re: A&M player says no thanks to going back to the Big12

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I think eventually you will see invitations extended to LSU and A&M for the Big 12.

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He's just trolling,

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Pretty much.

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While that's not exactly true (Kansas gets $6 million - $7 million from Time Warner for television only),

One of those schools you refer to is Oklahoma, right?

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No, I was referring to Kansas. OU simply isn't going to keep up with the SEC moneywise the next decade. Hence part the of the reason they are putting HALF the money into facilities than they planned not to long ago.

Kansas might keep up with the SEC. Depends on their basketball success level.

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SEC teams get $31 million each for all tiers of TV.

Big 12 teams (on a per-team basis, excluding partial payouts) would receive about $26 million (excluding Tier 3).

That's a difference of $5 million.

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I am normally try not to be rude, but you are being an IDIOT. There is no other way to put it.

The numbers you are quoting are THIS YEARS numbers. Aka year 1 of the SEC Network THAT WASN'T EVEN A FULL YEAR. You would be correct that if A&M left this year it would be a $5-6 million gap, but that is because of incomplete numbers.

Next year, and pretty much every year the next ten years, a school like Baylor is going to make ten million dollars a year less OR MORE than what A&M is getting from TV money. This isn't even a bookmarkable post, I can find article after article that talks about how soon the SEC and the B1G will all be making over 35-6 million a year while the other Power 5 conferences will be stuck at around the 25-6 million mark. I am talking about at the numbers that will happen going forward and not basing everything on a one year consideration because its obviously not a perfect data point.

I get it though, in the Big 12 apparently one year is a huge sample size. One year of a playoff and it's already looking at conference games or expansion. So I will just let you know the SEC looks a little more longterm, like what will happen over the next five years. That is what I am talking about.

The whole thread is about A&M going back to the Big 12, which would HAVE TO happen in the future. Aka number from this year simply don't matter more than being an indicator of how awesome it will truly be in the SEC.

But go ahead and beat your chest about some Big 12 teams being ahead in the aberration year just like the commissioner did before he bitched about the LHN. You might want to mentally prepare yourself for next year though when EVERY SEC team does better than any Big 12 team not named Texas (and maybe Kansas). And frick, we might even surpass Texas in five or so years. One just one of us, but ALL of us.

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All Big 12 schools have Tier 3 TV deals.

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Kinda. Some aren't even pure Tier 3 deals, it is basically EVERYTHING Fox and ESPN wouldn't buy (so Tier 3 and 4 and even merchandising) to try and get a few million more out of their situation.

If you want to play this game I can pull out one quote after another from important people in the Big 12 who would MUCH MUCH MUCH rather have what the SEC has (aka a Big 12 Network) if that damn LHN wasn't in the way. I wouldn't beat my chest about Texas Tech's all inclusive Tier 3,4,5 deal for a couple million bucks. They would much rather have what we have I promise you. So would everyone in the Big 12 not named Texas, and hell even some Texas fans I have talked to are embarrassed about the obvious failure that is the LHN.

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Any non-delusional, non-aggie fan can clearly see that "The difference between a non-Texas Big 12 team and a SEC team on revenue is almost $10 million a year" is utter horseshite.

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I just quoted this so everyone can see the EXACT lack of vision that eventually will doom the Big 12. I am ashamed to say that A&M used to take part in this kind of tunnel vision. I am glad we now have business partners that can show us a better path.

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Don't sell out our Texan culture to "fit in", baw.

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I am not. You have been to games. It is a lot of overalls in the student section and pretty much maroon tourist clothing elsewhere. I have seen more no cattle ten gallon hats at a Texas game.

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And dude, you must have NOT gone to Texas A&M if you don't think we're a Wranglers and Cowboy boots school

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I mean there is that element sure. It is a very Texan school, with Texan music and Texas styling. It feels rural, and not very metropolitan. But it isn't like Tarleton State University where it is all shite kicker U. Many of the kids come from the burbs, and you are just as likely (I think more) to see someone wearing a baseball cap and sandels around campus as you are to see someone Cowboyed up.

Where I will give us credit is our guys are the real deal. I mean some of those jacked up trucks have never hauled something heavy ever, but the guys wearing the hats aren't doing it for the Dallas reason. I respect that.

What I was replying to is some notion that we fit the stereotype put forth in The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, and we know that isn't true.

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There's an open invitation to LSU in every conference in America.


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Hurry up and take that invite, then. GTFO. Making the entire conference smell like corn dogs and piss.

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There's an open invitation to LSU in every conference in America.

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Except the Big10, Pac12, and Ivy league?

Y'all are fun

Fanbases just share way too many traits, too much proximity, and too much passion for football.

Wait.

No such thing!

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You love us and you know it

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Of course we love you poor, trashy, nutria-corndog, creole, Justin-Wilson-talking, river trash, swamp kitties. That's why we hang out on this site. Pure arse-backwards entertainment.

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It's like I've been saying since ya'll entered the conference, it's only gonna take one time of y'all beating us and the shite will get real between A&M and LSU.

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If it's not ALREADY real, that should do it. I think it already is real.














But, LSU is NOT our rival, goddammit. NOT!!!