Perfect Timing
With USC crushed by cheating, Texas should dominate the new Pac-10
Texas will be carrying the flag for the entire Pac-16.
Texas didn't even need Vince Young to destroy USC this time.
Texas isn't even officially in the Pac-10 yet and it already rules the league. When this new superconference is announced, there's no longer any doubt where the supreme program will reside.
In Austin.
One of the biggest drawing cards of this new Pac-16 has already been blown to pieces by Pete Carroll and Reggie Bush's cheating ways. That super rivalry pitting Texas vs. USC is at best a far-off dream now, even less realistic than the University of Houston's fantastical "plans" for $160 million in new stadiums. The NCAA essentially reduced the Trojans to a rubble of a team for next five to six years easy with those severe scholarship limitations and a two-year postseason ban.
Throw in the fact that the anything-but-solid Lane Kiffin being USC's new coach would have been handicap enough and well ... Mack Brown should be dancing on Sixth Street.
Sure, fellow Pac-16 creator, Oklahoma, will be good as long as Bob Stoops is in Norman, but as consistently excellent as he's been, Stoops has never captured the imagination of high school kids around the country the way the proudly outlaw Barry Switzer did. If you're from Florida or farther up the East Coast, Texas is the much cooler program. It's the place with more recent mystique.
Of course, this puts pressure on the Longhorns too. There's no reason that Texas cannot dominate this league the way Florida and Alabama loom over the rest of the SEC. And please don't bring up Oregon (the Ducks are still an every-three-year program).
The Trojans ,,, they're the superpower that used to be. Texas has ran all over USC again and this time, it didn't even need Vince Young to do it.
