re: Glad to be in the SEC. Looking forward to a fun future.

Same. Every Longhorn grad/fan I talk to knows it will be a grind this year and even the so called "easy" games won't be easy. We now have 3 rivalry games which is awesome for those of us who love football, but those games can take a serious toll on the guys actually playing.

Overall it will be awesome to have each matchup be a new thing, (other than red river which neither team wants to give up) and that includes reuniting with old enemies in pig and aggy.

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People can say what they want, but OU/UT have absolutely re-energized this conference, and subsequently, this board

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And the SEC has had that same positive effect for Texas athletics.

Your biggest concern is that OU and Georgia are back to back games. And playing A&M at the end of the year really benefits the weaker team which is us. Also Arkansas will play out of their minds to stop you. And I see you losing to Michigan. Hopefully you don’t drop a game you shouldn’t. I see 4 games that could be a loss without much convincing. I think 8-4 is the worst it will be. Assuming you beat A&M (if healthy you win that game) and Arkansas. I only see 2 losses. So 10 wins I think is the ceiling. If you beat Michigan you can beat just about anyone. We will see.

And the other thing that seems to occur is how SEC teams tend to beat teams up. It takes some getting used to.

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Your biggest concern is that OU and Georgia are back to back games. And playing A&M at the end of the year really benefits the weaker team which is us. Also Arkansas will play out of their minds to stop you. And I see you losing to Michigan. Hopefully you don’t drop a game you shouldn’t. I see 4 games that could be a loss without much convincing. I think 8-4 is the worst it will be. Assuming you beat A&M (if healthy you win that game) and Arkansas. I only see 2 losses. So 10 wins I think is the ceiling. If you beat Michigan you can beat just about anyone. We will see.

And the other thing that seems to occur is how SEC teams tend to beat teams up. It takes some getting used to.

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That all sounds awesome. Man I’m just a football fan. Life is too short to not have great football games in it, in particular, college football. Might just be the best damn sport in the world. Sure it’s better to win than to lose, but I’m so down for games that all matter and have a ton of pressure baked into them. That’s a good thing, not a bad thing. Sure hope we take the 10 wins but I’m down either way.

Excited as hell to play ATM again, too. I’ll see you there brother.

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Welcome friend. Your team is not a power player. Can't hide behind cheap conference wins against Kansas, Iowa St, and TTU anymore. Be patient, they will choke. Always have, always will.

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Definitely a power player. It’s just in the DNA. Not saying better than everyone else or anything but Texas is just a big, regional, Texas sized force of nature.

All that oil money. All those politicians. All that state-wide athletic talent and infrastructure. School has billion dollar endowment, a brand as big as the Yankees (in terms of revenue generation), is always winning directors cups.

Not that others don’t do that, but if we’re just being honest, Texas is its own force in the world. Not the be all end all greatest or anything just one of a few that can really pull it off.

That said, we don’t always live up to it in football. Fair critique. TTU can be pesky as hell at home at night. Iowas state is well coached right now but we never should have lost to them the last 10 years. Kansas there’s no excuse for. And Kansas State haunts my dreams. They are pesky as hell and ruin a few seasons for better teams every year. I’m glad to get away from them because they was no real rivalry energy just a brick wall hitting kinda hard out on the schedule.

But man we schedule hard OOC opponents every year, and don’t schedule FCS opponents. So that balances it quite a bit. Go back to the Sagarin SOS rankings and Texas has been between the #1 and #8 SOS for a long, long time. We definitely don’t take the easy way out.

Maybe we should have been. But we did not and it cost us.

piss off, hoe

The OP is exactly spot on. Texas is here in the SEC to be a good partner and make us all more money.

There’s just a couple of little things we need to get done for the benefit of all. Minor things really.

First, we need to move the league HQs to Houston. Houston is a nerve center of the world. Birmingham, not so much.

Next, we need to rotate the SEC championship game between Dallas and Houston. Atlanta has gotten a big stale.

The SEC basketball championship is going to have to move to Dallas. Thats a lot more convenient for Texas fans.

Also, since Texas has the most Omaha appearances, the SEC baseball championship series needs to be held in Austin. This is self-evident.

Lastly - and this one is really minor - the “Horns Down” thing needs to be an infraction involving a 15 yard penalty plus Texas gets an extra down.

With those small concessions, we can later discuss Texas getting three votes in all league matters.

Obviously, Texas just wants to be treated with fairness and respect. I know y’all will immediately perceive the equity of these nonnegotiable demands.

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And the SEC has had that same positive effect for Texas athletics.

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I heard this from my Longhonrs-fan coworker too. This move just feels right somehow; like we've somehow become the protectors of OG college football. Idk how to explain it, but I've never had anything but admiration for our new members and what they bring to this culture we've established long ago. God save the South

You're not in the SEC for 2 more hours.

frick the SEC.