yACCety yACC - UT interested in move to ACC?

Sorry i’m in the minority on this one. nice unis. not as nice as the Texas uniforms but nice.

I thought these uniforms were SICK. They mean nothing to us because we’re not from Maryland, but imagine if we (for one game of course) busted out with a helmet with a Lone Star on one half and a red and white stripe on the other (essentially, a Texas flag on the helmet) with a jersey to match. Yes we’d resemble the Houston Texans, but as Texans (read: “people from Texas”), we’d at least understand the significance. Don’t get me wrong – I think our uniforms are the most beautiful uniforms I’ve ever seen in any sport.

I’m digging the turtleshell helmets though.

For some reason, probably because my brain is warped by over a decade of South Park-viewing, the uniforms kept reminding me of the episode where they try to disguise butters as a dog by gluing hair on him.

A game of chicken? I agree with the article, Texas to the ACC is a little out there. If the story is to create leverage, it might be too much to believe.

Pretty sure Larry Scott heard about this and started laughing.

Let’s not worry about what happens on the field. Let Brown take care of the coaching end of things. Sit back and relax everyone.

I don’t think you can blame Texas. First, it would be foolish not to explore and evaluate all of your options. Second, ESPN.

Don’t discount espn’s role in all of this. ESPN is Kaiser Soze, they essentially finance 2/3 of college athletics and they own the Longhorn Network. They want to protect their turf. Texas may get the headlines as it looks around, but they have a very powerful ally lurking in their corner.

And I think as you’ve seen from the comments, most of us still believe we’ll be heading your way eventually. I should note, though, that the $20 mil/year Texas gets from the LHN is, I THINK (not entirely sure) a minimum rather than a maximum. If the network makes as much profit as ESPN seems to think it can, then Texas would actually stand to make much more money than they’d be able to under the Pac-12 TV deal.

Let’s also add that, while the feelings may have changed among fans, the fact of the matter is that Texas is a national brand and Oklahoma is not. The actual decision-makers would take Texas any day if Texas wanted in because the potential money generated by having Texas in your conference is too big to ignore.

Finally, going to the ACC or independent—while less preferable than joining y’all—would both be fine. Independence is highly unlikely, but if we did it we would almost certainly follow the ND model of football independence, conference affiliation in other sports. Being a member of a “power conference” is less important in other sports, and in any event somebody like the ACC would probably take us for everything but football anyway.

Joining the ACC, on the other hand, would not be crazy. We get a football conference that we could win in with some consistency, and a conference that is pleased as punch to have us—LHN and all—because they know they’re as likely to be poached and left for dead in the realignment armageddon as anyone, so we act as savior. Plus, we increase the profile of the basketball program, join a baseball conference more commensurate with our status, and get an academic affiliation more or less comparable to the Pac-12. That’s a winner.

-Main Pac-12 channel (which will carry 32 football games next year) will be on all the base cable packages
- Six regional channels (one for Oregon/Oregon State, USC/UCLA, Cal/Stanford) so if Texas did come there is a good chance it could have it’s own regional network depending on what school comes with you.

Other Key Facts
-Four largest Cable companies already signed up one year ahead of launch date
-Pac-12 owns all rights relating to the network, meaning they have complete control of creative, distribtution, and keep all revenues.
-The basic channel (carried on the base packages and available to everyone) will carry the following:
   -All football games (that aren’t on Fox or ESPN).
  -All men’s basketball games (that aren’t on Fox or ESPN).
  -40 women’s basketball games.
  -Best-of-the-best Olympic sports.
   -All spring football games
-Additionally the regional networks will probably carry a majority a of baseball, softball, and any other sports the regional network likes

Texas refuses to give up LHN, and we collect the leftover misfits (and entice Notre Dame & BYU) to form a new conference where your own network is available…no questions asked.

Only if we can have a Ted Dibiase one, with Dollar Bills signs, Gold and everything:

It’s actually been stronger than the SEC or Big 12 a few times the past decade, despite the lack of a national contender. The defense there is stronger than in the SEC at this point, with obvious exceptions.