(09-07-2015 07:00 AM)XLance Wrote:  

(09-07-2015 01:40 AM)jhawkmvp Wrote:  

(09-06-2015 11:37 AM)JRsec Wrote:  While I agree with Jayhawk that Texas will prefer to wait out the ACC GOR and cherry pick a new conference, I think in the end, especially now that UT is diminishing in on field performance, that it will be Texas that moves. I don't think the economy will permit for the time it takes for the GOR to play out. Therefore regional needs with regards to non revenue sports will help to dictate movement.

Texas fans are really upset with the turd they left on the field in Chicago against ND and the lack of expected improvement. If UT continues to struggle this season they will turn on Strong. If Strong fails, then I think they might look at a change of conferences to possibly get their program back on track and motivate the fans again. If Texas moves and brings friends to it's new destination it goes a long ways to getting the 8 votes needed to put the B12 out of it's misery. If the FB program gets firing on all cylinders again under Strong then I think they wait out the GoR.

It's about 95 miles from Chicago, Illinois to South Bend, Indiana, but you are right, the Longhorns were totally outplayed.

That's an understatement. I doubt there were very many schools in the top 40 that the Horns could have beaten. It was their third 30 point loss in the span of a few games. The program's decline is the worst slump they've had from the standpoint of on field competitiveness. They've had losing years before but the games and the talent level were much more competitive than this. Before you could say it was merely coaching ability. Now it's more structural. If A&M has truly found a defense then the gap between the two will become so apparent that not even Austin will be able to deny the reality of it.