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Message: [QUOTE="Charley Horse, post: 1673917, member: 6990"] I agree. Texas and five other Big 12 schools had an invitation to join the Pac-10 in June 2010. Most of them opted to turn down the offer and stay in the Big 12. Whether Texas rejected the Pac-10 or the Pac-10 rejected Texas is more than just a spin. It's actually a chicken or the egg conundrum. Fox and ESPN deliberately overpaid for Big 12 content and ESPN also promised to set up the LHN to keep the Big 12 intact and its most valuable content out of Pac-10/Comcast hands. So did Texas reject the Pac-10 to take Fox and ESPN's bribe? Yes. Did the Pac-10 reject Texas' last minute demands to match ESPN's promise to create a single school network. Yes to that too. It's interesting to note, however, that three years later when OU and Oklahoma State flirted with the idea of leaving the Big 12 for the Pac-12, the Pac-12 wasn't interested unless Texas could come too. All Texas would have to do is to give up the LHN, which is basically what they're being asked to do in the Big 12 right now. So nelsonmuntz shouldn't imagine for a minute that Texas is down to its last option. Like dwalks93 says, just about any conference except maybe the SEC would try to find a way to fit in Texas. And as for the folks at A&M laughing at Texas, djct1999, that's okay. They're a fine institution and they're doing a lot of things right. If it gives them joy to surpass Texas in revenue, good for them. Texas still isn't hurting. And since I'm probably coming across as a typical Texas jerkwad in my defense of Texas, just let me say that I really hope Texas is working to appease OU, save the Big 12 and expand the conference by adding UConn and some other team. No matter what happens, I'm sure Texas will come off looking like the bad guy, but I just hope they do the right thing. And I'm very thankful nobody at Texas is saying anything lamentable at this time, like former AD DeLoss Dodds used to do all the time. [/QUOTE]

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