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<blockquote data-quote="Charleston Mountie" data-source="post: 129569827" data-attributes="member: 1427666">The only political clout - and this is a real reach - is playing the role of Texas' ***** in the way TT and TCU does. Texas holds sway over TT and TCU and those schools submit votes that fall into line with the wishes of the UT administration. If Houston were to be brought into the conference it could be as a &quot;something for you and something for me deal.&quot; Boren gets his 12 teams and one of them is Cincinnati, who he wants and Texas votes for it along with TT and TCU but Texas gets Houston under its thumb.In the future Texas than can count on 4 votes out of 12 to back their ideology and those 4 votes are enough to sink any plans that Texas does not like because 9 would be needed to make anything happen. I don't think that scenario is even remotely possible but Texas has an incredible ability of being shortsighted, backward and a bit befuddled when times call for clarity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charleston Mountie, post: 129569827, member: 1427666"] The only political clout - and this is a real reach - is playing the role of Texas' ***** in the way TT and TCU does. Texas holds sway over TT and TCU and those schools submit votes that fall into line with the wishes of the UT administration. If Houston were to be brought into the conference it could be as a "something for you and something for me deal." Boren gets his 12 teams and one of them is Cincinnati, who he wants and Texas votes for it along with TT and TCU but Texas gets Houston under its thumb. In the future Texas than can count on 4 votes out of 12 to back their ideology and those 4 votes are enough to sink any plans that Texas does not like because 9 would be needed to make anything happen. I don't think that scenario is even remotely possible but Texas has an incredible ability of being shortsighted, backward and a bit befuddled when times call for clarity. [/QUOTE]

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