http://twitter.com/chipbrownob Chip Brown has become a household name in every house west of Mississippi in less than a week. This is not just a rumor anymore, its happening.
Chip Brown also does radion here in Austin for 104.9 the Horn, the local ESPN affilitate, and in the past has covered the Dallas Cowboys and Longhorns for the Dallas Morning News. He is well connected in these parts. That said, what's happening is Chip has a well connected source over in Belmont Hall on campus that is purposely feeding him this info. Texas wants all of this known ... probably to pressure Nebraska and Missouri. No coincidence all of this new Pac-10 stuff and the "deadline" on MU and NU is overlapping.
So, when talk of the Big-10 expanding by sniping Nebbish and Misery began, I was a sad panda. Then there was a report where someone from Nebbish came out and said it was the stupidest thing they'd ever heard, and nobody had talked to them at all, and that if there had ever been such a discussion may God turn them into a gay fish, and I was a happy panda. Now I'm a sad panda again, and I think that Nebbish guy is a lying sack of shi-ites. I'm still enormously disappointed that the Big-10 would take Misery over us. Playing in that conference would be a dream come true. It'd be like playing Tulsa each week of the year, only, the media actually gives you credit and acts like Tulsa's a real team. Sigh.
This ^ Also, even if invites go out the Big 12 isnt breaking up just for the sake of breaking up. It will have to involve other circumstances
Yep. This is true. Texas is doing everything they can to keep the Big XII together by putting pressure on Nebraska, Mizzou and CU to commit to the conference now. The Baylor story is one that might spur CU to recommit to our conference before they (or Nebraska) know if they actually have an invite to another conference. Deloss Dodds has made it clear we want the Big XII to go forward. And he's adamant that Texas won't be the one to break it up.
It would suck if Chip Brown got it right and everyone forgets all the times he sold orangebloods subscribers a bill of goods.
I don't necessarily believe that Deloss Dodds is acting in anyone but his own best interest here. Maybe I'm wrong, but I could totally see Texas going independent and saying **** the world. Truth is, I wouldn't necessarily blame them. IMHO if they can go get paid, they should go get paid. OU would still play them every year so I wouldn't really care if they did it. OU would either go to the PAC or the SEC.
Umm, yeah he is. He was a beat reporter for the DMN (a top notch paper) for years and the orangebloods coverage is now the best source of UT info any place. So he was on national tv on every sports channel all last week because he's a blogger trying to sell subscriptions? Sorry but no.
Soooo, Texas did what it could to create an environment where conditions aren't favorable to its co-conference members. Now, Texas wants to force them to take it. That sounds about like Texas to me. And you wonder why so many other people hate the Longhorns so much...
The Big XII has been a good conference to UT. Of course he wants it to remain viable. He also wants to retire like now and doesn't want to be known as the guy who let the conference dissolve. Going independent isn't feasible. Would never happen. Texas is a regional school unlike ND who has fans in every state.
I get so tired of ignorant statements like this. What are you referring to exactly? Because most of the things that Nebraska complains about going back to the formation of the conference (including revenue sharing and having a conference title game and increasing academic standards) were 11:1 votes against Nebraska. But somehow it's all UT's fault. Guess what, guy, your school voted with UT every time. Let's hear some specifics and not just anti-UT blather.
If Texas can get paid, they should get paid. Period. If they devise a way to make more money going independent in football only then I don't see why they wouldn't do it? Loyalty? Pppffftttt......don't kid yourself. They can remain loyal in the other 17 or so sports they compete in, but if they can start exponentially increasing the amount of cash they get by signing a lucrative TV contract then I have zero problem with it and I don't think it's as far fetched as you do.
Texas wants the Big-12 to remain intact ... it is in their self interest. They are the top program in the nation in revenue ... are a power in football and baseball and very competitive in basketball. They are the top dog in the Big-12 ... why trade certainty and power for uncertainty? Now, has Texas hurt the conference overall ... possibly ... and that is in terms of a Big-12 network. That was pushed under Weiberg (sp?) but blocked (per rumor) by Texas as they wanted their own TV network and didn't want the competition as well as by Kansas and Nebraska who both had TV ideas of their own.
I don't know why you would assume this isn't Chip Brown's twitter. It's saying the same stuff that is being said at orangebloods. Dan Beebe's is obviously fake, however. It says "Fake Dan Beebe" under the name.
Listening to Chip at 1pm there were a few tidbits. The focus right now may shift back to South Bend and the Big-10 as they are in talks again. There is a rumor that the Big-10 may have some kind of deadling on the Irish like the Big-12 has on CU, NU, and MU ... probably because of that deadline. But, if the Irish were to cave and join the Big-10 the new 12 team league will probably stand pat and not offer anyone else. And, Nebraska may be alot higher in the pecking order for the Big-10 than Missouri now, So, if the Irish fall through Mizzou could still be sweating bullets. Also, Texas and Texas A&M will, according to te radio show, stay together. Bill Byrne's SEC talk of the past few weeks was more to placate Gene Stallings (former Alabama and A&M head coach) who is very hard core for the SEC move. Byrne isn;t as opposed to going west as some of his recent comments make it. Rick Perry (Tx Governor and A&M alum) wants the two to remain together. And, there is some talk that the Big-12 south is fairly united on all of this and may be working as a block.
