re: Anyone else occasionally just think how weird it is that the SEC let the big 12 in?

Yeah, it is weird, and kinda bothers me from a geographical correctness angle. Clemson and FSU would have made more sense in the SEC from a geographical perspective. Glad they’re not, but you know what I mean.

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Dear diary…

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Oklahoma:

Before they joined the SEC, I liked them. Now I see they are not an independent fan-base and leech on Texas for added prestige. Many Oklahoma fans seem to be more proud of Texas than they are of their own team and watch out vigilantly for anyone daring to besmirch their big brother. They are not rivals, at all. I like fans that stand on their own two feet and have their own identity.

Texas:

Inflated opinion of themselves, much like a narcissist. They seem arrogant for no apparent reason that anyone can discern, as the team they support has achieved very little historically. They are liars. They consistently deny that they have a human uterus as their primary logo.

Missouri:

I think most fans of other SEC teams feel a bit of respect for Missouri, no matter what they may say. They don't talk too much, they generally mind their own business, aren't simps like Oklahoma fans or raging self-lovers like Longhorn fans. The team, while everyone rags on them, has outperformed many established SEC teams since they've been a member.

Texas A&M:

While shamed, belittled, harassed, and hounded by virtually every fanbase of other SEC teams due to their proclivity towards promoting homosexuality with the milkmen and all that, they stand tall.

They don't wilt and shrivel up like fans of many teams do when faced with withering criticism from all corners. They rely on each other for support and could care less what others think of them and seem to get a great deal of joy out of supporting their team, even though there has been very little to be joyful about. That's admirable.

Overall, they seem more likable than Texas fans or Oklahoma fans.

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Before they joined the SEC, I liked them. Now I see they are not an independent fan-base and leech on Texas for added prestige. Many Oklahoma fans seem to be more proud of Texas than they are of their own team and watch out vigilantly for anyone daring to besmirch their big brother. They are not rivals, at all. I like fans that stand on their own two feet and have their own identity.

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He’s not wrong. You guys don’t fit. You’re lost without Bedlam. So much of Oklahoma’s identity is Texas. You play whorn in Dallas. For most of your history your players came from the state of Texas.

You need to get Oklahoma State back on the schedule.

It’s on the table that OU to SEC ends up like Nebraska to B1G. Not to the degree of losing blue blood status like Nebraska, but there will be a fall in status

This league isn't built to last. Too many proud schools beating on each other.

You can already see the breaks with the mid-season coaching fires. Some quality coaches aren't going to be attracted to the SEC before long

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This league isn't built to last. Too many proud schools beating on each other.

You can already see the breaks with the mid-season coaching fires. Some quality coaches aren't going to be attracted to the SEC before long

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So you are of the opinion that quality coaches are afraid of competition?

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They're going to look at NIL and the new playoff structure and let logic do the reasoning.

If I were a top flight coach I'd rather be in the BIG all day. Easier path to the postseason, less bang on my players.. way less heat from redneck fans.

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Your logic about the logic of competitive people, which is the very definition of a great football coach, is flawed. They desire and crave challenges and thrive on it because it feeds their very nature.

The type of people you are describing are hucksters and frauds.

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Those hucksters and frauds have won the last two ships.

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Jim Harbaugh and Ryan Day didn't choose Michigan and Ohio State to due to current NIL regulations and current playoff structure when making their decisions to become head coaches of those two teams.

They were both in their current positions, Harbaugh now gone, before any of the circumstances you are mentioning were in place.

Any other questions?

Honestly, I loved being part of the SEC, felt like A&M was a natural fit (geography, culture, history, and fact SEC had actually courted A&M back before the Big 12.)

All that changed with the underhanded back door dealing of Sankey, and the up close look of how SEC screws certain teams on the field (Auburn especially.)

Now, I really don't have any SEC pride, and especially with what college football has become.

Kinda sad now that A&M is likely finally coming into its own, but the top is kinda crappy. Im half wishing we dont make the SEC C-Ship if we can just be in the Playoff and skip the extra game. SEC
conf champs doesnt mean as much.

And I loathe the fact Texas is here, even though it will continue to be a 50/50 rivalry like the last 50 years. They are a cancer.

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What was the benefit of adding Arkansas and South Carolina in 1992?

Arkansas was running from the snitch arse Southwest Conference (aka Texas + Texas arse To Mouth), and South Carolina was one of the worst Independent teams, if not the worst.

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They were part of the Confederacy. Once the SEC gets a team from Virginia and North Carolina, the mission will be complete.