Sabreman

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Best win of your entire life as an Aggy fan and concern #1 is if Texas is jealous or not.

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I've seen the sip message boards. There's no ambiguity. They jealous.

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That’s not how it works.

Texas works by getting Texas alums or puppets into positions of power and then working to benefit just Texas.

They didn’t buy off the NCAA infractions committee, they leveraged connections to get an alum installed as head of the committee, then went to work on rivals.

They didn’t just throw their weight around the B12, they installed their own sycophants as the commissioner and positions of power, and then played stupid when the conference organization bent the field to their benefit.

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This. They don't go for the frontal assault unless they know they've already won. Everything else is the long game with them, backroom deal, alliances, partnerships. They're exceptionally good at lobbying for conference rule changes that benefit everyone... except in the long run, they benefit more than anyone.

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That may be a deal point to buy an Aggie “yes.” I’m sure Sankey wants it 14-0.

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It needs to be more than just that. After the tea-sips talked shite about how terrible the SEC was for the past decade? There needs to be a pound of flesh in this deal.

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If MIZZOU goes to the BIG 10, which I think they tried before

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Circa 2010-2011, Mizzou COULD NOT SHUT UP about how their "real" rivals were in the B1G and they were ditching the Big 12 for the industrial midwest, frickyouverymuch.

Then the B1G said, "I think not."

Mizzou was left scrambling to get a SEC bid as a consolation prize. No doubt whatsoever they'd bolt for the B1G in a heartbeat if offered.

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There will be retaliation on the east side of the conference by attempting to add FSU or some other dipshits as an FU.

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Dude, no. Just don't. If the East Division schools are for this, it's because the addition of t.u. and OU brings the conference up to the magic number of 16. Their in-state rivals will be forever shut out an they won't have to fret about their so-called "gentlemen's agreement" again. Throwing A&M under the bus solves their problem permanently.

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A&M and LSU have a good thing going now.

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A&M and LSU had good things going in the past, too. The difference now is that LSU can't run away when A&M starts winning.

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We don't roll over for fricking Texas

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Funny, that's what Nebraska said.

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I’m still waiting for someone to tell me how their behavior in a Texas based conference will translate in a conference where they will be just one of the guys.

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That's just it--they won't be just one of the guys. Their unofficial motto is "We ARE the Jonese." You say, "Oh, the SEC schools won't let anyone come in here and boss us around." This is true. But the sips won't try to come in and boss everyone around. They'll play nice at first, then after a few years start proposing various bylaw reforms that sound reasonable and look to benefit everyone. After a while, you'll start to notice they benefit everyone but t.u. always benefits a bit more. Then some rules pass that unexpectedly start harming some member schools. The t-sips may not have introduced such bylaws or policies, but they always champion and support them, often in the name of "academic integrity." Ask yourself how Nebraska went from being a perennial national power to an also-ran in less than a decade. Look to the Big 12's partial qualifier policies. How did the SWC break up? Look at changes to the league's revenue distribution in the 1980s. The Big 12's renegotiated league revenue distribution twice over the past 20 years, and each time t.u. has come away with a bigger piece of the pie.

They'll bring glitz and glam and boost TV ratings, sure, but inside of 10 years they'll be stirring up trouble, because they always have and always will believe the SEC is beneath them.

OU would be a solid addition that makes a lot of financial sense. Doubly so if it could be paired with an East Coast school, like VA Tech. You know good and well it wasn't OU that ran Nebraska out of the Big 12 or broke up the SWC.

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They aren't moving the SEC offices out of Alabama. They aren't replacing the staff with Texas alum. Texas would be in for a rude awakening if they joined the SEC. The college football world doesn't revolve around them. Certainly not in the SEC

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Guys, you just don't get it. Yes, t-sips are as arrogant as Tide fans with more money. But that's not the problem. t.u. is very, very good at getting conferences to adopt bylaws that appear to benefit everyone, but in the long run turn out to benefit the sips more. They operate in the boardrooms, behind the scenes. They're especially effective when their teams stink, because nobody views them as a threat then. Do you think it's a coincidence that Nebraska rapidly faded from national prominence after the formation of the Big 12? Hardly. Look into the rules changes on partial qualifiers the t-sips championed. That's the way they operate.