I don't. I think to me, that's the most frustrating and upsetting part about all of this. For the last decade, just saying "SEC" brought a smile to all of our faces. It meant something. We were part of something special and it was heads and shoulders above the type of "community" any other conference could pretend to have. We all fit in. We were on top as a conference and there wasn't a close 2nd.
All of that is gone now. There's no excitement to being in the SEC now for a lot of reasons. We made this conference a **** ton of money and for what, to have them go behind the scenes and court our rivals behind our backs? You have 2 other AAU schools in the entire conference and one of those happens to be the 2nd most profitable athletic dept in collegiate sports, just recently edged out by tu. And this is how you treat that brand?
**** the SEC. There's no affinity there anymore. It doesn't mean dick to me or any other Ag anymore. Who cares. This isn't woe is me, it just is what it is. The SEC had something special and sold its soul. This benefits no one in this conference. Not one school will benefit here. The cons far outweigh the increase in revenue. Much like the state of Texas and that dump of a city where tu is located, the SEC is losing their character and their way with this move. OU kind of fits the mold at least personality-wise. tu is so over the top liberal at this point, its once lovely campus is a big ol homeless stain these days and Austin has NONE of the "cool" aspects that once made it such a fun and unique town.
Superconferences, NIL, backstabbing, players ditching bowl games.....so much for the sport of college football that so many of us called our favorite sport.
Aside from everything, every Aggie should feel slighted in the way that this has gone down. We're not Iowa State, we're not Arizona State or Pitt or some other spare school that just doesn't move the needle for their respective conferences. If it absolutely had to happen to get ahead on the inevitable super conference arms race (which all of us were told was decades away), then so be it. But, for it to happen like this? F the SEC. We're clearly not family and we're better than this (and not in the whorns unjustifiably arrogant ways).
All of that is gone now. There's no excitement to being in the SEC now for a lot of reasons. We made this conference a **** ton of money and for what, to have them go behind the scenes and court our rivals behind our backs? You have 2 other AAU schools in the entire conference and one of those happens to be the 2nd most profitable athletic dept in collegiate sports, just recently edged out by tu. And this is how you treat that brand?
**** the SEC. There's no affinity there anymore. It doesn't mean dick to me or any other Ag anymore. Who cares. This isn't woe is me, it just is what it is. The SEC had something special and sold its soul. This benefits no one in this conference. Not one school will benefit here. The cons far outweigh the increase in revenue. Much like the state of Texas and that dump of a city where tu is located, the SEC is losing their character and their way with this move. OU kind of fits the mold at least personality-wise. tu is so over the top liberal at this point, its once lovely campus is a big ol homeless stain these days and Austin has NONE of the "cool" aspects that once made it such a fun and unique town.
Superconferences, NIL, backstabbing, players ditching bowl games.....so much for the sport of college football that so many of us called our favorite sport.
Aside from everything, every Aggie should feel slighted in the way that this has gone down. We're not Iowa State, we're not Arizona State or Pitt or some other spare school that just doesn't move the needle for their respective conferences. If it absolutely had to happen to get ahead on the inevitable super conference arms race (which all of us were told was decades away), then so be it. But, for it to happen like this? F the SEC. We're clearly not family and we're better than this (and not in the whorns unjustifiably arrogant ways).
