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I agree that we should have gone last year, but things have definitely changed since then whether you want to believe it or not. You call it throwing a tantrum, I call it securing our future. Nebraska & Colorado did it without a problem. It seems like everyone else is trying to make us special. No one threatened to sue last year. OU is obviously talking to other conferences right now, but no one is threatening to sue there. There is NOTHING we are reneging on. When asked if we were committed to the conference last year, our president said we were committed AS IT WAS AT THE TIME. That was before Nebraska & Colorado left. And OU is obviously looking alsewhere. Are they throwing a tantrum and reneging too?
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Need to feel special? That's laughable. We just want to go to the SEC, which will be better off for us. The league can survive if the other 9 stay. They would just need to add 1 team to get them back to where they were before this started. We are not causing anyone's downfall. At this point, OU will seal the fate of the conference but everyone knows that ultimately it is all the fault of the longhorns. They are the reason Nebraska & Colorado left last year, why we are leaving this year, and why Oklahoma is considering leaving. If you don't believe that, then I have no idea what fantasy world you are living in.
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PRAISE JEEBUS! :)
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I hear you. I mean, a school [expletive] up another school's well-being out of pure self-interest and maybe a little spite. Who would do such a thing? [expletive]. We're not [expletive] up anybody's well being. The Big 12-2-1 was very clear that we were easily replaceable a week or so ago. Baylor says they won't sue the SEC if OU commits to the Big 12. How the [expletive] is that our problem?
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I wouldn't put too much stock in what the Waco paper is reporting. I wonder where there sources are located. I may be wrong, but I think as long as Baylor signs a waiver the SEC wouldn't require it from any other school. Bad thing is I don't see that happening anytime soon. I have a feeling this could get ugly. I sold my tickets to the A&M-Baylor game in College Station a month or so ago, but I now regret that decision and am looking for new ones. I want to make sure they hear me among the other 80,000 Aggies there expressing our displeasure with their shenanigans.
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Iowa State is absolutely screwed. Not that they shouldn't be. Do they bring anything to the table? I've heard rumors that they would go with Kansas and Kansas State to the Big East. That would get them to 24 basketball teams and 12 FBS teams, I believe.
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horrible
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Ha! Supposedly Baylor is standing down now. We shall see.
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What are they going to get out of this? They are hoping money I guess. Trying to leverage this into A&M's exit fee. There's not going to be an exit fee when OU leaves, which becomes more and more likely the longer Baylor drags this out.
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http://www.secdigitalnetwork.com/NEWS/tabid/473/Article/227814/statement-from-dr-bernie-machen.aspx
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What are they going to get out of this?
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[expletive] Baylor and [expletive] Ken Starr. Those assholes have gone back on their word and are now threatening to sue the SEC and Mike Slive personally. Therefore, there will be no press conference today. I heard that the vote was 12-0 to admit us, but the Baylor situation has halted the actual invite. Their only chance to be in a BCS conference next season is if they let us go and let Texas replace us ASAP. The longer this drags out the more they ensure that OU will jump ship. When they do, the conference is toast. Then Baylor will be lucky to get into the Sun Belt.
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Ouch. Suspensions, I assume?
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SEC presidents are meeting tonight. Looks like I will finally get my official A&M to the SEC press conference tomorrow.
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LOL @ Baylor. They didn't seem too concerned about these cherished rivalries when TCU, SMU, Rice, and Houston got left out of the Big 12.
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I get to watch the game, so that means the Cubs are going to lose. Sorry, Matt Garza. -
The Mob is awesome. That's probably the only thing I miss from the old Southwest Conference days.
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So referencing Rice being in a [expletive] academic conference and doing just fine was a total non-sequitur? No, but he's not directly talking about how bad the SEC may be in academics, which wouldn't be a wise thing for him to do in that situation. Why address it at all? If people won't shut up about it, why not say something along the lines of the SEC having many fine schools, such as Vanderbilt, Florida, and Tennessee to name 3. Then send some shout out to University of Mississippi being ranked #3 for needlepoint or something. Because he was answering a direct question. It wasn't like he decided to bring it up on his own.
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Lots of chatter about OU moving to the Pac-12 with Texas, OSU, and Tech. http://blog.chron.com/sportsjustice/2011/09/the-big-12-could-soon-be-out-of-business/ http://www.statesman.com/sports/longhorns/one-more-move-and-big-12-is-over-1809134.html?cxtype=rss_longhorns
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Yeah, I don't really concern myself with that. Just because other schools in the same conference may be a third tier academic institution doesn't mean it's going to bring us down any. Our president referenced the fact that Rice doesn't have any issues playing in Conference USA, which isn't known for their high academic standards. Wouldn't Vanderbilt have been a much better example considering they're actually in the SEC? Oh yeah, they're not from Texas so who [expletive] cares. Or maybe he didn't want to insult the [expletive] conference we are about to join. Makes sense, no? So referencing Rice being in a [expletive] academic conference and doing just fine was a total non-sequitur? No, but he's not directly talking about how bad the SEC may be in academics, which wouldn't be a wise thing for him to do in that situation.
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Yeah, I don't really concern myself with that. Just because other schools in the same conference may be a third tier academic institution doesn't mean it's going to bring us down any. Our president referenced the fact that Rice doesn't have any issues playing in Conference USA, which isn't known for their high academic standards. Wouldn't Vanderbilt have been a much better example considering they're actually in the SEC? Oh yeah, they're not from Texas so who [expletive] cares. Or maybe he didn't want to insult the [expletive] conference we are about to join. Makes sense, no?
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Yeah, I don't really concern myself with that. Just because other schools in the same conference may be a third tier academic institution doesn't mean it's going to bring us down any. Our president referenced the fact that Rice doesn't have any issues playing in Conference USA, which isn't known for their high academic standards.
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Not at all. It would be funny to most of the country. But they would never give up that much power. I didn't realize the Big 12 was an academic powerhouse. It's no Ivy League, but it's a lot better than the SEC.
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Texas A&M notifies the Big 12 that we are applying to join another conference and will withdraw from the Big 12 effective 6/30/12 when we are accepted. http://www.tamu.edu/athletics/conferenceChange.html I hate that this is such a long drawn out process, but it should hopefully be over soon.
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