TAMU to SEC getting real...

AuburnChopper 3.0 · « **Reply #20 on:** August 12, 2011, 09:58:55 AM »

Quote from: Snaggletiger on August 12, 2011, 09:52:55 AM

A&M or any other Big 12 school just seems to be a reach.

It's no more a reach than Columbia, SC is to Baton Rouge, LA. Right?

dallaswareagle · « **Reply #21 on:** August 12, 2011, 09:59:50 AM »

Quote from: Saniflush on August 12, 2011, 08:19:07 AM

You just want them in so you have an easier time watching games on TV.

And one game I can drive to.

ssgaufan · « **Reply #22 on:** August 12, 2011, 10:00:52 AM »

If VT came to the SEC we would have to hear about fucking beamer ball all the damn time. It gets on my nerves as it is now, just hearing about it a couple times a year.

Saniflush · « **Reply #23 on:** August 12, 2011, 10:01:27 AM »

Quote from: AuburnChopper on August 12, 2011, 09:58:55 AM

It's no more a reach than Columbia, SC is to Baton Rouge, LA. Right?

We shit can KY and pick up whoever we want in Texas.

I say if you were in the club that formed 150 years ago then you are pre-qualified to be in the SEC.

ssgaufan · « **Reply #24 on:** August 12, 2011, 10:02:58 AM »

Quote from: Saniflush on August 12, 2011, 10:01:27 AM

We shit can KY and pick up whoever we want in Texas.

I say if you were in the club that formed 150 years ago then you are pre-qualified to be in the SEC.

I really wouldn't want to lose our only BBall blueblood though. And for the record, I would be ok with picking up aTm.

AuburnChopper 3.0 · « **Reply #25 on:** August 12, 2011, 10:06:04 AM »

Quote from: Saniflush on August 12, 2011, 10:01:27 AM

We shit can KY Vandy and pick up whoever we want in Texas.

I say if you were in the club that formed 150 years ago then you are pre-qualified to be in the SEC.

Better.

Saniflush · « **Reply #26 on:** August 12, 2011, 10:19:13 AM »

Quote from: AuburnChopper on August 12, 2011, 10:06:04 AM

Better.

Nah.
Gotta have Vandy for GPA standards alone.

Tiger Wench · « **Reply #27 on:** August 12, 2011, 10:22:45 AM »

Like it or not, we NEED Vandy for academic ratings.

I am guessing Mizzou and TAMU, plus GT and TBD.

The funny thing is this: TAMU fans are all saying how they are going to join the biggest badest muther-effin conference in football, yo... fuck Texas. We rulz...

But yeah, you Aggie dipshits. You ARE about to join the biggest badest muther-effin conference in football, yo. You couldn't win in the Big Twelve - how the FUCK do you think you are gonna compete in the SEC, home of the last FIVE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS?

Aggies gonna get cornholed.

Local sports media also seem to think that Aggies get no recruiting boost from joining the SEC, since the MooCows and the Okies get first and second pick of anyone and everyone they want in-state - and the ones they don't get go to SEC schools anyway. UT's athletic department's NET REVENUE last year was more than TAMU's entire athletic department budget, yet all of a sudden these Texas blue chippers are gonna want to go to TAMU instead of UT or OU just because TAMU is a member of the SEC? These blue chippers want to play FOR a good team in the SEC, not just play AGAINST a good team in the SEC. And God bless Mike Sherman, but the Ags ain't it.

Bottom line - I am still not sure why the Aggies think they will get any more respect in the SEC than they did in the Big12. They will get Miss State and Kentucky kind of respect - in other words, still second class citizens.

AuburnChopper 3.0 · « **Reply #28 on:** August 12, 2011, 10:24:19 AM »

Quote from: Saniflush on August 12, 2011, 10:19:13 AM

Nah.
Gotta have Vandy for GPA standards alone.

True.

Saniflush · « **Reply #29 on:** August 12, 2011, 10:25:30 AM »

I think deep down they know that their prospects of winning are not increasing but there has to be some satisfaction from them knowing they are about to cut ties with tex-ass.

Tiger Wench · « **Reply #30 on:** August 12, 2011, 10:41:12 AM »

Quote from: Saniflush on August 12, 2011, 10:25:30 AM

I think deep down they know that their prospects of winning are not increasing but there has to be some satisfaction from them knowing they are about to cut ties with tex-ass.

Never mind that they are going from a lion's den to a gator farm. The mentality is DEFINITELY "Fuck you, T-sips."

Kaos · « **Reply #31 on:** August 12, 2011, 11:07:22 AM »

Quote from: AuburnChopper on August 12, 2011, 09:07:06 AM

Skarbinsky verifying via twitter that Rick Perry (A&M Alum and Tex Gov.) meeting with Bentley tonight in Birmingham. Says also, "accross the street from the SEC offices."

Sounds like it's coming. They've GOT to have a partner in this though... I just don't see how we bring in one team and have one division run with a team short on one side.

We reach out to A&M and the SEC gets the short end of the deal here. The Aggies can't carry their weight and other teams will have to do the lifting.

It's not about the money. Can't be. Not like the SEC is broke. Teams are already spending like crazy in a reckless arms race.

A&M brings nothing to this wedding. I'm definitely not toasting it.

I really think the SEC should quit this idea immediately. Let A&M go do its own thing on its own dime and see how many people bother to follow them.

I don't want them.

Snaggletiger · « **Reply #32 on:** August 12, 2011, 11:11:45 AM »

Quote from: Kaos on August 12, 2011, 11:07:22 AM

We reach out to A&M and the SEC gets the short end of the deal here. The Aggies can't carry their weight and other teams will have to do the lifting.

It's not about the money. Can't be. Not like the SEC is broke. Teams are already spending like crazy in a reckless arms race.

A&M brings nothing to this wedding. I'm definitely not toasting it.

I really think the SEC should quit this idea immediately. Let A&M go do its own thing on its own dime and see how many people bother to follow them.

I don't want them.

Agreed.

Godfather · « **Reply #33 on:** August 12, 2011, 11:31:34 AM »

Quote from: Kaos on August 12, 2011, 11:07:22 AM

We reach out to A&M and the SEC gets the short end of the deal here. The Aggies can't carry their weight and other teams will have to do the lifting.

It's not about the money. Can't be. Not like the SEC is broke. Teams are already spending like crazy in a reckless arms race.

A&M brings nothing to this wedding. I'm definitely not toasting it.

I really think the SEC should quit this idea immediately. Let A&M go do its own thing on its own dime and see how many people bother to follow them.

I don't want them.

Kaos for SEC Commissioner? On this platform..I say

Buzz Killington · « **Reply #34 on:** August 12, 2011, 11:34:50 AM »

This is all for Gene Stallings. Nothing else, besides being able to "brag" that the SEC now has 3 of Bahr Brynt's former teams as members.

War Eagle!!! · « **Reply #35 on:** August 12, 2011, 11:43:46 AM »

If A&M doesn't bring along Oklahoma, I agree. Nothing for the SEC to gain by having them in here. Except of course a really close away game for me to go to...

Kaos · « **Reply #36 on:** August 12, 2011, 11:51:28 AM »

All I got to say is it A&M really does come over? They better put on their big boy pants and cinch those fuckers up high and tight.

GH2001 · « **Reply #37 on:** August 12, 2011, 01:08:50 PM »

Quote from: Kaos on August 12, 2011, 11:07:22 AM

We reach out to A&M and the SEC gets the short end of the deal here. The Aggies can't carry their weight and other teams will have to do the lifting.

It's not about the money. Can't be. Not like the SEC is broke. Teams are already spending like crazy in a reckless arms race.

A&M brings nothing to this wedding. I'm definitely not toasting it.

I really think the SEC should quit this idea immediately. Let A&M go do its own thing on its own dime and see how many people bother to follow them.

I don't want them.

Agreed.

They want us more than we want them. Only positive is it's a new market. But hell, so is UNC and VT.

AuburnChopper 3.0 · « **Reply #38 on:** August 12, 2011, 01:13:00 PM »

According to at least a few news sources, FSU is in talks with SEC about possibly making jump. Would partner with Texas A&M to add 14th team to league.

Would make more sense than VT I guess. How nasty would that Florida vs. FSU game get with THAT dynamic involved. Sorta like those crazy fucks in Alab... wait... what?

AU_Tiger_2000 · « **Reply #39 on:** August 12, 2011, 02:53:39 PM »

I think a lot of this is Slive's ego. He has guided the SEC as it became the best conference, now he wants to make it the biggest. Now that the Pac 12 and Big 10 have jumped up to 12 team/championship game conferences he feels he needs to make another splash to set the SEC apart. I would guess that if he could add 4 teams to the SEC (and it would take 4 to get the East vs West conference games to work out in a schedule without leaving an odd man out) he would soon after announce his retirement as he had put the other conferences in their place and made the SEC top dog competitively, financially, and territorially.