(07-25-2019 01:12 AM)jrj84105 Wrote: Bullet,
Maybe it’s because you need to bend things around to fit some narrative that UT was the savior of the BigXII rather than the program that sacrificed Nebraska, Missouri, A&M, Colorado, and potentially the future stability of the conference to get its LHN. For whatever purpose your adherence to the Chip Brown/UT version of events serves, it precludes you ever having a grasp of what happened then or what could happen prospectively.
It’a a waste of time to pull the same links that you’ve ignored previously because no matter what Loftin, Scott, Neinas, Hill, etc say on the record after the fact, you’re still going to stick with wild speculation and media gap-filling from 2010 to form your narrative. So be it.
But here’s a quick grab from ISU’s discussion of Scott’s travels as it happened. I can’t think of a more neutral party source than ISU.
And yes, the planned flight to KC, which never happened, did have Utah folks worried because that was not in the playbook before Scott arrived in Texas. (I’ll let you sleuth around and figure out which school president let slip that the PAC wanted to replace OSU with KU last minute)
As we’ve had several presidents and key figures go on the record in the last few years, each providing stories that are consistent with each other, one has to decide which version of the events to believe: the version told by presidents, ADs, and commissioners several years later or the speculation and insinuations of reporters as it happened in 2010.
I’ll put the ball in your court and ask you to find one on-the-record interview with an AD, school president, or commissioner which contradicts any aspect of these accounting of events:
https://theathletic.com/1083080/2019/07/...10-big-12/
https://theathletic.com/1091572/2019/07/...c-program/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/247sports.c...13965/Amp/
Athletic is behind a pay wall.
As for the Utah sports board that you linked:
First the former Utah president now Aggie president-didn't think OU could go without Oklahoma St. Then he totally messes up facts. The Longhorn network did NOT exist in 2010.
"...I surmised the following: Oklahoma probably would be tough to go because it would be hard for them to leave Oklahoma State for political reasons. The legislature may not even let them do it. [Oklahoma president David] Boren wants to do something spectacular, but I don’t know if they can go without Oklahoma State and the Pac-10 won’t take Oklahoma State. That’s my strong suspicion.
Two, you are articulating this vision of equality in the conference in terms of distribution. You want to set up a network like the Big Ten network, things like that. UT won’t give up its television network. It’s a huge cash cow for UT. They cannot do it. They won’t do it. Which is why some schools have left the Big-12 already because they’re so fed up with that. I said it just isn’t going to happen. And unless you’re willing to swallow really hard and allow that to continue, and my guess is that USC and UCLA won’t do that...."
Then the Utah AD:
He "thought" but didn't know.
"...So as long as they got Colorado in their mind, then they’ve got to get another one and we were that school because they didn’t go to 16. If they went to 16, I still to this day don’t know if we’re in or out. I thought it would be us and Kansas, but who knows...."
https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregon...ac-10.html
"...On Saturday he flew from Concord, Calif., to Oklahoma City, where he met with officials from Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. Then on Sunday it went from Oklahoma City into Texas, where it landed in College Station (Texas A&M) before continuing on to Lubbock (Texas Tech) and then on to Austin (Texas). After handing out all those invitations there was one more stop on the itinerary, Kansas City (Kansas).
“The university presidents have access to something like that,” Kilkenny said of his jet, “but the conference doesn’t.”
So that was that. Kilkenny insisted Scott take his jet, and get this deal done. ..."
So its you who have some agenda to make Utah more powerful than it was.
You got the invite and earned it. But don't distort history.