The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem

[West Coast Johnny]

Is anyone wondering how the Sand-Aggies are getting an invite to the Pac-10? The Ohio State President leaked that the Whorns have a "Tech Problem" insinuating that Tech & UT are joined at the hip regarding conference realignement.

It seems like UT has a new bend-over [deleted] in Lubbock. Baylor is getting gealous.


http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sp ... ml?sid=101

Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee sent an e-mail to Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany on April 20 saying that he had spoken with Texas President William Powers.

"I did speak with Bill Powers at Texas, who would welcome a call to say they have a 'Tech' problem," Gee wrote in an e-mail that was among several obtained by The Dispatch through a public-records request for documents and correspondence related to Big Ten expansion proposals.

[Paladin]

well that will certainly "get their guns up" in Lubbuck...

[NickSMU17]

Just hitting the Chicago tribune

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/20 ... texas.html

[Stallion]

UT is not seriously interested in the Big 10. Nobody wants to play snowball in freezing temperatures and watch boring Big 10 football. Top Recruits are pouring into warm weather conferences for a reason. Big 10 will actually be weaker after new round of expansion-I love it.

[NickSMU17]

UT is not seriously interested in the Big 10. Nobody wants to play snowball in freezing temperatures and watch boring Big 10 football. Top Recrtuits are pouring into warm weather conferences for a reason. Big 10 will actually be weaker after new round of expansion-I love it.

You are dreaming....

[smupony94]

I have a tech problem. Too many pop ups on this site. At least firefox is blocking them

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

I have a tech problem. Too many pop ups on this site. At least firefox is blocking them

I agree...I frequent several mesaage board sites and this is by far the worst as far as pop-ups and ads that slow everything down, but they have to generate some money and the only way to do it as far as I know is ads, donations, or subscription. And we all know with the amount of super tight-wads on this site there would be a lot less activity on PonyFans if it became a subscription only site. What I wish and I think will be a common practice in the future is websites could offer both a subcription pop-up ad free access and at the same time offer the current pop-up crazy site for free to all the tight-wads.

[smupony94]

$50 Stallion/MM65 post free access would be nice

[Garret]

This is not surprising--remember last week the SEC Commissioner said that they would be interested in Texas and also thought highly of Texas A&M and Texas Tech. It sounded strange at the time that he was including Texas Tech, but I guess that was one requirement for any conference who wanted Texas.

[RednBlue11]

Texas isnt going anywhere, they dont have to share any coin from that top dollar rev program they have.

[gostangs]

Are they referring to the Tech problem as a Tx legislature issue? Nobody has really discussed how the legislature comes down on this - are they going to stand by and see the smalls get left behind (Baylor) or not invited (TCU/SMU/Houston). Just wondering if they are in the game yet. They do hold some school dollars in their hands and cause problems.

[SMU89]

Jim Pitts - chairman of appropriations committee

[Longtime]

The legislature thing makes sense. When the Big 12 formed, Baylor had alums in the governor's and lt. governer's office - it was lt. gov Bob Bullock who really brokered Baylor into the Big 12, not Ann Richards.

Now, the lt. governer is an Arizona alum. Even played basketball for the Wildcats.

I don't see Baylor having the same political clout it had back in 1994. And even though West Texas is quickly becoming de-populated, it still has a lot of legislative seats.

So once again Tech can ride political coattails into a new conference.