A quote for DeLoss Dodds

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"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage."

Benjamin Disraeli
 
"They're all little *******"

My Dad (UT grad '49) describing UT sorority girls prior to me setting foot on campus in the early 70's.

Good advice about sorority and non-sorority girls but nothing to do with DD recent statements...... just thought I would share that as it came to mind.
 
Screw giving up any advantage. I just want to know when I'm going to be able to watch the LHN in my home.

I could care less about Mr. Dodds giving up any advantage he's created. He's Mr. Jones. He didn't look the worried as he got off the team bus in Ames and walked that gauntlet between those two lines of screaming Hornfans four feet apart.

BTW, that's one of the advantages of going to the northern schools' games. They are often much more casual about controlling the burnt orange throng meeting the bus than the control freaks in Austin. In Ames, all the coaches and players passed close enough to touch -- but, of course, nobody did. A great time was had by all.
 
"Pa, is that you, Pa? Don't tell'em about the gold, Josie."

"Well, are you gonna pull those pistols, or'are you gonna whistle Dixie?"
 
When did the British Empire, last "forgo an advantage." ? Has there ever been a case when any enterprise chose to "forgo an advantage." Only to emerge better for it? In this dog eat dog world foregoing advantages is the surest way to die.

For Texas to "forgo an advantage." what advantage should the rest of the Big-12 foregone, or at the very least compensated Texas somehow? As Texas foregoing an advantage would have led to real advantages for the other schools!

Its easy to say things like this, when you are not the one who is foregoing anything,on the contrary stand to gain immensely!
 
The question is what is the perfect balance between maximiizing your own revenues, having a conference that is stable (and no matter the excuses the Big 12 is unstable) and at least making a passing nod at traditions.

In my view I think Boone Pickens was right.

As for Dodds personally I'm not impressed with arrogance. It's offensive and not worthy of respect.
 
The question is what is the perfect balance between maximiizing your own revenues, having a conference that is stable (and no matter the excuses the Big 12 is unstable) and at least making a passing nod at traditions.
Ever hear of the Laffer curve? The conventional wisdom is that sharing everything is good a for the conference and whats good for the conference is good for the schools.

That is only true up to a point! Beyond that the law of diminishing returns sets in, and individual schools (the haves) would be better off not sharing any more revenue, and the conference will not be any worse off for that. Beyond that point your ROI diminishes and its no longer really worth putting in any more money. Sooner or later this realization will hit all 'have' schools (except maybe in the Pac-12).

This whole idea that share everything till Gabriel blows his horn, is laughable. Shows just how little people understand economics.

In my view I think Boone Pickens was right.

And why was he right? If you are sitting at able with a guaranteed winning hand, would you just hold off playing it for the good of the table?

Again this is a case of someone who can make such inane statements as his side would benefit most from sucn an approach. I wonder if he would be saying such an idiotic thing if Okie State had been in Texas' position?

Also note, he did NOT offer a concrete example of what he would have done, had he been in place of Dodds, thats quite telling.

As for Dodds personally I'm not impressed with arrogance. It's offensive and not worthy of respect.

Exactly what arrogance has he shown? If by defending his program and not being willing to compromise in the LHN is being arrogant, then every CEO and AD in the country is arrogrant. It's called strong leadership, and standing by ones decisions, unless overwhelming evidence says you are wrong. Anyone thinking otherwise is just showing his jealousy,

Dodds has built the Texas brand into the most valuable in College athletics, that in itself entitles him to a lot.
 
Dodds is not the Big XII commissioner or NCAA president. His job it to represent and do what's best for Texas. Making aggy, the rest of the conference, and all of college football happy is not his ******* responsibility.
 
I"ve heard of the Laffer Curve and it is highly theoretical and nobody knows when that point is passed until it in fact passes and the things you are measuring make their turn. It is not a predefined point on a graph. It is analysis after the fact. It is typically invoked in discussions about marginal tax rates and their impact on incentives.

"We are the Jones"

That's the arrogance. As for strong leadership you and I are worlds apart. It appears you admire the type of leadership that runs Wall Street. That ruins a conference. That ruins everything but the pocket of the one who is the strong leader. It is leadership that is wholly unconcerned about the context of their own existence because it embraces principles of selfishness and it will be shown as an example of how NOT to behave to my own children. You can make money. But you don't have to destroy everything else. We will see in ten years the fall-out. If the A&M series ends as it appears then it happened on his watch and he sold the tradition. I can't applaud that.

The Jones.... think about it. They are the Jones and you are not. Yet you defend them. You are being asked to pay MORE for a lousy network. You. Not him. He gets a raise. If you admire all that then that is your right. I don't.
 
Some of that $300 million also goes to the University which had its budget gutted by the legislature, but I'm sure you've upped your non-athletic donations to help make up the difference.
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I"ve heard of the Laffer Curve and it is highly theoretical and nobody knows when that point is passed until it in fact passes and the things you are measuring make their turn. It is not a predefined point on a graph. It is analysis after the fact. It is typically invoked in discussions about marginal tax rates and their impact on incentives. The Laffer curve I used as an example. It’s the law of diminishing returns that applies more in this case. And diminishing returns are easily quantifiable before the fact. When adding more returns less. My point being that treating the conference as an inviolate bottomless pit into which money must be poured forever, for the “
common good” is a lot of or horse ****.

And Texas may be the first school to realize and understand that fact.


"We are the Jones"

That was said in jest, to a reporter who asked about ‘keeping up with the Jonses”. And like it or not, it contains a lot of truth. Texas in many ways sets the standard for college athletics facilities and spending.


That's the arrogance. As for strong leadership you and I are worlds apart. It appears you admire the type of leadership that runs Wall Street. That ruins a conference. That ruins everything but the pocket of the one who is the strong leader. It is leadership that is wholly unconcerned about the context of their own existence because it embraces principles of selfishness and it will be shown as an example of how NOT to behave to my own children. You can make money. But you don't have to destroy everything else. We will see in ten years the fall-out

Successful business leaders take pride in their enterprises and will not back down or apologize for being successful. Can you imagine Steve Jobs not releasing a new iPad just so that the rest of the electronics industry can catch up? Hey it would be great for the consumer too!

Hey, I have an idea lets all go communist. Lean on congress to propose a law that would mandate a universal income of $50,000 a year for ALL Americans, no matter how much you earn. The govt will take from you to redistribute if you earn more and top you up, if you earn less.

Texas destroyed nothing. If anything it created something that could/and maybe will be transformative, and disruptive. After all the same can be said of digital cameras, they destroyed the old film industry. My heart goes out to all those people who lost their jobs, and investments, how callous and selfish of the digital camera industry.

Buddy that is how progress works! It tears down old paradigms and builds new ones, and those who do not benefit from the new ways, always complain about how bad the new ones are.

Deloss first and foremost responsibility is to the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. His responsibility to the Big-12 extended only so far as it did not take away from the Univ of Texas. If a situation arose where he had to choose the good of the University over the good of the conference, his first loyalty has to be to the University.

What happens to A&M, and other universities in the Big-12 is not his or Texas’ problem.

If the Big-12 dies, Texas moves to the Pac-12 or the B1G, and yes may have to surrender the LHN, but the added revenues from the Pac-12/B1G will more than make up for lost revenues from the LHN. Alas what will not be recoverable is the loss in intangible benefits, but that’s the price Texas pays for joining a new conference.

Regardless, financially Texas would be better off than if it had foregone the LHN, or insisted if turn into a conference network for the freeloaders to enjoy the fruits of Texas’ labors.


Being in a conference is a two way street. Not the one way that you seem to think it is.


If the A&M series ends as it appears then it happened on his watch and he sold the tradition. I can't applaud that.
Interesting, it is A&M that’s going to a new conference, but some how its Texas’ fault that the a great rivalry will die. What hypocrisy. Hey it the rivalry meant so much to A&M, why not expect them to make a sacrifice for it and say they will stay in the conference, bear the burden that comes from being in a conference dominated by Texas, just to preserve the rivalry?

A&M is selling the tradition, every bit as much as you claim Texas is!


The Jones.... think about it. They are the Jones and you are not. Yet you defend them. You are being asked to pay MORE for a lousy network. You. Not him. He gets a raise. If you admire all that then that is your right. I don't.

You think it’s a lousy network. And there are many people who would gladly pay a few cents a month for it, not you of course, but others. Heck I would pay a few dollars a month to get it here in Toronto! I hope someday it will be available here, just like the Big10 network which is an add on to the cable packages here.

He gets a raise, because he’s earned it. I pay for the Longhorn caps and shirts I buy quite often. How is this different?

By your logic Dodds is being a real scrooge by expecting people to pay for any Texas merchandise, and if Dodds really cared for the conference, he would unliaterally share ALL of Texas' athletic revenues with the confernce, after all that would be whats best for the confernce, even though it would be bad for Texas.
 
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