioner Dan Beebe and the athletic directors from every Big 12 school but A&M, was still in session when a source sent a text to the Tulsa World that said:

“Missouri rumor is false, according to my sources. Who knows what the future holds? But so far, there is no real sign of (Mizzou) leaving.”

Several sources had indicated earlier in the week that the Big 12 may attempt to replace A&M or operate as a nine-team league. But those same people agreed that the conference could not survive if Missouri also bolts.
 
I'd think some scenarios could be OU, Texas, Kansas and either OSU or KState to the Pac-16 and Missouri to the SEC with A&M or UT could go independent and then it's OU, KU, KSU and OSU to the Pac 16 and Missouri to either the SEC or Big 10. Or everyone stays around for a few more years because the Administrators for universities other than UT don't have any testosterone left.
 
I don't see any long term future for the Big 12 unless they add 3 fairly big name teams.
 
NickZepp said:
I don't see any long term future for the Big 12 unless they add 3 fairly big name teams.
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I don't agree. Not sure we can exist with nine teams, but we'll still own Texas, and most of the midwest. We'll still have two of the top 10 or so football programs of all time. We'll still have a top 7 basketball program in our conference. We'll still be a strong baseball conference. The league can survive, even after aTm. Does that change things? Sure, but nothing that can't be fixed.
 
Unless you add a huge market like BYU, ND or maybe a big population base like Memphis or Louisville which is what the Big 12 should have done a year ago.

And the Big 12 will keep falling behind other conference that will get a ton of money from football because they are getting bigger. A&M is about to make more money in the SEC and they will be a lower tier team. They were a top tier program here and were making top teir money and still won't be making as much as they will make in the SEC.

If the Big 12 last year did what other conferences are doing and expanded it may have a decent market. Even if that meant just getting say BYU or Memphis because even if an A&M leaves you still have a big market in Memphis, and a decent fan base in BYU. Instead know you have a shrinking market and are more and more limited in options. They are basically looking to replace A&M with another Texas school. That's stupid and adds nothing. Boise who adds next to nothing would be better than that.
 
Losing A&M will not decrease the leagues TV money. Since they had an elevated payout the Big XII could add Houston as a lower tier payout and Texas and OU will earn more revenue.

Seriously A&M is nothing. They never have been.
 
You don't lose a university with 50k students and say that conference lost nothing.

I agree A&M hasn't been any good in football in forever. They've been a lot better than we've been in Basketball the last 5 years or so. But they have been bad in basketball historically. But losing them hurts the Big 12 a lot.
 
NickZepp said:
You don't lose a university with 50k students and say that conference lost nothing.

I agree A&M hasn't been any good in football in forever. They've been a lot better than we've been in Basketball the last 5 years or so. But they have been bad in basketball historically. But losing them hurts the Big 12 a lot.
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None of that matters if we are talking about dollars.
 
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