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Topic: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?

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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #420 on: February 07, 2023, 02:04:21 PM »
I have not heard or read anything about UT going to the Big and think that highly unlikely
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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #421 on: February 07, 2023, 02:13:02 PM »
I really think CFB would be much better off it UT went to the B1G.  It would give the B1G a much more diverse footprint, get them into the south, and IMO be a better fit.  Obviously geographical issues are there, but they exist within the SEC as well.  

Maybe the B1G is just "full" at this point?  I feel like the SEC is full at 14.  
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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #422 on: February 07, 2023, 02:26:16 PM »
Quote from: Gigem on February 07, 2023, 02:13:02 PM
I really think CFB would be much better off it UT went to the B1G.  It would give the B1G a much more diverse footprint, get them into the south, and IMO be a better fit.  Obviously geographical issues are there, but they exist within the SEC as well. 

Maybe the B1G is just "full" at this point?  I feel like the SEC is full at 14. 
Neither conference is full, both are likely to go to 20+ eventually.

But it doesn't make any sense for Texas to go to the B1G, and it's not going to happen.  The only "rumors" folks might be hearing, are no doubt coming from click-baiting $9.95ers who are desperate to try and steal your money.
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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #423 on: February 07, 2023, 02:48:22 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on February 07, 2023, 02:26:16 PM
Neither conference is full, both are likely to go to 20+ eventually.

But it doesn't make any sense for Texas to go to the B1G, and it's not going to happen.  The only "rumors" folks might be hearing, are no doubt coming from click-baiting $9.95ers who are desperate to try and steal your money.
I'd still like to play annually, starting about 2031.  
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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #424 on: February 07, 2023, 03:31:17 PM »
Quote from: Gigem on February 07, 2023, 02:48:22 PM
I'd still like to play annually, starting about 2031. 
If you're talking about Texas-TAMU, then I'd be pretty surprised if it's not an annual game from the moment Texas joins the conference.  It's not as nationally important as some rivalries in the conference and around the country, but it's going to draw more TV viewers than TAMU-Ole Miss or Texas-Miss State would, so the SEC will want to feature it.
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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #425 on: February 07, 2023, 04:30:52 PM »
Texas is a better fit in the B1G, but that's not going to happen. They were perfect in the Big 12/SWC, but those programs don't turn on TV sets, and recruits straight up told the Texas brass, "Ya'll got an awesome program! I'd love to go here, but the SEC puts players in the League.". Mock the S-E-C chants all you like, Lord knows I do, but the kids go where they can get seen and get drafted.

Texas had to move, and the SEC made the deal. Now that NIL makes paying players not only legal but highly encouraged, Texas should be a good fit.
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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #426 on: February 07, 2023, 06:13:03 PM »
Quote from: Mr Tulip on February 07, 2023, 04:30:52 PM
Texas is a better fit in the B1G, but that's not going to happen. They were perfect in the Big 12/SWC, but those programs don't turn on TV sets, and recruits straight up told the Texas brass, "Ya'll got an awesome program! I'd love to go here, but the SEC puts players in the League.". Mock the S-E-C chants all you like, Lord knows I do, but the kids go where they can get seen and get drafted.

Texas had to move, and the SEC made the deal. Now that NIL makes paying players not only legal but highly encouraged, Texas should be a good fit.
Yup.  And this idea of cultural or academic "fit" in an athletic conference is a strange notion, anyway.

Geography and athletics, are what is important to an athletic conference.  The SEC poses some geographic challenges for Texas, anything other than SWC/B12 has that same problem, but the issues would be even worse in the B1G than in the SEC.

USC and UCLA are about to find out just how tough it is, and overall I don't think it's going to end up being very good for their athletic programs.  Good for the B1G?  Sure.  Good for USC and UCLA?  I don't see it.
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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #427 on: February 07, 2023, 07:37:53 PM »
I agree about USC, UCLA, and geography.

But right now it seems that geography is being foolishly disregarded. The Big 12 did that when it admitted WVU, especially since it didn't also admit another ETZ school or two. At one point, it could have had Louisville, and it could have had Cincy and UCF at any time in the last 12 years. Now BYU is in that position

Maybe some of the 4-corners schools will join the Big 12. Maybe the Big 12 will go heavy on proximity in its future conference scheduling.

Transportation costs figure to increase rather than decrease in the future. And there's the waste of time spent in travel from one end of the country to the other. Geographical proximity figures to get more rather than less important.
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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #428 on: February 07, 2023, 08:47:24 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on February 07, 2023, 03:31:17 PM
If you're talking about Texas-TAMU, then I'd be pretty surprised if it's not an annual game from the moment Texas joins the conference.  It's not as nationally important as some rivalries in the conference and around the country, but it's going to draw more TV viewers than TAMU-Ole Miss or Texas-Miss State would, so the SEC will want to feature it.
Oh when Texas joins the sec we’ll play in Year 1 for sure. 

I'm still hoping they go to the Big10. 
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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #429 on: February 07, 2023, 09:11:05 PM »
Quote from: Gigem on February 07, 2023, 08:47:24 PM
Oh when Texas joins the sec we’ll play in Year 1 for sure.

I'm still hoping they go to the Big10.
Ha!   Then I guess you're on the wrong thread my friend. :)
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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #430 on: February 07, 2023, 09:51:03 PM »
it's not too late to uninvite USC and UCLA and invite UT and OU
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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #431 on: February 08, 2023, 12:47:35 AM »
Me personally I think all these conferences are going to fall apart in 10-20 more years until they reform with some sense of normalcy. 
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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #432 on: February 08, 2023, 06:49:33 AM »
Follow the $$$$.  No one will leave a conference unless they are going somewhere somehow better.
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Re: OU-UT Move to SEC in 2024?
« Reply #433 on: February 09, 2023, 08:17:53 PM »
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