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UT president Jay Hartzell offers official SEC move narrative to Texas Senate amidst silliness
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Following appearances by Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby and representatives from the Baylor Bears and TCU Horned Frogs at the Texas Senate on Monday, Texas Longhorns president Jay Hartzell absorbed barbs from representatives like senator Charles Perry, an Abilene native and Texas Tech alum who represents District 28, which includes Lubbock, in between fielding serious questions.
Texas state senator Charles Perry to UT president Jay Hartzell: If you re as big and great as you think you are, you should have made the Big 12 equal or better than the SEC. You didn t do it. Sam Khan Jr. (@skhanjr) August 2, 2021
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A notable sidebar to the story of the SEC’s TV money lapping the (non-Big Ten) competition even ahead of the upcoming additionsof Texas and Oklahoma (and the extra money likely coming in there) is how the conference was doing that with a schedule of only eight conference games a year. The Big 12, Pac-12, and Big Ten have all been playing nine conference games lately, and they’ve lobbed some complaints at SEC teams for their lower conference schedules. Yes, some of the SEC’s out-of-conference matchups are prominent games at neutral sites or in a home-and-home series, but some of them have been easy wins against Group of Five or FCS teams, which have drawn a fair bit of criticism. And Andy Staples of The Athletic writes that the additions of the Longhorns and Sooners might prompt the SEC to go to a nine-game conference schedule, which could see some of those easier (and less valuable for TV) games going by the wayside:
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