re: Newest Realignment "Rumor"

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I am scared to death of Oklahoma. My best Aggie friend tells me I need to mentally accept them to the SEC one day, but I just can't. We benefit so much from them being locked into the position they are in. I almost hope Oklahoma State makes the playoffs or something near the end of the GOR so it is politically harder to dump them.

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Well, OU dumping UTx to follow us might be worth whatever else happens, from a trolling standpoint.

I don't see it happening, though. If they ditch UTx, they will lose the red river shootout. They would be casting aside a huge portion of the history they have to rely upon to lure kids out of Texas. While their recruiting is "meh" nationally, it's better than anything else in the B12 other than UTx. Competent coaching should have them be a consistent 9-10 game winner, and that means there won't be enough dissatisfaction to drive a divorce from Bevo. Add in that they still have a "Grapes of Wrath" fascination w/ California and the PAC12, and almost as much disdain for the SEC as UTx (at least in their administration), and I don't see them being a member of the SEC as very likely.

But if that did, I don't think it'd be that big a deal. If OU actually ditched UTx, they'd still be in Oklahoma. That makes them a contender in North Texas, but still a distant second in East Texas and Houston. Plus, the split w/ UTx would damage both them and OU, so both would have reduced draw, relative to history. So in the end we might come out slightly ahead.