Originally Posted by
MagzOK
One one hand I start to wonder, why would we want to leave the conference where we are the big fish and continually get to the playoff. But on the other hand, this is an issue that is not going to go away and as powerful and mighty as we think OU is, we sure need to watch that we aren't left on the outside looking in when it all shakes out in the end. I do believe Castiglione is the absolute best at what he does and have full trust in him that he is doing what is best for OU. As much as we hate to admit, I feel the need at this moment to marry ourselves with Texas as a package. In the grand scheme of things it's really all about money, and OU quite frankly doesn't bring the possible viewership or what not which does Texas. What we do bring is a historied program that is arguably hardly matched and we need to use that to our advantage so that we're not left out holding our pride flag when really it's all about the bottom dollar. Joe is trying to situate us to be well positioned for the next century of college football and it's his vision that is going to get us there. Let's face it, geographically speaking we are in the gray area of the country as to which region we belong to so we might as well marry ourselves to the east because if you don't like 11AM kickoff now, we might start getting multiple 9PM kick-off hours or even later if we played the Pac12 schedule. As for the OSU deal, they can finally be at the top of the conference with OU and Texas' absence. But in reality I don't think the Big12 would make it very well without OU/TX in the long haul as I believe, should this SEC deal happen, it will ultimately kick the super conference theory into full steam. In terms of the Bedlam rivalry, I'm sorry but it's really not much of a competition in terms of overall wins/losses to each other. Though I do understand the point of view OSU fans have looking in from the outside, It is what it is. Sorry Cowboys.
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