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He's joking right? Texas is on a slippery slope to irrelevance? Texas football can turn football ineptitude around every bit as quickly as UNC was able to turn basketball around when they canned Doherty.
The blogger also is taking a huge leap of faith in believing that Oklahoma and Kansas can free themselves from their in state counterparts (who happen to have state in their name). IIRC, this was an issue three years ago and played a large role in the salvation of the B-12.
These are the same morons who said ND football was irrelevant. All it took was one season to turn them into a TV/attendance powerhouse, outselling Bama at the title game, driving up the TV ratings of the SEC title game and the BCS title game, being talked about nonstop on every sports show, every national radio station, etc. Texas is in the same hat. Sure, they're down now, and Brown is on his way out, and possibly the AD. But they're only one successful season away from being a TV ratings powerhouse once again.
I don't necessarily believe the predictions of the article, but a wholesale change of the football staff and AD would make the climate more apt for change in the conference. Everyone knows Texas still calls the shots in the conference, if they left, it'd be dead in the water, and everyone knows it. They could probably single-handedly kill that GoR in about 30 seconds.
I also agree on the state counterpart problem, and Texas has it as well, to a lesser extent, in Tech. I can't see the B1G wanting both OU and OKST, or KU and K-State. This would be a feather in our cap if the door opened. My guess is Texas could shake Tech, but I'm not sure OU could shake OKSt and their rich oil donor Pickens. I have no guess on KU and K-State, other than K-State is actually good at football, whereas KU is a joke like us.