Blast from the past (realignment)

[4th_floor]

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It’s good bye to Texas A&M. Thank you Case McCoy, thank you Justin Tucker. You ended it perfectly.
I hope UT never plays them again.

Case earned his place of honor with that scramble at the end of the last aggy game. I was working at a company that was mostly aggy at the time. The aggy were very angry at me for being tu for at least the next year. I didn't say anything about the game. But I changed my computer background to a pic of Case celebrating the win in front of the sign "Home of the 12th Man". Forgot about it and gave a presentation at a meeting about 6 months later. I could feel the anger when I closed my presentation and that picture popped onto the screen. Funny now, not so much then.

 

[Chop]

Oh yeah.

Case was bouncing around like a pinball on that last drive. The ags just couldn’t wrap up and tackle. I don’t care if we do or don’t play them anymore. Last year they were a good team minus a good QB.

 

[Gladius&Pilum]

I really miss that oozing infected zit on my lower left buttock, and I miss playing aggy too.

Anybody have any theories on why Belmont keeps talking about playing A&M when it seems like everyone on the various Longhorn forums want A&M to go pound sand? Is it coming from BMDs?

 

[LonghornDave]

Look Texas hasn't won the B12 in football in over a decade, and has only won 3 titles in going on 25 years in the league. I think Baylor has an many titles as Texas does (!).

Before Texas gets all big in the britches about how the B12 isn't good enough and how it needs to be in another league, it should win the conference at a higher frequency that once every other leap year.

The B12 is a fine league for Texas. Traditional rivals in Baylor, TT, OU, and OSU. Similar geographic area as the other teams. Good TV contract, and if Texas ever does get its act together in football, needing only to beat OU, win the conference, and have no more than 1 loss to have an excellent shot at going into the playoffs.

No Baylor ever.

 

[Gladius&Pilum]

Then there's this guy...

The problem with A&M is different. Leaving aside the politics of the issue–and with the Lt. Governor being an A&M grad, it’s impossible to leave politics aside–Texas’ nightmare scenario is having A&M join the SEC. It is no coincidence that during the ten years out of its history when A&M was good at football (primarily due to SMU-level cheating), Texas was terrible. There are only so many top-tier recruits in Texas, and there are just not enough to feed Texas, Oklahoma, and A&M. Somebody’s got to get left out. If A&M were to join the SEC, it would give A&M a real recruiting advantage that it doesn’t presently have. Worse, it would open the Texas recruiting pool to teams like LSU and Alabama and reopen it to Arkansas.

Texas requires Aggie weakness to prosper. A strong A&M in the SEC is a recipe for Longhorn mediocrity. And that wouldn’t benefit either Texas or the Big 10.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that A&M has to come with. But it does mean that we need to find A&M a good home outside the SEC (Pac-10, perhaps?) and secure a very long-term deal with them for non-conference games before we can jump the Big 12 ship.