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re: ‘Desperate’ Texas & OU Learn They Need Aggies’ SEC Path
Posted on 7/29/21 at 2:36 pm to All Gas No Brakes
Posted on 7/29/21 at 2:36 pm to All Gas No Brakes
Would Texas/OU accept 5 years of half shares to get into the Big 10? We all know the answer to that, so no one was worried about you going to a different conference. The SEC was your only landing spot, and you approached Sankey, not the other way around.
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Posted on 7/29/21 at 2:39 pm to Drydock
quote:Texas/OU change the rules. They would have been full share members in the big 10 immediately. This take of yours is as naive as thinking the “gentleman’s agreement” in the SEC would prevent Texas from joining.
Would Texas/OU accept 5 years of half shares to get into the Big 10? We all know the answer to that, so no one was worried about you going to a different conference. The SEC was your only landing spot, and you approached Sankey, not the other way around.
Fact of the matter is, Texas and OU were either pushing the SEC or B1G over the $1 Billion mark. Fortunately for the SEC, its leadership is smarter than the fans.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 2:40 pm to Contra
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A&M = the visionaries
Texas = the followers
A&M = A&M
Texas = A&M wannabes
Posted on 7/29/21 at 2:40 pm to All Gas No Brakes
Link? I suspect that is just your opinion, while I'm quoting B1G bylaws.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 2:42 pm to Drydock
Posted on 7/29/21 at 2:56 pm to Captain Crown
However they spin it, at its core, this smacks of desperation by Texas and OU. These blue bloods were green with envy at not only what was happening in College Station but across their newly adopted conference home.
A whining DeLoss Dodds upset he couldn’t broker a deal with the Pac-10, deridingly said the SEC had “a sliver down the Eastside” of Texas with A&M’s arrival. The former UT AD was miserably wrong.
The Aggies weren’t running away scared, which was a popular narrative at the time. You don’t “run away” to a league with Alabama and LSU and Florida and Georgia. Texas A&M chartered a new path with an eye on the future, and along the way, the state of Texas became SEC country.
SEC schools welcomed the invitation to the Lone Star State’s pipeline of high school talent. The Aggies obviously benefited on the recruiting front, selling the chance for Texas kids to stay home AND play in the league that by far sends the most players to the NFL. The Horns and Sooners saw that as much as anyone, and didn’t like sharing.
A whining DeLoss Dodds upset he couldn’t broker a deal with the Pac-10, deridingly said the SEC had “a sliver down the Eastside” of Texas with A&M’s arrival. The former UT AD was miserably wrong.
The Aggies weren’t running away scared, which was a popular narrative at the time. You don’t “run away” to a league with Alabama and LSU and Florida and Georgia. Texas A&M chartered a new path with an eye on the future, and along the way, the state of Texas became SEC country.
SEC schools welcomed the invitation to the Lone Star State’s pipeline of high school talent. The Aggies obviously benefited on the recruiting front, selling the chance for Texas kids to stay home AND play in the league that by far sends the most players to the NFL. The Horns and Sooners saw that as much as anyone, and didn’t like sharing.
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