So NU SHould Have Went Back to the Big 12?

southernoregonhusker said:
Texas fans playing victim?   That's rich.

The plan was to form the Pac 16.  Texas got greedy wanted to keep the Bonghorn Network and were told to pound sand.  
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Talk radio had some dude on from UT (talking head) talked about how UT never had support of their conferences.......wanted to belong.....complete BS.  Said UT and OU going to the SEC was like the creation of the Death Star. When asked about buy outs said there were rumors about ESPN assisting in the buy outs......

 
Mavric said:
Not really news but here's the list.
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This makes me think that Texas still might be in play for the B1G.  Their higher ups reached out to the B1G a couple years ago expressing interest and both agreed that it would be a good fit academically and athletically.  I could see us adding them along with some of the Pac schools and possibly drawing ND in.  

I will believe that they are leaving for the SEC when official word comes out of their mouths.  I could honestly see OU declare for the SEC and Texas says: "Bye, we are going to the B1G."  

 
SECHusker said:
Sorry if this has been posted, but the BIG may be poaching PAC-12 schools, namely USC.

https://thespun.com/pac-12/usc/college-football-world-reacts-to-big-ten-usc-rumors/amp
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Adding USC (gag), Washington, Stanford (double gag), UCLA, Oregon and Colorado would make our conference 20 teams.  Could have a 5 team pod of USC, UW, Stan, UCLA, and Oregon with Colorado joining a midwestern pod of Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.  New conference name: MEGA Conference. 

 
Bledred said:
The Big 12 is the equivalent of the former Soviet Union.  They are so poorly ran, that all you have to do is sit back and wait for the inevitable collapse. 
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Correct and run as a strong armed dictatorship with an amazing propaganda department. At the end of the day, built on shifting sand, ego and political power hungry backstabbing- a house of cards that would eventually collapse. Coach Osborne saw that YEARS before anyone. 

 
Stumpy1 said:
OU and Texas hired a firm out of NYC to talk to the B1G and SEC about joining.  Their first choice was the B1G but they wouldn’t take OU because of AAU status but said yes to Texas.  Texas said that they were a package deal and the B1G still said nope.  They went to the SEC and they said yep.  
 

Reading across SEC boards,  they are happy about OU but not Texas and some have even said that if Texas does join,  look for the B1G to go after A&M and 3 other PAC schools ( USC, UCLA and Oregon).  
 

A&M is a huge research school and fits the B1G academically and the B1G has been wanting to get in the Texas market.  
 

A lot of SEC fans think that when it’s said and done,  the B1G could come out on top, especially if we add the West coast schools.   We would have a footprint that stretched from coast to coast with most of the major markets in them. 
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Is there a source for this bolded statement? If this were remotely true, and leaked, it would be all over the news right now. I’ve searched quite a bit this morning and can’t find a thing that says this. I could be missing something in my search, so a source is highly recommended.

 
Hypothetically driven post -

If the SEC locks down OU/Texas (which seems inevitable now), their next step could be even more disastrous for college football as we know it. SEC Commissioner, Greg Sankey, has recently been attacking the NCAA. The NCAA is archaic, and we all know that. They need to change and adapt, but have refused to. What happens when the SEC decides they have enough big names and draw to create their own system, and their own college football conference national champion? You may laugh, but what’s there to stop them? They clearly only care about money and power. This would be the ultimate power move. As the NCAA’s power is quickly losing its hold, the SEC could step in to fill that void for their own teams.
 

Could this lead to other schools leaving to join SEC? Will this lead to a split system where the remainder of the country recognizes its own national champion? This may not be as far fetched as you’d think.
 

Not hypocritical - Here is a quote from the article:

“Some administrators believe it is a sweeping realignment, where the top football powers create a super league most similar to the Premier League in soccer.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si.com/.amp/college/2021/07/19/ncaa-restructuring-greg-sankey-sec-mark-emmert

 
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lo country said:
Talk radio had some dude on from UT (talking head) talked about how UT never had support of their conferences.......wanted to belong.....complete BS.  Said UT and OU going to the SEC was like the creation of the Death Star. When asked about buy outs said there were rumors about ESPN assisting in the buy outs......
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Texas fans legitimately have a prefabricated sob story about how they had no choice but to seek out that Pac 10 move before Nebraska left and it's all Nebraska’s fault because somehow even though the time-line proves differently, Nebraska leaving would burn the conference down.  And even though it wasn't like that and the following years after prove that theory false, they still believe it.

 
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