(03-03-2020 10:44 AM)texowl2 Wrote:  sad but the bold has been evident for many many years. I never forget a conversation I had with Mike Pede 15 or so years ago how they had cut his promotional budget since they were solely focused on spending and not net. I still think Texas will go to the PAC as I don't think that the B1G wants to deal with their ego, thus either K State or Iowa St. PAC will get UT, BYU, and 2 from Baylor, Tech, TCU, Boise, AFA, or Colorado St. BIG 12 3.0 will be like the rest-second status.

The "Rice Way" focused solely on cutting spending rather than generating revenues for at least 40 years. Unfortunately that time frame overlaid the period when major programs and select academically elite schools that chose to play big-time athletics--Stanford, Duke being the leaders--made conscious efforts to tap into the revenue opportunities available. Rice didn't. I remember a meeting of football and other lettermen with Hackerman at the Owl Club, at the time of the firing of Ray, where Hackerman kept complaining that athletics had to cut spending because it was overspending its budget. I asked him directly if the problem was exceeding budgeted expenses or shortfalls in revenues, and he responded that it was 100% revenue shortfalls. That was indicative of the thinking of Rice toward athletics at the time.

I don't think PAC will take BYU or Baylor or TCU, since they currently have a policy of not taking a religious school. I think tOSU has an even bigger ego than TexasU, and the B1G lives with that. I would love to be at the first B1G meeting when the Horns start telling everybody else that they don't know how to run a conference.