re: Call me crazy, but as a Gamecock fan I wouldn't care if Clemson joined the SEC

I do sympathize with A&M a bit because it sort of pulls the rug out from under them.

You're a perennial also-ran in your old conference. You're dominated by Texas and Oklahoma (and others). You're a big school with big money but you have zero brand, a dump of a stadium, etc. Your town is one of the most boring in all of CFB.

Then the SEC thing happens, and at the same time you renovate the dump stadium into one of the nicest in football, you start pouring money into the program, you get a solid if overrated coach with a title on his resume, you start recruiting much better as a result of the investments and the SEC tag, your trajectory is much higher than your big brother rival all of the sudden and Texas looks like they're really fading to obscurity as a football program...

Bam, it's all arguably undercut without any notice as the programs that tormented you before are back to add to your Alabama, LSU, Auburn, etc. problems.