Horns247 Board

Well from what I have heard Texas is the reason those teams left they were tired of getting longhorn leftovers. Texas pissed everyone off and they left, The longhorn network just sent them over the edge. If that's not right why did they leave, they were tired of getting beat all the time right.

This. And the fact that people spout off bowl records is another reason I hate the system. What does a bowl mean? It means I got a month to prepare for some team. Some coaches use it to really concentrate on beating the opponent. Some take it as a time to really get in extra practices without the distraction of games, like an extra spring practice. Bowl games, including the championship are not an indicator of how good or bad teams are. There's too much time between them and the actual happenings of the season. Heck, I think if the 2005 team only has to wait a week or two to play USC, they absolutely destroy them. If you can't tell I hate the bowl system almost as much as I hate "The Chase".

Its not as though UT schedules all these schools hoping that they are patsies. BYU is regularly a very quality opponent, when this game was scheduled, they were coming off of consecutive 11-2 seasons. Who could have predicted UCLA would get worse instead of remaining relevant in the PAC-12 picture. OOC schedules are made years in advance, difficult, near impossible to predict how good a team will be by the time u get to play them

You would be correct I am a vol fan. I appreciate your info on my comment, I was not blaming Texas alone for the shake up in the big 12 . Its all about money and Texas gets more than anyone in the big 12, and in the sec the money is split evenly between the 12 schools even though vandy and Kentucky in the past has never done anything they still get the same as Bama, tenn. fla. ect.ect. And that's what schools want ,I'm not saying its right or wrong but that's the way it is,it's all about the money.
+1 to you rantanamo appreciate it.

The conf.splits $ in 12s. When Bama goes to the BCS they get their travel expense (hotel,food,ect.)then they get what ever is owed to them for making it to the big dance, for example if the bowl pays 3mill. Bama would get say 1mill for going and to cover cost of hotel travel food ect.ect. Then the rest is split 12 ways. These #s are just examples and not concrete but you can read about the splits online had to show my father in law last year because he didn't believe it either.

Hoss you deserve combat pay. Having to listen to that d-bag Feinbaum would put me over the edge.

here is a quote that will make you love Saban even less.....

"Anyone who doesn't win their conference, has no business playing in the national championship." - Nick Saban in 2003

One or two elite teams, now go back to your toothless crowd an y'all can drink moonshine and chant SEC together....
Buh bye

There is zero proof Nick Saban said this.

This closest thing you can find to Nick Saban saying it is a quote from defensive back Chad Lavalais that played on his 2003 National Championship team.

"If a team cannot win their conference," argues Chad Lavalais, LSU's senior defensive tackle, "they should not be playing for the national title."

This quote appeared in an article of the USA Today titled 'Co-champs loom after Okla., LSU chosen for Sugar Bowl' dated 12/7/2003. I cited the article below.

I also linked another post from a columnist's blog where research was done to find the exact quote which apparently doesn't exist. I realize its a blog post. However, no one can cite the actual quote which is probably because it doesn't exist. The research was done by a member of the Oklahoma media which would have extensive records of the event considering that it was the team that played LSU that year.

I'll gladly eat my words if you can cite it. More than likely what you'll find out is it's a fabricated quote that came from an OSU fan.

Should not speak of challenging OOC gauntlets such as the one BAMA traversed last season. Its gotta be a joke, you cant be using this as an argument to support the almighty greatness of the SEC

Classic $EC homerism. Coming out of the woodwork to mock our OOC schedule and intimate that we're afraid to play $EC teams when their latest MNC team played the lame, halt, and sisters of the poor for their OOC schedule and failed to win their own conference championship, and while showing ignorance of the fact that we have had and $EC team on our own OOC schedule starting next year for some time now.

Dial up is slow, but one would think that the homers might have bothered to check our future schedules before leveling such accusations. Granted, we have no idea how good these teams will be when we play them, but I see Arkansas, BYU, CAL, Maryland, Notre Dame, Ole Miss and USC on our future schedules along with the usual suspects of Rice, New Mexico, and Wyoming. I wonder how many $EC teams can boast the same.

If Bama threw the ball on them, I feel confident Okie State could have moved it on them.