Texas scares me

[Gophers507]

I want Texas and North Carolina.

The SEC is already planning a raid of the ACC. North Carolina is the best addition for the Big Ten on the East Coast. With Nebraska, Texas and North Carolina, the Big Ten could watch ACC and Big East crumble and decide weather they want Notre Dame or someone else.

See this is what I don't like about alot of this conference shuffle crap. It waters down college football no longer are geographic conferences and rivalries going to be relevant. I don't want college turning in to some sick morph of the pros. Watered down tradition and all about money money money attitudes... that's why I like college over pros. This scares me...

 

[gopher2]

Texas is only in control right now in the Big 12 cause everyone votes however Texas wants them to. If it is only Texas coming then they have 1 vote and no real natural allies in that. If it opens up Texas as possible recruiting grounds for Minnesota how can you not want to add Texas?

 

[Goldmember]

And Goldmember, please explain your comment about ASU having their way with Dallas talent. That may have been the dumbest comment I've ever read on this board.

I concede that it may be dumb. But more often than not, people just falsely assume that things are always going to be just the way they are now. A year ago, Oklahoma was never again going to lose 5 games in a season, Pete Carroll was "never going to leave the good thing he has going" at USC, and no Big 12 member would ever dream of leaving their conference.

Right now, Texas is the #1 choice for recruits from Texas, and it isn't even close. But it hasn't been that way forever, and there are certain reasons they were able to monopolize their in-state talent. For the sake of brevity, I can't get into all of those reasons. Suffice to say, prospective students from all over the world love the Tempe lifestyle. Texas can not say the same about their current rivals. Right now, in the eyes of pretty much every Texas recruit everywhere is a distant #2 to Austin.

Longhorn fans question A&M opening Texas to SEC recruiting. But, honestly, who is a bigger long-term threat to grab talent? This is a potential bonanza for the Arizona schools. A game-changer.

 

[FargoBison]

I'd be scared as well, no way the Big 10 needs UT's ego.

Perlman: The Big 12 asked for a commitment from NU through at least 2016. Nebraska, in turn, asked for a commitment from the University of Texas that it would assign all athletic broadcast rights to the conference and thus not begin its own network. Texas declined, he said.

 

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I'm sorry goldmember but you are way off base. Winning is most important to recruits. And Tempe is arguably no step up in location than Austin, esp. geographically.

And those things you mentioned that most people thoughtwould never happen at least had thepotential to actually occur. You are talking about a major shift in a culture that's been cultivated for over a decade now. Not going to happen. Sorry, but it won't. Texas and OU play every year. In the Cotton Bowl. In Dallas. They will continue to have their pick of the Dallas litter no matter what conference they end up in.

To think otherwise is just hoping somehow someway this move negatively influences Texas recruiting. Dallas recruits will go to Texas and OU and ASU might pick up a leftover scrap or two if they are lucky.