re: just dropped my stars to TA too

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I am not scared of A&M playing TCU. Our record against them speaks for itself.

I just feel like we have "helped" them enough recently giving them the opening into the Big 12. Honestly until we win that national title that makes everyone take us seriously I believe our best move is to play a little Game of Thrones and keep the rest of the state in chaos.

The best environment for us is one where the different Big 12 little sister teams are feeding on each other and Texas/OU. I feel TCU has too many advantages compared to the other two now that need to be evened out.

Something like playing Tech in the old Cotton Bowl would be better. We could avoid sandflea stadium and give Tech the platform to keep TCU (and Baylor) in check.

Or maybe play a Big 5 team OUTSIDE of Texas so the rest of the country cares. We recruit in Arizon enough, take on a few more PAC series.

TCU can't fill their stadium so they aren't bringing eyeballs or selling seats. Not to get all Texasy but DKR had it right for them versus us- all the can do is be a roach and spoil things (aka win a game in the series or snag a recruit here and there). No a serious threat, but why not squish the damn thing instead?

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Its completely silly to point at our record vs them when we have only played them 1 time in the last 18 years. The one year we did play they weren't even one of their better teams. It really isn't that all that different than Texas fans going "Look at the series dominance!" while happily ignoring that since A&M moved away from being an all male military school the series is basically dead even.


AS for the first part of your post, if we are actually playing a Texas Game of Thrones and simply playing TCU elevates them, the smart play is not to cut TCU out but rather play them so they can siphon talent away from OU and Texas. We aren't going to lose many battles with TCU simply due to the fact that we play in the SEC now. Tech is going to get theirs (we have talked with them as well) and Baylor will do well so long as Briles is there.

I'd much rather slightly elevate TCU and have them take Big 12 recruits away from Texas and get the added bonus of more exposure in DFW.

Playing a Pac 12, Big 10 or ACC school in a different state would be good too and I'm sure we will occasionally do that. But if the game vs ASU at Reliant along with the rapidly increasing amount of one off neutral site games are any indication, A&M is going to start playing the bigger P5 OOCs in one offs at pro stadiums more often than giving home and homes with them. I really won't be surprised if that Oregon game never makes it to Kyle and instead reworked into a one off at somewhere like the 49ers new stadium.