(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.

Their issues are lack of peer institutions, dwindling interest in the schedules afforded them by those preferences you seem to indicate that they desire, and most of the fallout over Dodds will resolve those issues one way or the other. They didn't expand because there was nobody to add that would enhance their league, and because they wanted to keep their options open. Time will tell which is which. If it's peers and more compelling scheduling they will change conferences. If it is a fiefdom they desire then they will stay. Then maybe your Green Wave will one day get a shot at one of the two spots they add to get back to twelve. I think it will be the former but we will see.