Let's speculate a future with 4 super conferences
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kansas husker
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I would let the schools sort it out. For the most part you can keep the rivals together just based on geogrophy.
In my opinion the SEC would view Texas as the 3rd powerhouse team behind Florida and Alabama. Sorta like how Nebraska is viewed as the 3rd powerhouse team behind OU and UT.
Also if it really came right down to it and UT and A&M were forced to choose between the SEC or Pac-10, I think the administrators would choose Pac-10 for the academics.
kansas husker
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Simply amazing, the only change I would make is to replace Utep with Houston. This is dar and away the best realignment I've seen. The best part is we get our yearly oklahoma game back.
sd'sker
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VA Husker Fan
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Thanks. I have Houston in with Baylor, Arkansas, and the Louisiana schools, and kept UTEP with Texas Tech and the other 3 Texas schools. Not a perfect east/west split but close enough.
jayhawk
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My only issue is that while I think so of the proposals are nice, the top prgrams are just going to dilute their TV revenue... Adding teasm that dont add a lot of eyes and get even a 75% of a share nets out less money for the big boys, and let's rememebr who is calling the shots.... If you don't bring money to the talks, you gots to go...
jayhawk
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Not to be a hater, but UT is a much better University academically than OU. Pac 10 had 70% AAU members, SEC has 16%. UT and OU may not seperate, but Texas is a better Pac 10 fit due to adcademics and the lack of many teams to threaten them. OU is a lot like an SEC school in a lot of ways, including sports revenue, they would be 6th amongst the other existing 12.... I would think UT will pull OU away frm the SEC, but OU on their own would gravitate there...
sd'sker
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i guess where they go will be telling about their overall priorities. they go pac-10, they do respect academics; they go SEC, it is only about sports.
jayhawk
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Florida is the only Public AAU school in the Conference though, and they were in long before they decided to make themselves into a great school, whcih I agree they have achieved... Texas really has a choice though, and dominating a Pac-10 East may be more attrative than adding LSU and Bama. That said, if the big 2 of Texas and Oklahoma all go SEC, I guess they likely only gain LSU who is a real threat, Ole Miss, Miss State and Arkansas are not (when compared to Texas)... The SEC East would then be INSANE (Florida, Georgia, Bama, Auburn AND Tennessee... ugh)
knapplc
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Maybe this betrays my ignorance about Texas' academics, but I've never gotten the impression they were all that balled up about being an academic superstar. I think academically they're "better" than Nebraska, but we're still half an agricultural school at heart. I would imagine they'd go where the money is, and that's the SEC. Culturally they're far more similar to the Southeast than the Southwest, and that's not even close.
VA Husker Fan
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There's a lot of Texas money that's gone to academics as well as athletics. They get ranked up there or just below the best public schools like Michigan, Cal, Virginia, and North Carolina. Argue the rankings if you like, but it is considered by many, especially themselves, to be a very good school.
If you want to view it with one way at looking at the quality of the undergrads, if you are in the top 10% of your high school class you are guaranteed admission to the Texas public university of your choice, including UT, A&M, Texas Tech, Houston, Texas State, and various other UT campuses. UT nearly fills it's freshman class with those top 10%ers who choose it, to the point where there has been talk of removing the guarantee so they can more diversity, like students who excel in one area but whose overall GPA isn't quite up there.
If you want to view it with one way at looking at the quality of the undergrads, if you are in the top 10% of your high school class you are guaranteed admission to the Texas public university of your choice, including UT, A&M, Texas Tech, Houston, Texas State, and various other UT campuses. UT nearly fills it's freshman class with those top 10%ers who choose it, to the point where there has been talk of removing the guarantee so they can more diversity, like students who excel in one area but whose overall GPA isn't quite up there.
jayhawk
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The state of Texas is a Hybrid between the Southeast and the Southwest, but UT is more like the West. They are a lot like California in Austin. Hippie and superficial at the same time
, Big IT and tech presence, big cafe scene, big live music scene, lots of cultures are represented from all over the world, lots of expensive foreign cars... definitely not A&M by any meansTexas is a really good school, though. US News rated them 47th overall amongst all schools, tied with Florida (best Public School in SEC) compare to KU at 96, NU tied with KU, Mizzou at 102 and K-State is Tier 3....
Caven
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If you follow what the Texas people have been saying on other boards, the academic reputation is VERY important to them. That is one big reason why when the Big 12 was formed they pushed for an overhaul in the recruiting. The Big 12 was also their third choice. They first approached the Pac 10 and Big 10 but when both conferences turned them down for various reasons they ended up settling on destroying the Big 8 - er forming the Big 12.