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The real problem for Texas now though is the changes A&M has made are permanent. We will always be in a better conference. We will always play a better schedule. We will always be on TV more than you. Soon we will always make more money than Texas as well once the SEC Network and the new Kyle are in place. Texas is in deep shite and they are just now starting to realize it.

So the SEC will forever be the best conference? I don't see how you could possibly know that, but okay. A&M will also forever play a better schedule? Okay, fortune teller.

You'll make more money than Texas??? Really? And you figure how?

Texas makes more money than any other program in collegiate sports, and that is proven with real numbers.

Texas is panicking because they have had a TON of success over the last 15 years and they aren't having the success they are familiar with and they don't want to lose grip of the hold they have on the state.

Your response shows just how much sips are in denial and can't see 2 feet in front of their faces.

How will the SEC forever be the best conference? The SEC is about to win NC #7 in a row and has 6 of the Top 10 Teams and this is BEFORE it gets their new TV deals in place. They are a conference of titan programs now with huge budgets, huge stadiums, huge support, and huge ratings. The SEC is the only region of the country that truly has college football as its top sport as well. The demographics of the country in terms of HS football talent are also heavily slanted toward SEC states and getting more and moreso.

Make more money? By a mile. Any figures from the last few years are meaningless because they assume a Texas team coming off a fantastic 10 year run while A&M had a horrific run and both schools were in the Big 12 with an unequal revenue share TV deal that paid out huge for Texas. Texas also had a sold out 100k stadium while A&M was struggling though still keeping it in the 80s. Texas sold a boatload of merchandise as well while A&M sold minimally. All of that is changing and drastically.

The SEC TV deal combined with the renegotiated Network deals will likely pay out well over $50 million per school in the next couple of years and in 5 years that figure could exceed $75 million. The numbers and interest are there. An SEC Network could get better ratings than ESPN in some Southern states and actually make money on advertising to go with the massive subscription fees. A&M gets a healthy share of that. The SEC will also roll in major cash off of the new playoff/BCS/Championship game format that heavily favors them. They could put 2 teams in the Playoff every year, 2 more in BCS Bowls, and add in the Champions Bowl. The SEC already dominates exposure but its going to really get over the top in the future with ESPN having a MASSIVE investment in the league as a partner of the SEC Network that makes the LHN look like a rounding error. A&M is also going to have a 100k+ stadium in the next few years with massive amounts of luxury seating compared to the current Kyle and the demand is there. The massive A&M classes of the 80's and 90's are just hitting prime donor years and they are thrilled to support an SEC program that is serious about winning.

Realize that A&M is now larger than Texas and has had a larger undergrad for a few years now. The gap in Alumni population is also closing every year and is now in the range of 375k vs 450k. The days of Texas dominance are over and you are already playing from behind even if you haven't come to grips with that yet. Texas has virtually no political power over A&M anymore as well with the conference separation and all the Aggies in positions of power in the State.

Texas is now stuck in a dying Big 12 filled with games no one cares about against schools no other conference wants. OU is now the only major program left in the conference and they have continued to own you. You are stuck with a mediocre conference TV deal for the next 13 years and a LHN that no one cares about or watches and paid out less than $4 million last year in spite of all of the effort you have invested in trying to sell it. You had 3 games this year on it that NO ONE could see. Your only significant carrier is UVerse on a temporary basis because you paid them to pick it up.

So yes, Texas if in deep shite and at a permanent disadvantage to A&M in the coming years. A&M's athletic revenue will likely more than double and possibly triple 5 years from now whereas Texas will be lucky to stay even. You are locked in or declining and we are growing and about the only way you can change that is to get people to buy your LHN which isn't happening.

Oh, but go and look at some 2010 figures or whatever and make yourself feel better. Maybe you can fap to some old VY highlights while you are at it.