re: Did A&M joining the west cement Arkansas' permanent mediocrity?

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I've always maintained that the program that would suffer the most from A&M's potential success in the SEC was Arkansas. LSU/Bama/Auburn will have to compete for recruits with us, but they are too elite to see a significant drop off just because we are good. Arkansas, on the other hand, doesn't have near the history or recruiting prowess. Before this year, really the only thing Arkansas could pitch recruits over A&M was the SEC. They have gotten some pretty good players from the state of Texas over the last few years, and that's going to pretty much come to a stand-still now. And they don't have nearly the same number of elite in-state recruits as Louisiana and Alabama do to cushion the blow.

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