They won't be there for awhile in the SEC, and I'm willing to place any kind of bet on that (tipjar, sig, etc). Edit: And to clarify, this is not a dig on the Aggies. I also don't think UT would be a perennial top 10 team in the SEC.
Who is making fun? If anything, I would like to see the games that have been played for over a CENTURY to continue. I find it amusing that A&M fans continue to trash a conference that they couldn't do jack squat in. Go back and read my posts. I made it clear that I think it's bad timing for A&M to leave when they have finally climbed up the totem pole and move to a conference with currently Spoiler 8 teams in the top 25 Enjoy and good luck! Y'all gonna need it
I don't disagree with you that I'd like some of the rivalries to continue, but with the hell that Baylor has been trying to put A&M through in making this move, it is absolutely not going to happen there. A&M will offer to play Texas and it looks like Texas is going to refuse. Personally, I am good with that considering we don't need another game that tough on the non-conference schedule. I hope A&M continues to play Tech in lieu of Texas. That said, there are a lot of rumblings that OU is getting fed up with Texas now and are seriously considering looking at the PAC XII.
I still say there are forces that can stop the A&M to SEC move though it appears to be very very likely at this point. If that happens, the Big XII has 3 years left TOPS, but it will be interesting to see what happens. I just think there will be other conference alignment changes and teams like Tech and Mizzou are going to jump ship for stability just like A&M.
TAMU was good in what, the 99 era? Yes the Big 12 is weak, especially with Nebraska out. They don't even have a title game. Who cares how TAMU did in it? Whether they won every game or lost every game the conference is still weak. And from the eyes of a college football fan -- boring.
Oh no, Aggie fans will be forced to watch exciting football games with big-time teams. Shame on them for not wanting to play ISU and Baylor every year.
Y'all dog on TAMU and support the Big 12. I think its clear - the Big 12 needs TAMU more than TAMU needs the Big 12. Step off our dicks and let us go.
This is the part I don't understand. Just from a fan perspective, I would love for Texas to play ranked teams every other week, even if we lost a few here and there. The whole point of sports is to be entertained, and games against the ISUs of the world are boring as hell.
Exactly, but I understand Texas and OU's concern here in the world of College Football where 1 loss kills you. My biggest hope is that we have 4 bigger conferences that result from this and then a playoff system is then formed. Then teams like Texas and OU won't have a problem playing a tough schedule with good games week in and week out knowing that it comes down to a playoff.
Exactly. I don't knock the Horns' fans for wanting such a strong shot at the BCS either. I'm just tired of people stepping on TAMU's dick. The SEC is GREAT football. I'd love for Texas to come. Revolutionize the way things are done. Be a part of something progressive. If UT and OU came they'd have to change the way the bowl system works... oh well.
I look at what the Pac 10 set its sights on. What the Big 10 did adding Nebraska. The SEC being aggressive. Then I look at the Big 12. Grasping at straws. Anchored by 1 team. This is the exact opposite of what's good for college football. Cougar fans aside, how can y'all continue to support the Big 12?
I think this is a good reply about the notion that Baylor is trying to block A&M to the SEC. I found it on a TCU forum where they were hating on Baylor as usual. They're trying to protect themselves just like every school should. Spoiler Simmer down, buddy. Take a deep breath. Anchored by one team? Please. OU fans will beg to differ. How many title/BCS games have they played in the last decade?
This isn't even a concern to me. Sure, you might lose an extra game, but playing that schedule gets you a buffer too. If you're one of the 2 best teams in the country, you should be able to handle it - it certainly hasn't stopped a whole variety of SEC teams from winning national titles. I'm not a fan of the SEC because of the culture of cheating and the academics, but I don't fault any school for trying to play the best. I wish Texas would have a tougher, more entertaining schedule every year. The atmosphere and experience at games against top 10 teams is completely different from the blah atmosphere against scrubs.
The weak academics make me sad. Which is why I wanted the Pac16. But I'll take what I can get as an Aggie fan at this point. As a college football fan.
So Texas is trying to make a home in the easiest conference possible while at the same time trying to keep A&M, a "Top 10 team that will be there for a while," in the conference? Does not compute.
I get that you will see more exciting football when it comes to A&M, but don't you want to have a much easier shot at a title? As a college football fan, you can always just continue to watch SEC football..what I mean is let them battle it out all season and then all it takes is one win on their best and voila..you're considered the best even though you didn't have to go through the brutal schedule to get there.
I think this is an appropriate response...yes I know it wasn't really from Jim Rome. “They won't shut up. They have to go on about spirit, and old army, and red ass, and how bonfire represents the burning sensation they have in their urine to beat UT, and blah blah blah. Shut up. You start to get the feeling the entire school was built to spite UT. Forget the fact that when the Texas Legislature back in the 1870's passed legislation to start a state university they also decided to have a subsidiary branch of the main school (The University of Texas) that would teach agriculture and mechanics. Aggies love to say their school is older, from where they get that I don't know ... the fact is, the State intended A&M to be a branch of UT. They are like the afterbirth from the original creation. Like Danny Devito in Twins. So they apparently have this complex, so much so, that they must devote their entire school to trying to prove to UT that they are just as good. All the while, nobody at UT denies that A&M is a good school, yet they won't shut up. So they write a fight song ... about ... Texas, and how they want to beat them. They have a Fish Camp for freshman where they tell them how bad Texas is and how good A&M and all its traditions are. It is the world's largest known case of penis envy, and it is manifested in everything A&M does. The people at A&M ... now we all have friends who went to A&M or are at A&M. There are some nice people there. However ... there is the Corp., East Texas' answer to dreams of ROTC kids everywhere. For every boy scout who never learned to stop playing with his GI Joe Toys, there is the Corp. Now, forget the fact that A&M will actually let people with sub-par grades enroll if they agree to join the Corp. Forget the fact that the Corps looked like a Gestapo hate rally while beating down students on Kyle Field in 1995. Forget the fact that along with the numerous hazing charges that have been filed against them, and swept under the rug over the years, they just this past month have had one Corps member bring charges against another Corps member who apparently had been propositioning others for a little actual sodomy. Not only could I go on with more instances of idiocracy by these Khaki-clad-shaven-headed-dorks, I am sure each of you have your own stories. The point is: We all respect West Point, Annapolis, The Air Force Academy; however, nobody respects the Corp. I imagine they are kind of the laughing stock of the military world. Just because you dress like the Army, and try and act like the Army, does not make you the Army. People at A&M don't even respect these clowns. It is not cool to shave your head and dress up. Halloween is only supposed to be one day of the year. If you want to carry guns and beat up civilians, move to Israel. It is even less cool to slobber on somebody's daughter on national television and call it a tradition. Dry humping 18 year old girls in the stands at football games is not cool. Not only is it not cool, it should be against the law. I know that in College Station, students are just prone to mount each other on the campus lawn, or in the middle of class, or anytime anything good happens you can just grab the girl sitting next to you and start sucking on her face. But everywhere else in the world, it is looked down upon. Especially if you are doing it on my TV. That is why we have moved the game from Thanksgiving. Because people across the nation were gagging on their turkey when in the middle of watching a football game, some boy scout is tongue thrashing some overweight co-ed during somebody's Thanksgiving dinner. We do not need to see burly women engaged in a suckfest every time your woeful offense manages to put points on the board. Some of these girls are in desperate need of a trip to the Clinique counter. Screw that, forget make-up, it is too late for that, just give them a veil. "t.u." is not funny. It is NOT insulting. It is dumb. Just imagine if folks from Texas kept talking about M&A and giggling. That would not be funny. In fact, it would be r****ded. That's why UT fans don't do it. Please learn. You want to lose the image of country bumpkins, of a people fond of sheep, of people that aren't stupid? Then quit building things that fall down. Quit chasing cheerleaders around with swords on national TV. Quit whooping in church. Quit whooping period. Quit putting up scoreboards for the enjoyment of dead mammals. Quit spending your Friday nights practicing how to yell. Quit telling rape jokes to reporters when you're running for Governor. When you are filling out season ticket renewals, and the form asks for your phone #, H & W, quit putting 258-3999, Height 6'3", Weight 185. Just, collectively, stop making asses of yourselves. Go to East Texas, tour every small town, and ask every red neck with a 5th grade education why they cheer for A&M and wear maroon. That is your fan base. This is why you are perceived by the educated masses as stupid. Nobody cares if you think your band is better. They might be louder, they might march in neat little zig zags, but they have no musical ability. The point is, nobody cares who wins halftime. Quit getting geeked up about marching bands. I find it hard to believe you stood through your high school band's entire halftime performance. And why? Cause nobody cared then and nobody cares now. Plus, you can hear them fine sitting down even if you do care. Why is it cool all of a sudden now that you're in college? Men should never let out high pitched whooping sounds. Perhaps the only justifiable situation in which this can be tolerated is perhaps during an anal probe. Oh wait ... I understand now. Dogs are not ladies. They don't look or smell like ladies. Dogs eat their own feces and should be treated accordingly. Finally, College Station is an arm-pit of a town. Quit pretending that it is a great college town. It is a town and there is a college there. That should be the end of this comparison. If you feel that life doesn't get any better than the Dixie Chicken, and enjoy being stuck in a never ending Dukes of Hazard episode, then move there. More importantly, don't move to Austin ... they are trying to create an educated, technological, and open minded population base. Austin is, and will continue to be, the birthplace and final resting place of all that is cool. As my friend Stephen Johnson once said: "If the world were ever to get an enema, College Station is where you would connect the hose.". If you go to school at A&M, please don't be an Aggie. God Bless the Great State of Texas."
Why doesn't Baylor join the MWC, if the goal is just to make things easier and make a team look better? 11-1 in the MWC or 12-0 in the WAC would get Baylor ranked in the top 10 every year. I think most teams would rather actually prove themselves to be good than just abuse the system to just artificially make themselves look good. That's why Boise went from the WAC to MWC, and why TCU went from the MWC to the BigEast, and why Utah went from the MWC to the Pac10.
Actually, I wouldn't mind a move to the MWC. TCU did exceptional in it. We would pwn in basketball, which we might do anyway this season. Our football program is getting better (ranked going into week 10 last season) and it would probably serve us better to be in the MWC assuming that we get the same quality of recruits. It ultimately always comes down to is money. They want the guaranteed money that comes from being in the larger conference and not rely on hopefully getting a big time bowl game.
