Again i still don't see the power angle, yes I get that the "little 8" would support and do almost anything to keep UT and ou in the Big12.

But what is UT or ou really missing out on? LHN? That will go down to negotiations between UT, the SEC commish and ESPN. Maybe they flip it to an SEC West or SEC2 or SECSW channel which features a majority of the division UT resides in tier 3 content (ark,lsu,tech/ou, aggy, ole miss,msu, mizzu?) Or they do away with it completely and ESPN pays UT the difference in money they lose, or they just completely buy out the LHN.. who knows but it's not something hard to figure out.

I bet if you asked Larry Scott today if he would have agreed to let UT bring LHN with them along with ou,osu, and tech...he'd say yes in an instant. PAC network would have been carried from coast to coast. If UT was that close to heading west with CAL/Stanford.. why think they wouldn't come to the SEC if the right deal was in order? Because of 'Power"?