re: Question for Arkansas and Texas A&M fans

I'd rather have the Friday after Thanksgiving game with LSU back.

Texas is garbage. More of a Sunbelt team

If you're looking for a serious answer, the Big 12 would have failed even with A&M, Nebraska, Mizzou, and Colorado still in the fold. Eyeballs are everything now since cable channeling bundling is going away.

You see that now with Fox and Disney pushing for big games between name teams. They want high viewership games now since they can't get the automatic $10 (or whatever the number was) per captive subscriber anymore. Texas and OU in the SEC playing the likes of Alabama is obviously an asset. Without even looking it up, I suspect viewership for games of Texas vs. SEC opponent is higher than Texas vs. Big 12 opponent.

Demographics is king. There is more sports interest by raw viewership in the south than in the midwest.

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We know it’s just a matter of time before the whorns ruin the SEC for everyone

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Oh boy. Here come the conspiracy theories from our poor little brothers

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The B1G would take us. A&M, FSU, Miami, Notre Dame, UNC, Georgia Tech all in one swoop to make the B1G 24 teams and end realignment would be the perfect storm

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PLEEEEEEASE run away from us again. We’re still laughing about the last time yall did that

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Why were Texas and OU unable to make the Big 12 work without us? Were they just not good enough, not popular enough, just not enough? A&M leaves, and the Big 12 dies as as a major conference.

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Because all the section 8, double-wide, food stamping, no-job, fat-arse TV watchers are in the southeast.

Look at the west coast. Those people don't sit around on their arse watching TV and calling PAWL. They do shite. They have hobbies, interests.

So for better or worse, college football has migrated to the tractor pull, wrestling crowd, because that's who sits in front of the damn TV all day.

Not a fan of texas being in the league. Every league they've ever been part of they have made worse. They would do it to the SEC as well, but it seems that college football as a whole is doing it to itself with NIL, the portal, and expanding the playoffs until it's essentially a participation trophy...

I loved the12-team league with the divisions and traditional rivalries preserved while making room for the noobs. Now it's just too crowded. Can't make equitable schedules and serve all the desired rivalries. Too many contrived pairings that lack any juice.

Not many conferences could survive four of its six major programs leaving. The Big12 only survived because Delaney was able to convince everyone to keep it until the Big10 could kill the Pac12.

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it’s true that fans along the corridor of what was the Pac12 don’t spend as much time indoors on Saturdays in the fall. The weather is nice. There’s lots to do outdoors

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There's plenty of good weather in the southeast. It's a different breed of people. That's your main difference.

SEC fans are fat, lazy, unshaven, unbathed, unemployed, uneducated, unmotivated, big dog having, pajama pant wearing, walmart shopping, wife beating, shitty pickup driving, trailer parking, food stamping, fried food eating, Pawl calling wastes of oxygen.

But they do watch TV. And in their collective poverty they band together and rabidly support the college team from their piss arse state that the rest of the nation doesn't give two shites about. It gives them identity. And so here we are.

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A&M leaves, and the Big 12 dies as as a major conference.

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Is this for real ?? You were mid tier at best in the big 12 and not the reason the conference got into trouble. Nebraska, Colorado, and Mizzou also left because the Horns and ESPN destroyed the conference when ESPN wanted to defacto buy the Longhorns via the so called and now defunct "Longhorn Network".

And they were right to do so. You were only a part of the story. You aggy clowns are unreal with your self delusion. Try telling the whole truth for once

We don’t want anything to do with a conference spanning the entire U.S. We are a Southern school as well and have no business in a conference with Iowa State, Kansas State and the like.