Big XII Expansion Announced Monday?

I hope the other four power conferences don't revoke our P5 status.
Hey I get it, Cincinnati isn't anything to write home about, but let's not act like the other power conferences don't have plenty of shit teams as well.
 
The issue will be UT fans apathy towards having a nationally relevant, competitive game. The season ticket holder is the one who is getting screwed.

The arguement I hear is that when we are winning, no one will care. The UT fans that I know actually do care about how they spend their money on entertainment. Most reasonable people don't shell out hundreds of dollars to watch an exhibition fight between a champion and an amateur, they want a competitive game between heavyweights. This is the point most miss in adding mid major teams. It doesn't seem unreasonable to think that maybe, just maybe, people are going to start to realize they can save the headache of game day at DKR and stay at home instead of paying hundreds of dollars to watch a mediocre product. They will realize that they can simply record the game between Texas and Memphis, Kansas, Iowa State, UConn, etc. and tune in and watch a nationally relevant, competitive, real college football game in the comfort of their home and once everyone has gone to sleep, they can then turn on the sh*t product that is the big 12 conference game. Then they can read the morning paper on how UT is just a victim to national "trends" in a decline in stadium attendance.....

Think about this for a second:
The only heavyweight conference game we play is played in Dallas. We literally get zero national "brand name" conference games at DKR. Ever. Now think of every other p5 conference in football. I will say it again,...the season ticket holder is the one getting screwed here. The thing that is maddening is that we could do much, much better than the big 12 and still have a great shot at going to the playoffs.
What was the home schedule in ''05 or '09? Hint...it sucked. And DKR was packed. Guess why??

When Texas is good or coming off a good season, more tickets are sold. When Texas isn't as good, fewer tickets are sold. That's been true forever.
 
I would be very surprised if it happened that quickly.
 
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Im resigned that there are no above average options.

True questions are how aggressive is the current big 12 in keeping the additional members money and what happens with the gor. If the league gives new members most of their share then extends gor then we should all turn out the lights.
 
Crossing the line. Weren't you recently spanked and sent to bed without your supper for posting trash about a poster's mom?
Turns out qwanseeker is a UH grad, which explains a lot about the quality of his posts on the topic. The type of thing we have to look forward to if we let these stay at home students into our conference.
 
I would vote for UC to join the B12. Playing the University of California every year would be nice.
 
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We as fans, alumni, donors didn't demand better the 2 or 3 other times we had the chance to leave for a better situation and we sat idle.

The rise of THE BIG DOGSHIT CONFERENCE
has arrived.

I think after adding these shit commuter schools the conference will be less respected nationally than it was.

Very, very sad day.
Baylor is finally in the conference it should have been a member of in the first place.
 
Ah, so you're gonna go with the it was a joke among friends rationale? Really?

Not sure how old you are, don't really care but as one gets older we learn certain life lessons; one is, some things we just don't joke about. Another is some lines we just don't cross. Joking/talking trash about anyone's family in particular a mother is something rational people don't normally do; especially when they don't know the other person outside the anonymity of an internet sports forum. Pretty simple concept to understand that should have been learned by the time a person completes high school.

It doesn't take a mod or a hall monitor to see that there was absolutely no sign of humor or class in your reply to the other poster ITT. ...And no, I'd never say your mom slept with half of the OB members. I wouldn't say that to a fellow poster on OB and I wouldn't say that to someone who was a life long friend. Dude, WTH is the matter with you?

If you can't tell the difference between reality and a joke, I can't help you. I didnt tell anyone that their parent literally did those things.

I see you didn't deny that you were the one who originally turned me in. In my book, that is a much worse offense than a joke in poor taste. This is now thr second time you've jumped on me for telling a joke when i wasn't even talking to you. What's wrong with you? Lighten up Francis. Your name is extremely appropriate.
 
No doubt. And I would MUCH rather have UCF than Memphis. That's just a bad program.

I'm just responding to why they are even in the conversation. I think the president's see low hanging fruit.
Yeah. I mean for me, that would absolutely not be a factor, but I guess it is for the presidents. What a mess, this is awful. I'd rather just be one of the guys in the PAC or B1G. Enough already.
 
I stand by my response to the assertion that a man who never attended a single football game at his university is somehow a negative reflection against that university.
So your stance is that gay men are a negative reflection against their alma mater?
 
No doubt. And I would MUCH rather have UCF than Memphis. That's just a bad program.

I'm just responding to why they are even in the conversation. I think the president's see low hanging fruit.
I think they view (wrongly) that Memphis with FedEx money would eventually be like an Oregon with Nike or Louisville with Papa John's if given the chance to join a power 5 conference.
 
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Weakens the conference. Another stellar move by the Big 12 if so. 2024-25? So close, yet sooooooo far away.
 
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We as fans, alumni, donors didn't demand better the 2 or 3 other times we had the chance to leave for a better situation and we sat idle.

The rise of THE BIG DOGSHIT CONFERENCE
has arrived.

I think after adding these shit commuter schools the conference will be less respected nationally than it was.

Very, very sad day.
We as fans had no say. DeLoss (blinded by his raging woodie for ND) brilliantly executed a strategy of doing nothing at all while golden opportunities passed us by. I will never, ever forgive him for that.
 
So your stance is that gay men are a negative reflection against their alma mater?

My joke is that gay men don't typically like football. My stance is that neither is a reflection on the other. I think that the correlation made by the poster to be completely irrelevant and off base. For example, I'm sure there are thousands who have attained two degrees from UT and never attended a game.