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  • Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
    What makes aTm think it is going to do well in the SEC?
    Hope springs eternal.

    It's very a much a "we'll cross the bridge when we come to it" situation. This is entirely about getting out of Texas' shadow.

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    • Originally posted by falafel View Post
      What does that have to do with anything?
      Hope springs eternal.

      It's very a much a "we'll cross the bridge when we come to it" situation. This is entirely about getting out of Texas' shadow.


      Yeah, he said it better.

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      • Originally posted by ERCougar View Post
        Um...I don't get it.
        I think the winner looks like you.

        Last edited by SteelBlue; 08-15-2011, 02:50 PM.

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        • SEC looking for 4 teams not 1. If that is the case, I think the Big 12 is dead.

          http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1252192

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          • Originally posted by Coach McGuirk View Post
            SEC looking for 4 teams not 1. If that is the case, I think the Big 12 is dead.

            http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1252192
            I didn't follow Chip Brown last time around, so I don't know, but he sure got lots of criticism for being unreliable. Do you think he is? (I really don't know. Someone summon Uncle Ted.)
            “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
            ― W.H. Auden


            "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
            -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons


            "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
            --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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            • Originally posted by Coach McGuirk View Post
              SEC looking for 4 teams not 1. If that is the case, I think the Big 12 is dead.

              http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1252192
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              • Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
                I didn't follow Chip Brown last time around, so I don't know, but he sure got lots of criticism for being unreliable. Do you think he is? (I really don't know. Someone summon Uncle Ted.)
                What? He was right and scooped everybody last time around.

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                • Originally posted by Jacob View Post
                  What? He was right and scooped everybody last time around.

                  yeah, I don't get the unreliable part.

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                  • Originally posted by Coach McGuirk View Post
                    yeah, I don't get the unreliable part.
                    Like I said, I didn't follow Chip at all last time.
                    “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                    ― W.H. Auden


                    "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                    -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons


                    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                    • Originally posted by Coach McGuirk View Post
                      yeah, I don't get the unreliable part.
                      Yeah, if there was any criticism levied on Chip Brown it was that he was Dodd's and Beebe's puppet.
                      "Nobody listens to Turtle."
                      -Turtle
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                      • Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                        Yeah, if there was any criticism levied on Chip Brown it was that he was Dodd's and Beebe's puppet.
                        I guess that's the one I remember.
                        “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                        ― W.H. Auden


                        "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                        -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons


                        "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                        --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                        • It has been said that one of the biggest winners in PAC expansion was Chip Brown. I think that might be accurate.
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                          • Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
                            I didn't follow Chip Brown last time around, so I don't know, but he sure got lots of criticism for being unreliable. Do you think he is? (I really don't know. Someone summon Uncle Ted.)
                            My take is that he is dead on when his sources are out of Austin. I think the UT AD department was feeding Chip info on the Longhorn perspective of the departure of Colorado and Nebraska from the Big 12 and the possibility of UT and other programs from the Big 12 South joining the PAC-10. I'm not sure his sources out of College Station are as good because I don't recall him reporting in advance that Texas A&M wasn't about to go to the west coast.

                            I just don't see the SEC blowing up the Big 12 and the ACC to get to 16 teams.
                            “Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory.”
                            "All things are measured against Nebraska." falafel

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                            • Originally posted by Paperback Writer View Post
                              My take is that he is dead on when his sources are out of Austin. I think the UT AD department was feeding Chip info on the Longhorn perspective of the departure of Colorado and Nebraska from the Big 12 and the possibility of UT and other programs from the Big 12 South joining the PAC-10. I'm not sure his sources out of College Station are as good because I don't recall him reporting in advance that Texas A&M wasn't about to go to the west coast.
                              If correct, that's good news for BYU, since he's saying that BYU is at the top of the list of replacements, after ND.

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                              • Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
                                Isn't it pretty much the general consensus here that BYU is going to wind up in the Big 12 or another BCS conference sooner or later? That's what I think will happen. I recognize that SU will now come after me with a club, but reality is reality. The rivalry could be cooler than ever if that happens. An annual PAC-12/Big 12 grudge match.... :crazy:

                                (The above assumes that the current structure of CFB is not blown up by mega-conferences.)
                                Won't happen unless it's the Big East, and I can hardly imagine that except that the Big East can't reallly have a bias against religoius schools.
                                When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

                                --Jonathan Swift

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