I'm curious so if the Aggies do go to the SEC, do they kept their tradition of all the anti-Longhorn stuff? A while back a friend of mine who was a Husker alum asked me when she went to see the Aggies play the Huskers in College Station, why they kept chanting about UT when they were playing the Huskers? I mean are they going to chant Beat the Hell out of TU when Florida is destroying them by 30 points ? What about Tennessee? Would the Volunteers fans mistaken the Aggie fans insulting them? cause they are UT also. or maybe the Aggies were dumb to think that Horns were going there because they saw UT in the SEC and thought it was us.
I would want them in the Pac-10 with UT. Like Ziggy noted in the other thread, the rivalry means so much to UT and A&M... it's always fun watching a rivalry game as big as it is between UT and A&M.
As much as I like a good gang bang movie, I don't think I want to watch the Ags pull a SEC train every year.
Do they really want to play LSU, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee every year? They have issues with Arkansas
I'd like to see A&M go Pac 10 mostly because I'd like as many Texas schools to stay together as possible, especially the bigger programs. A&M is apparently saying they want to 'distance' themselves from UT, which I think is an impossibility. They will ALWAYS be compared to UT, and I think they should embrace it. It wasn't too long ago that A&M was a respectable program, and I can't imagine they'll stay mediocre for long, but it'll be much tougher in the SEC for them to do so.
Thow in a UT or OU game and .500 would be a good year, and that includes their victories over USL and LA Tech.
Aggies would do better in the Pac 10/16, but being in the SEC would be pretty sweet as well. I say the SEC ONLY if we quit our dumb UT hatred crap and get cheerleaders. I'm so annoyed with singing about UT when we are playing other teams. I'm an aggie, but my god, 1/2 of our traditions are dumb as fk. I would hate to leave the other texas school, CU, etc, though. Pac 16 would be alot of fun, especially away games to oregon, cali, wash, az! great excuse to go to those states for a weekend!
Typical Aggie fan voting for the SEC. They probably even think they can compete there next year Yes it fits, it feels right - tradition, culture, style... okay whatever. But aside from football the move makes no sense. And even then its a risky move. The only potential upside of a move to the SEC is football and that is it. Oh, and a little extra cash, but as a fan/alumni you don't need to worry about that. Its a non-factor. The Pac-16 offers some sexy basketball matchup situations, a new progressive approach to building a conference, potentially the fire to destroy the BCS, the very cool scenario of Big 12 south shutting up ESPN and the west coast bias by beating them in a conference title game each year, and more importantly you get to team up with great academic institutions to create something powerful. Oh, and you keep one of the most important rivalries in sports alive (sorry, its still important, if you don't think so then blah).
few reasons why I, a current aggie would like to go to the sec.... 1) get under the thumb of UT, as hard as it is to admit it we are the little brother that usually gets beat by UT( i find it hilarious by the way that most of the UT alum just figured we would hop on with them to the Pac10, sorry that we have a mind of our own and want to look at whats good for us too)....i think SEC for us and pac10 for UT fits well for both schools and we could both still schedule eachother at the end of the year ala Florida and Florida st 2) Recruiting: i think being the only texas school in the sec will make a huge impact on kids that want to either stay near home or have the allure of playing in the glorious sec....its hard to sell college station when you have to compare it to Austin and given we go to the SEC selling college station becomes a lot easier 3) Culture: we fit the southern mentality of the sec perfectly more so than we would the liberal style of the pac10 4) those that say we would get murdered in the sec, i think for the first few years thats true but i believe things will change quickly and things wouldnt be any better in the pac10 bc we would still lose recruits to texas and oklahoma, and no we have to add the likes of usc and oregon...i think we have a better chance for success in the sec than the pac10, arkansas won 3 division titles in 10 years thats more big12 south titles than the ags have won in the same time spand and i think the ags can fare better then the hogs
See, all those reasons are football related. This is bigger than football. Like I said in that other thread, UT is gonna team up with Stanford, Cal, and UCLA to make some kind of awesome sex robot while us Aggies will be stuck gig'n the sheep.
I understand there should be a bigger perspective on the dilemma then just football, but that is the reality of the situation, it is all about football. If it was not we would be Pac10 bound and revel in the fact that we are in a conference with the likes of Stanford. With that being said I do not understand the academics argument, why does a school have to be in the same conference as those with high standards will going to a lesser academic conference lower the concentration the school puts on academics, for me I don't think so that's is why I throw out the academic argument.
Unfortunately, Texas would rather stay in a dying conference to get more money for their Longhorns than broaden their academics.
