I'm hearing more and more that A&M is going "D@mn tu, we want to go to the SEC!" I don't know if the legislature would allow it, but Rick Perry says he's staying out of it (A&M grad.) If Texas goes SEC, it will be a new world for them. They've been the dominant team forever, first in the SWC, then in the Big 12. There are too many good programs in the SEC for any team to completely dominate the conference. Everybody talks about the Texas egos, but the SEC teams have huge egos also, and there are too many excellent programs in the SEC for any single team to dominate. Consider Bama. As good as they are, they frequently end up getting pwned by Florida or LSU. Course, they return the favor, too. One thing I like about the SEC thing is that in the Big 12, all the teams raided Texas for their players. The SEC has their own high school football factories. If Texas and Oklahoma (followed by the other teams) go to the SEC, it would be difficult to imagine the SEC not winning the national title eight out of ten years. They already dominate the title game, and Texas and Oklahoma usually take what they don't.
Well I'd like to think of it as the other way around. ;)
You’re right. If UT and OU ( dragging along little brothers) go to the SEC it will become THE dominant conference in the country. The problem will be that it will be difficult if not impossible for a team from the expanded SEC to go undefeated and thus get a berth in the National Championship game unless there is some sort of new BCS arrangement.
Texas can still save the Big 12. They’ve lost two schools. Losing Nebraska hurts, but Colorado is eminently replacable. Neither of them have done a whole lot in football or basketball in the past few years anyways. Get some type of pledge from Missouri and perhaps redo the penalty for leaving. Make it massive. Then add two new schools and work on getting a new TV deal that brings in money for the league. BYU and Air Force would be nice additions.
I don’t think this is what will happen, but if I was the Big 12 commish, this is what I would be preaching...
They’ve been the dominant team forever, first in the SWC, then in the Big 12.
Huh? I think you are confused. The only sport Texas has been dominant in the big 12 is baseball. Football - OU versus Texas 7-7, OU 6 conference championships Texas 3. Kansas is the dominant men’s BB program and OU has been the dominant women’s program.
The largest Razorback club in the nation is in the Metroplex. Jones wanted Texas to play Arkansas every year at Jerry World but Texas didn’t want the Hogs’ exposure to Texas H.S. players. A&M took the deal and T.U. was P.O.’d.
One team leaving usually kills a conference. Arkansas goiing to the SEC killed the SWC.