Question for Arkansas and Texas A&M fans

Remember when Aggy fans swore the SEC Presidents would vote against UTranny and OU joining the league?

Good times

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For me at Arkansas, the only downside of leaving the swc was losing our game against texas so having that back isn’t a negative. Now with this board we can pick at one another. We were never in the big12 but if you want to go there then that’s fine with me.

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I am old enough that I remember the Arkansas rivalry from my childhood. I've missed it personally and glad to have it back. The younger Horns don't seem aware of the hatred that existed at one time.

I always knew little bro was going to follow us to the SEC.

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I am old enough that I remember the Arkansas rivalry from my childhood. I've missed it personally and glad to have it back. The younger Horns don't seem aware of the hatred that existed at one time.

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I remember when my old grandpa, a mild mannered man who always went to church when the doors were open, would pick back and forth with my uncle woody, a hard drinking raspy oil man from Galveston, about the game during game week. We’d generally lose but they had fun with it.

My first time to upvote an NFLSU post

This is pretty cool insight.

I personally liked it better when texas and OU were boxed out in the Big 12 babysitting the techs, baylors and K/I/Ok-states of the college football world.
But I'm not mad we have to play them now, and a lot of Aggies are beyond excited the game is back so I'd say it's a net positive.

Would I consider joining the Big 12? Hell no - that would just put us in the shitty position I was glad texas and OU was in before. Hell, even jumping ship to Big 10 sounds absurd to me.

Reality is super conferences are/were coming and the conference is better (from a program strength standpoint) with texas and OU joining over say a couple ACC teams. Whether or not they're as good of a fit as some other schools is a whole different topic. But the way things are headed I wouldn't be surprised if the ACC gets devoured in the coming years by SEC and Big 10 anyways.

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adds a legitimate risk of instability

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Like Texas is going to cause the SEC to be second to the B1G? What do you mean?

Cool, what I am hearing from your take is that it was inevitable and your program had more vision and is better ready to adapt to the new way (super conferences).

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Adding those two schools resulted in zero additional money for existing members because we were locked into a contract that doesn't expire until 2034

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You think that’s because no one in the SEC office was smart enough to push for an escalator clause? I think the more likely scenario is that when CBS walked, ESPN — with all the leverage — told the SEC they’d pay as if Texas and Oklahoma were already in the league and work to make it happen.