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Marmol's fastball didn't get over 92 that I saw. That's not normal, right?

CUBS WIN! Woody with the save.

A day before the House of Rep committee meeting that has no powers? This House committee meeting has been cancelled. Word is that the head of the committee decided the political pressure he was getting wasn't worth it. Our BOR meeting is still happening. Once that is over we will be able (at some point in the near future) to notify the Big 12 that we are leaving and then ask the SEC for membership. At that point, an official vote will be taken to add us.

I don't think today's announcement really means anything. It seems more like a "we're interested and aTm's interested, now everyone needs to get their legal ducks in a row to make this actually happen." Somebody gets it. If this is going to happen, the SEC needs to find another team to join the league along with Texas A&M. Florida State certainly would have fit that bill, but the Seminoles have no real motivation to make the move. If there is still no deal by October 1, then that Arkansas-Texas A&M matchup becomes a little more heated I think. The SEC will go with 13 teams in 2012 if necessary. By the way, that MS Paint post is nails. Very funny.

I don't think today's announcement really means anything. It seems more like a "we're interested and aTm's interested, now everyone needs to get their legal ducks in a row to make this actually happen." Somebody gets it.

The AD and president aren't going to come out in the press and say "If the LHN show HS games we are leaving for the SEC." But that's what is going to happen. I'd be willing to bet on that. I'm sure they would, but they aren't the drivers of that decision. That's my point. The SEC isn't going to just say "oh, aTm's pissed off, let's let them in" and be a 13 team conference, or "oh, aTm's pissed off, we should let them in and then find another team or 3 so the divisions are equal". Care to rethink this?

It was my understanding that he cleaned out his locker and left before the game was over. Is that incorrect?

So long, Z. Please retire so we can spend that money on a sane player.

A day before the House of Rep committee meeting that has no powers? Yep

A&M Board of Regents meeting has been pushed up to Monday.

Did Beebe pause to take Deloss Dodds' nuts out of his mouth to say that, or did he just say it mid-hummer? HAHAHAHA! I think it matters if they really care about saving the conference long term. UH would just be a temporary replacement until the horns feel ready to go independent.

There's also a Texas House of Reps hearing on the 16th... They have no legislative powers whatsoever. The Texas legislature doesn't meet again until 2013 and can only be called into a special session by the governor. Gov. Rick Perry is an Aggie. 8 of the 9 members of that board have accepted political contributions (most of them have received multiple) from a PR firm that has been hired by UT and is heavily involved in lobbying. I'm sure they can, as long as OU decides to stay. They've apparently already reached out to the Univeristy of Houston to replace us. :lol:

Well because Hollandsworth says so, I now hate Aramis. TRADE HIM AT ALL COSTS!

The SEC university presidents are meeting this Sunday. I assume they will be taking an official vote on extending an offer to A&M. That way our BOR can vote to go at their 8/22 meeting.

so some anonymous poster on a northwestern board says nd will blindly follow texas into the big ten? I guess that settles that. Not going to happen. The LHN contract with ESPN prevents them from being shown on any conference network. It's either keep the Big 12 alive or go independent at this point. The Big 10, SEC, and Pac 12 all have conference networks, right?

Yeah, I don't think they have anything to worry about. Texas Tech and Baylor need to be sweating it big time. Although it appears that the horns are not quite ready to go independent so they are scrambling to find someone to take our place to keep the Big 12 alive. Rumor is that they've already contacted the University of Houston. I hope OU gets a good offer from the Big 10 or Pac 12 so we can finally finish off this lame duck conference.

The conference is too strong? LOL. What are you basing your "analysis" of A&M on? We had a pretty good team last year and by all accounts should be even better this year. Tech and Baylor will be average at best. OSU is overrated and lost their OC. Texas was 5-7 last year and still has a lot of question marks. Mizzou will be tough, but we get them at home. Because aTm was a 4 loss team last year. Most people like to write off 3 of those losses because of the QB change, but for one, Johnson wasn't leading them into the abyss, and two, Johnson had little to do with the defense giving up almost 5 TDs/game in their losses. This isn't to say that they won't be good, but they're a team that should be expected to be a Top ~20ish type team who has to play 5 games against teams of that caliber. Sure they could win 3 of those and not slip up elsewhere(which would be needed to live up to their preseason hype, if not win 4), but it's not all that likely. Johnson turned the ball over a lot. His numbers looked good, but if you don't think there was a big difference in the offense from JJ to Tannehill, you obviously weren't watching. Also, last year was the first year under new DC Tim DeRuyter. The defense played much better at the end of the season. Just ask Nebraska and OU. We were thin at LB and took a huge injury there early in the Cotton Bowl against LSU. That didn't cause us to lose, but I think it really hurt any chance we had at keeping it close. This is a 10-win team.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :clapping:

C'mon, Marmol! :banghead:

Currently ranked just below Alabama and LSU. Well, that's a preseason poll, the coaches poll even. They, and OSU for that matter, have too many losses on their schedule to finish the year in the top 10. I'm sure you assume we will lose to Arkansas and Oklahoma. What other losses will we have in your opinion? I'm saying that I don't think aTm is good enough to beat every team they absolutely should(including decent squads like Tech and Baylor) and then go 3-2 or better against OU, OSU, UT, Arkansas, and Mizzou. Same thing for OSU(replace Arkansas with Arizona) and Mizzou(replace Arkansas with Arizona St.). The conference is too strong this year, plus teams scheduled the non-con this year with 8 conference games in mind. The conference is too strong? LOL. What are you basing your "analysis" of A&M on? We had a pretty good team last year and by all accounts should be even better this year. Tech and Baylor will be average at best. OSU is overrated and lost their OC. Texas was 5-7 last year and still has a lot of question marks. Mizzou will be tough, but we get them at home.

I'm not saying they shouldn't go to the SEC, I'm saying that there should be some realism about it. Yes, they'll be free of Texas as a conference-mate, and yes, they'll be in a very good position financially. But with that has to come the acknowledgement that you have much less hope of being a consistently big winner in the SEC. I agree that many Aggies are delusional, but I haven't found anyone that expects us to move and dominate the conference. Suprisingly, most everyone is pretty realistic about playing in the SEC. We realize we will take our lumps, but that this is the best move for us long term.

Currently ranked just below Alabama and LSU. Well, that's a preseason poll, the coaches poll even. They, and OSU for that matter, have too many losses on their schedule to finish the year in the top 10. I'm sure you assume we will lose to Arkansas and Oklahoma. What other losses will we have in your opinion? http://twitter.com/#!/dennisdoddcbs

So we've been down 2 or more runs in the 9th 173 times in basically 2 1/2 seasons? Yikes.

The Texas A&M Board of Regents have called a special meeting for 8/22. The agenda has not been published yet. This could be to approve a move to the SEC. Aggie recruiting expert Billy Liucci was just on Paul Finebaum's show and said he'd be surprised if we DON'T make the move this month. He's generally the most conservative of Aggie recruiting guys. He doesn't stick his neck out too much unless he has really solid info. And if we do make it official before the end of August, we would start playing in the SEC in 2012. The conference would be willing to go with 13 teams and an unbalanced schedule for 1 year until they could add another school (likely from the east) to get to 14.

Can we trade him for Ernie Broglio III while he still has some value?