[OutsiderFan]

I will never forgive Texas for nixing the Pac-16.  That move would have:

* Re-formed the Pac-8
* Made the Pac bigger than the SEC
* Been the move needed to catalyze four 16 team super conferences of legitimate football playing programs
* Killed off the Big East (Big East and ACC would have consolidated)
* Prevented this MWC/CUSA nonsense
* Killed the WAC for football
* Missouri and the University of South Bend would have gone to the B1G, not to the SEC and stayed independent, respectively
* Put programs like San Jose State out of their misery
* Left Boise State out in the cold
* Paved the way for a nice, tidy playoff system
* Rid us of the scourge that is the bowl system and let the universities generate revenue from the post season

Instead, the Big East was allowed to survive, adding Boise State and San Diego State.  The Big 12 added West Virginia, and now we see this C-USA/MWC nonsense?  How has this clarified anything?  How has this made anything better?  The rich are still richer, and the poor are still poor.  No school outside of the SEC, Pac-12, B1G, Big 12, or ACC is ever going to compete for a national championship.  There aren't even 64 schools that will legitimately compete for one, but there are about 64 that have audiences large enough to warrant them staying in the top tier.  The laws of economics dictate that there can't be 120 schools in the highest level of college football.  Keeping these programs like San Jose State alive is just throwing good money after bad.

Kind of ironic that Texas being so self-centered, actually is going to net out for less to Texas in the long run.  As long as the Big East, WAC, C-USA/MWC are around, Texas will get less money than it would have had those conferences been put out of business by Texas joining the Pac-16.

If it were up to me, we'd have 120 teams all having the same resources to play.  But that isn't the world we live in and I am not naive enough to think anything other than further consolidation will happen.  So if it is going to happen, I want the Pac to be leading the charge and getting the spoils, not reacting to what everyone else is doing.  Texas prevented the Pac from leading the charge and getting in the most advantageous position (Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio TV and recruiting markets).  I will always hold that against them.

[OutsiderFan]

I will never forgive Texas for nixing the Pac-16.  That move would have:

* Re-formed the Pac-8
* Made the Pac bigger than the SEC
* Been the move needed to catalyze four 16 team super conferences of legitimate football playing programs
* Killed off the Big East (Big East and ACC would have consolidated)
* Prevented this MWC/CUSA nonsense
* Killed the WAC for football
* Missouri and the University of South Bend would have gone to the B1G, not to the SEC and stayed independent, respectively
* Put programs like San Jose State out of their misery
* Left Boise State out in the cold
* Paved the way for a nice, tidy playoff system
* Rid us of the scourge that is the bowl system and let the universities generate revenue from the post season

Instead, the Big East was allowed to survive, adding Boise State and San Diego State.  The Big 12 added West Virginia, and now we see this C-USA/MWC nonsense?  How has this clarified anything?  How has this made anything better?  The rich are still richer, and the poor are still poor.  No school outside of the SEC, Pac-12, B1G, Big 12, or ACC is ever going to compete for a national championship.  There aren't even 64 schools that will legitimately compete for one, but there are about 64 that have audiences large enough to warrant them staying in the top tier.  The laws of economics dictate that there can't be 120 schools in the highest level of college football.  Keeping these programs like San Jose State alive is just throwing good money after bad.

Kind of ironic that Texas being so self-centered, actually is going to net out for less to Texas in the long run.  As long as the Big East, WAC, C-USA/MWC are around, Texas will get less money than it would have had those conferences been put out of business by Texas joining the Pac-16.

If it were up to me, we'd have 120 teams all having the same resources to play.  But that isn't the world we live in and I am not naive enough to think anything other than further consolidation will happen.  So if it is going to happen, I want the Pac to be leading the charge and getting the spoils, not reacting to what everyone else is doing.  Texas prevented the Pac from leading the charge and getting in the most advantageous position (Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio TV and recruiting markets).  I will always hold that against them.