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http://missouri.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1267857 Officially getting my hopes up. Bc you want to be in the SEC or bc any seat is better than none? I figure Missouri ends up in the bigx. Big Ten would be my first choice but I don't know how realistic it is right now. If SEC comes at us with an offer now, I would hope we'd take it instead of waiting around for a Big Ten offer that might not come. I'd welcome Texas A&M and Missouri to the SEC. Both are top 100 schools academically and are solid in all facets. Top 100 is kind of large group. Where is Missouri at? I know we're in most top 20/25 lists I see. I don't follow this all that closely, though.

Was hoping for a 7pm kickoff on ABC, but I guess a top 10 match-up isn't good enough for that. Oh well, 2:30pm is cool too.

How many of them were scored by "friends" of Nevin Shapiro?

Already planning a trip home for the Red Sox series. :good:

And again, we said OK to them having the network. It's what they have decided to do with it (which is NOT what was agreed to) that has caused issues and made us look to the SEC. I'm not sure how many more times I can point this out.

Not exactly accurate. Texas wanted a 70/30 split and control of the network.

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well that's certainly a bad article. Excellent critique, sir. it was basically an article written to get attention by trolling the longhorns, since he assumed that texas haters would love it and texas supporters would hate it. obviously the writer's plan worked to perfection in your case. Obviously any Aggie is going to get a chuckle reading something like that, but it's not like I'm throwing it out there as the gospel truth. I find it hard to believe that Texas would have to beg any conference for admission. As much as I dislike them, it's clear that they bring a lot of positives to whatever conference they are in. They do bring some negatives too, but those would be limited in a powerful conference like the SEC, B1G, and possibly PAC-12.

well that's certainly a bad article. Excellent critique, sir.

What in God's name made you think you could buy an airplane ticket the week of your flight for $100? I assume he meant a game ticket for $100.

Texas begging the ACC for acceptance? http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2011-09-14/texas-drove-everyone-away-now-begging-for-acc-acceptance

I'll bet they accept ATM. i laughed. Me too.

Is anyone else going to be in New Orleans this weekend?

I thought they were going to do away with the Leaders/Legends crap.

The concession workers must be lazy Central Americans like Aramis Ramirez and other lazy Central Americans on the Cubs.

I'm worried about the mighty Idaho Potatoes (that sounds better than Vandals to me). I hope we can sneak out a victory at home.

Wow. Completed shocked by the Bears performance yesterday. They were damn good. Please win next weekend. I will be in New Orleans hammered off my ass.

Crazy finish.

Did they not review the leap out of bounds near the goal line? That looked like a TD to me. Questionable play call on the final play.

Not a fan of the two-tone numbers on the ASU jerseys, but the helmets are sick.

Let the castrations begin!! very odd motivational technique but effective.... I love Jackie Sherrill.

Here is an interesting article from a lawyer/sportswriter about the potential lawsuits. http://outkickthecoverage.com/why-baylors-claims-against-the-sec-have-no-merit.php

A&M doesn't care if any of them sue. In fact, I'm pretty sure the administration thinks Baylor & Co. are bluffing and that no lawsuits would be filed. It's not up to us, though. For some strange reason, Mike Slive wants to maintain some kind of grand image for his conference and doesn't want to get dragged into any kind of lawsuit. That's stupid for a couple of reasons. One, he should spend more time worrying about schools breaking NCAA rules in his conference. That gives them a much bigger black eye in the public than some stupid lawsuit that would never go anywhere. Two, he is weakening himself and the SEC at this point. Is he really going to let Baylor push him around and keep the conference from adding a school/TV market that they want to add? If so, any further expansion is going to be a huge mess because any other team from a conference potentially losing a member to the SEC can just threaten to sue and the process will be shut down. From what I hear, until late yesterday the "higher ups" in the SEC really believed that the whole Big 12 situation would get resolved & the conference would be saved satisfying the league peons. They didn't believe that OU would actually leave. They're starting to understand that OU is pretty much out the door at this point. I imagine that in the near future they will realize that they need to go ahead and just invite us unconditionally & see if Baylor is bluffing as most people suspect. Baylor, meanwhile, needs to send a contingent of people to every Big East school so they can get on their knees and start smiling like donuts because there seems to be a chance that the conference would be willing to add the Bears along with KU, K-State, and Missouri (should the Big 10 or SEC not come calling for them). I can't imagine all these lawsuit threats is making them look like an attractive target to other conferences looking to expand.

Okie Lite is very good, but Arizona is very bad.

When asked by the commissioner of the conference if we were committed BEFORE NEBRASKA & COLORADO LEFT we said we were as it was presently constructed. When they decided to leave, we flirted with the SEC but ultimately chose to stay in the Big 12 (much to the chagrin of many Aggies, myself included) and try to make it work with 10 members. At the time President Loftin released that statement, we were planning on staying. That comment was made 6-8 months before the LHN was announced. What was ultimately included in the contract was not what the other conference members agreed to ahead of time. There is some question as to whether or not we even signed the new TV deal. I have yet to see proof either way. We have followed every process to the letter in order to leave the conference. Baylor is threatening a lawsuit because a) they know that the SEC doesn't want to be involved in any legal disputes no matter how baseless & b) now that OU is ready to leave they know that they are going to get left out in the cold. ANY LAWSUIT THEY MAY FILE WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY BASELESS AND THEY WOULD NEVER WIN. I can sue you guys for any number of reasons. That doesn't mean I have a case. Mike Slive & Co. need to nut up and admit us without any conditions. I doubt any lawsuits are ever filed. What Baylor needs to realize is that the longer they hold up this process the more they push OU out the door to the Pac-12/16. When that happens, the conference is done. If they would just let us go and focus their efforts on keeping OU in the league, they could add BYU in our place and they would still have a seat at the big boy table. But it doesn't appear that they're going to figure that out in time.