(03-31-2017 02:33 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(03-31-2017 12:06 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote:  

(03-30-2017 11:39 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(03-30-2017 08:05 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote:  

(03-30-2017 07:22 PM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  ....... The new Texas leadership doesn’t have the West Coast preference that their leaders circa 2010 had, so any new deal with the Pac-12 seems to be out. At the same time, the SEC continues to be simply a non-starter for the Longhorns.

I don't like using the word "NEVER", but ... Texas will never join the SEC. They've always had the academic snob factor over the SEC. So that is strike 1, but maybe a bigger strike would be Texas A & M in the SEC.

So ... it's really only a 3 conference "race" ... and I think "going west" won't be something Texas want's to do .. so ... it's REALLY only ...

.... Big Ten versus ACC.

Or football independence. Which honestly plays to the ACC's advantage. As they can do the "Notre Dame deal".


Time will tell.

And yet they have been in talks with the SEC three times since just prior to the '92 expansion. What folks say and what they will do are often two different things separated only by a justification. And in the years that are ahead of us money may be all the justification they need. And if not that they could always say they joined the conference that would give their brother state school Texas Tech a home as well.

Suffice it to say that in politics, business, and conference realignment there are no gestalts.

But ... A & M Is in the SEC now. And the A & M - Longhorn rivalry is VERY real. Texas AIN'T going to the SEC ... EVER.

Also -- at the end of the day, Texas won't sacrifice itself, to save Texas Tech. Or any other school in the state of Texas. They look out for themselves first, period.

This is Exactly why you can't rule anything out!

The SEC can be ruled out, because Texas A&M would block a Texas invite quicker than you can say "gig em aggies".