Texas: Glory Days

[Inquisitor95]

this thread has probably run it's course
what's the over/under on how many more posts until the toilet bowl???

Surprised it's not there already.

 

[Brasky]

This is how Texas fans think, Texas had nothing to do with destroying the SWC and had nothing to do with the near meltdown of the Big 12.

Please read ANY news story of the Big 12 Conference Meetings in 2010. Some big news happened then.

https://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1090747

The story was leaked by ORANGEBLOODS that Texas and five other schools were joining the PAC 10. Deloss Dodds(through a subordinate, probably Cleve Bryant) was the one feeding Chip Brown his inside tips that he had.

The Big 12 Meetings ended in an uproar. William Powers(Tesas President), who had a press conference scheduled that day, canceled out and went out the BACK DOOR to avoid the press. Same with the Texas BUTT boy Dan Nero Beebe. Both weasels went out the back door together to avoid the press.

From the Big 12 Itself

Ten Days In June - Big 12 Conference - Official Athletic Site

On Thursday, June 5, the meetings were moving toward critical mass. The athletic directors and school presidents were scheduled to hold joint meetings. That afternoon, Orangebloods.com, a Rivals.com site dedicated to UT sports, reported that the Pac-10 was prepared to expand to 16 teams by inviting six Big 12 schools - Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Colorado.

"That news pretty much ended that day's meetings," said Donnie Duncan, a former Big 12 associate commissioner and one of Beebe's advisors during the crisis.

Nearly 40 media representatives became frustrated and curious when Beebe cancelled a scheduled news conference. Reading the tea leaves, many believed that the Pac-10's offer was a game changer for the Big 12's future.

Pac 12 Larry Scott flies around Big 12 extending invitations

Canzano: As Larry Scott delivers Pac-10 invitations, Pat Kilkenny's jet and deal-making mind soars | OregonLive.com

Rumors of Pac-10 raid on Big 12 causes stir at meetings

Rumors of Pac-10 raid on Big 12 causes stir at meetings | www.statesman.com

Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe, who was scheduled to address the media Thursday, abruptly canceled his daily briefing. He told reporters he wouldn't have anything to say until today. The league presidents finish the Big 12 meetings with a four-hour session this morning.


A link from Lubbock, Texas

Big 12's future remains cloudy as spring meetings open | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal


Sports Illustrated on A&M to SEC

Texas A&M may have choice of Big 12, Pac-10, SEC - Andy Staples - SI.com


Here is one on how Ohio State unofficially had talks with Texas and their Texas Tech Problem

Big 12 meetings update: Texas apparently has a 'Tech' problem - TheGazette

From San Francisco

Pac-10 expansion: The Texas conspiracy theory | College Hotline


here is one from 2011 and the LHN and High School Games, something that Texas forgot to mention at the 2011 Big 12 Meetings, because Texas had signed the ESPN Contract on December 24, 2010, six months BEFORE the 2011 Big 12 Meetings.

R. Bowen Loftin transcript on Big 12, SEC and Longhorn Network - Aggies

From Abilene Texas

SOUNDING OFF: Longhorns to blame for big trouble in the Big 12 » Abilene Reporter-News

Let us not forget about Oklahoma wanting out of the Big 12 in September 2011 because of one school

Oklahoma Wants Beebe Out - Big 12 Hoops

Texas' Longhorn Network creating drama with Texas A&M, Big 12 - Andy Staples - SI.com

Oklahoma will consider staying in Big 12, but wants reform, according to report - ESPN

Oklahoma has also demanded that Texas modify some of its plans for the Longhorn Network. Big 12 members were angered by the network's agreement with Fox Sports to move a conference game to the Longhorn Network and its decision to show high school highlights after the Big 12 voted to keep televised high school games off school-branded networks.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Report Says Oklahoma Is Leaving The Big 12 - Business Insider

Oklahoma-Texas officials met Sunday in Norman - CBSSports.com

Report: Oklahoma wants out and Big 12 is 'done' - CBSSports.com

Texas, Oklahoma, everyone loses if realignment blows up Big 12 - Michael Rosenberg - SI.com

Texas knew it was in trouble in September 2011, Texas people NEVER want to leave the borders of Texas, but Deloss Dodds and William Powers flew to NORMAN to throw money at OU to stay, also promises were made about a Sooner Network, which three years later, have not been met

Report: Oklahoma Wants Out of Big 12

https://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1259825

From the Dallas Forth Worth TV Station

Both Texas and Oklahoma regents have allowed their schools to look elsewhere

Oklahoma & Texas Clear Path To Possibly Leave Big 12 « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth


Form Your own conclusions

BTW, Texas has lost over 40% of their football games over the last four years. That is under 60%. Usually that is an F in college. Unless you attend the University of Texas, then your name is Vince Young.

 

[charlie42s]

I notice no mention of the discussions between Delany and Perlman in January 2010, nor the secret meetings that UNL officials had with Big Ten.

The Big Ten Decision - Omaha.com

But Perlman didn't really share those geographic concerns. In fact, he actually would end up voting to play the title game in Dallas for the next several years. “I wasn't prepared to sit in Kansas City in the cold,'' Perlman said.

And on the issues of greatest import, “Nebraska was getting largely what it wanted,'' Perlman said.

While some schools complained about the league's unequal distribution of revenue from network TV contracts, Nebraska wasn't among them. It joined Texas as a strong proponent of giving big-time football schools — those most appealing to the networks — a bigger slice of the pie.

Plus, Perlman said, the Big 12 had just recently completed important conversations about whether to form its own TV network for secondary sports programming, akin to the Big Ten's.

While many have blamed Texas and its plans to start its own Longhorn TV network as the reason a Big 12 network never got off the ground, Nebraska wasn't on board with a conference network, either. Nebraska's support was conditional on the high-profile schools taking a larger cut of that revenue, too — a condition some schools strongly opposed.

 

[HuskerinBig10]

LOL, every school is in negotiations with every other conference just about every day.

DUH!!! Of course Nebraska had secret meetings with the B1G that is why Nebraska was invited and accepted so quickly.

In 2010, Texas negotiated with Big Ten, ACC, and PAC 10. In 2010, Oklahoma negotiated with the SEC and PAC 10. In 2010, Texas A&M negotiated with PAC 10 and SEC.


Some more cool links

Document: AD Bill Byrne rips 'tu'; says DeLoss Dodds says he can control ESPN, but actually he can't

Death of 1000 Doc

Baylor's Ken Starr begs Texas A&M Bowen Loftin to stay in Big 12

Starr Loft in Doc

 

[Texas Jefe]

An awful lot of research and time dedicated to a team that's not even in the B1G.

 

[HuskerinBig10]

I guess Texas has a history of secret meetings. Texas also flirted with the PAC 10 and the Big Ten in the early 1990s. Stanford vetoed Texas in the 1990s. The Big Ten had a moratorium on expansion at the time because they just added Penn State.

Texas started having secret meetings in Dallas, Texas, with the Big Eight in 1993. The Big Eight HAD to go to Texas because Texas would not fly out of their borders.

Quote from Jon Wefald, "We can't tell Texas they're coming up to Kansas City so we met at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport."

Matter of fact, these secret meetings caused quite the political uproar in Texas. Governor Ann Richards was involved. Ann Richard's is a Baylor Alum.

You can google Kansas State University Jon Wefald, Texas President William Cunningham until 1992, Texas President Bob Berdahl 1993 for your own information.


In 1996, Texas bailed on rivalries with
Rice since 1915
SMU since 1918
TCU since 1923
Houston since 1976

For a Texas poster to claim Nebraska bailed on rivalries, well it takes one to know one.

 

[HuskerinBig10]

Simkins Hall Name Change? Texas Dorm Named For KKK Leader May Be Renamed

Simkins Hall Name Change? Texas Dorm Named For KKK Leader May Be Renamed

The issue sparked in May after former Texas law professor Tom Russell published an online article detailing resistance by the university to integration in the 1950s and 1960s. Texas named the dorm after Simkins in 1954, the same year the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision ended legal segregation.

In a campus speech in 1914 and an article two years later in the alumni magazine, Simkins said he never drew blood as a Klansman. He did, however, admit to assaulting a black man, participating in a train robbery and sowing fear in Florida's "black belt" as a masked night rider.

When a white woman in Florida complained of being insulted by a black man, Simkins wrote, "I seized a barrel stave lying near the hotel door and whipped that darkey down the street."

So, in 2010 Texas renames the dorm and promptly lose 7 games. Losing five games at DKR in Austin, Texas.

Being the first team to have played for a national championship one year and then the next year to have a losing record. Plus, Texas has lost over 40% of their games over the last four years.

Obviously, the glory years were before 2010.

 

[BigRedMoe]

I think we should discuss tomatoes in this thread too.

 

[HuskerinBig10]

Here is a good one, written by Tom Palaima.

Here is his University of Texas BIO

https://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/classics/faculty/palaima

From 2008-2011, he was UT representative on the national Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics. His COIA reports for 2009, 2010 and 2011 can be found by searching the UT Faculty Council Web site.

He might actually know some dirt on Texas. Yes, yes he does.

Enforcing the 'Double Standard'
Major college sports insanity is entrenched at UT-Austin

"Summing up, here are my honest views after fifteen years of looking at UT's version of NCAA big-sport athletics up close, in person, and as inside as any faculty member who has not bought into, or been bought off by, the system ever gets."


Enforcing the 'Double Standard': Major college sports insanity is entrenched at UT-Austin - News - The Austin Chronicle

Nevertheless, this administrative doctrine makes it possible for the chief academic officers at UT to sign off on decisions made in a sports silo by a set of cronies with virtually no check on their opinions, values, decisions, or claims.

These cronies have the support of the regents and of the members (including regental appointees) of the Men's Athletics Council. Figures within the academic administration and on the faculty who should resist – when, for example, Athletics takes royalty and trademark revenues away from academics, or seriously reduces payouts to the UT Co-op – do not resist, because they know they would be risking their own positions of power, money, and comfort.

Until 2006, Athletics gave virtually nothing back to the academic mission. Since the national championship and setting up of the Longhorn Network, claims are made that the football program gives back $15-20 million annually to the university. Such claims should not be taken at face value. The back in "give back" is the truly operative word. Relatively small funds are truly "given" by Athletics to the university for academics and research unrelated to the primary interests of Athletics. Allocation of these funds is not under the control of the faculty. They have been controlled and distributed by the president strategically.

 

[Inquisitor95]

 

[Inquisitor95]

 

[charlie42s]

They're obsessed with shit they started 4 years ago. I guess they aren't really happy with the move to the Big Ten.

 

[HuskerinBig10]

They're obsessed with shit they started 4 years ago. I guess they aren't really happy with the move to the Big Ten.

Let me guess, your real name is bliss, as in, "Ignorance is Bliss."

 

[charlie42s]

4 years and they can't let it go. Is it possible they are masochist and liked losing to Texas?

 

[HuskerinBig10]

Nope. We enjoy calling some Texas posters ignorant.

Especially when it is true.

Charlie42s, you are ignorant.

 

[Steelboy84]

Lmfao @ this thread

 

[TexasExes98]

Simkins Hall Name Change? Texas Dorm Named For KKK Leader May Be Renamed

Simkins Hall Name Change? Texas Dorm Named For KKK Leader May Be Renamed

The issue sparked in May after former Texas law professor Tom Russell published an online article detailing resistance by the university to integration in the 1950s and 1960s. Texas named the dorm after Simkins in 1954, the same year the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision ended legal segregation.

In a campus speech in 1914 and an article two years later in the alumni magazine, Simkins said he never drew blood as a Klansman. He did, however, admit to assaulting a black man, participating in a train robbery and sowing fear in Florida's "black belt" as a masked night rider.

When a white woman in Florida complained of being insulted by a black man, Simkins wrote, "I seized a barrel stave lying near the hotel door and whipped that darkey down the street."

So, in 2010 Texas renames the dorm and promptly lose 7 games. Losing five games at DKR in Austin, Texas.

Being the first team to have played for a national championship one year and then the next year to have a losing record. Plus, Texas has lost over 40% of their games over the last four years.

Obviously, the glory years were before 2010.

Speaking of 2010:


Texas Longhorns vs. Nebraska Cornhuskers - Recap - October 16, 2010 - ESPN. It was sad losing 7 games at DKR, but at least we stayed undefeated at our 2nd home in Lincoln......

 

[charlie42s]

A poster is trying to embarrass Texas by bringing up something that happened 100 years ago. Utterly and completely lame. LMAO

 

[TexasExes98]

An extremely obsessed poster is trying to embarrass Texas by bringing up something that happened 100 years ago. Utterly and completely lame. LMAO

FIFY. Dude, PsychoinBig10 has his head all up Bevo's asshole 24/7. Should have seen him over at ESPN. Stage 5 clinger.......

 

[HuskerinBig10]

Speaking of 2010:


Texas Longhorns vs. Nebraska Cornhuskers - Recap - October 16, 2010 - ESPN. It was sad losing 7 games at DKR, but at least we stayed undefeated at our 2nd home in Lincoln......

Rule 2 of Irrelevance - Living in the past to reclaim the glory. as defined by TexasExes on ESPN


TexasExes brings up a 2010 game(which is in the past), but I guess it is relevant as a Texas victory over Nebraska is glory for them.

Since Colorado, Nebraska, Texas A&M, and Missouri have left the Big 12 Texas has lost over 40% of their games and has become irrelevant. If Texas can force out Oklahoma, Texas tried in 2011, Texas can surely win the Big 12. Don't you think?

The answer to the thread is 2005-2009 was Texas Glory Days.

BTW, texas posters, you can thank texasexes for turning me into a poster that loves to dig up dirt on Texas. His posts on ESPN were mostly fabricated, and I learned that when you get in the mud with Texas Posters they get very whiney. Because internet bullies do not like people that stand up to them.