Texas hasn't "flipped" a recruit from A&M in the Kevin Sumlin era. They may have won a few head to heads, but there's only been 3 flips between the two schools, all going to A&M:

Thomas Johnson (2012)
Zaycovan Henderson (2014)
Otaro Alaka (2014)

A flip is when one school's commit flips his commitment to the other school without decommitting first.

If you want to stretch that to include recruits who decommit from one THEN commit to the other, you have to include Ricky Seals-Jones in that mix as well, making the score 4-0 in A&M's favor.

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Posted by tide06

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Posted on 1/22/16 at 11:41 am to CGSC Lobotomy

A&M has brought more to the SEC than any other expansion school quantitatively and I don't think its even debatable. Some of the other schools are better fits than others, but they are more than pulling their own weight.

Money? A&M
Fanbase? A&M
Recruiting Base? A&M
Stadium? A&M

Based on the factors I just mentioned I would rate the potential schools like this:

Money: NC State, OU, Va Tech.............................. OK ST
Fanbase: OU, Va Tech, NC State........................... OK ST
Recruiting Base: NC State, Va Tech, OU.......... OK ST
Stadium: Va Tech, OU, OK ST, NC ST

All that said we need to face the reality that ESPN is basically bankrupt. Its like the housing bubble, they are dead but still shuffling around because not all the bills have come due yet. Their business model has busted and they have long term contracts that will drag them out of business as soon as Disney/ABC get tired of propping them up. Even our massive new ESPN contract is probably not worth the paper its written on.

In that environment why would anyone be trying to renegotiate contracts and expanding?

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