Well, this should be awkward for some folks…
Why do I have the feeling Fox wasn’t going to let ESPN get a win here?
Well, this should be awkward for some folks…
Texas and Oklahoma will join the SEC in 2025, as parties couldn’t come to terms amid a complex negotiation between two schools (OU/Texas), two networks (ESPN/FOX) and the Big 12.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) February 3, 2023
Why do I have the feeling Fox wasn’t going to let ESPN get a win here?
“And Georgia fans, don’t be turds. Enjoy this. Soak it up. It’s awesome. If you don’t win this year, it’s still not a failure. It’s a heck of a run. Back-to-back in the Playoff era hasn’t been done. So, to ask for a third I feel like it’s gluttonous. I feel like it’s not OK. But we’ll be in the mix.”-- David Pollack, On3.com, 5/9/23
money didn’t triumph
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Can we drop Ball State and reschedule Oklahoma now?
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That’s why we lost Oklahoma in the first place. ESPN did not want Fox to get the ‘win’ here. I’m absolutely convinced of that.
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Yup
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In my dreams the whole thing will implode.
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I’d “like” this a thousand times if I could…exactly how I feel
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Even though it’s about $$$$$, the addition, will be more of taking an unwanted girlfriend to homecoming, vs the prom queens sister, who made the prom queen look ugly….
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“When I showed up at the door with a date for the senior prom
They said: “Well, pardon us son, she ain’t no kid
“That’s a cocktail waitress in a Dolly Parton wig
I said: “I know it dad, ain’t she cool, that’s the kind I dig”
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Texas saw that trip to UH and really started sweating it. Just wait until they have to go to Starkville every year. LOL.
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i would be in favor of just cutting Texas and OU loose now. Who needs them? They’re basically telling me “Sure, we are going to wreck the thing that made the SEC special, regional rivalries, by adding two teams that nobody except TAMU cares about at all, but hey, bigger tv deal!” I bet TAMU doesnt even want Texas in the SEC, partly because Texas has wrecked every conference it’s been in for the last 60 years. Do I care about losing the annual UGA/AU game, or the semi annual trip to Nashville, so we can play in places like College Station or Starkville or Fayetteville more often? Uh, NO. Truth be told, I would be happy to cut TAMU and Missouri loose, too.
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Head, meet nail. I was told that TAMU and Missouri would blend in over time. No. They’ve both been in the league for more than a decade now and still feel like B12 teams to me. It still doesn’t feel like a real “conference game” when we play them. Hell we still haven’t even played at Kyle field. Send em all to the Big10 so they can be the Big20 and have more teams to send to the Playoff to get their asses kicked by the SEC.
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I’m on record early saying this would eventually bite us in the ass. These 2 schools are a clown show of egos, especially Texas. This is just the beginning. They already wrecked our 2023 schedule for no reason. I expect Texas to cause constant problems for the SEC once they come on board. Ultimately they need us more than we need them. But at the end of the day, more money is all that matters.
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Well said!
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Way to go Fox! holding off expansion is a Win for the fans.
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Yet another glaring sign that those two programs shouldn’t be in the SEC. All involved parties have now had more than one opportunity to call it.
Texas and Oklahoma have managed to nearly alienate themselves from both conferences. I’ll never understand announcing that you’re leaving when you aren’t actually ready.
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