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Clarence Beeks

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  1. What the PAC should have done when UT left them at the altar:

    While they were grabbing CU and Utah, they should have made a run at Tech and New Mexico.  The Lobos don't move the needle but they provide a scheduling bridge between Tech and the other PAC schools.  What West Virginia wouldn't give for a bridge school like Cincinnati right now.  Also, in 2010, the conference network model was based on subscription footprint.  Even though Tech is dogshite, they are in Texas.  That means the PAC network would be able to charge extra for the PAC network in every TV package sold in the state, just like the SEC does. 

    Of course, this is all hindsight dancing in fantasy disco, so might as well wish Dodds had tried to coax Arky and LSU into the Big12 instead of trying to make a run to the PAC. 

  2. I get the "Tell me about..." threads for schools in the Big12 (or formerly in the Big12), but this one is a little puzzling.  Is it because FSU was rumored to be leaving the ACC for the Big12 back in 2011?  If there's going to be a thread for every school that has a player selling hippie lettuce there won't be room for much else.

  3. On 4/4/2018 at 1:03 PM, Walden Ponderer said:

    Like everything else touched by their grubby hands and souls, it was destroyed by aggy, with an assist from cheating-assed midget schools like SMU.

    It was not destroyed by aggy.  It was destroyed by changes in the market.  Oklahoma successfully sued the NCAA to get access to TV revenue.  Once this happened, conference appeal to TV became ALL about the TV markets.  The SWC and the Big 8 were in deep trouble because their market footprint was decidedly smaller than that of their rival conferences.  Dodds and Joe Castiglione pow-wowed and agreed to a 10-team league by adding UT and A&M to the Big 8.  A hasty meeting was called shortly thereafter in Austin with Pete Delaney and Ann Richards.  These two, threatened to withhold state funding to the two largest school systems if Tech and Baylor were not allowed to tag along.  The Big 8 said, "Sure, whatevs."  The big dogs were already working on a revenue distribution model that would neuter programs like Tech and Baylor anyway so two more scroats to cut was no big deal.

    So, what killed the SWC was the fact that the SWC was a relic of a different era.  When the revenue model changed it was no longer viable and it died as a result.  UT didn't kill it, aggy didn't kill it.  It just went extinct.

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