re: Is it possible that OU and Missouri leave the conference?

I wonder if the now coast to coast nature of the Big10 would be a draw or a drawback. For every sport but football, that’s a brutal schedule for a Texas team.

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You need to understand that "yall" = ESPN, in your above ramblings.

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Your AD signed off on everything they demanding. Yall signed that deal to maximize your revenue. Its on yall.

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According to ChatGPT, Mizzou would be a better fit in B1G.

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All 4 relate to geography. Somebody needs to teach ChatGPT that the B1G (not Big 10) now has 4 teams on the west coast and 3 teams on the east coast, and the historical geographical configuration no longer applies.

Oh, and we are quite happy in the SEC, so GFY and DIAF.

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Your AD signed off on everything they demanding. Yall signed that deal to maximize your revenue. Its on yall.

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You're not jealous because we signed. You're jealous because the whole thing made Aggie look 2nd tier.

Because we all know Aggie would have turned down the Aggie Network, if offered by ESPN.

Just drop it - this is the toxic bitterness that keeps your program eternally out of championships. And you can't help yourselves. You're just eat up with it.

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You're not jealous because we signed. You're jealous because the whole thing made Aggie look 2nd tier.

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I think most rational folks knew that ESPN screwed up mightily with the Longhorn Network concept and terms. It is one of many very poorly thought out concepts of that time that have been subsequently rolled back and resulted in red ink and layoffs at the network. Whatever team there that put the deal together vastly overestimated the Brand power of Longhorn athletics.

I don't blame the Longhorn Athletic Department for quickly jumping at it either. If a third party is willing to overpay to the degree offered by ESPN at the time, you have to take it.

But I also know deep down in many Longhorn fans hearts that they actually believed they were some sort rare commodity and they would finally stand alongside Notre Dame as a truly independent brand that could levitate over more average teams.

But then no cable networks would actually carry the thing.

And then the bell cow football content slipped into unranked, Charlie Strong level underperformance for a long period of time.

It was a hilarious farce to most everyone.

Back to reality.

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Sometimes I have to double check on Wikipedia to see if Missouri is even in the conference or if this was just a weird dream.

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I'm not going to insult Mizzou or its fans, but this is true.

Going into baseball regional play, I remember thinking about it. We have 16 teams, 13 made it in. Vandy won the conference tourney. LSU is #1. Florida had a big midseason run. Bama quietly won 40 games. Tennessee defending champs, etc... everyone has been good recently.
Ok, 3 didn't make it. A&M cratered and couldn't recover. South Carolina, a Paul Manieri disaster, that program deserves better. Who's the 3rd team that didn't go?

It took me a good few minutes before "oh yeah. Missouri"
I just couldn't remember them being an SEC team.

NAW NAW NAW hold uppppppp u crawdad-suckin bayou buffoon
u sayin MIZZOU don’t belong in the SEC???
BUDDY we been SEC since the first cannonball hit Fort Sumter and ole cousin Ezekiel said “hold muh possum, it’s gettin’ SERIOUS.”

Yeh ok, we “officially” joined in 2012 but spiritually???
we BEEN here since 18-forever, swingin’ at jayhawks wif a shovel and one functional boot.
we was fightin kansas in the rain wif no socks on while y’all down in Louisiana was still tryin to figure out how to spell “Geaux Tigers” without eatin the crayon.

LSU fans out here actin like SEC football some kinda fine wine.
NO.
It’s a cooler full of Busch Light(made in the lou btw), a raccoon in the bleachers, and a tattoo of General Lee on a calf the size of a chicken bucket.

Mizzou fits the SEC like gravy on a gas station biscuit.
We don’t show up loud—we show up LURKIN.
Like a Confederate ghost that smells like gasoline and wet deer jerky.

U say “nobody would notice if Mizzou left.”
Well nobody notices their appendix either ‘til it explodes and ruins Thanksgiving.
That’s us. We the appendix of the SEC.
Unwanted, unexplained, but ABSOLUTELY gonna ruin your season.

Texas?? Nah bro, that’s just an oil spill wearin shoulder pads. and a liberal hellhole that is austin
OU?? Discount Alabama.
But MIZZOU? We got kids on scholarship who can throw a hay bale 40 yards and call that offseason training.

Our mascot ain’t a tiger, he’s a spirit of vengeance summoned every time someone disrespects our BBQ or the memory of General Sterling Price.

So yeah, y’all can keep talkin trash but come November, when y’all down there cryin into your jambalaya wonderin how a team from a state shaped like a baked bean just knocked you outta bowl eligibility
just remember:
We may not BELONG here,
but we ain’t GOIN NOWHERE.

M! I! Z! you crawfish-eatin cotton-brained BOURBON SWAMP WIZARD
now git back to chokin on that gator tail and leavin voodoo curses on Nick Saban’s hair gel.

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which put a permanent moat between us and programs like Tech, Baylor, TCU, etc.

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And therein lies the Aggie toxin. False elitism. There is no "moat" between Aggie and Baylor, Tech, TCU, etc. This is why said schools hate Aggie as much or more than Texas. (especially Tech) It's the unfounded elitism. And it's also why Texas pisses you off so much. Because you're not even arguably better than Texas, and it eats you alive.

Worried about OU, eh?

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You don’t think A&M would jump at being the only Texas school in the Big 10?

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Hello no