Backstory on realignment. Most interesting

[Hu_Fan]

A read from Barking Carnival.The Link
The reality of realignment you may not have read until now.

I doubt any aggy poster would find this information and the views expressed comforting.

I can't say how much of it is completely true, that's not my job. It's on the order of investigative reporting. But it sits well with me. It answers a ton of mysteries running around in my head for many weeks. It put a lot of "ah-ha, so that's it" in my head reading it.

It rings with me, as I've been bothered for weeks that things just don't add up, and I've never felt that income from 3rd tier activity was ever meant to be shared in the first place. And felt it was going on all along everywhere.

Anyway,... other information in this piece has to do with advantages in some conferences with regard to partial and non-qualifiers. Which Nebraska will now have in the B1G.

The whole of this report makes me think that all along, other schools have not wanted Texas to have much of an advantage because those schools have themselves tried to maintain an advantage -- and they hate to see Texas get anymore than it already has by being THE university in the single most significant state for high school football, by sheer numbers and talent.

The ruse that is being portrayed is that Texas is trying to hold an advantage, when the only real advantage has been proximity -- just born where we were, as an institution. The other campuses have tried to get alternative edges (OU recruiting Texas), or going for partial and non-qualifiers and JUCOs. And keeping 3rd tier and not saying much about it -- but not yelping when Texas suddenly got a good deal.

It's in this report. If most of it is true, then is a real eye-opener.

 

[agssuk]

Great article. But getting anybody else to understand, or even admit this is not going to happen.

 

[ViperHorn]

I agree with agssuk. Nebraska, Missouri and aggy are standing over the body with smoking guns in their hands and Texas is no where in sight but gets all of the blame. This quote says it all:

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[JJxvi]

I dont think Partial Qualifiers are allowed anywhere in the NCAA anymore. I think they changed it so that all athletes go through teh clearinghouse and have to qualify.

The Big 12 allowed 2 per team, when it was still alowed per NCAA rules, but the last one I actually remember was Jason Carter. Granted, I dont exactly follow such things for other teams. Can anybody name a partial qualifier that sat a year and then had 3 years for any Big Ten team or for that matter any team in the country over the past few years?

 

[XOVER]

The SEC allows PQs.

 

[CanaTigers]

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[Lidig8r]

The Big 10/11/whatever Conference allows PQs.

As an interesting aside, in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl in which the Bugeaters crushed Florida.. Nebraska started FOUR partial or non-qualifiers.. .and had two others who played as much as the starters.