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re: A&M fans (regarding Texas)
Posted on 2/13/12 at 5:43 pm to texasaggie08
Posted on 2/13/12 at 5:43 pm to texasaggie08
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I think once we actually start playing GAMES in the SEC we'll be able to truly judge the level of media coverage, for better or worse.
If you live in Texas, whether you love or hate A&M, you will be watching A&M football in the SEC. Its funny seeing tu and Gaylor fans try to say how A&M is now dead to them, and they aren't the least bit interested in A&M or SEC football......riiiight. Every single one of those households will be tuned in to A&M-Florida at Kyle Field in September, and everyone in the local and national media will take notice too.
Do Big 12 and Texas fans in particular STILL try to sell the ridiculous notion that A&M is selling out academics and going to a sh#### academic conference? That one always made me laugh out loud considering the current Big 12 conference was literally no better academically than the SEC even before the 2 teams left.
It's funny to me that all of Texas's arrogant talk about not lowering itself to the level of SEC academics was a bunch of bull####. Look at the fact that Texas is perfectly content in adding TCU which wouldn't quite be in the top half of the SEC academically and they say good riddance to 2 of their best schools academically. With the addition of the 2 schools the SEC is clearly a stronger league academically than the Big 12.
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Posted on 2/13/12 at 5:47 pm to Govt Tide
I haven't heard it recently. It was just the kind of speak they use to make excuses, similar to how the B1G looks down on academics and the recruiting tactics in the SEC
Posted on 2/13/12 at 5:55 pm to Govt Tide
The fanhood in the state of Texas is a strange dynamic.
It's very hard to explain, and much different than where you're from. 15 years ago, you might have heard the same elitist talk from Aggies.
In all reality, it is just an emotional response, and the justifications come later. You have to realize that maybe 40% of current tu fans don't remember a time when OU wasn't in their conference, when they ever lost to A&M in consecutive years, and they couldn't care less about academics, since they never went to the school. In fact the Thanksgiving game, as opposed to the Red River Shootout, is nothing someone other than an actual Aggie or a Texas Ex would actually participate in. When the State Fair is in Dallas, it consumes the town. It is an event the whole city can take part in. The A&M/tu game, even though it belongs to the State of Texas, never involved the same amount of people.
The average tu fan just likes to degrade A&M as a little brother, and little brother did something to trump them, and they don't like it. It is as simple as that. The academics argument is just unfamiliarity. Honestly, the average Big XII fan probably couldn't tell you all the teams in the SEC. It just isn't a part of the discussion for folks, and unfamiliarity breeds ignorance.
It's very hard to explain, and much different than where you're from. 15 years ago, you might have heard the same elitist talk from Aggies.
In all reality, it is just an emotional response, and the justifications come later. You have to realize that maybe 40% of current tu fans don't remember a time when OU wasn't in their conference, when they ever lost to A&M in consecutive years, and they couldn't care less about academics, since they never went to the school. In fact the Thanksgiving game, as opposed to the Red River Shootout, is nothing someone other than an actual Aggie or a Texas Ex would actually participate in. When the State Fair is in Dallas, it consumes the town. It is an event the whole city can take part in. The A&M/tu game, even though it belongs to the State of Texas, never involved the same amount of people.
The average tu fan just likes to degrade A&M as a little brother, and little brother did something to trump them, and they don't like it. It is as simple as that. The academics argument is just unfamiliarity. Honestly, the average Big XII fan probably couldn't tell you all the teams in the SEC. It just isn't a part of the discussion for folks, and unfamiliarity breeds ignorance.
Posted on 2/13/12 at 9:26 pm to Govt Tide
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With the addition of the 2 schools the SEC is clearly a stronger league academically than the Big 12.
Before 2011:
Big 12 - 7 AAU schools
SEC - 2 AAU schools
After July 2012:
Big 12 - 3 AAU schools
SEC - 4 AAU schools
Posted on 2/13/12 at 9:29 pm to Govt Tide
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Do Big 12 and Texas fans in particular STILL try to sell the ridiculous notion that A&M is selling out academics and going to a sh##### academic conference?
Before A&M and Mizzou joined the SEC, I heard this argument from both Texas and A&M fans. Always made me laugh.
If we're talking academics, bring up that argument. If we're talking football, who cares? I don't bring up football when you tell me your kid's SAT score. And people who are really serious about academics are not weighing Yale vs Texas or Harvard vs A&M anyway. Are they both excellent academic universities? Yes. Better than most SEC schools? Yes. Is that the conversation we're having Septemeber - January? No.
Posted on 2/13/12 at 10:17 pm to Govt Tide
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Do Big 12 and Texas fans in particular STILL try to sell the ridiculous notion that A&M is selling out academics and going to a sh#### academic conference?
well that would be a laugher, because Texas has one of the 10 worst graduation rates in the FBS.
San Jose St 42%
Oklahoma 44%
South Florida 46%
Hawaii 46%
Florida International 46%
Arizona 48%
Texas 49%
Georgia Tech 49%
Houston 51%
Eastern Michigan 51%
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