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re: Why did Texas and Oklahoma follow A&M and Mizzou to the SEC?
Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:09 pm to QBUMizzou
Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:09 pm to QBUMizzou
Unlike Missouri and the Aggies, who begged for admittance, OU and Texas were asked to join because if they had gone to B10, the SEC would quickly fade away.
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Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:20 pm to Roguestein
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Mizzou wasn't even going to be asked. West Virginia was going to be asked. Then some of their redneck fans nearly killed a LSU fan when the Tigers visited. The SEC said screw WV, let's ask those pussies in Missouri. True story.
Sounds plausible.
Love the criteria.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:21 pm to Old1937
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Unlike Missouri and the Aggies, who begged for admittance, OU and Texas were asked to join because if they had gone to B10, the SEC would quickly fade away.
So you’re saying the SEC was in grave danger before you brother lovers joined?
Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:21 pm to QBUMizzou
To stop us from winning an SEC championship.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:25 pm to QBUMizzou
Not at all, but Texas is the biggest commercial brand in college athletics and the SEC knew it.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:29 pm to Sooner a Reb
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Most OU boosters and fans wanted to go to the SEC in 2010 when they were invited.
Things I’ve learned today,
1. Texas and OU operate like the Holy Trinity but they also say they aren’t coequal, coeternal, and coexistent.
2. The SEC was their plan all along.
3. They never destabilized the Big 12. It was those other people, over there.
4. The SEC would have folded if the brother-lovers hadn’t joined.
I mean, this is some wild stuff.
Meth is a debilitating drug.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:34 pm to QBUMizzou
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Why did Texas and OU come to the SEC? What conditions existed?
Push factors: Big 12 was a shell of its former self after the loss of Mizzou, A&M, Nubs, and Colorado. The teams added were poor substitutes. Media weren’t as interested, and revenues were a joke. The puppet commish was an idiot. Longhorn Network was a failure.
Pull factors: Mizzou and A&M had enhanced revenues and profile. All other major programs were in settled and stable conferences. Your “upgrades” proved meaningless and hollow. You wanted money so you finally agreed to equal revenue sharing-just like your former conference wanted.
You are in the SEC because you f-d everything up royally, and needed to follow A&M and Mizzou’s much wiser path.
This! Texas is a conference killer.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:40 pm to QBUMizzou
To answer the OP.
It’s simple. Texas always reacts to A&M. There are many examples. I’ll save those for another thread.
For this one, they basically just said f it after the 2020 season when A&M finished 4th and appeared to have their shite together. That’s it.
Texas never wanted the SEC. They are not a fit at all. They will most likely leave. But after several years of doing nothing in football and watching the real rival have success. They said f it and contacted the SEC.
ESPN wanted this as well so they could kill the Longhorn network failure.
OU tagged along bc they needed money.
Anything else stated for this is BS and Texas trying to paint a narrative to make them look good as they always do.
It’s simple. Texas always reacts to A&M. There are many examples. I’ll save those for another thread.
For this one, they basically just said f it after the 2020 season when A&M finished 4th and appeared to have their shite together. That’s it.
Texas never wanted the SEC. They are not a fit at all. They will most likely leave. But after several years of doing nothing in football and watching the real rival have success. They said f it and contacted the SEC.
ESPN wanted this as well so they could kill the Longhorn network failure.
OU tagged along bc they needed money.
Anything else stated for this is BS and Texas trying to paint a narrative to make them look good as they always do.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:44 pm to Whentheleveebreaks
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To answer the OP. It’s simple. Texas always reacts to A&M. There are many examples. I’ll save those for another thread. For this one, they basically just said f it after the 2020 season when A&M finished 4th and appeared to have their shite together. That’s it. Texas never wanted the SEC. They are not a fit at all. They will most likely leave. But after several years of doing nothing in football and watching the real rival have success. They said f it and contacted the SEC. ESPN wanted this as well so they could kill the Longhorn network failure. OU tagged along bc they needed money. Anything else stated for this is BS and Texas trying to paint a narrative to make them look good as they always do.
Good stuff!
Envy is a deadly sin.
This post was edited on 11/18/25 at 5:51 pm
Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:47 pm to QBUMizzou
Especially when it makes you do something you really don’t want to do.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:49 pm to QBUMizzou
Because the college football landscape changed. There was no point in willingly going to a conference that might give you an extra loss in the season when you could get to the championship game by getting a Big 12 championship every season.
When they knew the playoff was expanding, smart people know that strategy wasn’t viable anymore.
It’s not more complicated than that.
When they knew the playoff was expanding, smart people know that strategy wasn’t viable anymore.
It’s not more complicated than that.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:52 pm to Sooner a Reb
quote:Most people don't seem to realize we've been playing every year for over a century, and the majority of that time was in separate conferences.
Most OU boosters and fans wanted to go to the SEC in 2010 when they were invited. But at the time Boren was the president and he wouldn't go without Oklahoma State. When the new President took over, he made it a priority. Texas really had nothing to do with it.
It truly doesn't matter if we're in the same conference, both schools alums and fanbases would demand the RRS be played no matter what.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 5:53 pm to RedDirt
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There was no point in willingly going to a conference that might give you an extra loss in the season when you could get to the championship game by getting a Big 12 championship every season.
Now the SEC will be going to 9 game schedule. So an extra loss is inevitable for half the league
Posted on 11/18/25 at 6:02 pm to QBUMizzou
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So you’re saying the SEC was in grave danger before you brother lovers joined?
There's the Whorn Hubris the Aggie and Mizzou fans know all too well.
"Here we are you lucky bastards! And now that we're here, we're running shite..."
Posted on 11/18/25 at 6:12 pm to QBUMizzou
Why did mizzOU have a losing record in b12 football.
Why did mizzOU only win six conference titles (all sports) in b12 5 years twenty varsity sports.
Why did mizzOU only win six conference titles (all sports) in b12 5 years twenty varsity sports.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 6:15 pm to QBUMizzou
A&M has actually won sports stuff
Posted on 11/18/25 at 6:18 pm to Audustxx
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Why did mizzOU have a losing record in b12 football. Why did mizzOU only win six conference titles (all sports) in b12 5 years twenty varsity sports.
Oh, look, here’s that Kansas fan posing as an OU fan again.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 6:30 pm to QBUMizzou
quote:Hey, I'm just giving facts, it is pretty easy to look up, Boren is on record about not joining due to Okie Lite, but hey, whatever makes you feel better.
2. The SEC was their plan all along.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 6:45 pm to Whentheleveebreaks
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Especially when it makes you do something you really don’t want to do.
Who says Texas didn't want to be in the SEC? Seems like we did, according to former SEC commissioner Harvey Schiller.
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"The one that made the most sense was Texas," Schiller said. "I spent some time with DeLoss Dodds (the Texas athletic director) and he really wanted to join the conference."
Done deal. Everything agreed to but the name on the dotted line. Then, it all came apart.
"The state legislature (in Texas) somehow got wind of it through Texas A&M and said we had to bring in both schools or we couldn't take Texas," Schiller said.
The SEC didn't want A&M. Ultimately, the two Texas schools would leave the Southwest Conference and join the Big 12.
https://www.al.com/press-register-sports/2010/04/finebaum_how_texas_nearly_join.html
A&M fans came and told you all Texas never wanted to be here and you swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.
This post was edited on 11/18/25 at 6:47 pm
Posted on 11/18/25 at 7:14 pm to Lou2theZou
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The Big 12 is so prosperous that you have posted on an SEC message board almost 72,000 times... Commenting here is almost like your part of the fun as well!!
Notice how missouri fans never address a subject when they end up being wrong?
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