....But aTm is kicking the crap out of them right now.
Yes, I realize that "you're Texas" and all of the trappings that go with that. The money, the merchandise sales, the past-their-prime coaches in the revenue sports. But the fact of the matter is, due mainly to their inclusing in a superior conference, aTm is consistenly beating the wheezing, creaking machine that is the Deloss Dodds empire to the punch over and over.
aTm gets LSU (in what is sure to be a Nationally televised regional Thanksgiving Day game) while UT-Austin is stuck with TCU broadcast regionally. aTm gets the CBS national exposure, aTm gets the financially struggling Lohghorn Network and the T-shirt fan. By almost every metric aTm is opening up a can of whoop-tuckus on UT-Austin right now and the latter is too stuck in their Austin-centric coccoon to truly realize it.
Not that this can't (and won't) turn around. Eventually the College Football landscape is going to transform to four 16-18 team "superconferences" and UT-Austin will probably be attached to the Pacific version of that. When that happens and the Dodds vanity project that is the Longhorn Network is finally put out to pasture (it will happen) then UT-Austin will find itself inching back ahead of aTm who find themselves one bad season away from becoming a permanent Mississippi State.
Like it or not Aggie fan, UT-Austin is the flagship University for the great State of Texas. Until they return to a place of National prominence they're going to have to satisfy themselves with bagfulls of money, replays of Vince Young's Rose Bowl performance and their place near the upper-echelon of a second-tier conference that's rapidly falling in upon itself. Fortunately for UT-Austin fans, their time spent admiring themselves in the mirror will more than make up for the fact that their results on the field will continue to be just about average.
