(06-12-2019 07:00 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(06-12-2019 06:39 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(06-12-2019 03:14 PM)esayem Wrote:  

(06-12-2019 11:05 AM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(06-12-2019 10:03 AM)esayem Wrote:  I've been hearing about this for quite some time. I don't think it will happen, but if it does, the ACC would welcome Notre Dame and Texas as full members.

It is my opinion that Texas will continue to fight to commandeer their own conference much the same way ND fights for independence. Right now, the Big XII is stronger than any incarnation of the Big East football conference (a conference that was considered power, and then BCS). Even if Texas loses Oklahoma as a conference mate, the Big XII will still be considered a P5 league. So it comes down to what Texas wants. I say they continue to run their own ship with some hodgepodge of old SWC, Big 8, Big East, MWC, and C-USA teams.

My prediction: the Big XII remains P5 with or without Oklahoma, and the playoffs expand to 8 (although I believe 12 is ideal).

Yeah so would every conference in the country, but it's not going to happen. Texas isn't going to join an eastern conference. The ACC is the one power conference I can assure you they wont join. SEC, B1G or even the PAC. The PAC is the one Power Conference that Texas has the best chance of throwing it's weight around in. They also have the most room for the Longhorns to bring some friends with them.

Oh and Notre Dame isn't joining any conference.

When I said 4 conferences and 4 slots I didn't mean on the books autobids, but assumed autobids with a top 4 ranked Irish team getting in over a conference champ

Texas, Miami, and FSU has a nice Gulf Coast ring to it.

I'll tell you what Texas won't do: they won't join a Northern/Midwestern league and they won't follow their little brother to the SEC. Why? They don't have to and besides, why haven't they done it already?

The Pac? I don't think they like the time zone, so that leaves the ACC, the one conference that is both mainly Southern and an academic fit.

Regardless, your four conference theory makes absolutely no sense if you weren't implying auto-bids. Why does it matter if there are four power conferences then? Texas will not join those other conferences when they can run the Big XII, and independence doesn't really make sense then either.

I love the ACC fans here, they can talk themselves into anything. hahahaha Texas is a gulf coast school now huh?

I suppose they could relocate to Galveston. What puzzles me is that the ACC really doesn't have anyone on the Gulf. Florida State may be the closest and by water Miami could at least reach the Gulf. But that's it. And absolutely no discussion is ever made as to how the Texas non revenue sports would access the ACC and do so at great expense in travel and lost time for student athletes. Texas will never go that route.

Texas has to fly pretty much anywhere unless they commandeer their own conference which is, wait for it, what I said in the first place.

If it comes to it, sorry they aren’t following little brother. It’s pretty much moot once the plane takes the sky. Texas has a more similar vision to Notre Dame than they do TAMU. Whether they land in Mississippi or Atlanta is their choice.