To be fair, the state of Oklahoma should much smaller and be shaped like a covered wagon (the hitch on the left side facing to the left to make for the Oklahoma panhandle). Arkansas should include a map of the country of Viet Nam placed where Fayetteville is located (Fayettenam).
OK. Valid point. (But I still think there is at least a vague scent of extortion wafting about. Just a little whiff.)
When aggie left the Big 12 aggie had to agree to play prairie view and ap state at home every year and sam houston every fourth year.
My feeling on the move (why it's a good thing) is that recruits who might be impressed with TCU (who earned it) and maybe Baylor, will now want to play in the SEC. That's us. And yes, OU. But it's a new advantage. And maybe even head to head against Ohio State who has plucked a few plumbs from Texas in recent years.
Reasons the move is a good thing: 1) $$$ 2) Piss poor to nonexistent management in Las Colinas 3) $$$ 4) No Tier One schools in Big XII & no up-and-comers knocking on the door. SEC already has THREE 5) $$$ 6) Every school in the SEC is "the school" in their sate except for Miss State & Auburn, making them "like minded" 7) Then there is the money.
I feel dirty moving to the SEC, but I feel even dirtier being in a conference with cooger high, some directional school in FL and cincinnati. And that was inevitable anyway.
MC, I purposely left out Vandy because it is not "the state university" and maintain that South Carolina is "THE school" in the state over the Sons of Klem, aka, Auburn with a lake. The loss of "still making" as a major also hurts Clemson.
The problem is that there were not many options under the current system. Big 12 would rather fail then "cater" to Texas. (see Alabama game). SEC and Big could have worked but PAC is dead. BIG has no baseball and Rutgers.
I was thinking purely in terms of football but yes SC and Tenn have further reach than their in-state rivals.
Yes; and that hurt my dad's family business that we had to give up without skilled educate labor and eventually donate the land to the Feds: https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/conf/recarea/?recid=10538
this made me lol ... Longhorns 'Every F***** Week!': Ex Sooners Coach Barry Switzer 'Concerned' About Move to SEC https://www.si.com/college/texas/fo...klahoma-sooners-barry-switzer-sec-big-12-exit
I'm curious about this too. If it's true there are no divisions I think a lot of the playoff participants will be settled by tiebreaker. Tiebreakers can get pretty strange at times.
Good media outlet by Barry to stay relevant while his former employer isn't likely to ever be again after: 1) Dr Boren retired and is replaced by a guy I don't think has ever seen a football game 2) Clown elect replaces two winning coaches with an angry soon-to-be-failure 3) Dr Boren retired leaving the Big XII as a rudderless ship taking on water 4) Clown elect saddles OU with a group of "you gotta be able to pay them off" coaches without realizing that his football-loving BMDs are dying off and not being replaced. 5) Dr Boren never realized that when he retired, so did OU's dominance if not relevance. Barry has become the lone voice and personality that Okies rally around, but he's in his 80s and there isn't a line capable of taking his place. He realizes that the $$$ offered by the SEC cannot be matched elsewhere certainly not by the Big XII. It's all about survival.
I never really liked the idea of moving to the SEC. I guess money has always prevailed, but especially in this new era of college football, so I get the reasoning for the move. However, I do not like what I'm seeing on how the SEC appears to be going on scheduling. https://www.si.com/college/2023/02/10/sec-football-future-schedule-format-texas-oklahoma While the idea of permanent rivals is a good one in theory, and cannot imagine losing the annual OU game, the thought of also playing Arkansas and the Aggies every year concerns me. Those three opponents hate us with a deep backwoods Appalachian hollow moonshine fueled clan based level of animosity that we just don't often match. I've seen scenarios where OU's annual three "rivals" would be Texas, Mississippi State, and Missouri. That just doesn't compare to the triple holy wars that we would be engaged in every year. However the scheduling model ends up, I just hope it doesn't end up screwing us.
