(08-17-2022 07:14 PM)cubucks Wrote:  

(08-17-2022 06:46 PM)esayem Wrote:  

(08-17-2022 03:35 PM)cubucks Wrote:  Hopefully someone can help me out with this. So, USC is valued at 30% of the entire PAC media contract. This appears to be the main argument? Not UCLA? Also, did the states of Texas and Oklahoma play these "games" when the SEC added them or is this just grandstanding for the California Governor?

The Big Ten betrayal continues!

It baffles me people don't understand this.

UCLA and Cal are part of the same SYSTEM

Oklahoma and Oklahoma State are NOT

Texas and Texas Tech are NOT

Does it baffle you?

Does it baffle you that the UC regents call a meeting because UCLA is impacting their system by leaving and yet all they wanted to discuss was the impact a private school has on this? This has nothing to do with what system school A or B is in, which I'm well aware of.

The governor of California is grandstanding more than anything else. This is why I asked of Texas and Oklahoma, it's nothing to do with school systems, as the regents proved today. I was curious if those states had a governor that threw a fit because one public school was benefiting more than another from abandoning a conference.

Straight baffled homie.

“Regents” is the keyword.

Cal DIII bound.

(08-17-2022 03:51 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(08-17-2022 03:35 PM)cubucks Wrote:  Hopefully someone can help me out with this. So, USC is valued at 30% of the entire PAC media contract. This appears to be the main argument? Not UCLA? Also, did the states of Texas and Oklahoma play these "games" when the SEC added them or is this just grandstanding for the California Governor?

The Big Ten betrayal continues!

The Texas legislature had hearings last year and dragged the UT president into a session so that legislators with ties to the left behind schools could get some sound bites for TV and social media purposes, but nothing substantively came of it. That appears to be the same purpose of this UC Regents session.

Now, the Texas and Texas A&M defections from the old SWC to join the Big 8 schools were an entirely different matter. As PetetheChop noted, Baylor and Texas Tech ended up in the Big 12 when the Texas state politicians got wind of the UT/A&M plan because the then-Governor Ann Richards had a Baylor degree and Lt. Governor Bob Bullock had degrees from both Baylor and Texas Tech and they intervened directly.

Texas House Democrats had fled to Washington DC denying a quorum so that the legislature could not redistrict or pass other legislation. Under House rules, without a quorum, the House could only do the pledges of allegiance, say a prayer. Committees could not meet.

Meanwhile, the Senate was in session, but had nothing to do. They had passed all the legislation, and they could hold committee hearings. So they held one on UT.

One senator suggested that UT had not been winning much lately. Doofus president of UT stated that UT had been winning, "just not as much as we would like to." A senator who is an alumna of TCU drolly observed, "3-7 vs Horned Frogs, maybe you'd rather lose to Alabama."

During the regular session in 2021, the National Champion Sam Houston State Bearkat football team were the only visitors permitted on the Senate floor due to COVID restrictions.

The Texas legislature only meets every two years, so any ceremony for the National Champion Mary Hardin-Baylor football team will likely wait until 2023.