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Message: [QUOTE="btstimpy, post: 666039, member: 2673"] Texas' options remain limited because of the Longhorn Network until 2030. They will go to an ESPN managed conference because of it if they need to leave the Big XII. There are 2 (SEC and ACC). To go to the SEC, Texas would have to be supported by Texas A&M, and they would have to accept the academic standards of the SEC. Texas has already courted the ACC in 2011, and is comfortable with that option. But they chose to remain in the Big XII because they worked out a deal to keep it in tact for the time being, and the ACC didn't like the Long Horn Network idea at the time. Things could all change if DeLoss Dodds leaves though. Who knows what his successor would think. The ACC would help get Texas and the Longhorn Network distribution on the entire East Coast in some combination working with ESPN and joint ACC/Texas scheduling with the network. Texas has only been in a conference with Oklahoma for less than 20 years. They played often OOC and could continue to going forward. Oklahoma could return to its rivalry with Nebraska. The Big Ten would have to give up on AAU though. I don't want for the ACC to take half the BigXII or too many teams in some sort of merger. Let the PAC 12 and the B1G have some of the rest or even the SEC. Texas is the one that would fit the ACC. Baylor, Texas Tech, TCU could work, but I only want one of them. Texas could select. There was a lot of chatter of Texas wanting Florida State and Clemson. Here's an opportunity for them to join them and get their Long Horn Network off the ground. [/QUOTE]

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