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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby Stallion » Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:28 pm

This seems pertinent. Notre Dame is already planning to have their own TV Network although maybe in different platform than Texas

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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby Stallion » Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:45 pm

Hmm-UT already has a 5 game series with Notre Dame and a 2 game series with USC which doesn't start until 2017. I know Texas also has a home and home series scheduled to start very soon with BYU. But you could see mutual interest in those teams scheduling each other. Throw in Oklahoma, maybe Tech to continue in state rivalry and I really don't think Texas will have much problem filling up the rest of the lightweight part of their schedule if they go independent.
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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby StallionsModelT » Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:04 am

ND will not want to associate itself academically with Texas Tech.
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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby Mitch McConnell » Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:48 am

I get the arguments, but greed is going to ultimately kill college athletics.
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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby ThadFilms » Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:53 am

StallionsModelT wrote:My question is who joins this conference?


Your mom. Mine too. Other than that? Just those guys.
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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby NickSMU17 » Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:16 am

Stallion wrote:Hmm-UT already has a 5 game series with Notre Dame and a 2 game series with USC which doesn't start until 2017. I know Texas also has a home and home series scheduled to start very soon with BYU. But you could see mutual interest in those teams scheduling each other. Throw in Oklahoma, maybe Tech to continue in state rivalry and I really don't think Texas will have much problem filling up the rest of the lightweight part of their schedule if they go independent.



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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby soccermom » Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:23 am

the Felon Conference?
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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby redpony » Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:44 am

Actually, they could call it the 'Greed, Cash and Criminal Conference". :)

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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby RednBlue11 » Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:47 am

stc9 wrote:Why would ND do this? Notre Dame already has their own deal with the BCS. They have fans from Coast to Coast. UT doesn't have the same following. They have a large following, but not like ND. ND has their own deal with the BCS. Depending on how many cable networks carry the LHN there is no reason for UT to get the same deal. What I am getting at: How would this benefit ND?

Unless UT wants to part with a great deal of their new found ESPN money there is no benefit to ND.


the same way that the BE has left them alone on the NBC issue despite having every other sport they play is in their conf
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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby Water Pony » Thu Aug 11, 2011 8:39 am

If they create a core of ND, UT and BYU, they have two schools with national fan base combined the UT. From there you could cheery pick Big XII, i.e. OU, get all the service academies (great fan bases) and/or religious universities, such as SMU, Baylor, Wake Forest, BC, etc.
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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby Stallion » Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:50 am

You might see something like a core of 4-5 Top National Universities playing each other-then each school might play local rivalries, then each school will play 4 powder-puff home games to fill out schedule. 8-9 Home Games every year to control their TV Contract which will be very financially lucrative.I seriously doubt that UT would recreate a round-robbin traditional conference. Texas might play Tech every year-ND wouldn't. Notre Dame would play Purdue or Michigan St instead.
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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby Mexmustang » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:26 am

These are all good points. But at some point UT fans will lose some level of enthusiasm--even playing home and home against BYU, ND, and USC. Balancing out their schedule with NTU, Rice, UTSA, Fl Atlantic, can't complete with OU, A&M, Nebraska, KSU, with overlapping fan bases, short commutes to away games, etc. and what happens in years they go 1-2 or 0-3 against those teams? It takes an opponent and a traditonal rivaly to get fans to Pony Up $5,000 per seat option and feel happy about it. Rivalries are what college football is all about. The NFL tries to create them for TV, but the real rivalies are at the college level--where the guys in the next offices went to a school you dispise. When was the last time you saw a Cowboy fan and an Eagle fan arguing at the water cooler at your office?
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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby Stallion » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:38 am

They will have rivalries just like ND does. Tech, OU probably A&M and in this scenario ND and BYU-perhaps a program like USC and then whoever else wants to get their [deleted] kicked in playing in Austin every year. Schools like Baylor, SMU, Rice or whoever
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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby Mexmustang » Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:03 pm

You realy believe A&M or OU will continue to play them? It will be just like Texas playing Nebraska--not in my lifetime.

Per the Atlanta Constitution, "Check the Sooners’ 2011 schedule. Note that Nebraska isn’t on it. That game, which stood for decades as the decider in the old Big Eight, has been lost to re-alignment."
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Re: DeLoss Dodds: UT-ND To Create Conference

Postby reddevil » Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:41 pm

Of note, the ND athletic direct made overtures last year to form an alliance (not conference) of private universities with SMU being including. The idea went nowhere and has since been abandoned.
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