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The SEC fans still dont get it. Texas will come in and run shite whether you like it or not. It's about money, and they have more than you. They will run/ruin the SEC before you realize it. Over here we've seen it time and time again. It's an old tale.

No what y'all don't get is that for Texas entire history they've been asked to prop up every other institution in the state of Texas.

The SWC was Texas, Rice, SMU, TCU, Baylor, Houston, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and Arkansas. That is 8 out of 9 schools being from ONE state, ONE... 4 of those schools are private schools. That isn't sustainable and Arkansas saw that, had very little to do with Texas being some big bad bully.

Big 12 was formed out of necessity between two conferences that didn't necessarily want to merge but also didn't really have much of an option. That proved to be true when by the late 2000s it became every man for themselves.

Texas isn't going to run shite in the SEC and I don't think they want to. No disrespect to Texas Tech but Texas just got tired of looking at the home schedule every year and seeing TCU and Tech as its marquee home games with the exception of the OOC home and home with Notre Dame, LSU, USC, and Alabama.

Of course conference realignment is about money but Texas gains more tradition than they lose with this move. Arkansas and Texas A&M are much bigger rivals historically for Texas than Texas Tech on down. That being said the gap in money will shrink greatly once Texas officially joins the SEC. In the Big 12 Texas was the Jones', in the SEC they will be one of many of them.