You won't need any help from me. Is there or was there ever a "Big 12" chant?😉
It's official.....SEC Presidents vote 14-0 to invite Texas and OU
- Thread starter USC2USC
- Start date
Having a hard time with the Xanax detox, are we?
I still say a monkey would have done better. Monkey > Sankey. You already have the last three letters.
Clemson wouldn’t matter to me, but we go after a lot of the same players as UNC and one of our recruiting pitches is play in the SEC. we would lose that.
Barrett Sallee
@BarrettSallee
Oklahoma’s reasons to exit the Big 12:
- Kickoff time
- Money
- Food
- Cord-cutting
- Golden Flake
- Tumbleweed
- Federal Government
- Dr Pepper
- Canada
- NIL
- Weather patterns
- Bob Bowlsby
- Cooler stadium light shows
5:59 PM · Jul 30, 2021·TweetDeck
There will be no more East/West. Pods, Baby...Pods...
Well if you don’t understand why that’s bad, because UNC is basically already closing the NC border then alrighty.
Yep. Kind of like the car dealership in the city always sells more cars than the one in Podunk Hill.
Add to that our administration probably isn’t too worried about doing the legwork now to really take advantage of this NIL deal.
Bama and Clemson probably have research groups and task forces assembled.
Texas has money, slick uniforms, an awesome logo and is located in a cool city. But the on-field performance does not match the reverence with which the "brand" of Texas is breathlessly discussed.
You know how many Top 10 finishes Texas has in the past 11 years? One. It finished No. 9 in 2018 with a 10-4 record after upsetting Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. Texas snapped a 10-year streak of losing at least four regular-season games last season, when it went 6-3.
You know what other schools have one top 10 finish in the past 11 years? Cincinnati. Iowa State, Minnesota. Washington State. Houston. Iowa. Baylor. Mississippi State. Arizona. Missouri. This is who Texas keeps company with nowadays.
You know who has MORE than one top 10 finish over the past 11 years? TCU (4). Stanford (4). Michigan State (3). UCF (2). You know how many SEC teams have more than one? Seven. And that doesn’t include Oklahoma.
Texas was unranked in the final AP poll five straight seasons from 2013 to 2017. Does that sound like royalty?
Yes, Mack Brown had an amazing nine-year run of excellence from 2001 to 2009. Six top 10 finishes. An unforgettable national championship with Vince Young. Wins in the Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Cotton Bowl.
But there was another long era of mediocrity before that. If you look at the 1984-2000 stretch, Texas was again just another program. Zero top 10 finishes. Ten seasons unranked. Five losing seasons.
The Longhorns have one national championship in the past 50 years. That matches the totals of BYU, Washington, Georgia Tech and Pittsburgh. No one in the Twittersphere is throwing the word "blueblood" around when talking about those programs.
You know how many Top 10 finishes Texas has in the past 11 years? One. It finished No. 9 in 2018 with a 10-4 record after upsetting Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. Texas snapped a 10-year streak of losing at least four regular-season games last season, when it went 6-3.
You know what other schools have one top 10 finish in the past 11 years? Cincinnati. Iowa State, Minnesota. Washington State. Houston. Iowa. Baylor. Mississippi State. Arizona. Missouri. This is who Texas keeps company with nowadays.
You know who has MORE than one top 10 finish over the past 11 years? TCU (4). Stanford (4). Michigan State (3). UCF (2). You know how many SEC teams have more than one? Seven. And that doesn’t include Oklahoma.
Texas was unranked in the final AP poll five straight seasons from 2013 to 2017. Does that sound like royalty?
Yes, Mack Brown had an amazing nine-year run of excellence from 2001 to 2009. Six top 10 finishes. An unforgettable national championship with Vince Young. Wins in the Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Cotton Bowl.
But there was another long era of mediocrity before that. If you look at the 1984-2000 stretch, Texas was again just another program. Zero top 10 finishes. Ten seasons unranked. Five losing seasons.
The Longhorns have one national championship in the past 50 years. That matches the totals of BYU, Washington, Georgia Tech and Pittsburgh. No one in the Twittersphere is throwing the word "blueblood" around when talking about those programs.
It will only take one visit to an SEC venue tailgate and by halftime you will be saying SEC SEC SEC with the rest of us.😀
I felt that A&M would not be in favor, not that Texas is better than A&M right now.
In their hearts, they were not. But you don't want to appear craven and uncooperative. I commend them for their vote.
Texas is the biggest budget in college sports. But they are arrogant and poor at execution. But unlike the SWC and the Big XII, the SEC doesn't need UT. Without them, the SEC is still the best conference. They may be able to walk all over Iowa State and kansas State in shaping deals, but since the start of the Big XII Conference it looks like:
UT: 1 NC
OU: 1 NC
Rest of the SEC: 14 NCs across 5 teams.
They are good brands with good support, but they combine for 12% of the national championships. That tail ain't gonna wag this dog.
I think Texas is coming into the SEC knowing it won't be like the Big 12 where Texas dominated. Texas dominated by having a half dozens schools that on any decision said "whatever Texas wants". Texas won't have that in the SEC. But Texas trusts Sankey and more so trusts the decision makers at Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Florida, etc to make rational fair decisions. Look at how COVID was handled. The PAC-10 immediately said "no season" and the Big Ten agreed. The Big Ten agreed with little discussion, made at the Presidential level with no input from the athletic depts. The Ohio State AD literally found out about it when the associate press asked for comment. In contrast, the SEC consulted the ADs, consulted experts and made a rational plan, saving the season and detailing how COVID testing and quarantine would be implemented. That favorably impressed Texas, who had been courted at times by the Big Ten, a conference then faced with a fiasco as they couldn't sit idle as the SEC and Big 12 played football.
How are Texas fans for traveling to road games. Will we see a large Longhorn contingent when they visit Columbia, Lexington, etc.?
Texas has a reputation for being pretty good at traveling. Depends on whether we are winning and there will be as lot of new places to visit. I hear people excited about both Oxford, Mississippi and Athens, Georgia (unless they ban Bevo for Uga's sake). So there may be a lot of competition by new SEC places. I could see a lot of folks combine the South Carolina game with a visit to Charleston. Some might like to visit the horse tracks around Lexington, KY. Texas has lots of horse people, although more quarter horses than thoroughbreds.
Yeah, a lot of people love that Ole Miss trip. To be honest, I thought it was a bit overrated. My favorite road trips are Kentucky, Florida, and Auburn. No matter what a Bama fan might say, Auburn fans are the most hospitable in the SEC.
I am guessing most SEC teams (not Arkansas, OU or A&M) but the bluebloods like Bama, Auburn, Florida, etc have too much pride to do that. Texas fans have always taken it as a backhanded compliment as implicitly recognizing Texas as the bigger dog. Rather than having their own hand symbol they try to dis ours. Which would make you prouder of South Carolina, doing your own "Spurs up" hand symbol or dissing another team's hand symbol?
I am looking forward to learning the personalities in the SEC. We know Arky, A&M and LSU, of course, but haven't played Tennessee since 1969, South Carolina since 1957, Auburn since 1991. Florida since 1940, or Vanderbilt since 1928.
All of you that want to continue to try to push this Texas is not a great "get" for the SEC thing are wasting your time.
This is a blockbuster move by the SEC. Texas won the most recent Learfield College Directors Cup as the top overall athletic program in the nation.
Last edited:
I agree. It's a totally different dynamic. Texas will be political, but not the bully that they were in the Big XII and SWC.
I'm pretty sure if Muschamp joined GamecockCentral, his screen name would be "CockUp" and it would be auto-assigned based on the credit card name used for his subscription.
Try to make whatever argument you wish. But, you had better steel yourself. Once you start "Flashing your handsigns"...It's going to happen.
SEC officiating may be bad. But, it's uniformly bad. Pouting isn't going to get you what you want.
Why is officiating bad everywhere? It wasn't good in the Big 12 or the SWC. I was hoping for improvement.
I knew you were full of shit when you said Austin is a "cool city." Austin is San Fran in Texas and currently the cultural anus of the country. Please post less.
Well, yes and no. Austin does have a crazy liberal city council determined to ruin Austin and turn it into a Portland or San Francisco. I assume that is what you are referring to. But the difference is, unlike those cities, Austin is located in a very conservative state, with a very conservative Legislature and Governor, all sitting right in Austin and seeing all of those disastrous city decisions. So when the city tells the police they can't keep the homeless from pooping on the street or camping wherever they want, the Governor sends in state troopers to clean them out. But even the liberal population of Austin is getting fed up with the city council hijinks. The city council eliminated all of the city ordinances against camping in public spaces and the like, and the city itself voted on a referendum to reinstate the camping ban. Even the liberal Austin populace realized it wasn't safe or a good idea.
Despite what the city council does to ruin the city, it is a beautiful city with lots of trees and parks and history, with the Colorado river running through it, and lots of restaurants and music venues. Austin is often called the Live Music Capital as it has so many live music events. See what SXSW is. Lots of musicians like Janis Joplin, Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker (lived near me), Stevie Ray Vaughn and others are connected to Austin. Austin just has a cool, somewhat hippie vibe, and is a fun place to visit (despite a Mayor and city council determined to ruin it).
Uniformly bad, my ass. UGA and Alabama need to fellate SEC officials on a daily basis for all the favors they get.
Then I guess it's best to NOT be a UGA or Alabama fan.
