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A&M and Mizzou fans...
Posted on 5/12/13 at 4:38 pm
Posted on 5/12/13 at 4:38 pm
you have almost completed your first year in the SEC. What are your observations of your new league in the big 3 football, basketball and baseball compared to what you thought about the SEC say 3 years ago? Road trips, hosting new opponents, TV coverage. Happy, sad or indifferent? Just wondering what you guys think?
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Posted on 5/12/13 at 4:51 pm to kc4usc
Mizzou had a travel curfew today because they were flying commercial, not charter, back home so we had a very real chance of ending that game in a tie. Still hard to call baseball 'big 3' with football and basketball as much as we may want too.
But I don't want to deter this thread, IMO A&M is going to turn out just fine, but Mizzou is going to be awful across the board for agile to come.
But I don't want to deter this thread, IMO A&M is going to turn out just fine, but Mizzou is going to be awful across the board for agile to come.
Posted on 5/12/13 at 4:54 pm to kc4usc
Football was a lot easier than expected 
Posted on 5/12/13 at 4:54 pm to kc4usc
Posted on 5/12/13 at 4:55 pm to Big Kat
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Big Kat
Posted on 5/12/13 at 4:56 pm to Big Kat
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Football was a lot easier than expected
See Auburn in 2011 and 2012 for what you have to look forward to after your white Cam leaves.
Posted on 5/12/13 at 4:58 pm to kc4usc
Honest answer is I've been an SEC fan my whole life. I knew about fans, etc etc. no surprises.
As far as competing...
Football was an odd year. Such drastic flops by AU and Arky made for a few easy games and Sumlin/Johnny were unknowns that turned out very pleasant. Would've been interesting to see what Sherman would have done if we had joined the SEC a year earlier.
We did worse than expected in hoops. Our coach needs to resign whether we were in B12 or SEC.
Baseball is the biggest difference. Our team this year would be 2nd or 3rd in the B12. It's damn near last in the SEC. There's just not any easy weekend series to bust a slump and right your ship. Just relentless. So brutal.
As far as competing...
Football was an odd year. Such drastic flops by AU and Arky made for a few easy games and Sumlin/Johnny were unknowns that turned out very pleasant. Would've been interesting to see what Sherman would have done if we had joined the SEC a year earlier.
We did worse than expected in hoops. Our coach needs to resign whether we were in B12 or SEC.
Baseball is the biggest difference. Our team this year would be 2nd or 3rd in the B12. It's damn near last in the SEC. There's just not any easy weekend series to bust a slump and right your ship. Just relentless. So brutal.
Posted on 5/12/13 at 4:59 pm to Big Kat
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Baseball is the biggest difference. Our team this year would be 2nd or 3rd in the B12. It's damn near last in the SEC. There's just not any easy weekend series to bust a slump and right your ship. Just relentless. So brutal.
.... So True...
Posted on 5/12/13 at 5:00 pm to Big Kat
With the emergence of Manziel, they surprised even themselves.
Posted on 5/12/13 at 5:03 pm to kc4usc
My impressions aren't that different now, compared to what they were before. Most of the day-to-day fandom stuff is the same, regardless of geography. Big Friday night baseball games in the Big 12 aren't any different from big Friday night games in the SEC. The uniforms are just different.
Some of our biggest changes are coming from within our program--so it's tough to distinguish between what we're doing as a university from the changes we've undergone in a new athletic conference. It was time for us (A&M) to move on. That's the bottom line. It's been fun welcoming different groups of fans to College Station. If we never play Baylor or Texas Tech again, it'll be too soon.
Some of our biggest changes are coming from within our program--so it's tough to distinguish between what we're doing as a university from the changes we've undergone in a new athletic conference. It was time for us (A&M) to move on. That's the bottom line. It's been fun welcoming different groups of fans to College Station. If we never play Baylor or Texas Tech again, it'll be too soon.
This post was edited on 5/12/13 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 5/12/13 at 5:04 pm to kc4usc
I feel this gif can sum up how both of our first years went
Posted on 5/12/13 at 5:10 pm to EKG
I disagree, EKG. Venues and passion in the SEC are far ahead of the B12
Posted on 5/12/13 at 5:15 pm to kc4usc
There was a lot less chew stains on the cement in the Faurot visitors section than I expected after the Alabama game.
Could have been the weather though.
Could have been the weather though.
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Posted on 5/12/13 at 5:22 pm to kc4usc
It has pretty much been a year long party.
New opponents, new stadiums, new hate..not the in-state/SWC type of hate(minus the same shite you hear on the internet). Friends that work in the athletic department have had nothing but praises to sing about the other conference members. Completely different outlook then in the Big 12.
I said it at the beginning when we joined, and i'll say it again now. It feels like home.. whether i am in College Station for games or anywhere else. It never felt that way when i traveled in the big 12.
I have made some good friends in the Dallas area from other schools that i probably never would have met if not for this move.
NO REGRETS!
New opponents, new stadiums, new hate..not the in-state/SWC type of hate(minus the same shite you hear on the internet). Friends that work in the athletic department have had nothing but praises to sing about the other conference members. Completely different outlook then in the Big 12.
I said it at the beginning when we joined, and i'll say it again now. It feels like home.. whether i am in College Station for games or anywhere else. It never felt that way when i traveled in the big 12.
I have made some good friends in the Dallas area from other schools that i probably never would have met if not for this move.
NO REGRETS!
Posted on 5/12/13 at 5:22 pm to Mizzeaux
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There was a lot less chew stains on the cement in the Faurot visitors section than I expected after the Alabama game.
Your fans swallowed their spit the rest of the game after Eddie dug in yalls chest on that long run.
Posted on 5/12/13 at 5:25 pm to BIG DADDY 73
We had to gut it out after that for sure.
Posted on 5/12/13 at 5:28 pm to Big Kat
Im sure others would agree w you, Big Kat. I didn't communicate it well in my previous post, but what I was trying to say was that--to me--the biggest difference is that the "cellar" SEC teams/match-ups have been stronger than the cellar B12 match-ups. But I stand by my initial statement re: big games being big games. A Saturday afternoon ESPN hoops game vs the Jayhawks, a Friday night baseball game vs the horns, and/or an electric football grudge match vs top-ranked Oklahoma were all big. Again, in my experience so far, the difference has been that the snooze-fest games occurred more often in the B12. I'm not necessarily referring to the outcomes, but to the excitement levels surrounding 'em.
I wouldn't trade our current conference for anything.
I wouldn't trade our current conference for anything.
Posted on 5/12/13 at 5:33 pm to EKG
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A Saturday afternoon ESPN hoops game vs the Jayhawks
So you are saying all those BBN folks in Reed this year was equal to the normal Kansas fans in Reed in previous years?
The TAMU folks I talked to about it seemed to have a very different reaction. Their impression was this years crappy UK team filled Reed more than any good KU team did.
Posted on 5/12/13 at 5:45 pm to Cheese Grits
No, that's (numbers of opposing fans who traveled) not what I was saying. And in actuality, since it very much looks like our hoops team is returning to its days of chronic suckage, I probably shouldn't have even referenced basketball. 
Posted on 5/12/13 at 5:48 pm to kc4usc
Baseball proved what we already knew...that Childress is not ready for prime time.
Men's Basketball also proved what we already knew...that Billy Kennedy was a huge turd that Bill Byrne left for us.
Football proved what we already knew...that you don't get better by playing scrubs. Had we not had the SEC schedule, there's no way that we humiliate Oklahoma like we did. It also proved how poor of a college coach Mike Sherman was.
Men's Basketball also proved what we already knew...that Billy Kennedy was a huge turd that Bill Byrne left for us.
Football proved what we already knew...that you don't get better by playing scrubs. Had we not had the SEC schedule, there's no way that we humiliate Oklahoma like we did. It also proved how poor of a college coach Mike Sherman was.
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