(07-08-2017 07:01 PM)lumberpack4 Wrote:  

(07-08-2017 06:51 PM)jaredf29 Wrote:  

(07-06-2017 11:42 AM)Kittonhead Wrote:  Just a thought here with all the talk about Texas being this coveted free agent.

In many ways the Texas brand has outgrown performance expectation. What I mean by this is there is know way the football team on the field can match the athletic ego the same way its been at Notre Dame for the past 30 years or so.

PAC could add KU/OU to 14 and Texas w/ ND type deal with a guarantee OU shows up on the PAC schedule.

Then Texas could trick out its home schedule with Notre Dame, Tennessee, Penn State a bunch of other programs who are no longer in it for the standings.

No. They'd have no interest in special treatment of Texas.

I think Texas as an independent is a product of their own ego. Outside of Texas what is the "hook" (pun intended). Notre Dame's hook is Catholics. BYU's hook is Mormans. If Baptists were rarer, that could be WF's or Baylor's national hook. Army and Navy have a national hook.

To be special as an independent I think you need something that causes people around the nation to be interested in you - a hook. I don't see that with Texas.

Some schools are independent because they have a choice. Others because they don't. Texas has a choice - and have had an even better one in the past. They may have a huge ego, but they are also smart enough to know you are right.

Texas needs to be in a conference, and one with a significant presence in their own state. Without both of those things, they will be very ordinary very fast.