re: How valuable is Arkansas to the SEC really?

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Arkansas football fans are literally saying, “Remember that time we won 9 football games back in 1997? Man, those were the glory days.”

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As bad as the Saban years were, it never caused Alabama fans to do this shite...to their undying credit.

You lost me at “Little Rock is picturesque.”

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What is this football money that you speak of?

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Walmart, JB Hunt, Tyson Chicken, and a guy you may have heard of, Jerry Jones.

You read like someone who has never been anywhere. You might just want to stop starting threads.

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And UGA has more baseball nattys than Arkansas. Who cares if you have a winning tradition but never win the hardware?

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Their baseball facilities make UGA’s look rec league, and I’m a UGA fan.

Maybe they should stop investing so much money in a non-revenue producing sport and instead use it for NIL money to attract better football talent. That would be a wiser investment.

Plus investing so much in baseball hasn’t paid off for them. UGA has more baseball nattys than they do.

The poorest rural county in the USA for decades was Mississippi County Arkansas. It certainly hasn’t gotten better. Maybe some in Mississippi or Louisiana have gotten worse but I doubt they have overtaken Northeast Arkansas

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No. Plus Texas would consider Oklahoma, Aggie, Baylor, and Texas Tech bigger rivals than Arkansas.

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We don't like to think of Baylor or Texas Tech at all. They are rivals in the same way Georgia State is a rival of Georgia. Or Emory University. If Texas hadn't been held at gunpoint by the political leaders at the time, there's no way Baylor or Texas Tech get invited to the Big 12.

Some of us don't even take A&M seriously. They had a run from 1984 to 1994 where they beat Texas 10 out of 11 times. It was sheer domination. Those were formative years for a lot of Texas and Texas A&M fans. But outside of that span, Texas has thoroughly dominated their instate foe, to the point A&M giddily escaped to the SEC, thumbing their nose the whole way.

There is a rivalry with Arkansas, but it's mostly one way. Those guys hate us and pass down the hate generationally. Texas fans around in the 60s and a little bit in the 70s thought of Arkansas as a pretty big deal, but the game traditionally came after OU, and it was often tough to get up for that game after the war in Dallas. Most famously in 1981 when a Lou Holtz team creamed us 42-11 in Fayettenam when we came in ranked #1. It would end up being the only loss of the season (we did tie a mediocre Houston Cougars team led by Bill Yeoman).

Both Mack Brown and Steve Sarkisian were shocked at how hyped the Arkansas fans get for the Texas game. There's simply not the same investment from the Texas side.

Traditionally Texas fans felt like we're above most programs being our rival. The exception is OU. We've always hated OU. It's almost too bad we became conference foes. It was something else to have that annual bloodbath and the only thing really at stake were bragging rights, yet it still meant more than every other game on the schedule.

I'll admit that's changed with A&M. When I was growing up it was just coming out of being an all male compulsory ROTC program with barely over 10,000 students, while Texas led the nation in enrollment with 50,000. Since then A&M is now fully coed, with a Greek system and everything, and 70,000 students attend there. They've taken over the suburbs in Houston. There's just so many more of them than there were when I was growing up. The close proximity to so many Aggies has fueled the rivalry in ways that the on field competition has not.

Yeah, Texas Tech and Baylor were in the same conference as you. Meanwhile, Georgia State has never been in the same conference as UGA and Emory doesn’t have a football team. You’re comparison doesn’t make sense.

How I obvious is it that this guy is a fat sloppy attention whore still living in his mom's basement?