re: Should we invite Texas Tech into the SEC

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Why not play Tech home and home?

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Same reason we aren't playing texas. There is nothing to gain from it.

Doesn't make sense.

Obviously playing Texas would be the best way for aggy to prove their move to the SEC worked.
Wouldn't say there is not anything to gain.
What one gains is subjective anyway.

Are you that afraid of Tech as well.
Texas Tech is trash. You are playing Lamar and other schools in Texas. There is nothin to gain there according to your logic.

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Obviously playing Texas would be the best way for aggy to prove their move to the SEC worked.

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We aren't looking to "prove" anything.
And I've zero idea how a win over the horns would offer any evidence anyway.

I don't understand why some folks are so fixated on this topic.
There's bad blood.
Period.

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Your fan base is scared to go there.

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Not scared, just averse.
For several reasons.
It's a long, difficult trip for little (no?) gain.
And to be blunt, several historic instances have left a bad taste in folks' mouths.


But again, I'd be stunned if we don't see a Aggie-Red Raider game again in the next decade or so.

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Your fanbase is weird.

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That's one way of putting it.
We certainly do things [intentionally] differently and won't ever change.

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You are in the SEC. Why is their bad blood when you made the smartest move.

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The bad blood has nothing to do with our SEC affiliation.

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Now you go back and beat Texas and show them the SEC is superior.

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The entire world knows the SEC is superior.
Beating the horns 10 times in a row doesn't change that.

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Don't know what bad blood has to do with anything

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We're not interested in helping out a university that has acted as it has--for decades.

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Did aggy want to stay in the Big 12

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No.

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Sounds like you are saying Texas kicked you out.

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Not at all.
Reread my comments.
Not only does UTex not have that ability, our move to the SEC was a response to an invitation issued by them and their affiliate university Presidents.

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 again, I'd be stunned if we don't see a Aggie-Red Raider game again in the next decade or so.

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A cool Aggie. Wasn't ready for that. Getting my bearing...

Na we won't play. Not unless it's in some shitty bowl.

I felt like Tech fans were mildly understanding of A&M's position during the whole expansion thing in 2011. Much more so than Baylor and Texas fans.

But I'd also be surprised if A&M and Tech didn't schedule a home/home in late 2020s. Hopefully tech has their shite together by then.

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You don't see Florida hiding behind the SEC. Even S Carolina. South Carolina sucks in football and knows that Clemson will beat them more years than not but they still play.

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Are we just going to deny that Dodds said that Texas won't play A&M and he won't allow other Big 12 Texas schools to play them either? Is A&M supposed to beg those schools to play when they can play teams like Clemson, Notre Dame, and Miami instead?

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Your mindset....

Is we are in the SEC so we are now better than Texas

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I never thought otherwise--that we are better than UTex.
Our SEC affiliation has nothing to do with that.

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Meaning you want the benefits of the SEC without actually earning them as Aggy has not done anything in this conference.

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You're making up this stuff ... that's fine.
We've done as "much" as anyone, short of Alabama?
We'll get there; we're just in a hella brutal division.
We were told repeatedly that we wouldn't win a game in the SEC .
It's been fun!

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You expect LSU to go beat Texas this year.
Truthfully don't want aggy anywhere near our coattails.

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No clue at all who will win that game.
But I do hope LSU comes out on top.