1.) That's almost like saying they'd prefer to hang out with the lepers. All I do is lose recruits to California and other West Coast Schools including recently Texas. So I would say they would rather come here I Texas would probably rather they did not. 2.) There would have to be a western conference for them for sure but the difference between LA or Palo Alto to Lubbock vs to Salt Lake City or Seattle or Portland it's not that bad. And like the song says, Money Changes Everything.
SH, certainly a dilemma but as you know, everything can be negotiated. While the LHN has been a financial windfall for Texas, the venture has been a failure otherwise. If the LHN is an albatross around our necks, we cannot allow it to preclude us from making the best long term decision for the school.
Why do refs think that whichever guy ended up grabbing the ball way last after 2 minutes of a pileup is going to always be the same guy who actually recovered the ball by rule?
Because that's all they can see and we do not yet have the technology to have a video feed from under the pile?
I suspect that waiting to unpile everyone and not giving players any incentive whatsoever to do so quickly is less accurate than making the ruling the moment somebody appears to dive on the ball and keep it would be.
DS, I agree but good only on paper. One of the political issues in the PAC-12 is everyone wants to play SC and UCLA every season for recruiting purposes. Spreading them out over 3 divisions is a non-starter. The LHN has been the financial savior for Texas through the last of the Mack years through Strong and Herman so far. The PAC-12 Networks are a financial drain on the member schools.
Doing something to get suspended from a national semi-final championship game is a sh+++y thing to do to your teammates.
You don’t think that the opportunity to play Texas — and potentially open up the most fertile recruiting ground in the country — would offset this desire to play the SoCal team’s every year?
Unfortunately no. California bravado holds no respect Texas (including the quality of Texas high school football).