re: Why Did We Let Texas In?

I'm aware. I'm hoping that when the SEC/B1G break away from the NCAA that A&M bows out of this rat race. I loathe what CFB has become.

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I'm hoping that when the SEC/B1G break away from the NCAA that A&M bows out of this rat race.

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I was under the impression they already had

Wow..Amazing amount of ignorance, stupidity and lies in a single post.

Had to take them to get Oklahoma, sooner or later they’ll leave to be the big fish in the small pond, and we’ll still have the Sooners.

And they’re probably going to run A&M off before they bail.

Win, win, win if you take the long view.

So Kenny Loftin is the new XWing alias. Good to know

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by PerrillouxToTexas
Texas has had a standing invite to the SEC since Harvey Schiller was your commissioner. Every previous expansion included a historical rival. It was inevitable.

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That is not a factual claim.

First of all, who were the "historical" rivalries in '92 and 2012?

I get the SC-UGA thing. That series has been played more and longer than a lot of original member series because of the border thing but .... well, I guess there was the Deep South connection, the State Capital and Flagship University connection ... and SC had played all SEC members over the course of the 20th Century .... so I get that one.

Who was Arkansas' historical SEC rival in '92?

Arkansas was, maybe I guess, Mizzou's historical rival for entry some twenty years later. And A&M had history with both of them.

As far as Harvey Schiller's standing invite to Texas goes .... I've never once seen or heard that before now. Would you have a link to support your claim? Because, I know for a fact, that was never mentioned in either of the two accepted books about the history of the SEC from conception to the 2012 expansion.

Your claim seems like typical lefty revisionism .... revising history seems to be a thing with lefties, communists, socialists, et al.

Link

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“We focused on Arkansas and South Carolina, and really wanted Texas,” Schiller told me earlier this month. “So, something interesting happened: The (Texas) state legislature came back to me and said, ‘If you take Texas, you have to take Texas A&M.’ The funny part about it is that A&M was sort of lukewarm at the time about coming in.”

And the SEC wasn’t enthralled with the Aggies back then, Schiller said.

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that A&M bows out of this rat race.

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Par for the course.

yeah, that is interesting. Dodds likely felt betrayed after going to bat for the Aggies back then.

That said, it was 2 decades later. I don't blame TAMU for making the move. It was a no brainer for them. IMO it all worked out very well in the end.

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yeah, that is interesting. Dodds likely felt betrayed after going to bat for the Aggies back then.

That said, it was 2 decades later. I don't blame TAMU for making the move. It was a no brainer for them. IMO it all worked out very well in the end.

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I agree 100% that it was the right move for Texas A&M. I just never really understood why Dodds was so bent out of shape.. but I think this might explain it.. at least to a certain degree.