re: Hey Aggie, has Texas figured out they screwed up?

All schools are selfish. All look out for themselves. UTx/Baylor/Tech may not have liked that A&M left for the SEC, but they didn't bat an eye about bailing on the SWC and leaving SMU, UH etc to rot.

As far as being foolish, I can understand (but not agree with) the argument that Nebraska's move was a bad idea, and maybe Colorado and Mizzou, but how exactly has the move been bad for A&M?

UTx's recruiting woes have NOT been voluntary. When they were passing on those QBs, aside from Winston, they were still raking in top 5-10 rated classes. They were still the first pick for recruits in Texas. Not anymore. Even if you believe that the recruiting services overrated their old recruits due to a pro-UTx bias, the fact is even with that bias still going strong, they aren't getting close to the same quality of recruits, according to all the sites.

Before, their recruiting problem was just evaluation and subsequent development. Now their recruiting problem is they can't get the guys they want. Most of that is A&M taking first pick, w/ LSU/Bama taking a few, too (Maea Teuhema, Deionte Thompson), though Baylor has seen their recruiting skyrocket as well (as I'm sure you know).

The really interesting thing isn't the recruiting of UTx. It's the recruiting of OU. Last year they had just one signee from among the top 50 recruits in Texas. They usually have 8-9. Stoops has been forced to recruit much more nationally than in the past. Sooner fans know this. Some of them think it's by choice, but a few understand OU has just been pushed out of Texas to a large degree.