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When do we start treating OU and Texas as SEC?

Posted on 11/24/23 at 11:57 am
Posted by Landmass
Member since Jun 2013
19785 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 11:57 am
I know that they don't officially join until the summer but the next football season will include them as full members.

Is it after the bowl games are played or do we root for them I'm the bowls since they will be SEC?
Posted by V Bainbridge
Member since Jul 2020
7808 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 11:58 am to
Hell, Ark and SC have been here for 30 years and there are still some hold outs
Posted by jamespatterson
Member since Aug 2023
3011 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 11:58 am to
Not before Mizzou so 2036+
Posted by TigerNAtux
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2007
17350 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 11:59 am to
Why would you root for someone you are recruiting against?
Posted by Ezra Blu Boudroux
On the Broad
Member since Mar 2023
651 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 12:00 pm to
Never; they aren't SEC. They are coattail riders.
Posted by PerrillouxToTexas
Member since Sep 2022
7116 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 12:07 pm to
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Never; they aren't SEC.


This. frick y'alls hayseed conference. This is a business arrangement.
Posted by BigScoreboard
Member since May 2021
1369 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 12:08 pm to
July, 2024
Posted by Ezra Blu Boudroux
On the Broad
Member since Mar 2023
651 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 12:09 pm to
Frick you, this is a bad deal for the conference and the fans, which built this conference. I could care less about playing texas and ou, except in the playoffs.
Posted by Eldodroptop
Member since Jul 2021
1711 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 12:10 pm to
Why would you root for any team in a conference other than your own, unless that team is in position to cause pain to a fan base you truly despise?

Once Texas and OU arrive in the SEC, we are SEC. No billboards will be purchased to announce our arrival. Both our Universities will stand our own merit and compete at a high level.

It will be great to renew old rivalries, and develop new ones.

May the best teams win.
This post was edited on 11/24/23 at 12:11 pm
Posted by PerrillouxToTexas
Member since Sep 2022
7116 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 12:14 pm to
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this is a bad deal for the conference and the fans, which built this conference


Maybe. Blame your conference's leadership, not us. Taking 2 of our 3 rivals was pretty intentional on the SEC's part.
Posted by JustGetItRight
Member since Jan 2012
15752 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 12:17 pm to
Bringing them in destroyed what little was left of the historic footprint of the conference and eliminated many if not most of the annual rivalries that made it great.

In other words, the SEC is dead. It was murdered over money so flick them both.
Posted by surgicalvenom
Omaha
Member since Jan 2014
5645 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 12:22 pm to
This is a business. And the only goal is to stomp the shite out of the Big 10. 10 to 12 years from now there will be 1 big dog worth about 200 million per school. It's only a matter of time before ESPN and Fox link arms and make the playoff a multi billion dollar cash cow and the SEC with TX and OU are favored to cash the big checks. Probably add FSU and Clemson too.
This post was edited on 11/24/23 at 12:23 pm
Posted by Jimmy Montrose
Lake Highlands
Member since Aug 2021
999 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 12:44 pm to
I'm excited to renew the rivalry with Ark, start one with LSU and get the A&M one back.

What makes me not want to be in the SEC (as a Texas fan) is just political/cultural shite. Texas from I35 west just feels like the Southwest, so I've always felt more aligned with CA and the southwest and football would have been better had schools in the West and southwest been more competitive in recent years.

The particular old SEC footprint is based on the fact that there was a particular SWC footprint. Not really sure why anyone would care about that at all, but that's just political bullshite.
Posted by Jimmy Montrose
Lake Highlands
Member since Aug 2021
999 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 12:47 pm to
And to me the only real outcome of all this is that Texas and OU have gained back some recruiting advantage that they had lost because the Big12's shitiness coincided with the SEC's rise.

That's what Texas and OU are getting, so to the old SEC, yeah, that is a bit of a shitty deal.
Posted by BigBadBoodieDaddy
Member since Nov 2023
862 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 12:47 pm to
Posted by Dawgs9
Where ever I am
Member since Sep 2012
2287 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 12:57 pm to
You don’t
Posted by Monsusta
#1 Rant User 2023-24
Member since Oct 2023
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Posted on 11/24/23 at 12:57 pm to
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Why would you root for someone you are recruiting against?


To be fair, Ole Miss is not followed by many and has not ever really won anything so why not root for another team.
Posted by POTUS2024
Member since Nov 2022
16063 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 1:28 pm to
They have to get in line behind Mizzou.
Posted by Chingon Ag
Member since Nov 2018
3168 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 1:32 pm to
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Texas from I35 west just feels like the Southwest, so I've always felt more aligned with CA


I live west of Austin and grew up in west Texas. Nothing out here aligns with CA. You must think Beto is a cool dude.
Posted by SaturdayNAthens
Georgia
Member since Dec 2017
11506 posts
Posted on 11/24/23 at 1:35 pm to
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