Texas vs. Notre Dame in 2015-16 ($)

meh

i’d rather schedule SMU, they would be more of a challenge

"We'll be baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!"

by greenspointexas on Aug 3, 2010 4:44 PM CDT reply actions

I like it

ND has a big name. Its going to be a bigger name win without making the schedule that much harder.

by AlDe2356 on Aug 3, 2010 4:45 PM CDT reply actions

Who knows

Five years from now, they could be really good again. We will see how Kelly does….

by junglerules on Aug 3, 2010 4:53 PM CDT reply actions

…great. Ive been sick and tired of hearing that we try to avoid big names to go undefeated. I am very glad we are at least making an effort to get some marque programs to do home-home series with them. I think overall, it will end up helping with BCS ranking as the perception that we play pussy teams will be lifted.
I know we had been trying before also, but I think the new big 12(10) and its composition necessitates a more ‘competitive’ non-conference schedule.

by vanterminatorhorn on Aug 3, 2010 5:13 PM CDT reply actions

ND used to be good, but this still makes your non-conference schedule weak. As someone earlier mentioned though, ND could be good again in a few years with Kelly at the helm. As a Tech fan, I’m going to be looking foward to this game between yall

The chicken is involved but the pig is committed

by maddraven1716 on Aug 3, 2010 5:21 PM CDT up reply actions

note what i said...

…i never said ND was good; i have been following college football like everyone else has.
i used the word ‘big name’, ‘marque’, competitive with quotes to describe ND; this was not by accident.
My point was that even if ND is not competitive, it has a reputation that makes a game with them be considered big and hence creates a perception in the mind of the voters that we played a good non-conference schedule. With your last statement, you proved the very point I was trying to make about perception about ND….

by vanterminatorhorn on Aug 3, 2010 9:24 PM CDT up reply actions

Two legendary programs

This will make for great television.

"I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field."
-Walter Payton

by CoachEtch on Aug 3, 2010 5:22 PM CDT reply actions

Let me guess

Lou Holtz is predicting a ND victory based on the incredible sparkle of the the gold helmets while Mark May looks on in disbelief.

by soonerspeak on Aug 4, 2010 8:50 AM CDT up reply actions

Obligatory Bryant Westbrook video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsV6DxCapa0

3/19/2009 & 12/15/2009 - Games Where Dogus Balbay Made a Three-Pointer. Never Forget.

by burrito on Aug 3, 2010 5:57 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs

Gotta turn up the volume

the crowd goes NUTS when Westbrook lights him up

by Hobbes881 on Aug 3, 2010 7:10 PM CDT up reply actions

Replacing Minnesota with Notre Dame works for me.

We won’t have to worry about the Big Ten network.

by Texas Wahoo on Aug 3, 2010 6:11 PM CDT reply actions

Guess we now know MB's final season

will be 2014.

by edsp on Aug 3, 2010 6:26 PM CDT reply actions

Why?

by Hopkins Horn on Aug 3, 2010 7:09 PM CDT up reply actions

b/c I'm guessing..

..he thinks, just like HornChamps, that it is Will Muschamp that wants the tougher OOC games and not Mack.

by vy til i die on Aug 3, 2010 10:14 PM CDT up reply actions

But I like edsp's posts!

Don’t lump him in with that asshat, even if it turns out that they happen to think alike on this issue.

by Hopkins Horn on Aug 3, 2010 10:20 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

Umm, yeah +1

No doubter

"I live in the tower with Coach Brown." -Bevo

by run Bevo run on Aug 4, 2010 12:53 PM CDT up reply actions

id be shocked...

… if we are scheduling games based on the wishes of Muschamp.
Even Mack said a few times that the scheduling is not really in his hand and Deloss Dodd and the Athl. Dept takes care of it.
Correct me if I am wrong about the last sentence. But I damn sure no way they are doing stuff for Muschamp given that so much can happen from now to 2014-15

by vanterminatorhorn on Aug 4, 2010 1:07 AM CDT up reply actions

So let me get this right...

…just one week after we cancel the Minnesota series set for 2015-16, ostensibly over “video rights,” we somehow, completely coincidentally, manage to set a home and home with ND for the same years.

A home and home which would have been virtually impossible to schedule had Minnesota had remained on the schedule for those years, given that the Big 12’s round robin format will only allow for 3 OOCs a year, and Cal is already on the books for those years as well. Adding ND without subtracting Minnesota would have left a pretty difficult OOC slate of Cal, Minn and ND without and money games or Rice on the schedule.

But, of so conveniently, we found an out with Minnesota.

If I am inferring correctly, this might be even a more dishonorable backing out of an OOC contract than that made-up fiasco with Hawaii back in 1999, which was pretty shameful. (No matter what others think of us, I would hope that other schools could trust us when they have our signatures on a freakin’ contract!!!)

by Hopkins Horn on Aug 3, 2010 7:21 PM CDT reply actions

HH, Minnesota just took a Westbrook.

You gotta have a better late pitch than that.

by whills on Aug 3, 2010 7:24 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs

Is there any reason to think there will be a similar video rights problem with ND?

And were there signatures? I thought we just had an agreement in principle, pending the resolutions of smaller issues.

by Texas Wahoo on Aug 3, 2010 8:23 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions

its very possible...

… that we were in contact with ND for home-home series in some other yrs and when the deal fell through with MN, we figured it out with ND. Or, ND might have contacted us after they found out that MN had been dropped to take their place.
I think it could have been a no. of things. What you are guessing as a scenario that took place is simpl pure speculation in my opinion…

by vanterminatorhorn on Aug 4, 2010 8:16 AM CDT up reply actions

You gotta break some eggs to make an omlette

Minnesota has a few years to recover and schedule another game.

Scheduling ND works for Texas on a lot of levels right now, especially with the conference re-org.

by notsofst on Aug 4, 2010 10:42 AM CDT up reply actions

Texas called an audible

In the George Costanza sense of the term. I’m not happy with the way it was handled, but “We couldn’t agree over television rights” sounds a lot nicer than “We just weren’t that into you, Minnesota.”

Who’d you rather play, a middle-tier Big 10 team, or the most storied program in college football history? That’s an easy one.

Lots of doubt this series would ever happen, though. I’ll believe it when I see it.

by windycityhorn on Aug 4, 2010 11:04 AM CDT up reply actions

the most storied program in college football history

Careful, some aggie’s might get confused about you suddenly bringing A&M into the conversation.

by UTLawGrad on Aug 4, 2010 1:18 PM CDT up reply actions

2-8

We’re 2-8 against the Domers. A four-game series like the Tribune is reporting could get Texas a lot closer to .500.

It's a Horns' world. Even Aggies play hoops with a burnt orange ball.

by Speedway on Aug 4, 2010 1:15 PM CDT reply actions

Yeah, too bad it's not a 6-game series

I think mad scientist (Kelly) vs. accomplished subject-matter fundamentalist (Muschamp) will be a clash of titanic proportions, like that boat and that iceberg.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

by burntorangehorn on Aug 4, 2010 3:37 PM CDT up reply actions