Is This Longhorn Sarcasm?

[HFCS]

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Lol, you guys didn't subsidize ****
unless you were propping up the other teams with wins. The fifth most winningest team in the Big 12 in the last decade doesn’t get to lay claim to subsidizing the conference.
The "we are the Joneses" attitude and the entitlement that reeks from every pot you put your hands in has led to underperformance in every major revenue sport, yet the expectations from fans and donors that everyone else treat you like you’re on Alabama’s level.
You’ve destroyed every conference you’ve ever been a part of. I’m not going to say good riddance, because I didn’t want to see it happen yet again, but it’ll be interesting to see what happens when you get into a conference where you can’t just money-whip everything in sight. You’re making this bed, now you have to lie in it.
Sooner or later, you’ll be forced to come to terms with the fact that it’s your school’s culture that is holding you back, not your inability to hire competent coaches, nor your inability to win in this supposed inferior conference, despite having every single advantage you could ever want. Have fun, guys. This will either be the thing that brings you back to prominence (I can already see the legions of sportswriters firing up their laptops to pen breathless "tExAs iZ bAk!!!!" articles for the 12th year in a row), or it will be the final death knell for you as a national power. Were I a betting man, my money would be on the latter. Congratulations on relegating yourselves to aggy levels of national relevance.
And Weston, congrats on another laughable article that will surely age as well as all your Herman knob-slobbers that you were pumping out in 2017-2018.

 

[davegilbertson]

This comment from comment section:

Lol, you guys didn't subsidize ****
unless you were propping up the other teams with wins. The fifth most winningest team in the Big 12 in the last decade doesn’t get to lay claim to subsidizing the conference.
The "we are the Joneses" attitude and the entitlement that reeks from every pot you put your hands in has led to underperformance in every major revenue sport, yet the expectations from fans and donors that everyone else treat you like you’re on Alabama’s level.
You’ve destroyed every conference you’ve ever been a part of. I’m not going to say good riddance, because I didn’t want to see it happen yet again, but it’ll be interesting to see what happens when you get into a conference where you can’t just money-whip everything in sight. You’re making this bed, now you have to lie in it.
Sooner or later, you’ll be forced to come to terms with the fact that it’s your school’s culture that is holding you back, not your inability to hire competent coaches, nor your inability to win in this supposed inferior conference, despite having every single advantage you could ever want. Have fun, guys. This will either be the thing that brings you back to prominence (I can already see the legions of sportswriters firing up their laptops to pen breathless "tExAs iZ bAk!!!!" articles for the 12th year in a row), or it will be the final death knell for you as a national power. Were I a betting man, my money would be on the latter. Congratulations on relegating yourselves to aggy levels of national relevance.
And Weston, congrats on another laughable article that will surely age as well as all your Herman knob-slobbers that you were pumping out in 2017-2018.

this is good content

 

[I@ST1]

It's myopic because it focuses on the advantages other teams had via Texas viewership, but ignores the countless benefits Texas got from leaving the SWC and merging with the Big 8.

An Oklahoma blogger could actually write a piece about Texas being carried/rescued by OU and it would make as much or more sense given Oklahoma wasn't playing conference games at Rice as recently as the mid 90s like Texas was.

Dude - who is disagreeing with you? The 1st poster said Texas never helped ISU out. I’m saying Texas did. And that’s a VERY true statement.

 

[clone4sure]

They also cost us ! We lost TAM, Mizzou, Colorado and Nebraska because of them. They will have a rude wake up call once they realize they can't throw their weight around in the SEC. Texas won't do well against the likes of Alabama, Georgia, LSU, TAM and OU.

 

[HFCS]

Dude - who is disagreeing with you? The 1st poster said Texas never helped ISU out. I’m saying Texas did. And that’s a VERY true statement.

The article is incredibly misleading and myopic. Focusing on the obvious fact that Big 12 members benefited from Texas ignores how ludicrous the article is.

This article basically implies that MLB would be better off if it was just a 182 games of Yankees vs Dodgers and no other teams. It's idiocy.

 

[HFCS]

They also cost us ! We lost TAM, Mizzou, Colorado and Nebraska because of them. They will have a rude wake up call once they realize they can't throw their weight around in the SEC. Texas won't do well against the likes of Alabama, Georgia, LSU, TAM and OU.

What becomes of the last 4 years of the LHN contract?

 

[I@ST1]

The article is incredibly misleading and myopic. Focusing on the obvious fact that Big 12 members benefited from Texas ignores how ludicrous the article is.

This article basically implies that MLB would be better off if it was just a 182 games of Yankees vs Dodgers and no other teams. It's idiocy.

I didn’t say anything about the article. Good day, loser.

 

[HFCS]

I didn’t say anything about the article. Good day, loser.

settle down

 

[StClone]

But it's every sports league in history in every sport.

The Yankees carry the MLB in some ways, but nobody would care about baseball if the only five teams were the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Dodgers and Giants. People care because there's a local option everywhere.

SEC fans and at least that Texas writer seem to be completely unaware of this. Nobody outside the footprint cares about the SEC unless their local team is playing them non conf.

There has never been a sports league anywhere in history that wouldn't suffer without its top teams, but it's also universal that the top teams can't function without a group of competitive teams to compete with.

The article is the biggest example of myopia I can think of.

A post above hit it squarely and accurately labelling sports revenue sharing as socialism. And, it helped Iowa State.

And here an MLB analogy illustrates another point:

If fewer people care outside the SEC region, they will be making themselves nationally less relevant. Really I have little interest in SEC teams ever unless we play them. How do you grow revenues alienating viewers with fewer wanting to watch?

 

[CentexCyclone]

“Sooner or later, you’ll be forced to come to terms with the fact that it’s your school’s culture that is holding you back,”

this x1000

living in Central Texas, talking to Longhorn fans, listening to Longhorn state media and occasionally hob-nobbing with middling UT Ath Dept ppl, I can tell you that Belmont Hall is rank with cultural rot.

Texa$ could have used their power, influence, money and brand to put a consistent, top 5 team on the field and build up the Big 12 to rival the SEC. Instead, because of their corrupt, entitled worldview, they squandered the resources they’d been given, abdictated their leadership role and essentially admitted their failure by joining the SEC. Facing another decade of on-field mediocrity, UT is now on the Nebraska glide path to occupying a well-furnished, basement apartment in someone else’s mansion.

 

[HFCS]

“Sooner or later, you’ll be forced to come to terms with the fact that it’s your school’s culture that is holding you back,”

this x1000

living in Central Texas, talking to Longhorn fans, listening to Longhorn state media and occasionally hob-nobbing with middling UT Ath Dept ppl, I can tell you that Belmont Hall is rank with cultural rot.

Texa$ could have used their power, influence, money and brand to put a consistent, top 5 team on the field and build up the Big 12 to rival the SEC. Instead, because of their corrupt, entitled worldview, they squandered the resources they’d been given, abdictated their leadership role and essentially admitted their failure by joining the SEC. Facing another decade of on-field mediocrity, UT is now on the Nebraska glide path to occupying a well-furnished, basement apartment in someone else’s mansion.

If even 25% of people around their program feel like the author of this "piece" I'd be absolutely certain that is why they are underachieving.

 

[knowlesjam]

“Sooner or later, you’ll be forced to come to terms with the fact that it’s your school’s culture that is holding you back,”

this x1000

living in Central Texas, talking to Longhorn fans, listening to Longhorn state media and occasionally hob-nobbing with middling UT Ath Dept ppl, I can tell you that Belmont Hall is rank with cultural rot.

Texa$ could have used their power, influence, money and brand to put a consistent, top 5 team on the field and build up the Big 12 to rival the SEC. Instead, because of their corrupt, entitled worldview, they squandered the resources they’d been given, abdictated their leadership role and essentially admitted their failure by joining the SEC. Facing another decade of on-field mediocrity, UT is now on the Nebraska glide path to occupying a well-furnished, basement apartment in someone else’s mansion.

Agree on the Nebby glidepath...today's coverage in Fuskerland is concentrating on drive to keep the sellout streak going...don't give a flock about their team/record, but damn it, we will sell out the game.

Texas always has the money...bottomless donors, TV, etc., what they don't have is the winning culture...that went bye-bye a long time ago.