The best thing about leaving the Big 12 is that we've effectively marginalized the faction of people at A&M who based accomplishments as compared to what the sips did.

Case in point:

1999 season - Preseason #10, ended up going 8-4 with blowout losses to Oklahoma, Nebraska (by shutout), and Penn State (by shutout). The people I referenced thought it was a successful season because we beat t.u.

Meanwhile, while the 2012 campaign was viewed as a successful season, the 2013 (9-4) and 2014 (8-5) campaigns were viewed as disappointments, despite the fact that both seasons were better than our 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2011 seasons. The 2013 season equaled the 1997, 2006, and 2010 results with the exception that we WON our bowl game in 2013.

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Posted by Mirthomatic

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Posted on 7/13/15 at 11:12 am to CGSC Lobotomy

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The best thing about leaving the Big 12 is that we've effectively marginalized the faction of people at A&M who based accomplishments as compared to what the sips did.

Don't miss anything, and the quote deals with a big part of that. Defining ourselves in relation to UTx may have made sense when we were a small, all-male military school. For a very long time, it really wasn't feasible to contemplate escaping their shadow. But that's changed now, and moving to the SEC provided the dramatic public break to what had never really been a healthy relationship. If we never play them again in anything, I will be perfectly content.

Now, a big part of why I'm content to consign the UTx game to the dustbin of history is because the SEC is such a fantastic conference. The excitement, week to week, absolutely blows the B12 out of the water. Even if you compare the SEC w/ the B12 at it's height, with Nebraska and a still formidable Colorado.

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