"We" who?

So, move Bama and Aubrun to the East and add UT and land thieves to the West. A&M probably could block it, but I doubt they will. Too much to lose at the LBB. Good luck,boys. It all lower class pro ball now anyway.

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He looks, but he does not see

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Old McDonald said:

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looking forward to the endless streams of aggie tears when we join the SEC and rob them of the only thing that makes them relevant

buckle up folks!

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Is Saban still going to tu?

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1. denial*
2. anger
3. bargaining
4. depression
5. acceptance

*you are here

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Those two bring nothing to the table. No increased TV ratings, no increased revenues, no increased fan support, and no boost to SEC recruiting. Who the hell recruits in Oklahoma anyway for most of OU's players come form Texas.

t.u. is poison and contaminates everything they touch.

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Things have changed in ten years with the way people watch TV. I'm not saying (yet) it's going to happen, but the TV footprint argument is not as valid as it was in 2011.

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Old McDonald said:

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looking forward to the endless streams of aggie tears when we join the SEC and rob them of the only thing that makes them relevant

buckle up folks!

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Is Saban still going to tu?

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1. denial*
2. anger
3. bargaining
4. depression
5. acceptance

*you are here

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That sword cuts both ways until we see the ultimate decision.

Old McDonald said:

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Old McDonald said:

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looking forward to the endless streams of aggie tears when we join the SEC and rob them of the only thing that makes them relevant

buckle up folks!

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Is Saban still going to tu?

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1. denial*
2. anger
3. bargaining
4. depression
5. acceptance

*you are here

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If Texas does join...we'll still be better than you. Want to lay some $ on it?

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Here we go!

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I remember seeing your thread. Bet there were there were a bunch of lurkers who silently agreed with you. The toxic responses you received is a perfect example of why I generally stay away from online forums. Too much groupthink.

First response: "Were you beating off as you bumped this?" LOL. So that's the Aggie Spirit.

I guess it was a fool's dream to think A&M could break away from UT's influence forever.

Congrats on your prediction. If you have any new insights, I'd be happy to hear them.

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Thank you, Meen, very much.

Congratulations, Bryan, you were logical all the way through...including saying we should have kept Sherman (the refs were so bad to him and the Ags when we started to threaten the powers).

I didn't join until 2016, but back in 2012 would probably have thought tu would go west rather than to the SEC,
THEN California stupidly started discriminating against Texas for political reasons.

The recent success of the Aggies once again threatens the powers...political and economic power is tough to beat but we are a much larger, richer school now. Hope we can keep the sip refs out of the SEC.

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So, move Bama and Aubrun to the East and add UT and land thieves to the West. A&M probably could block it, but I doubt they will. Too much to lose at the LBB. Good luck,boys. It all lower class pro ball now anyway.

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Wrong. Sips go to the West, Thieves to to the East. The 2 of them are designated as permanent cross conference rivals. The dynamics and rivalries of the other 14 teams remains completely the same. This has virtually no impact on conference scheduling either, other than moving to a 9 game conference lineup.

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This was a stupid post, UTx will never join the SEC, we will block if for sure. We are never going to let those lying f@gg0ts into our conference again.

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LOL

It's OK Aggie. Really, it is. Deleting my post is fine. Getting snubbed by the Playoff Committed and your own conference within a year would be rough for most to grasp.

Keep up the fight!!!

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There will ultimately be 4 power conferences:
For Sure:
1. SEC
2. Big10
3. Pac12

The ACC, BigEast and Big12 are to be transformed or dissolved one way or another. I would expect a few Big12 teams to join the Pac (UT, Tech). OU/OSU to join the SEC. And the BE/ACC to merge to 16 dropping the BigEast dead weights. WVU wold then go back to the BE/ACC.

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I was close I suppose. (original post on page 1 in 2012)

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Bryan, I too am an old Ag and I can tell that you are suffering from BAS, Battered Aggie Syndrome. I have had to detox from it myself. Let's look at reality, not media hype or the way things were ten years ago. Sips do not have the legislative power they once had, nothing close. Furthermore their sway over the NCAA is nothing more then your old sips buds muttering in their beer about the way things were and working hard to stay in denial about reality. I feel sorry for sips especially guys my age. They have stuck their head in the sand and allowed a cohort of libs that they despise take over and rule. They made their bed and now they have to lie in it. I have been asking them for years about how they can support the path that tu has been going down. They really didn't see or want to see what was happening. Now they do and they are in crisis. As the Scripture says, Pride comes before the fall, and the more pride you have the greater the fall and yes the sips are falling, HARD, not just in football but in about every meaning full category. Makes since, when you go with the lib socialist agenda, you don't produce quality hard working, practical self reliant graduates that mirror your states culture.



Ag Dot Com, though you are legally correct in the 3/4s vote to be approved. It has been an unspoken agreement that a unanimous vote is expected.

The SEC has a strong collegial feel about it. The only exception is Mizzou. Mizzou is not really a fit and they are struggling. It was kind of a forced marriage of convenience, best available on the part of the SEC and the only life boat for Mizzou. They will be like KU, strong in basketball, weak in football. The deal is Mizzou brings something to the table. A fairly large TV market, a whole state, and a solid if not spectacular athletic program. THEY ALSO don't bring all the negative baggage that a tu would bring.

tu is not a fit for SEC in ANYWAY. NONE NADA ZIP.

Then one has to ask, what do they bring to the SEC? The answer, a whole lot more feces then food.

The sips have always been the master spin and power politics. Now they are just the master of spin and even that is being eroded. They have been declining in substance for a long time. The King has no clothes and now the whole nation is beginning to see it.

They are truly a liberal dominated school amongst a sea of conservative values. I just don't think other SEC ADs, and Presidents are ignorant about tu. They already got the plumb of the state in us and they have no need to take tu on and I can assure you the aspect of voting tu in would cause strong division in a conference that very much values it's unity!

Secondly the idea that ESPN can force the issue is nuts. ESPN is fighting to maintain it's market share. They do not have the power to force tu on to the SEC. ESPN is in a tough situation. They surely did not want A&M going to the SEC because it erodes the value of the Bevo conf. tu did not want us to go, Baylor, did not want us to go, Everyone pulled every stop they could to stop us, THEY FAILED.

Why? They did not have the power to stop us, not politically, not legally, not in the media either, (which is really the only real leverage they have over us left)

They used to have extreme clout in the NCAA, NOW THEY DO NOT> They made a power play with the LHN and highschool football. That was a mistake, now the whole nation and every AD and coach out there, now fully understood the reality of the sips and what we have had to deal with for a long time.

No, no. The sip power and influence has waned and it has waned across the board in every real and tangible way. We are beating them across the board, we are a much more nationally and internationally significant university in about every SUBSTANTIAL way. Our leadership is much better, across the board.

Bottomline, I think I have better chance of winning the lotto then they sips have in every being a part of the SEC in my life time.

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This one was a precursor to the QAnon stuff you dove so deeply into, but married with completely wrong predictions about sports. Just to show that God has a sense of humor Missouri played in the SEC Championship game two years running after you made the post.

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Late breaking news: Ron Paul will ultimately have to join the democratic party. (Source: Bryanisbest)

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Has to be a troll!

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CrottyKid said:

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Now that a horn troll is here, this thread is complete.

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Happy Kuykendahl said:

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Think about it. This is their only way to stop our rise and replacement of them as the supreme football power in Texas. Their own arrogance is their main obstacle. They will have to admit they were wrong about our move, wrong about the SEC etc. But when they realize that this is the only way to stop us their ego will have to give way to this smarter tactic. I believe they can put us back in our subservient role ONLY by entering the SEC and so they will be forced to eat the crow necessary to do it. I believe the SEC will have to let them in due to their tremendous wealth and power in all the back rooms around Texas and the nation. Our only hope is that their arrogance will outweigh their good sense. It will take a while for them to see this but it will eventually become very apparent: either go to SEC or resign forever their superior football position to Texas A and M.

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Congrats on being so prescient.

However, there has been no crow eaten thanks to the arrogance you mention, nor will there be any "back in our subservient position".

And your last statement about resigning the superior position...actually it can and will be both. they will come to the SEC and give up the superior position to A&M for a long time at least (acknowledging the cyclical nature of things, of course).

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Think about it. This is their only way to stop our rise and replacement of them as the supreme football power in Texas. Their own arrogance is their main obstacle. They will have to admit they were wrong about our move, wrong about the SEC etc. But when they realize that this is the only way to stop us their ego will have to give way to this smarter tactic. I believe they can put us back in our subservient role ONLY by entering the SEC and so they will be forced to eat the crow necessary to do it. I believe the SEC will have to let them in due to their tremendous wealth and power in all the back rooms around Texas and the nation. Our only hope is that their arrogance will outweigh their good sense. It will take a while for them to see this but it will eventually become very apparent: either go to SEC or resign forever their superior football position to Texas A and M.

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Congrats on being so prescient.

However, there has been no crow eaten thanks to the arrogance you mention, nor will there be any "back in our subservient position".

And your last statement about resigning the superior position...actually it can and will be both. they will come to the SEC and give up the superior position to A&M for a long time at least (acknowledging the cyclical nature of things, of course).

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Thanks, Moore. The "subservient" comment was bad choice of words by me. I have high hopes now that will never happen. And hopeful too that we will still maintain the superior position we have now.

I guess when I made my original post I was writing some of the thoughts from their viewpoint i e keeping us in our subservient position.

I agree with what you wrote.

I would also add that they are eating their crow internally and behind the scenes but keeping up their arrogance publicly.

Bryan, you called it. Always looks obvious looking back but a bold statement in 2012. I bet OPAG, who, by the way, said you had BAS, is probably drunk in a street gutter somewhere after his posts.

And the posts about how the SEC will stand up for us, i.e. loyalty. Like Chris Rock said, a man is only as loyal as his options. The money was a better option for the rest of the conference, not to mention we don't have as much of a monopoly on Texas recruits anymore which may be a sigh of relief in the minds of our SEC "brethren".

I hate that tu (and ou who is just as big a recruiting threat if not more) will be in our conference because we had a great recruiting advantage. Our only advantage now is maybe we have enough steam or a bigger brand in the eyes of today's teenagers. Time will tell.

Most entertaining post I've ever read.

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Bryan, you called it. Always looks obvious looking back but a bold statement in 2012. I bet OPAG, who, by the way, said you had BAS, is probably drunk in a street gutter somewhere after his posts.

And the posts about how the SEC will stand up for us, i.e. loyalty. Like Chris Rock said, a man is only as loyal as his options. The money was a better option for the rest of the conference, not to mention we don't have as much of a monopoly on Texas recruits anymore which may be a sigh of relief in the minds of our SEC "brethren".

I hate that tu (and ou who is just as big a recruiting threat if not more) will be in our conference because we had a great recruiting advantage. Our only advantage now is maybe we have enough steam or a bigger brand in the eyes of today's teenagers. Time will tell.

Most entertaining post I've ever read.

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Thanks so much Guapo. We are in total agreement !

PS I must admit, OPAG may be somewhat right. I must admit I do have a touch of BAS. I've been watching the Ags since 1953 when my Dad, an Ag, starting taking me to Thanksgiving day games. I remember as a child thinking I would never see A&M beat Texas in my lifetime. We lost from 1951-55. That scars a young child who always cried when the Aggies lost. Then suddenly in 56 the Ags beat tu in Austin. Then Jackie Sherrill restored my faith in the early 80's. Now we are 19-19 against them since scholly limits were imposed. We arrive today at the brink of a new era where we have a shot at dominating them. I believe we can do it. But BAS is always lurking in the back of my mind.

Bryanisbest said:

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el_guapo said:

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Bryan, you called it. Always looks obvious looking back but a bold statement in 2012. I bet OPAG, who, by the way, said you had BAS, is probably drunk in a street gutter somewhere after his posts.

And the posts about how the SEC will stand up for us, i.e. loyalty. Like Chris Rock said, a man is only as loyal as his options. The money was a better option for the rest of the conference, not to mention we don't have as much of a monopoly on Texas recruits anymore which may be a sigh of relief in the minds of our SEC "brethren".

I hate that tu (and ou who is just as big a recruiting threat if not more) will be in our conference because we had a great recruiting advantage. Our only advantage now is maybe we have enough steam or a bigger brand in the eyes of today's teenagers. Time will tell.

Most entertaining post I've ever read.

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Thanks so much Guapo. We are in total agreement !

PS I must admit, OPAG may be somewhat right. I must admit I do have a touch of BAS. I've been watching the Ags since 1953 when my Dad, an Ag, starting taking me to Thanksgiving day games. I remember as a child thinking I would never see A&M beat Texas in my lifetime. We lost from 1951-55. That scars a young child who always cried when the Aggies lost. Then suddenly in 56 the Ags beat tu in Austin. Then Jackie Sherrill restored my faith in the early 80's. Now we are 19-19 against them since scholly limits were imposed. We arrive today at the brink of a new era where we have a shot at dominating them. I believe we can do it. But BAS is always lurking in the back of my mind.

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I showed my dad, class of '61, this thread and your last reply and he said, "that's EXACTLY how I feel". Here's to hoping the last 10 years is the building of an immunity to BAS!