If Patterson was just spit-balling about playing a game in Dubai last August, and this really is a very well-publicized fundraising trip, things are even worse financially than Patterson has let on.

I'm sure there are some TexasExes in the region, and I'm sure they have some spare coin. But this puts a whole other spin on the phrase, "If Mohammed won't come to the mountain, the mountain will come to Mohammed."

quote:

---

quote:

---

Texas is NOT trying to bring a football game to Dubai. End of story. Media getting something wrong? Shocker...

---

Any official statement from the athletic department to back up your claim??

Mack isn't sending twitter pics from a vacation. Unless he and Sally are getting kinky with Patterson's wife and two former horn athletes.

Why are they in Dubai?? Just to raise money??

---

Any official statememt that Texas is indeed looking to schedule a game in Dubai? No. One comes before the other.

The trip was to get presence for the University there. Fact finding. Looking at partnerships for research or institutional cooperation.

If a game is played there, it would be basketball only.

Tell you what... come find me when a football game is actually scheduled in the Middle East. It aint happening.

From a TexasEx meeting in Dubai who met Mack Brown today:

- When I talked about how I posted on the boards and kind of wanted to know what might be happening in terms of bringing an athletic event out here to Dubai, he said "tell the Orangebloods guys and Chip Brown that we're thinking about moving the OU game out here to Dubai" he said with a wink and a chuckle. Everybody was kind of shocked and laughing, but then he said that there is absolutely no plan to put a football game out here. He even said in addition to a number of other reasons how logistically it wouldn't be fair to the kids with travel for this kind of event during a football season.

- I told him that a bunch of news outlets are trying to carry a story saying that Texas would bring a game to Dubai. He responded in a joking way by saying "you can tell its quiet in college sports right now because the media is bored ."

- In terms of sporting events they would focus on three key geographies to build bridges for the University. None are for any of you guys to worry over. Likely exhibition basketball similar to what Duke did out here in Dubai vs the local national team and a basketball game in China.

- The rest was about expanding the University's partnerships across the board with business people and potential tie ups for UT in research or institutional cooperation.

quote:

---

quote:

---

quote:

---

Texas is NOT trying to bring a football game to Dubai. End of story. Media getting something wrong? Shocker...

---

Any official statement from the athletic department to back up your claim??

Mack isn't sending twitter pics from a vacation. Unless he and Sally are getting kinky with Patterson's wife and two former horn athletes.

Why are they in Dubai?? Just to raise money??

---

Any official statememt that Texas is indeed looking to schedule a game in Dubai? No. One comes before the other.

The trip was to get presence for the University there. Fact finding. Looking at partnerships for research or institutional cooperation.

If a game is played there, it would be basketball only.

Tell you what... come find me when a football game is actually scheduled in the Middle East. It aint happening.

---

Why send Mack if they are just fact finding for the university? I think I'd send faculty, regents, etc not my ex football coach and some former athletes

Dang hawg give the poor sip a chance before bashing his head in like that. Poor little guy never had a chance

quote:

---

Dang hawg give the poor sip a chance before bashing his head in like that. Poor little guy never had a chance

---

Sorry.

quote:

---

Chollie will do damn near anything to avoid "walking into College Station" right now!

---

Still waiting for ANY of our Texas posters to explain what Strong meant ...

quote:

---

#letsridecamels

---

I still can not think of a single college team that would agree to play the sips in Dubai.

So, they're still on the "fact finding" trip with football ex-coach and football ex-players and already pretending football was never on the table?

quote:

---

I still can not think of a single college team that would agree to play the sips in Dubai.

---

Other than OU, the other B12 programs would lovely to follow Texas' lead.

quote:

---

So, they're still on the "fact finding" trip with football ex-coach and football ex-players and already pretending football was never on the table?

---

Guess that trial balloon got shot down.

quote:

---

quote:

---

quote:

---

Chollie will do damn near anything to avoid "walking into College Station" right now!

---

December Texas Bowl says, Howdy.

---

Last place SEC West Arkansas says, "Bend over, grab you ankles, and prepare your anus!"

---

Yep. The Hogs were willing to do what the Aggies were not willing to take a chance on doing.

Thank you for clearing it up.

quote:

---

quote:

---

quote:

---

quote:

---

I like the attention Texas is getting reaching that far into the world for what ever interest they have to do this.

Just to attempt something like this speaks volumes about the type of leverage the Longhorns have.

---

You mean similar to the Texas A&M Qatar campus?

---

Yes same as Virginia Commonwealth Qatar campus

---

Yep, same as Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern and Georgetown at Qatar.

---

Ahh, moving the goal posts. Your shi$$y arab country built on slave labor is okay because others are in on the act.

Well played.

quote:

---

quote:

---

quote:

---

quote:

---

Texas is NOT trying to bring a football game to Dubai. End of story. Media getting something wrong? Shocker...

---

Any official statement from the athletic department to back up your claim??

Mack isn't sending twitter pics from a vacation. Unless he and Sally are getting kinky with Patterson's wife and two former horn athletes.

Why are they in Dubai?? Just to raise money??

---

Any official statememt that Texas is indeed looking to schedule a game in Dubai? No. One comes before the other.

The trip was to get presence for the University there. Fact finding. Looking at partnerships for research or institutional cooperation.

If a game is played there, it would be basketball only.

Tell you what... come find me when a football game is actually scheduled in the Middle East. It aint happening.

---

Why send Mack if they are just fact finding for the university? I think I'd send faculty, regents, etc not my ex football coach and some former athletes

---

Agreed.

LH55,

What did your coach mean when he said he didn't want to walk into College Station right now?

quote:

---

I still can not think of a single college team that would agree to play the sips in Dubai.

---

I find it hard to believe that any self-respecting college program would agree to play the sips on their POS network too......but obviously there are some programs who would sell their soul and their pride for the right price. Dubai game could happen.......just gotta find the right sucke......err, partner.

quote:

---

quote:

---

quote:

---

quote:

---

Chollie will do damn near anything to avoid "walking into College Station" right now!

---

December Texas Bowl says, Howdy.

---

Last place SEC West Arkansas says, "Bend over, grab you ankles, and prepare your anus!"

---

Yep. The Hogs were willing to do what the Aggies were not willing to take a chance on doing.

Thank you for clearing it up.

---

Dear, I'm married to a Razorback. That fan base was chomping at the bit to play you guys. They hate you much more than the Ags ever will. I know you won't believe that, but Clint Stoerner was recently interviewed about Arkansas' biggest rival. He said it was still the horns, and will always be the horns.

Memories of the SWC still burn brightly for the only school not in the state of Texas.

quote:

---

Yep. The Hogs were willing to do what the Aggies were not willing to take a chance on doing.

---

by all means.........keep on telling yourselves that.......

quote:

---

LH55,

What did your coach mean when he said he didn't want to walk into College Station right now?

---

You mean the sam Houston state head coach? Because that's the head coach of his school.

Nice orange tower Coppell! I assume that L is for Loser!!

quote:

---

Ahh, moving the goal posts. Your shi$$y arab country built on slave labor is okay because others are in on the act.

Well played.

---

You don't seem to have any clue what you're talking about. The A&M Qatar campus was posted in response to one of you fanboys beating your dick raw about the "influence" t.u. has in the Middle East, which is to say none. Nobody was comparing the socioeconomic conditions of the various Middle East countries.

They are there to try and squeeze money out of the Arabs to renovate DKR/JJ stadium. Nothing more.

http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/98391/mack-brown-exploring-football-opportunities-in-dubai

quote:

---

LH55,

What did your coach mean when he said he didn't want to walk into College Station right now?

---

Crickets..........

quote:

---

Crickets..........

---

That's how they roll when they can't defend something.

quote:

---

quote:

---

quote:

---

quote:

---

quote:

---

I like the attention Texas is getting reaching that far into the world for what ever interest they have to do this.

Just to attempt something like this speaks volumes about the type of leverage the Longhorns have.

---

You mean similar to the Texas A&M Qatar campus?

---

Yes same as Virginia Commonwealth Qatar campus

---

Yep, same as Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern and Georgetown at Qatar.

---

Ahh, moving the goal posts. Your shi$y arab country built on slave labor is okay because others are in on the act.

Well played.

---

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I appreciate your knowledge that VCU is there - doing Liberal Arts, IIRC. I found it interesting that you equated our efforts in Qatar with VCU while leaving out the other four schools, all of which - including A&M - generally enjoy a greater academic reputation than VCU is currently afforded. I appreciate your giving me the opportunity to point that out, and to show you exactly what "goal post" at which I was aiming. Thank you.