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re: Could Oklahoma screw the BIG XII?
Posted on 5/10/16 at 12:25 pm to randomways
Posted on 5/10/16 at 12:25 pm to randomways
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One problematic issue people are touching on without coming out and exploring is that joining the SEC won't automatically make OU fans avid to watch SEC games other than OU. We're not going to see a huge uptick in "SEC!SEC!SEC!" in a fanbase that has, historically, little to do with the
I understand your point but you don't think OU vs Bama, Georgia, Auburn, LSU, Florida etc... sound like better games than almost anything the Big 12 can offer? To me that is what makes the SEC so much fun. If you are a college football fan you want to watch those games.
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Posted on 5/10/16 at 12:47 pm to ford1911
OU isn't coming, so it really doesn't matter.
One thing I will say about this, call it the "cultural" fit, is that A&M has flirted with the SEC for at least two decades prior to joining. We had a long history with LSU, and obviously a lot of history with Arkansas prior to joining. The A&M fan base wanted to be in the SEC for cultural affiliation as much as we did for a business relationship. While Texas is its own culture, it is a southern derivative sub-culture. Not that this matters either, but the founders of Texas AMC had deep ties to the Confederacy.
Ironically, while tu had a big long history with OU prior to the formation of the XII, we had no history with them other than a few scattered series'. And someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Arkansas doesn't seem to have much history with OU either.
One thing I will say about this, call it the "cultural" fit, is that A&M has flirted with the SEC for at least two decades prior to joining. We had a long history with LSU, and obviously a lot of history with Arkansas prior to joining. The A&M fan base wanted to be in the SEC for cultural affiliation as much as we did for a business relationship. While Texas is its own culture, it is a southern derivative sub-culture. Not that this matters either, but the founders of Texas AMC had deep ties to the Confederacy.
Ironically, while tu had a big long history with OU prior to the formation of the XII, we had no history with them other than a few scattered series'. And someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Arkansas doesn't seem to have much history with OU either.
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