re: If Texas A&M was invited to the SEC, would they do better or worse than Arkansas

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Big Kat
If Texas A&M was invited to the SEC, would they do better or worse than Arkansas
Sun, are you listening to yourself? How far is it from Houston to Arkansas? It's 80 MILES TO COLLEGE STATION.

Also, A&M has no cheerleaders. No spirit fingers or toe touches. Just 5 dudes in all whites leading yells. Come to a game in CS. It's pretty fun.

Also, Arkansas does have male cheerleaders

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This is hard to explain but I know exactly what I'm talking about. I might have to many thoughts in my head at the moment.
I'm not talking about recruiting Houston kids to TAMU. I'm talking about having a recruiting presence for Arkansas again in Houston.

College Station is ultra far from the SEC.
Fayetteville is much closer.
Little Rock is really close.

This helps recruiting in all of Eastern Texas for Arkansas and LSU rather than anyone else in the league.

Still following me?

Houston isn't what Arkansas wants, but it will help.. It's Dallas where the kids are almost as close to Arkansas as TAMU and want to play in the SEC.

Sun, A&M and LSU would have the largest presence in Houston as A&M and Arkansas would have the largest presence in Dallas if A&M went to the SEC. Of course if OU comes to the SEC they'll be included in that Dallas recruiting.

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Sao, I love cheerleaders. Have no problem with them. I was simply pointing out that we don't just have a bunch of figs jumping up and down on the sideline.

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Or being chased by other little homos after the clock hits 0:00, huh?

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Big Kat
If Texas A&M was invited to the SEC, would they do better or worse than Arkansas
Sun, A&M and LSU would have the largest presence in Houston as A&M and Arkansas would have the largest presence in Dallas if A&M went to the SEC. Of course if OU comes to the SEC they'll be included in that Dallas recruiting.

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Correct.

Houston goes like this now... ... Texas, OU, TAMU, LSU, Arkansas.
Houston goes like this if SEC ..... TAMU, LSU, Arkansas
Dallas goes like this now.. ..... Texas, OU, TAMU, Arkansas, LSU
Dallas goes like this if all SEC... ......Arkansas/TAMU, LSU

*That is only if OU is not included*

Did you follow me about road games? A Houston mother will travel 100's of miles father each year to road games in the SEC when they are not at home and her son plays at Alabama rather than Arkansas.

We do NOT want OU in the mix because it hurts dallas. However, at least it puts LSU and Arkansas geographically in the middle of the SEC instead of the western fringe, that is a good thing for recruiting momma's. The games will be close in the middle than the fringe.

Having more kids in Dallas and Houston grow up partial SEC instead of all Big12 is good for Arkansas, LSU and TAMU.

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Big Kat
If Texas A&M was invited to the SEC, would they do better or worse than Arkansas
Still not following your logic on travel. Houston isn't moving. Momma Houston can have 7 games in CS and road game to either LSU or Arkansas (if series was split to alternate years) for 8 games to watch with 7 being only 80 miles away.

Or have 7 games in Arkansas (over 400 miles away right? I didn't look) with 1 or 2 road games at CS or BR

It's late so I'm not claiming to be right. But I'm not seeing where it's better for a Houston athletes family.

It's always said it's not preferential to be on the border on the conference so I think LSU gets the best out of this scenario of the other SEC schools

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It's better for ARKANSAS in Houston with TAMU in the SEC. Otherwise, right now it doesn't matter much. The current Houston kids are growing up mostly Big12 and is Dallas not SEC. If that changes is where the big benefit comes to play.

Right now Houston goes to LSU, TAMU, Texas, OU and OSU because of the Big 12 and Ark is no longer in the SWC. We reopen that pipeline if TAMU goes to the SEC and hurdle a couple of teams especially now with the 25 singing limit.

It's only 10:10 p.m. out here and I'm exhausted from the day. I'll try to break down the driving deal tomorrow if time permits. It's one of those hard to explain over a message board. Heck, people have a hard time reading text messages correctly.

Arkansas and LSU benefit big time from an expanded Westward SEC.
All that talent in East Texas comes into play along with Louisiana and Mississippi. That puts Arkansas and LSU right in the middle of it and OU and Texas A&M on the outside especially with the new 25 limit on signing kids.

Arkansas would like having kids on every side of the state playing in the SEC.

I like A&M as our perennial OOC opponent in the Southwest Classic. They're good enough to make it exciting and give us exposure, but we can still expect a win most years. Plus we need all the exposure we can get in Texas.

I want the SEC to stay with 12 teams, but if it must expand then A&M is an acceptable option.

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SofaKingTrill
If Texas A&M was invited to the SEC, would they do better or worse than Arkansas
I dont understand this Houston family driving logic either. It will be just as far from houston every away game whether their son lives in fayetville or not. Yet when their son has a home game, it will be considerably shorter.

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We had been talking about Houston and how it would help Arkansas if Texas A&M was in the SEC.

Arkansas being the 3rd closest SEC school to Houston would be a big boost in recruiting. It would be much easier for Momma to drive from Houston to Arkansas over Ole Miss, MSU, Vanderbilt, Alabama or Auburn for example.

Arkansas would like having this southeast part of Texas cornered. The real traget for Arkansas is Northeast Texas. Add with all the scholarship limits at 25 and that leaves a lot of kids in Houston metro to choose from.

Also, as has been discussed by myself and other posters, TAMU has an imagine that is somewhat weird and that would help Arkansas and LSU.

It's been one of those days at work and my eyes hurt from the computer. To many thoughts and the execution of what I was thinking wasn't laid out properly. I did decide to try and clear it up now before bed. Hopefully, I didn't make it worse, ha. This is what happens when you have to many thoughts and replying back on 2 different messages boards threads things can get murky. I tried to edit my posts and I'm sure it will make sense to you now.

Literally way to many threads today on Hogville and TD.

P.S. I forgot about Ark-TAMU having the Series in Dallas for another 7 years at this moment. I'm sure the game would be kept in Jerry world like Florida-UGA or Texas-OU if this all shakes down.

It's ironic that A&M would stay in the Big XII when it's advantageous to A&M but when it's not advantageous to us? The Big XII will never be stable with unequal revenue sharing but in the short term A&M was ok with that as long as we weren't getting the short end of that stick.

That's the allure of the SEC to the A&M admins. Stability.