Looking a little longer term, I was curious about if/how the power dynamics in the conference would change pending this current saga. The way I see it:

- if the SEC makes the push and gets the sips and ou, that'll leave a bitter taste in our mouth and strained relationship with Birmingham. I'm guessing we'd stay and eventually the relationship would get better.

- if through leaking the report we cause enough friction and push back, that'll elevate A&M in the eyes of the league and Birmingham as a force to be reckoned with. I imagine that before this only bama could stop birmingham from doing something, and if we end up being able to do it too, it'll be huge. Though we'd have to watch out for bitterness from them for the next few years.

I have no idea what will happen (praying we keep our foot on the sips throats and keep em out), but we will see.

It'd be the same as it was in the big 12.

10 years ago I thought the SEC was going to be A&M's permanent home and a way for it to become the dominant TX school. If tu comes in, then I'd know A&M will eventually leave the SEC after tu poisons it and we become second class citizens again.

rgag12 said:

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It'd be the same as it was in the big 12.

10 years ago I thought the SEC was going to be A&M's permanent home and a way for it to become the dominant TX school. If tu comes in, then I'd know A&M will eventually leave the SEC after tu poisons it and we become second class citizens again.

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tu is big enough to poison the little 12 (10), but not a 16-Team SEC on steroids.

rgag12 said:

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It'd be the same as it was in the big 12.

10 years ago I thought the SEC was going to be A&M's permanent home and a way for it to become the dominant TX school. If tu comes in, then I'd know A&M will eventually leave the SEC after tu poisons it and we become second class citizens again.

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BS! Better coach, better facilities, better fans, better town. We'll be fine.

Win At Life said:

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rgag12 said:

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It'd be the same as it was in the big 12.

10 years ago I thought the SEC was going to be A&M's permanent home and a way for it to become the dominant TX school. If tu comes in, then I'd know A&M will eventually leave the SEC after tu poisons it and we become second class citizens again.

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tu is big enough to poison the little 12 (10), but not a 16-Team SEC on steroids.

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The situation is not static, this turn events should prove that. All it would take is an SEC commissioner that would be open to changing things in favor of some schools but not others.

Would Slive have let tu wiggle its way in the SEC after what it made the SWC and BDF go through, no. Sankey, if tu comes in, would obviously have departed from Slive's principles.

Who's to say Sankey or another SEC commissioner wouldn't be open to this arguement, "Hey you know under these NIL laws, we at tu noticed that there is an opportunity for schools like ourselves and Bama to do xxxxx and xxxxx to make a whole lot more money for the SEC! However I think it'd only be fair if Bama and tu got more money than the schools who couldn't exploit these opportunities" Nobody can say that this kind of scenario isn't possible in this new world of college football.