(09-23-2013 07:26 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  What if Oklahoma and Texas want each other more than they want the B1G or the SEC? The Sooners and the Longhorns may want to be the UNC and Clemson of their own league - instead of a member of the supporting cast.

Texas is too proud to follow in the footsteps of Texas A&M - they'd never hear the end of it in Austin, TX. Texas can get everything they want without being near Texas A&M.

I think the Longhorns did make a huge mistake in not accommodating Missouri and Nebraska more than they have - but I do not think it is a fatal mistake going forward.

Texas is not a piece that you can just pick up and move. Neither is Oklahoma, for that matter - and the two of them dovetailed together form the nucleus for an all-sports conference.

Oklahoma and Texas have had close relations well before the Big 12 was ever formed. That relationship was the basis of forming up the conference. They do not need the conference in order to maintain their relationship with each other. It is a false debate point that people use in terms of these schools needing to be in the same conference in order to have a relationship.

I would argue the point that there are now just as many schools, if not more, that Texas does not care one way or the other for in terms of maintaining relations with them.