Texas and OU to the SEC

[Gulo Blue]

https://www.si.com/college/texas/news/texas-longhorns-oklahoma-sooners-move-to-sec-almost-done

Texas lawmakers from A&M (and others) are pissed that Texas can do this without more transparency (don't like A&M being blindsided)

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/22/texas-football-big-12-sec-legislature/

 

[tomdalton22]

So A&M can leave the Big 12 and go to the SEC but if TX wants to they get pissed

 

[Gulo Blue]

So A&M can leave the Big 12 and go to the SEC but if TX wants to they get pissed

I guess they wanted to be the only Texas SEC team. Someone is refuting the accusation that they didn't know.

Also rumors about Kansas and Iowa State trying to talk to the Big Ten now. Big Ten people saying they haven't talked to anyone.

Just rumors all over the place reacting to the 1st story.

 

[Michchamp]

LOL, this is all so dumb.

 

[Gulo Blue]

LOL, this is all so dumb.

Are you in Austin? Doesn't this impact what people will flood your city?

 

[Gulo Blue]

Texas and OU would each owe $76 million

 

[tinselwolverine]

LOL, this is all so dumb.

It?s because their desired voting restrictions are more in line with SEC states than Midwestern planes states.

 

[Michchamp]

Are you in Austin? Doesn't this impact what people will flood your city?

no. it can't really get worse though. the Big XII wasn't exactly full of very selective schools.

 

[Gulo Blue]

https://twitter.com/Andy_Staples/status/1418664140160262144
Andy Staples@Andy_Staples

I keep seeing people trying to figure out which leagues are in the Power 5 going forward.

There won?t be a Power 5.

There won?t be four superconferences.

It?ll be the Power 2, the middle class and everyone else.

 

[Michchamp]

https://twitter.com/Andy_Staples/status/1418664140160262144
Andy Staples@Andy_Staples

they're all chasing illusory profits, having convinced themselves that their "product" can grow in popularity indefinitely, and fans will not get turned off by the desperate consolidation resulting in longstanding rivalries and traditions getting tossed aside.


...all so that the Big Ten Network or SEC can show up to their TV contract negotiations with higher potential audience numbers. But as I've cited elsewhere those numbers were already down last year, while Americans were stuck at home during a pandemic.

It's all bad. The people running it all are greedy and dumb. It all needs to crash and burn, and it will.

 

[byco42]

A 16-team conference isn?t a conference. It?s a convention.

 

[Michchamp]

A 16-team conference isn?t a conference. It?s a convention.

I'm excited to learn what new "traditional" rivalries we will become passionate about in the coming years. Yay sports

 

[byco42]

I'm excited to learn what new "traditional" rivalries we will become passionate about in the coming years. Yay sports

Them Bama vs. [Insert FCS team] matchups are riveting football. This year, that ?traditional? rivalry for the Crimson Tide is ? Mercer.

Clemson?s ?Big Game? this year is against South Carolina ?. State.

I?ll have to go to a bar to watch, I guess.