Took me a bit but I absolutely understand yalls perspective. I think the Arkansas comparison is a good one. Just have to wait and see what happens.
Uh wait a minute guys. Are we forgetting something? It's one of the major components of "College Football"! Its called TRADITION. Trust me on this. We don't like each other and thats fine. BUT THE SERIES MUST GO ON! I guarantee we will all miss it just like NEB/Ou fans miss their rivalry. We just can't let the pinstripe suit boys do a "Wreckum" on another great rivary. NO NO NO NO NO NEVER
Damn Joe... are you still in this argument? You're losing an un-winnable battle! Geez dude, give it up...
We absolutely never play them again. When a guest at a family dinner craps on the table, insults the hosts and keys everyone's car on the way out and then leaves you to deal with the aftermath do you really invite them back?
I'm sure the rivalry will continue for many years, but can you imagine the embarrassment! Granted we would have to modify one line in our fight song but look at poor aggy.
+1 to embargo aggy if they leave for the SEC, for all the reasons stated above. Playing them out of conference doesn't help us, and would only serve to legitimize their decision to cut and run. Plus, we need to limit SEC exposure to the State of Texas, especially with regard to recruiting. The remaining Texas and Oklahoma schools need to band together to keep the SEC out of our turf. (Well, I'd like to keep Oklahoma out of our turf, too, but you know that old saying about the enemy of my enemy...)
End the series. Besides, since they will be in the SEC, we will be playing them all the time in the National Championship Game, right? - Mike
aggy can kiss the Thanksgiving day game with us goodbye after this year...but then, they knew that when they began their courtship of the SEC. Hope they enjoy their new traditional Thanksgiving day game with 'Ol Miss State.
Thanks Statalyzer, Sometimes folks do not know what they are missing till its gone. I am a longhorn fan from the word go. In fact I really don't care about anything else in sports. I BLEED BURNT ORANGE FROM HEAD TO FOOT! But you know what, I miss the voices of keith Jackson and Lindsey Nelson on a Saturday afternoon and I don't care about USC or Notre Dame one bit. They were a part of college football tradition. I don't want to see a chance to whip the aggs go out the door. Nebraska ran away from us now ATM the same. Sounds like the "wussification" of college football. Grow up Huskers and Aggs. Are'nt the Aggs "supposedly" a military bunch?? Sounds like chick, chick, chicken to me to run to the SEC.
Good bye little agglet. My T-giving will be spent playing Bible Aggy, Sand Aggy or Catholic Aggy. Don't need you. See how that works? Good bye to Texas Uni-ver-sity, Good bye to Texas A&M. Hook'em!!!
(Just a little aside to Hornfans. On my previous post whenever I would type "The University of Texas" it would appear in the post as "University of Texas." And of course, it does it again: Texas Uni-ver-sity comes out as University of Texas. Thus the hyphens...Get it?) Very hilarious. Try it yourself.
No, I say we end the series. We shouldn't play an out-of-conference game that late in the season. And if we do, it shouldn't be to reward A&M. If they bail on their agreement made just last year, they shouldn't be aided by UT. They can find some new rivals to shake their swords at and fling their horse poo on. If we can replace them with a great traditional football power like Notre Dame, it would be a real win for UT.
I think a good schedule for a&m in the SEC might be something like this... Louisiana Tech Idaho Kentucky LSU Mississippi State Tennessee Alabama Vanderbilt Ole Miss Auburn Texas State <---- Arkansas SEC teams usually play a softee int the next-to-last game. A&M could make it a point to annually play Texas State in that slot. It's a short trip, a good break from a long season of travel to SEC venues, and for now would be a game against Coach Fran, so that's good bull right there. No matter how "cool" a schedule might look in the SEC, I guarantee you not seeing "TEXAS" on the schedule is a big hit. Everybody wants to play Texas. It is the game to have on your schedule. We often don't realize that fact since we are Texas, but imagine what it looks like to see that team on your schedule. Or not. I think aggy supporters have had this vision of a dramatic SEC schedule ... coupled with an annual game with Texas as their "OU game" that would give their football program a huge spotlight and add to the glamor. The thinking is to have a full SEC slate.... plus Texas. Every year. I think that has been their plan. To deny that game on their schedule would be, to say the least (!)... huge. Really huge. So yeah, I hope Texas does end it if a&m goes to the SEC. Why give them that game? We don't need it. But they do. Edit Just after I posted this, on 104.9 fm Austin, Chip and Erin interviewing John McClain from Houston and he said the same thing -- that Texas should cut the series if a&m goes, because that's what a&m wants: both the SEC schedule and Texas. McClain is a graduate of Baylor!
I hope the Horns end the series. No reason to let Aggy benefit by continuing the series. And I would much prefer UT end the series rather have it done by Aggy.
I'm for ending it right now. They screwed our chances of going to the Pac10, they have half assed aggy styled their escape from the Big12. Why should we play them in anything? I find the OU tradition MUCH deeper then aggy.
Dump aggy. Just like we dumped UofH. We do not need them and this would aggravate them no end........... which is wonderful. They have always been "little brother", so put them in the orphanage and don't visit or send them holiday cards. Bye, bye, aggy.
Our home schedules already suck. No A&M will make it even worse. USC, Notre Dame, and BYU are a few years off. What happens from 2012-2015ish? Just crap at home?
Ahhh. So much to work with, so little time to play before getting back to the day job. First off, the irony. A group of guys that prides itself on not giving a sorry **** about a school spends 5 pages trying to convince one guy who's REALLY ending the series with that school. Second, one of you got all professorial on my boy and lectured him on the definition of causal. And yet, while I haven't been watching this cat fight on a play by play basis, a quick skim shows that only one of you is brave/open-minded enough to consider that there may have been an initial action that caused our action to leave that then may cause your action to bail on the series. I know, I know, go out and build your own network, right? It's a free country. It's not the network that pisses off me and a lot of the Ags I talk to. It's the fact that you and ESPN got in bed to create it. I can't turn on talk radio, turn on a sports channel, drive down the freeway in Htown or visit a sports website without hearing/seeing something about the LHN. Hell, Google even squeezes ads on the LHN on the Texags page. Got a bunch of my less internet-savvy brethren ALL hot and bothered about why the site would let UT advertise on our site. There's no way UT is footing the bill for all of that airtime. So that leaves a lot of us to believe that (usually) objective ESPN and their $$ is especially behind the ongoing success of ONE of ~120 college programs and THAT, my burnt orange friends, is a dog that ain't hunting with many of us. Are we also hoping to get out of your shadow, trying to find a way to get back to the more equal recruiting outcome of the pre-MB era, relishing a tiny bit in the fact that we're leaving on our terms (for shittier pastures, perhaps) and leaving UT trying to figure out where to land? No doubt those reasons play a part. But when looking at all of the sine qua nons in this convoluted scenario, to ignore the creation of the ESPN-backed LHN is way less than honest. Lama
