(06-03-2014 03:05 PM)CoogNellie Wrote: (06-03-2014 02:11 PM)bullet Wrote: The A&M president said on an Aggie website that he had already decided to leave the year before when CU and NU left.
If this is true it speaks volumes about the 'character' of Texas A&M.
actually I don't think that is exactly what he said
http://www.shaggybevo.com/board/showthre...-departure
the closest he comes is here
Q: You’ve said that this was a 100-year decision. How did you finally make it?
Loftin: Back in 2010 as I was looking at this whole problem here—and I’m an analytical kind of guy—I was looking for a way to present this to the board the whole time. I did an analysis looking at 21 different issues that deal with conference affiliation for the Pac-12 vs. a reduced Big 12 vs. the SEC. It showed me that the preponderance of compatibility was with the SEC, so I had that in my mind a year and three months ago as an outcome of that analysis. Nothing had really changed about that. It’s the same basic analysis. We looked at land grant heritages, cultures, and fan bases. You find a lot of similarities with Texas A&M and the majority of schools in the SEC.
I also had (vice president for marketing and communications) Jason Cook looking at issues such as branding, brand value, licensing, revenue and things like that. We went a little bit deeper this time in a few areas we hadn’t looked at before as carefully. I must say Regent Jim Wilson is probably my Siamese twin. Jim is the most active person with his strong interest and background. We worked together last year and this year.
also here
Q: Did you always feel the SEC was a viable option for A&M?
Loftin: In June of 2010 after we made the decision to stay in the Big 12, the first conversation I had was with Mike Slive. We were talking about maybe going to the SEC at that point, so I owed that to Mike and said, “Mike, this is the direction we are going right now, and I want you to know that I really appreciate the interaction we have had over the last several months.†We talked a couple times in the fall of 2010, then I ran into him physically at the Cotton Bowl and we just had a social conversation. I always had a sense that the doorway there was not closed to us and we could certainly come back and talk about this in the future.
here is one part where he tells an outright lie though
Q: In the summer of 2010, there was plenty of conference realignment talk. What brought everything back up in 2011?
Loftin: Let me take you back to June of 2009. I was interim president and within a few days of that time, I attended my first Big 12 board meeting in Dallas. Even though the presidents who were there were obviously civil and got along pretty well, it was clear there was some degree of difficulty within the conference then in terms of relationships. I call it the haves and have-nots. It was very clear which schools had money, and we were sort of in the middle of that pack.
here is the Big 12 05-06
http://web.archive.org/web/2008051006414...id=2392213
A&M is 3rd that is solidly in the top 25% not somewhere sort of in the middle
in 07-08 A&M was 4th out of 12 in revenue sharing
http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/...ring-funds
only an aggie would call being solidly in the top 3rd "sort of in the middle of the pack"
here they are for 08-09
http://www.turfburner.com/the-feed/item/...stribution
A&M is 5th only 200k behind 4th place MU.....MU that as noted in this article complained a lot about unequal revenues
http://web.archive.org/web/2010061720003.../706139829
not surprisingly NU suddenly was no longer happy when they fell to 8th
but we can see here at least one team knew who was full of BS
http://www.bringonthecats.com/2007/8/16/165516/532
Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman said on KC's 810 sports today he isn't for a revenue change (no word on what Steve Pederson thinks about it...or if he's even still alive). Bill Byrne is a former Nebraska guy and now at another of the top four money schools, so I doubt he's for the change. I have no idea what OU thinks about this, but there's little reason to believe they're for it.
so June of 2007 the chancellor of NU was quoted from the radio saying that unequal revenue for the big 12 was not going to change and former NU AD that was at A&M surely would think the same since A&M was somewhere sort of in the top 1/3rd
and it is also pretty clear that back in 2010 he was being an "ANALytical guy and doing a bunch of maths stuffs to make a strong comparison fo Texas A&M and the SEC SEC SEC to "present it to the board" (of regents) and then he says "so I had that in my mind a year and three months ago as an outcome of that analysis. Nothing had really changed about that."
so while not admitting that he had fully decided to join the SEC SEC SEC he had had it in his mind from his ANALysis that the SEC was where A&M belonged and he clearly misrepresents A&Ms position as far as TV revenue in the Big 12 and their position on revenue sharing just as NU misrepresented their position on it as well when they left for the Big 10
it is also amazing how many blame UT for ruining the conference when so many others like A&M and MU stated time and again "the big 12 is where we want to be" and "we are working to save the Big 12" before they left and UT stayed and the Big 12 has remained together for 2-3 seasons since then and will for at least a 4th and probably many more
and here is another interesting fact about the "100 year ANALysis" from bowtie
Q: Will there be a significant financial windfall for A&M once it officially joins the SEC?
Loftin: We are not going to necessarily see huge TV revenue shifts from going to the SEC. We’ll probably see some, but Jason can tell you that we have the opportunity to do much more with licensing revenue and things like that. We will be competing in national venues vs. regional venues as far as visibility, and that has a big value. So, we see revenue enhancements not just from the TV contracts, but from other areas, as well, that will give us more opportunities to be able to do what we have to do in athletics here as far as keeping coaches and attracting coaches and things like that.
maybe 10th mountain needs to raise bowtie on the shortwave radio and let him know about "next year" or is it "3 years from now" or is it "in 10 years".......or maybe 2525!!!
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