re: Rate Your View On TAMU Joining

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5. Massive potential if they ever get their shite together, which may be never. I worry somewhat about how they'll affect our recruiting in TX.

If UT/Bama rivalry continues, I have no problem with it.

If the rivalry ends, I'll give it a -2.

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What will be interesting:

The first visits of SEC fans (other than LSU and Arky) to College Station.

The first visits of aTm fans to SEC campuses.

1 no girl cheerleaders and they're just weird

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Rate Your View On TAMU Joining

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Solid addition; I give it an 8. Large university and fanbase, good football team, plus academically and opens up Texas TV markets and probably helps recruiting.

The problem of course is a 14th team was not added simultaneously so now we have division imbalance. And considering the other conferences are doing everything they can to consolidate, I'm not sure I see a viable 14th team in the near future. With the BE breaking up, I'm concerned that we could be stuck with one of their remnants.

2 - not because of A&M as I actually enjoy watching them play. But, I see this as just the start and it won't end until there are 16 teams. That leaves but one non-divisional game and 7 divisional games. You would almost have to do away with permanent non-divisional match ups to make it fair. I like the traditional match ups and all that ends so that a few folks can make more money and lessen the importance of the regular season just to get to a workable playoff.

I hate expansion and in that vain rate it a 0, but if expansion is inevitable (and it is) then TAMU is a great fit IMO.

5 until we see how it works. People don't like change, especially when you have something that works. The SEC was already the best conference in the land, why change a good thing?

Tex A&M does have good traditions, like the 12th man. I just read about it and it's a neat tradition. Alabama had a 12th man for one game, Tommy Lewis. But he didn't stay on the sidelines, he came off the sideline and tackled a Rice player when he wasn't suppose to.

I am looking forward to seeing Aggies fans visiting the Alabama campus. It's always fun to welcome other cultures to your town.

Alabama and Tex A&M does have history too, especially with the coaching changes... Bryant to Bama and Fraud to A&M. I think Bama got the better of that.