re: What's going on at A&M?

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saddled in a conference that is struggling in various ways,

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Like Texas destroying it.

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I'd take a couple down years

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I hate to tell you, but the Big 12 isn't going to get off the mat. Eventually OU or Kansas will call the fight.

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Look around. No one respects you.

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I look around and see a bunch of SEC logos that prove that at least someone respects us enough to let us in the conference. Unlike certain programs.

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You left our conference, albeit not your happy place (sorry if we all beat up on you a little every year), for what? The ability to brag about being in yet another conference you never win?

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And more exposure than any Big 12 team gets, and more money from TV than any Big 12 team not named Texas gets. Oh and we COMPLETELY fricked up Big 12 recruiting by letting the foxes in the henhouse.

But other than that you are right it sucks.

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I'm on this site because I like a lot of the SEC schools and frankly these days Big 12 forums are mostly catered to basketball.

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That is what happens when you act like bitches and run off three teams with football national titles.

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It's great to see nothing has changed at A&M.

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Nope, we are still the gay weirdos you love to pretend you are better than except now with a bigger stadium.

You can leave now if that was your mission.

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but I'd take a couple down years over the decades of being nothing more than a low to mid tier joke school.

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Here's something you need to take a hard look at.

Two teams over two different 6-year periods to start two different decades.

Team 1: (2000-2009, only 2000-2005 included)

37-34 record
22-26 conference record
Humiliating loss to Iowa State
First loss to Baylor in 20 years
First losing season in over 30 years
2 losing seasons
0 conference titles
0 division titles
0-3 bowl record including a 4+ TD loss to an SEC school
2 head coaches
2 athletic directors
2 university presidents

Team 2: (2010 - present)

41-35 record
27-26 conference record
Humiliating loss to Iowa State
First losing season in 13 years
First back to back losing seasons since the 50's
Worst start since 1956 in one of those seasons
First loss to Baylor in 13 years
3 losing seasons
0 conference titles
0 division titles
2 head coaches
3 athletic directors
2 university presidents

Team 1 ended up with a 9 win season in the year immediately following the aforementioned period. It was the only decade in that school's history without an outright or shared conference or division title.

Team 2 had a 9 win season in year 2 of the time period in question.