Horn fans delusional?
Can't wait to read the posts from gomers and domers assuring us ND was simply trying to rack-up frequent flier miles. I'll post some inside info for y'all later today on the ND situation. Suffice it to say ND is pretty much a done deal
http://texas.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=61&tid=162128438&mid=162128438&sid=902&style=2
I get the feeling that "done deal" to a Texan means ND and the Longhorns are going to play a rivalry series, meanwhile ND stays independent in football and Big East in hoops. 
This. Texas is going to replace aTm with Notre Dame for the Thanksgiving game.*
Really interesting how many folks in the media have been idiots on this thing and have been willing to show it in print/on the air. There are still 2 big factors playing against the mega shake-up that Bohls is the latest to predict. These factors prevented armageddon last year: the TV situation and the geographic situation. The broadcast partners prevented the break-up last year at the last minute. Isn't LHN an ESPN property? Isn't the new Pac 12 deal with FSN? How is Texas going to just take their ESPN network and "fold it into" the Pac 12's FSN network, as Bohls suggests? Doesn't make sense...unless ESPN is ready to give up on LHN due to the limitations and the lack of takers.
Geography is a point that BITB was pounding yesterday and is still a big factor. Thus far, the schools that have left have been peripheral schools that left for next-door conferences. There's a lot of space and money left in Big 12 country--a significant pie that's being split now by a smaller number of schools. Unless there is significantly more money in the Pac 12, it just doesn't make sense, financially, geographically, or competitively, for OU and Texas to go to the Pac 12, when they're entering a situation where the winner of that game each year gets a BCS bid.
* Notre Dame isn't going anywhere until they're forced to to participate in the national title picture. However, the Big 12 would seem to be the ideal option for them at this point if they were going to go somewhere, given that this conference is school-network-friendly. They would have to scale back their network, but I bet that the current schools/networks would be willing to rework the deal so that you could, for instance, put 2 of 3 non-con games and 2 lower profile conference games on your own network. Fox and ESPN might lose a few games overall, BUT they would get access to ND/OU or ND/TX every year coming to you from Austin, Norman, or South Bend, and that would make for some sweet ratings goodness that should be enticing even with the loss of a couple of other games. Question is whether that would still be worth it to ND/NBC.
