Who died and made Texas King of College Football
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deedsker15
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texas: "You pay. You pay, now!"
nebraska: "What happened to you texas? You use to be cool."
texas: "texas still cool."
nebraska: "nawwww, you changed."
nebraska: "What happened to you texas? You use to be cool."
texas: "texas still cool."
nebraska: "nawwww, you changed."
HuskerfaninOkieland
Heisman Trophy Winner
FIFYjayhawk said:
jayhawk
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This was a joke... Mainly referencing how ND used to be a consistently high quality team but has been running on reputation fumes for quite a while now...
Vince from ShamWOW
All-Conference
Nobody died. The lap dogs of the big 12 simply rolled over and gave TU whatever they demanded.
Who made Texas king?
We did when we threw them a rescue line
from the fast sinking Southwest Conference.
A conference Texas helped destroy by
forcing Arkansas to jump to the SEC.
My guess is SMU's death penalty earning behavior was
their attempt to level the playing field with
King Texas.
We did when we threw them a rescue line
from the fast sinking Southwest Conference.
A conference Texas helped destroy by
forcing Arkansas to jump to the SEC.
My guess is SMU's death penalty earning behavior was
their attempt to level the playing field with
King Texas.
Mike N
Four-Star Recruit
jayhawk said:
Actually, it's simpler than that. The U.T. football program brings in a LOT of money. And I think you know the old saying about "he who has the gold makes the rules".
And frankly, I don't know who this Alabama writer (who couldn't even come up with a real logo for Texas A&M) is and really don't care. But I can tell you that the machinations behind the recent aborted realignment were much more intense...and complicated...than he understands. And that anyone who accepts his version as gospel is doing themselves a disservice. And as the writer himself said (without denying) ....
When you look at the academic rankings of all the institutions involved (including your own) it IS below us. All of us. And there are a lot of reasons for Husker fans to be regally p***ed at U.T. But this person hasn't given you anything new.
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Mike N
Four-Star Recruit
Vince from ShamWOW
All-Conference
Spot on. We threw them the rescue line they needed to survive. The only problem is when the line was thrown NU were the kings of the conference and the other Big 8 programs saw turning their back on NU as the only way to bring NU down to their level of competition.
Mike N
Four-Star Recruit
Oh God. Not to start this, but all the Big 8 did was throw the Texas politicians (who loved Baylor and Tech) a line when U.T. and A&M were about to bolt for greener pastures. You won't find many people in central Texas thanking anyone for the Big 12.
Vince from ShamWOW
All-Conference
The greener pastures are and were the Big 12. The Big 8 rescue line worked for Baylor, and Tech exactly the same as it saved Ut and and A&M.
huzkerbob
All-Conference
There's no use arguing the facts with Mike N, Texans are notorious for rejecting reality in order to substitute their own.
huKSer
All-American
IIRC The Big 8 needed TV sets and Texas had them (sound familiar). The SWC needed to be "born again" and have their old sins washed away. Both conferences needed each other but it was a forced grouping.
Greener pastures? When talking about the old SWC (the most lice ridden den of corruption and scandal in all of cfb... ever) I'll use a line from Reign of Fire. "Look out the window, Eden isn't burning... it's BURNT" taken from a UT fan no less.
Greener pastures? lmfao. You guys were sitting in the middle of a fire ravaged Mississippi junkyard that a tornado just tore through. The UT football program was so degutted in the 80's and early 90's most young people following cfb didn't even know UT was a school in Texas. You were a joke. Nobody watched SWC football, staunch "hard core" UT fans were wearing crimson and cream. And it was all a direct result of the SWC's flagship program, UT running it into the ground. The Big 8 was arguably the most dominant conference in the mid 90's and you guys used your "look at all our possible tv sets..." line and got your greedy hooks in the Big 8 teams around NU to pull yourselves out of obscurity.
Greener pastures??? WTH? What are you talking about? The Pac 10 deal... that you really didn't want?
Please tell us about these "Greener pastures". And please tell it from the perspective that UT was in at the time. You know, your junkyard. Good grief.
At least at our lowest point in half a century we still sold out all our games and our fans still stayed true. You UT folks have the most bandwagon fans I can think of outside of Miami.
And PLEASE explain what this means while you're at it Mike....
Tell us about our history.