Texas going to the ACC????

[greencows00]

saw this today on SI... from Austin-Statesman (local newspaper in Austin)
http://www.statesman.com/sports/long...s-1859088.html

Texas versus Duke basketball.
Texas against Miami baseball.
Texas-North Carolina in debate and poetry reading?
OK, not so much.
But otherwise, this thing could work. Texas in the Atlantic Coast Conference, that is.
This isn't to say or even suggest that the Longhorns are ACC-bound or even have their socks, boxers, toothbrushes and Longhorn Network packed in a suitcase.
They're just ACC-intrigued, and we're assuming the ACC is just as interested in them as well.
Why wouldn't it be? That league could use Texas as much as vice versa. Probably more.
Last I checked, the only conference that was looking to get picked apart more than the Big 12 was the ACC, but there's no truth to rumors that the SEC is changing its logo to include a vulture.
The ACC has a terrific football program in Virginia Tech but hasn't won a football national championship since Florida State in 1999.
Texas won a national championship just two McCoys ago and, considering how good its underclassmen are, could soon be in that hunt again.
The ACC could use a football fix. Texas could use a basketball fix. NCAA tournament wins have been pretty scarce around here lately.
The Big 12 — there still is a Big 12, right? — is on death row. Surely, ACC schools wouldn't mind a presence in a state with 25 million people and a whole bunch of TV sets. That ain't bad for recruiting. Mack Brown can fall out of bed and almost land on three five-star players.
So there is need here. On both sides.
Do not consider this a wholesale endorsement of a Texas move to the ACC. Take it for a solid, interesting option that the Longhorns are strongly vetting and seriously considering. And why shouldn't they? They have reasons to prefer the ACC over the Pac-12 if they have such offers.
Should the Longhorns go by themselves, they would possibly cut more ties to their natural rivals like Texas Tech and Baylor, and risk the sacred OU game — and the Texas-Texas A&M game presumably is dead.
Maybe if Texas went, it would still play Texas Tech or Baylor, but in stand-alone, non-conference games. There's talk of bringing along either OU and OSU or Kansas and Missouri. Even heard Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Connecticut could be invited to the ACC.
But the ACC idea has merit:
Kickoffs and tipoffs in the Eastern time zone.
Like-minded academic schools with seven ranked among the nation's top 38 colleges by U.S. News & World Report. (Pac-12 has four that highly rated.)
Exposure to the Eastern media.
Better travel conditions by flying west to return home rather than east and gaining an hour.
Superior basketball conference.
Excellent baseball programs.
Of course, finding a soft landing spot for the ubiquitous Longhorn Network is a whole 'nother animal, and no one can predict how the ACC family would treat it. The ACC was the first of the major conferences to land a league network deal — it's in the first year of a 12-year ABC/ESPN package — but could renegotiate the terms with an expanded conference.
All of those are good, sound reasons to look eastward. This isn't to knock the Pac-12 at all: It has eight of its schools in the prestigious Association of American Universities; is on the cutting edge of innovation and technology; represents the future of college athletics with a bold, visionary leader; and offers the fertile California and entire West Coast recruiting areas.
In addition, if Texas chooses to go to the Pac-12, it might have traveling partners like Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State; a bigger collective voice in league matters; shorter trips to those locales as well as to Arizona and Arizona State; a better bowl (Rose) than the ACC's (Orange); would make a minimum of $21 million a year only off that league's new ESPN/Fox deal; and would be part of an ascendant conference that expands from middle America to the Pacific.
There are negatives attached to linking with the ACC, of course.
For one, the closest trip would be a nice 873-mile trip to Tallahassee, Fla., to play the Seminoles. Not exactly in the neighborhood.
Moreover, Texas has next to no connection with the ACC, no historical rivals in that league, no geographic fit — and no compelling reason to go there other than it is there and the Big 12 may not be at all.
That, of course, could be reason enough.

[greencows00]

i would rather have Texas and Texas A&M go to the SEC

[cudexter]

Texas isn't invited

[803]

If there is anything we have learned over the last 2 months is that no one knows.... how many scenerios have been put out there with a "source" and all have been wrong

[Cowboysfan]

The SEC doesnt want Texas. Seriously who would want to get thier asses whipped every year. JK.
Hookem Horns!

[FEETDOWN]

This is BS. Even if Texas considered joining the ACC, Swofford wouldnt let it happen because its something that would benefit the league as a whole and not just the bluebellied cocksuckers he is aligned with.

[Saltydog235]

This is BS. Even if Texas considered joining the ACC, Swofford wouldnt let it happen because its something that would benefit the league as a whole and not just the bluebellied cocksuckers he is aligned with.

How do you figure Texas joining any conference is good for it? Look at what Texas and it actions have done to the Big12. Its no secret that Colorado, Nebraska and Texas A&M leaving is due in large part to Texas's stranglehold and lopesided financial position in the conference. Fuck Texas, what they bring won't be good for any school in the ACC.

[FEETDOWN]

I blame the Big 12 for letting it happen as much as I do Texas for doing it. The Big 12 is dissolving due to poor leadership. The conference office could've gathered the other 11 teams in the league and told Texas to go fuck itself and things probably would've been different. I find it real hard to believe that Texas wouldve been successful carrying their asses to Birmingham and telling the leaders of the SEC they wanted in, but they wanted an uneven share of the money. They would've been laughed out of town.


The leaders of the Big 12 suck worse than the people running that ACC, and you've really got to suck hard to outdo those asshats.

[Moatsy]

The ACC leadership doesn't suck... it just has an agenda. Think of it as the law firm of Wake, Duke, Unc and State... if you ain't senior partner then you're just working for the man.

[Saltydog235]

The ACC leadership doesn't suck... it just has an agenda. Think of it as the law firm of Wake, Duke, Unc and State... if you ain't senior partner then you're just working for the man.

I don't think I've ever heard a better analogy than that. But you left out the junior partner Virginia.

FD, the member schools in the SEC are all on equal footing, the Big 12 was/is/will be Texas and anyone else. Oklahoma's a step child for goodness sake. Moatsy nailed the ACC.