A&M has started to get competitive with Texas the last couple of years but this was the first time we have really kicked their arse in the Mack Brown era. Most of the real jewels of their class were stolen by us or others, the Robinson decommit being the icing on the cake.

A few years ago Texas would have their big Junior Day and just lock up most of the big talent in the State in one swoop. I remember one year they had 22 official offers and 20 commits. Then they started to move away from kids that weren't going to commit to them and never "offer" them to keep the mystique. Then they moved to "being approved for an offer". Now they are offering kids and getting beat. 2014 looks ugly for them. They went hard after our 2 LB commits and lost already. They have some early commits but most of them are actively open to other schools which NEVER used to happen. Essentially they are becoming a "safety" school which was unthinkable a few years ago.

Of course Texas folks act as though it has always been this way but that is untrue. A&M dominated Texas recruiting from the mid '80s to the mid '90s and when Texas got Brown and OU got Stoops along with HUGE upgrades to their facilities it put us behind the 8 ball. By the time we played catch up we were too far behind and RC was on his last legs. The Fran hire along with an AD that wasn't truly committed to winning in football made the '00s a dark decade.

Now everything seems to be going our way. We have a hot coach who has made A&M into a cool destination with new unis and a myriad of other things. The SEC move is HUGE. JFF winning the Heisman. We also built an amazing new weight room and have a ton of other new facilities on the way to go with the new Kyle. A lot of that is "business as usual" in the SEC but it wasn't in the Big 12 and so we are crushing everyone. OU is basically curled up in a ball in the corner praying A&M doesn't go after any more of their commits.

At the same time Texas is even getting nibbled away at by TCU and Baylor which just shouldn't happen. Eventually they will get rid of Mack and rebuild but for now it really is murky for them. They bet big our SEC move would hurt us and it has had the complete opposite affect. The Big 12 schedule also sucks with lots of crap games in half empty small stadiums. The LHN has actually lowered their profile by putting lots of content (games and coaches shows) on a channel no one gets.

It's really a perfect storm but the difference between this one and others is A&M is so much larger, richer, and more powerful than in the past. It will be very hard to keep us down once we get up, you could argue it will be easier for us than Texas going forward because the SEC is such a dominant brand.