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1 hour ago, CastHorn said:

I know it would never happen, but the original Big12 South could flip the sport on its head overnight by re-forming some sort of Southwest Centric Conference. Texas and OU packing the prestige, Tech and A&M outbidding the field for Texas/Louisiana talent. The T Boone Foundation is still pumping dollars into OSU athletics, I think they could easily be an Ole Miss type in the portal lane if they wanted to. I wouldn’t invite Baylor. 
 

I’d start at 12. Maybe:

Texas, A&M, OU, Oklahoma State, Arizona, Kansas

Other Division: 

Arizona State, SMU, Colorado, Utah, Kansas State, Texas Tech 

 

Obviously you’re betting on Tech, SMU, Colorado, and ASU to pop off in NIL. If you wanted to go to 14, there is some intriguing regional options. College Sports will wither and die if national conference structures aren’t combatted. 
 

 

This is the worst fan fiction I've ever read.

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The Sun Belt going to Tripling down on the state of Louisiana is just lazy. Western Kentucky may be a good add in a new market but losing the Texas market as a whole is silly when Sam Houston is right there. Would add a solid FB and baseball member on Day 1

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Posted
1 hour ago, CastHorn said:

I know it would never happen, but the original Big12 South could flip the sport on its head overnight by re-forming some sort of Southwest Centric Conference. Texas and OU packing the prestige, Tech and A&M outbidding the field for Texas/Louisiana talent. The T Boone Foundation is still pumping dollars into OSU athletics, I think they could easily be an Ole Miss type in the portal lane if they wanted to. I wouldn’t invite Baylor. 
 

I’d start at 12. Maybe:

Texas, A&M, OU, Oklahoma State, Arizona, Kansas

Other Division: 

Arizona State, SMU, Colorado, Utah, Kansas State, Texas Tech 

 

Obviously you’re betting on Tech, SMU, Colorado, and ASU to pop off in NIL. If you wanted to go to 14, there is some intriguing regional options. College Sports will wither and die if national conference structures aren’t combatted. 
 

 

No.

You see some version of this pining for a SWC redo on other sites and in comment sections as people wax nostalgic for "regionality" in college football.  Let's all remember what regionality did for Texas:

  • Rampant cheating in the SWC
  • Baylor fucking us at the lege
  • TTech trying to fuck us
  • Bleachergate with UH
  • TCU, Tech, Baylor turning the Texas game into their annual jihad game
  • Those same teams restricting tickets for Texas fans into buying multi-game or season ticket packages just for the Texas game
  • Drafting off of Texas' massive fanbase and TV ratings, while simultaneously complaining about big bad Texas

Texas today is right where we should be, and where we need to be. We're in the top conference, where we get consistently pushed by other blue blood programs.  We are still a massive brand but we are one of many peers with Bama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, etc.  All teams that care a lot about football, and invest a lot into football, and have large fanbases.  Getting a lot more money is just a side effect of all that.

Fuck TTech and Baylor in their ungrateful bitch asses.  The only time we should play them again is in the playoffs, if they make it.

And BTW we're still regional.  We play OU, Arky, A&M, and LSU.

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Posted
44 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Came here for Texas State - PAC news and instead I get more hypothetical bullshit about Texas going back to the shitty Big 12. 

CDC must read this 💩 while he's on the can just for laughs

Posted
2 hours ago, CastHorn said:

I know it would never happen, but the original Big12 South could flip the sport on its head overnight by re-forming some sort of Southwest Centric Conference. Texas and OU packing the prestige, Tech and A&M outbidding the field for Texas/Louisiana talent. The T Boone Foundation is still pumping dollars into OSU athletics, I think they could easily be an Ole Miss type in the portal lane if they wanted to. I wouldn’t invite Baylor. 
 

I’d start at 12. Maybe:

Texas, A&M, OU, Oklahoma State, Arizona, Kansas

Other Division: 

Arizona State, SMU, Colorado, Utah, Kansas State, Texas Tech 

 

Obviously you’re betting on Tech, SMU, Colorado, and ASU to pop off in NIL. If you wanted to go to 14, there is some intriguing regional options. College Sports will wither and die if national conference structures aren’t combatted. 
 

 

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Posted
3 hours ago, Sir Ulrich said:

The Sun Belt going to Tripling down on the state of Louisiana is just lazy. Western Kentucky may be a good add in a new market but losing the Texas market as a whole is silly when Sam Houston is right there. Would add a solid FB and baseball member on Day 1

Sam Houston’s football stadium seats 12,000. They belong in FCS.

Louisiana Tech is a good fit for the Sun Belt (so is WKU).

Chasing markets is how CUSA fell below the Sun Belt in the pecking order. Markets at this level aren’t very important. Fan engagement and travel costs are the priority. ESPN/FOX aren’t paying for Sun Belt content for national audiences. They are paying for it to drive users to their streaming services/apps. Eyeballs are more important than markets at the G5 level.

(All that being said, I wouldn’t blame them for going after FIU for the size of the school and market)

Posted
17 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

Sam Houston’s football stadium seats 12,000.

As much as I like to shit on Sammy State, their stadium holds 14k.  Granted, they're currently putting $60M worth of renovations into it, and will end up with a capacity of...14K.  That's how high school the stadium is.

I do agree they should be in FCS...but truth told, I think TXST should be too, and Rice and UNT and UTSA and UTEP and 40+ other current FBS schools.

Posted
6 hours ago, CastHorn said:

I know it would never happen, but the original Big12 South could flip the sport on its head overnight by re-forming some sort of Southwest Centric Conference. Texas and OU packing the prestige, Tech and A&M outbidding the field for Texas/Louisiana talent. The T Boone Foundation is still pumping dollars into OSU athletics, I think they could easily be an Ole Miss type in the portal lane if they wanted to. I wouldn’t invite Baylor. 
 

I’d start at 12. Maybe:

Texas, A&M, OU, Oklahoma State, Arizona, Kansas

Other Division: 

Arizona State, SMU, Colorado, Utah, Kansas State, Texas Tech 

 

Obviously you’re betting on Tech, SMU, Colorado, and ASU to pop off in NIL. If you wanted to go to 14, there is some intriguing regional options. College Sports will wither and die if national conference structures aren’t combatted. 
 

Wow, major time warp. It's like I've been transported back to 10 years ago and we are back to realignment wish casting.

🙄

Posted
On 6/2/2025 at 3:03 PM, Al_4_ISU said:

Boise is a great road trip.  Mountains, good beer scene, etc.

Boise sucks.  Been there, won there, no need to go back to that shit hole. 

Posted
6 hours ago, CastHorn said:

I know it would never happen, but the original Big12 South could flip the sport on its head overnight by re-forming some sort of Southwest Centric Conference. Texas and OU packing the prestige, Tech and A&M outbidding the field for Texas/Louisiana talent. The T Boone Foundation is still pumping dollars into OSU athletics, I think they could easily be an Ole Miss type in the portal lane if they wanted to. I wouldn’t invite Baylor. 
 

I’d start at 12. Maybe:

Texas, A&M, OU, Oklahoma State, Arizona, Kansas

Other Division: 

Arizona State, SMU, Colorado, Utah, Kansas State, Texas Tech 

 

Obviously you’re betting on Tech, SMU, Colorado, and ASU to pop off in NIL. If you wanted to go to 14, there is some intriguing regional options. College Sports will wither and die if national conference structures aren’t combatted. 
 

 

Hell no,  I hear tooooo many TCU grey hairs longing for the good ole' days of the SWC and unless we are going all the way back to Dutch and 50's fuck no.  

As far as the group above, Texas has already been there and left it so why go back?  

 

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