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The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 11:50 amby 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=101Ohio 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.
Re: The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 12:19 pmby Paladin
well that will certainly "get their guns up" in Lubbuck...
Re: The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 12:32 pmby NickSMU17
Re: The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:24 pmby 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.
Re: The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:30 pmby NickSMU17
Stallion wrote: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....
Re: The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:46 pmby smupony94
I have a tech problem. Too many pop ups on this site. At least firefox is blocking them
Re: The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 2:17 pmby Insane_Pony_Posse
smupony94 wrote: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.
Re: The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 2:25 pmby smupony94
$50 Stallion/MM65 post free access would be nice
Re: The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 2:32 pmby 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.
Re: The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:21 pmby RednBlue11
Texas isnt going anywhere, they dont have to share any coin from that top dollar rev program they have.
Re: The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:47 pmby 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.
Re: The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:16 pmby SMU89
Jim Pitts - chairman of appropriations committee
Re: The Long Horns have a "Tech" problem
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:38 pmby 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.