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Chipster: Texas to ACC gaining steam

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Ambitious but rubbish.
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Seems like a leverage play to me, but this could help with ESPN's east coast bias:

Chip Brown
Orangebloods.com Columnist
Talk about it in Inside the 40 Acres


Sources told Orangebloods.com on Tuesday that Texas is looking more and more to the east and the Atlantic Coast Conference as a potential home if the Big 12 falls apart with Oklahoma and Oklahoma State staring down the Pac-12 and Texas A&M counting down the days until it can join the Southeastern Conference.


Here are 5 reasons why the ACC could make more sense for Texas than the Pac-12:
(first four are dumb)


5. The Longhorn Network

This could easily be No. 1 on the list. It's that important for Texas to hold together LHN.

It will be a bit of a sales job and will require the help of ESPN, but in all likelihood Texas can keep the Longhorn Network and its revenue ($15 million per year for 20 years) by going to the ACC, something the Pac-12 would be unwilling to consider.

The ACC is in the first year of a new, 12-year deal with ESPN, which controls the Tier 1, 2 and 3 TV rights in the ACC. And with no Big 12 left to spend money on (in all likelihood), ESPN can probably help make the Longhorn Network palatable to the ACC by giving the ACC a break-the-bank television deal with Texas on board that will blow the ACC members away.

Consider it a reward to the ACC for accepting Texas' unique revenue stream. But there would be incentive for the ACC to take Texas. The Southeastern Conference and Big Ten stand to poach schools out of the ACC if it appears the college arms race is leading to 16-team super conferences.

The ACC could help fortify its walls by adding Texas and a school like Kansas.


FINAL ANALYSIS: While everyone is asking why Texas wouldn't simply head to the Pac-12 with Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech like they were about to do last summer until the 11th hour, a lot has changed that must be considered.

Texas now has the Longhorn Network, which UT's administration and regents are enamored with for a number of reasons, including a $5 million contribution to academics for the first five years of UT's 20-year deal with ESPN.

And the Pac-12 now has a series of regional networks that are not compatible with LHN. The Pac-12 also has the most restrictive "all rights in" agreement of any conference in the BCS. The Pac-12 even has the rights to its members' web sites.

Texas has been monetizing its own web site for years. So with LHN in pulling in $15 million in revenue on its own annually, for Texas to strip down LHN and share revenue with another school and the Pac-12, it would be like going from a free-market economy to socialism.

And no one at UT is looking to take a pay cut in a new conference home. If Texas is making between $30 million and $33 million per year right now in the Big 12, the Longhorns will be looking to make that same money elsewhere.

Texas is trying to convince Oklahoma and Oklahoma State to look east (ACC) - not west (Pac-12). Right now, OU is not thinking that way. Don't rule out Kansas as a possible ACC target.

It's time for Texas fans and faithful to start getting their heads around a possible move to the ACC. It's by no means a done deal. But it's looking more and more like Option No. 1 for the Longhorns if the Big 12 falls apart.

Stay tuned.
 
Texas to the ACC! I'm rooting for this. Good luck Longhorns!

Love,

The Walrus
 
I would love this. I wish the Whorns best of luck to make this happen. I'm sure Allbuffs would be happy to start a collection to pay for postage, long distance phone charges, and whatever other miscellaneous charges if it would speed up the invite/acceptance process.
 
It's time for Texas fans and faithful to start getting their heads around the fact that their school's relationship to athletic conferences is is like untreated syphilis. But it's looking more and more like the Longhorns will have to leave their Big 12 rotting corpse and find a new host conference to destroy from within.

Fixed.
 
I was thinking last night that the ACC could pull off a hell of a coup if they ponied up enough $$$$$ and promises.

What if the ACC swooped in and took UT, OU, OSU and TCU?

They'd save their own conference, block in the Pac-12 from further expansion, and make the SEC look to lower-end schools for expansion past 14.
 
I was thinking last night that the ACC could pull off a hell of a coup if they ponied up enough $$$$$ and promises.

What if the ACC swooped in and took UT, OU, OSU and TCU?

They'd save their own conference, block in the Pac-12 from further expansion, and make the SEC look to lower-end schools for expansion past 14.

Fine by me. The Pac 12 will be far stronger. The coup would just eventually turn into another corpse of a conference, especially since the ACC will be giving massive concessions to the whorns from day one.
 
Sounds perfect to me. They go to a weak conference, destroy it, and then go independent. The same things that destroyed the Big12 will already be prevalent in the ACC if they let UT in. This is like letting the soviet union into your country for "military training." Allsome. At the very least, it gives us time.
 
This would be the perfect scenario. The big 12 dies. There are new football teams for me to watch in Austin every year. Great basketball schedule. And no Texas in the PAC!

I really hope this happens.
 
This would be the perfect scenario. The big 12 dies. There are new football teams for me to watch in Austin every year. Great basketball schedule. And no Texas in the PAC!

I really hope this happens.

I thought you were gonna be working the lifts at Crested Butte.
 
Go East Texass and take you little (lap) dog (Tech) too...

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Once I saw they pay $6 to do that, and rent costs $1000 a month up there - I realized that wasn't an option.
Many other jobs for someone who actually shows up to work up there. Servers can make 30k+ in a winter and most restaurants give employees lift tickets. Many ways to make mountain living work. Don't be a pussy, do it.
 
I must say it is rather hilarious to see the way UT fans vacillate to the opinion that whatever the Dodds/Chip talking points of the day are is really the best situation for them. All of a sudden the PAC is way too far away, there isn't enough fan support and passion etc...same thing happened when they claimed that the B1G was really the best option for them when all that Purple Book Cat stuff leaked from the Northwestern board.

Also there are all these posts on how they trust where ever they end up because its all "part of Dodds master plan" and he's thinking 3 or 4 moves ahead of everyone else. There are a few lonely voices in the wilderness expressing the opinion that it looks like things may have spiraled out of their control for a bit and that the LHN could end up being an albatross, but they usually get shouted down as not getting the revolutionary, change the world, can't live without it precious LHN.

I wonder how they are going to feel when their "regional" pod consists of Baylor, Kansas, and Kansas State?
 
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I must say it is rather hilarious to see the way UT fans vacillate to the opinion that whatever the Dodds/Chip talking points of the day is really the best situation for them. All of a sudden the PAC is way too far away, there isn't enough fan support and passion etc...same thing happened that the B1G was really the best option for them when all that Purple Book Cat stuff leaked from the Northwestern board.

Also there are all these posts on how they trust where ever they end up because its all "part of Dodds master plan" and he's thinking 3 or 4 moves ahead of everyone else. There are a few lonely voices in the wilderness expressing the opinion that it looks like things may have spiraled out of their control for a bit and that the LHN could end up being an albatross, but they usually get shouted down as not getting the revolutionary, change the world, can't live without it precious LHN.

I wonder how they are going to feel when their "regional" pod consists of Baylor, Kansas, and Kansas State?

Dont question the master plan. Deloss knows all - and Texas is predestined to bethe best thing ever in the world ever forever.
 
Whatever plan keeps UT the hell out of the Pac is just fine by me.

I saw that you'd posted in this thread, so I clicked on it, wondering if you'd changed your mind about UT to The Pac. Nope.
 
The key here is that we get a 4-team pod in the central time zone that includes a national program. That's what drives the money train for Pac-12 expansion.
 
The key here is that we get a 4-team pod in the central time zone that includes a national program. That's what drives the money train for Pac-12 expansion.

I disagree that we need to expand into the Central time zone at all. But even if we do, there's no reason to include UT in that mix. OU and KU are both national programs, albeit in different sports.
 
ut to the acc...

perfect. that will definitely make them 3-0 in killing conferences. by the time they are done bending the acc over, it will make what they did to the remaining teams in the former big 12 look consensual.

if ou is smart, they'll go west in a hurry. i love the idea of just extending the invite to ou and then maybe grabbing ku. both ou and ku have to decide if they want to continue to have the millstone semi-retarded little brothers weigh them down or if they want to move up and on.

... should be interesting...
 
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