re: Texas A&M, and to a lesser extent Missouri, ruined college football..

Let's make this very clear...Mizzou and A&M were INVITED....Texas and Oklahoma begged to get in SEC

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Let's make this very clear...Mizzou and A&M were INVITED....Texas and Oklahoma begged to get in SEC

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Do you dress yourself in the morning?

Your not even in the league yet..isnt there a big 12 board you should be trolling

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Yay. We've been going 8-4 forever.

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You wish. Don't know about "forever", but for the last 20 years, Ole Miss' record is 116-117.

You haven't even won half your games. And your conference record is 55-98. OUCH!

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Expansion and reorg was inevitable.

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I’d actually blame UGA and OU for suing the NCAA to have their control of television contract be deemed unconstitutional. The only way to keep college football a regional sport was to deny a free market of television contract negotiations. Once the market got its hooks into college football, commodifying the product was inevitable.

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Y’all would know how, seeing as it’s happened 3 times to you within the last decade.

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4 times since 2009

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Lmao an aggie blaming texas. How shocking.
All the fans claimed it was because of the Longhorn Network yet none of them will mention the fact that they also voted for individual tier 3 rights that we took advantage of and they couldn't. If any of the programs that cried about that Network had been approached by ESPN they would have jumped on it faster than an Aggie humping a ewe.

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You aren't wrong but Mizzou, ISU, KSU and oSu did not vote for that. Might have been another school on that list too.

A&M always voted lock-step with Texas. Their exit from the Big12 was purely about ego and not with disagreeing about how to run the Big12.

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Their exit from the Big12 was purely about ego and not with disagreeing about how to run the Big12.

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Dude you are completely wrong. It was when Dodds attempted to broker a deal for Texass, OU, A&M, and Tech to join the Pac. A&M wanted nothing to do with the Pac. At that point A&M decided to try and make a change and called the SEC.

Really as simple as that. Dodds ego is what got the ball rolling.


Bleacher Report June 2010

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Will DeLoss Dodds and Bill Byrne Screw The State Of Texas?

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Furthermore... an interview with A&M president Bowten.

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So, I was in the spring of 2010, in the office of the President of UT Austin. And I asked the others to leave the room so we had some privacy.

Brian Beckcom: Was that Bill Powers? Was Bill Powers –

Dr. R. Bowen Loftin: It was Bill Powers at the time.

Brian Beckcom: He was one of my professors at UT Austin, when I went to law school there.

Dr. R. Bowen Loftin: And he was a great teacher, I'm sure, at that time. But Bill and I, in private, were talking about it. I said, “Bill, I'm hearing rumors that you're in conversation with the PAC about moving Texas A&M in Texas to the PAC” “I can't tell you about that right now, but don't worry. Whatever happens, we'll take care of you.”

It took a great deal of self-control not to react inappropriately to that. A short time later in my own office and in College Station, he said the same thing to me. So, it was really clear that that was going on.

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This in Bowten called the SEC. Took control of our own destiny. Really had nothing to do with the LHN.

Of course A&M voted with Texass on just about everything money related. Didn't have anything to do with us joining the SEC.

Do you read your own posts? Exit had nothing to do with ego . Exit had everything to do with NOT WANTING TO JOIN THE PAC which Texass was very eager to do. Texass was negotiating a deal that included A&M going to the they Pac without even telling A&M and without asking if it was something we wanted to do. Can your really not comprehend the monumental turmoil and clusterfrick that was unfolding???

Good god.