re: Sumlin & Strong Reunite for Resumption of Rivary

Posted on 4/14/15 at 9:45 am to L S Usetheforce

Posted by Dr RC

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Posted on 4/14/15 at 9:45 am to L S Usetheforce

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Their schedule sucks? Texas was just voted as having the #1 overall power 5 ooc schedule over next 5 years.

Their OOC is ok for the most part but their conference schedule is weak sauce in the mind of the average Texas fan. I can also tell you right now that the bulk of their fans aren't going to really care about games vs Cal or Maryland.

Their biggest conference game is always in Dallas w/OU which means the attractiveness of their home slate is completely dependent on what OOC is coming to Austin.

Even in when the other Big 12 teams are good, Texas fans just don't care about the bulk of the conference. Texas Tech is probably the second most attractive game to the average Texas fan after OU and they have been mediocre to bad the last several years. They just don't really care about TCU, Baylor, West Virginia, Okie Light, Kansas, KState, or Iowa State.

This is major reason why our move to the SEC was such a big deal. Being in the SEC WEst means we are getting a bunch more interesting conference games than had we stayed in the Big 12. Our fans were pretty much in the same boat with the sips when it came to conference opponents past Texas and OU. Tech was kinda sorta up there but after CU and Nebraska left it was a bunch of meh. We just don't have the connections to the old Big 8 schools and beat Baylor so much that those games simply didn't have the sizzle for Joe Shmoe Aggie.

This post was edited on 4/14/15 at 9:48 am