Sammy summed it up pretty nicely. I'm looking at it from a personal travel perspective too. I'd much rather go to Bryant-Denny, The Swamp, and Neyland Stadium than the LA Coliseum, Pullman Washington, and Tucson
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Texas was 1st in athletic revenue for the past year.
Texas A&M was 4th.
Who the hell knows where Tech was. What logic you used to arrive to what you just posted, I have no idea, but it is idiotic and blatantly false.
Texas and A&M are running this show, and everyone else is along for the ride. Don't let facts get in your way, though.
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I want to goto the SEC because its the premier football conference in the country. I'd rather play Florida and LSU and Tennessee and Auburn and Alabama and Georgia and Arkansas and Ole Miss than Berkeley and Washington State and UCLA and Arizona and Oregon State. The culture in the SEC is 1500% closer to A&M's than is the Pac-10's. The travel is easier (and better), and there wouldnt be any midweek basketball games starting at 11 pm cst every week.
F taking the easy way out simply to be guaranteed a couple more wins per year. Play with the big dogs if you wanna be a big dog.
Give me the SEC.
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Let me know how those 9pm kickoff ratings work out for t.u.
I want no part of that
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I am sorry that my opinion differs from the very small minority of aggie fans who post on these forums
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F taking the easy way out simply to be guaranteed a couple more wins per year. Play with the big dogs if you wanna be a big dog.
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If t.u. goes west and we go east our recruiting improves dramatically because we can sell staying at home (in Texas) and still playing in the SEC
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should the SEC coaches start recruiting Texas
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Pretty much every other school is an after thought. If the SEC would want to expand tu would be the school it targets and A&M would be the throw in, much like how tech, and the other schools would be in the pac 10 deal.
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Amanda Hill from Kerrville's Tivy High School will major in nursing at Texas A&M at Corpus Christi.
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How would our recruiting improve?
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AmandaReed
Bmed- How would our recruiting improve? We are fighting against Mack, OU, and LSU for recruits right now. Now imagine opening up Texas to Meyer, Saban and company on a yearly basis.
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should the SEC coaches start recruiting Texas?
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Recruits choose programs, not conferences
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It's a massive risk that, if unsuccessful, could be the permanent death of our football program
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The SEC is the most popular conference among Texas high school athletes
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No record on any Amanda Hill OR Amanda Reed on the Association of former students website. Wonder why that is?
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posted 3:45p, 06/07/10
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If t.u. goes west and we go east our recruiting improves dramatically because we can sell staying at home (in Texas) and still playing in the SEC
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This line of thinking I just don't get. A&M isn't getting top notch recruits because they've been suck the last decade, not because they're not playing in the SEC. Recruits choose programs, not conferences. I would think, if anything, it would hurt aTm's recruiting because they'd more than likely lose a lot more games in the SEC.