Dan Beebe Responds to AM's Letter

if it is notre dame and byu that makes 11…who is 12

BYU makes 10. Notre Dame on Thanksgiving night as a non-conference game.

"It remains our strong desire for Texas A&M to continue as a member of the Big 12 and we are working toward that end. However, if it is decided otherwise, the Conference is poised to move aggressively with options."

If by “move aggressively” the Conference means “commit to us now or we’re kicking you out to avoid getting stuck with someone else’s leftovers”, the Ags could be in a spot of bother if the SEC isn’t ready to have its hand forced through the timing of it all.

matt, I’ve heard FSU and Air Force thrown out there but I get the feeling Blueshorn has the right idea.

Let aggy play ole miss on Thanksgiving and we’ll replace them with Notre Dame……win, win right ags?

Messiah Shuttlesworth - what it do with that scrimmage/practice report? I’m dying here…

i think you are exactly right, triples. assuming the ags go through with the formal declaration, they are dead in this conference. the ags seem to believe the sec is comfortable to go a season, if necessary, with 13 teams, but the sec hasn’t owned up to that.

the ags have to know that their getting bounced out of this conference really puts the onus on the sec. the sec’s covert behavior is why the ags are formally withdrawing, so the sec needs to move quickly to avoid the loudmouth ags pointing at the sec if this thing goes sour. lotta money riding on the ags being happy if the sec has done anything they could be sued over. lotta leverage there, if that’s the case, and the ags know it.

i say, ‘nd and byu, come on down.’

Is there any way to force aggy out and still get a payout?

UT07, nothing tonight, I’ll address that in the Q&A tomorrow morning.

I’m fine with them going to the SEC and think it will happen, but not until at least 2013. There is a small part of me, though, that still hopes the SEC is playing them.

SEC deepthroat: “Yeah, you get out of your conference deal clean and pay the penalty and then hand on the Bible (Cecil Newton’s Bible would work well) we’ll officially extend the invitation.”

Aggie: “Ok, we’re out and paid the penalty, now give us our official invitation.”

SEC deepthroat (actual a D. Dodds relative): “Who are you, we’ve never met, I don’t work for the SEC so stop harassing me crazy farmer milkman.”

It would be like the Cheers where Harry the Hat convinces Gary to bulldoze his Old Town Tavern before the purchase deal is final and then disappears once the check bounces.

Buford, Ole Miss plays Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl on Thanksgiving. The aggies will have to settle for Vandy.

The A&M declaration seemed to overshadow the news of FiOS picking up the LHN. Anything new on the network? I called Verizon to see if FiOS was available in pearland, but it isn’t.

Alrighty. I’ll take that to mean nothing earth-shattering took place to warrant a writeup.

UT07, not really. Come over to the ‘Cosm for the Q&A tomorrow and I’ll address it.

This assumes that preservation of the Big 12 is in our interest.
 
It probably isn’t.

Crap did the Asset get busted? Is there a legal defense fund I can contribute to?

How many donations do we have to get from Longhorns and Bears and Red Raiders to pay off the SEC to not take A&M.

The Sunbelt conference could really use an anchor.

Let aggy play ole miss on Thanksgiving

Nope. Ole Miss plays their own agy for Turkey Weekend.

LSU only plays Arkysaw - bet they’d much rather kick the snot out of A&M instead. LSU can’t play their own agy, because they ARE their own agy.

Although for selfish reasons, I would love to have Air Force join the Big 12.
The Air Force Academy is one of the best places to catch a college football game—beautiful setting, cheap season tickets, killer fly overs, and a real live falcon. Unfortunately, I really don’t see that happening at all.

Let me reiterate, of all the MWC/WAC teams, Air Force has the least incentive to move.

While they like to beat the crap out of Army (forgone conclusion) and Navy (Thank you Georgia Tech) Football is just a character building hobby, I’m not sure the Big 12 would be conducive to their success on the football field.

Although, they could provide a hotter ride than OU —there really isn’t much of a chance at a pro career.

You guys are welcome in the PAC-xx any time, so long as you don’t come as a package deal with the Waco Flat-Earth Society or the riff-raff from the High Plains.

The presence of Dodds’ pic was a nice touch, JS.

I’d still prefer the Big 10 with OU/ND/xx over the Pac 12 with seemingly just USC as their lone historic power.

Texas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Notre Dame
Michigan
Ohio State
Penn State

JS’ cryptic comments sound like AppleSin worked out a way to sneak a 12th player onto the field- a 12 man in honor of Aggy.

I predict we add the Dallas Cowboys.

Puzzles - that sounds nice, sure, on paper. But (a) I don’t think the future will be kind to most of those schools - all of those Northern schools save OSU have struggled over the last decade to keep up in recruiting with top Southern and Western programs - and (b) we’re not likely going anywhere without Tech. The Big Ten have already made it abundantly clear they won’t take Tech while State has poured a lot of dough into the school and won’t take kindly to UT abandoning it. The Pac 12 has several strong academic and athletic schools who have to cart a weaker sibling along with them; it’s a better practical and cultural fit.

aach. “State” meaning “the State of Texas”.

I strongly suggest every BC reader a take a long look at W.W McLyde’s series on the LHN-UT agreement.
 
It’s edifying. The LHN is a tool. It’s best use is not in the Big 12. That’s all I’ll say. Read the rest.

Buford T. Justice - I doubt there’s any provision by which we can force A&M out, and if there were, the penalties would likely go the other way around. So if the SEC deal falls through A&M will likely stay in the Big 12 until they can concoct another exit strategy.

Ooh, ooh the new one is up. Thanks Scip.

“Buford, Ole Miss plays Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl on Thanksgiving. The aggies will have to settle for Vandy.”

Surely the chance to play a nationally dominant team like Texas A@M will sway Miss State.

I like Texas, Oklahoma, Texas tech and okie state to Pac 12. I know road trips would be longer but the midwest is depressed and depressing.

Thanksgiving will not be the same for me. Born and rasied in Texas with split family at Texas and A&M. I like both schools - hate a lot of both fans. My family always viewed it as a fun rivalry and we enjoyed digging on each other as much as winning.

Doesn’t ND already have some Thanksgiving traditional contests with USC and Standford - would they be willing to change that?

If the Cowboys joined the B12, they would have a legitimate excuse for not being able to win a playoff game.

JS - what is the deal with the Friday Q&A? Getting a late start today? I raz because I am having withdrawals for the updates. As always, keep up the fantastic work.

Papadev - I wouldn’t mind going west - I was up for that last year. I would have preferred A&M over Tech, from a rivalry standpoint - but I guess that is out.

Q & A should be up on the ’Cosm.

Scipio: Mother. Of. God. That’s cracy. Good on WWM for knocking the cover off the ball.

A&M is more than willing to continue playing y’all on Thanksgiving. If y’all choose to not continue playing us, that’s your choice. But remember that it’s your AD who is choosing to not continue the rivalry.

CBS will be thrilled to broadcast the A&M/LSU rivalry opposite the epic Texas/Baylor tilt on Thanksgiving night.

Yes, we understand the Aggies would want to keep playing us. Yes, we understand it would be our choice not to play the Aggies.

Do you have a point?

Just wanted to make that point clear. Some of the comments above were confused as to the point.

Frankly, I am indifferent, as most Aggies are, to playing y’all any longer. In fact, there is a part of me that is looking forward to having eternal scoreboard on y’all as well.

Really? I didn’t notice a single comment that so much as implied that A&M would be the one that says they don’t want to play the game anymore.

And please continue to come to a Longhorn site every couple of days to tell us how indifferent you are.

Frankly, I am indifferent, as most Aggies are, to playing y’all any longer. In fact, there is a part of me that is looking forward to having eternal scoreboard on y’all as well.

You expect the Aggies to beat Texas 35 times this season?

“A&M is more than willing to continue playing y’all on Thanksgiving. If y’all choose to not continue playing us, that’s your choice.”

Followed by

“Frankly, I am indifferent, as most Aggies are, to playing y’all any longer.”

We want to keep the rivalry alive! You’ll be the ones to kill it! But, you know, we don’t really care. So whatever.

Hey, where’s the agy that wanted to wager on this year’s (possibly final, for a while) Texas - agy game? I never did see how many points he was offering, or his line, or odds… or anything indicating he had anything other than mouth-farts to offer.

roach -
I agree re: Air Force. As an AF grad I was excited about the momentum that the MWC had and the addition of Boise State to strengthen the conference further. Then Utah, BYU, and now TCU bailed, and it’s disappointing to be stuck in a diminished conference. I guess now we’ll be firmly entrenched as the #2 team in the conference, with a chance to occasionally steal one from Boise and win the conference. If anything, I would see AF as more likely to join a UT, ND, BYU, Army, and Navy (and others?) in a confederation of independents than to join the Big 12. Not sure what AF would do with its other sports, though, which are almost uniformly terrible.

In some ways, the changes in the MWC have paralleled what’s going on now in th Big 12, with Utah playing the role of Aggie to BYU’s UT.

AF players do get their chances at a pro career if they are good enough, and can trade their active duty obligation for reserve duty in order to do so. The latest example is the diminuative, not too fast, but surprisingly talented Chad Hall, who has been catching passes from VY in Philly.

I’ve heard FSU and Air Force thrown out there but I get the feeling Blueshorn has the right idea.

FSU - as in Florida State? To the Big 12? Are you serious?

AFhorn’s biases aside, bringing in the AFA would be the death knell for the Big 12-X.

SMU reveals its wet dream, led by lead dipshit Craig James:

http://espn.go.com/dallas/ncf/story//id/6895752/smu-mustangs-go-public-interest-joining-big-12?excid=2011_local_ob_dallas_ban_lnk

Ag in tx - why on earth would we want to continue playing aggy when we can possibly get ND on the line. It’s too hard to pass up playing a game with two of the most historic football programs in the country.

we’ll play LSU on thanksgiving, thank you.

the deal is done, and SEC will play with 13 teams next year….I’m waiting for the 100’s of posters on this website to admit they were wrong on the A&M invite and the “bait for OU/tx”, or 14th team, etc….

Hahahahaha… ag_in_tx. BTW, what a retarded handle. Of course ags are in Texas you fool. You bastards rarely stray far from the farm because you came from the farm. Morons…

Anyhoo… do we really have to go over this exercise with you dorks again? Your titty-baby tantrums are what is driving you out. Not us, just the way you choose to handle what we’re doing. Envy 101. Second, should you mouth breathers leave the Big XII for C-USA, or whoever will open their door to the homeless, why on God’s green earth should we have to continue playing you? You leave and we move on. That is that. We find better teams in which to take a wonderful TV spot such as prime time T-day. After all, we’re Texas and I’m willing to bet that there are a lot of top tier programs that would offer up a testicle to play us in that slot. You morons had a good thing but you’re choosing to leave it so… leave and don’t look back.

I can assure you that we’re keeping our eyes front and center and by all appearances… there’s no maroon on the horizon. Does that hurt your wittle feelings? We know it does.

Now man up and GTFO!!!

Notre Dame would be willing to move around USC and Stanford on T-day. They don’t really play them on a holiday most years. In fact, most ND fans don’t really find football on T-day all that appealing. They’ve had low attendance on thanksgiving games. It may be that Stanford just gets moved altogether or Texas rotates every other year.

ND fans hold Navy and USC as sacrosanct. No questions asked. All other "traditional" opponents would be on the cutting table. Most (not all) ND fans and their alumni are ambivalent towards Michigan State, Purdue, Air Force, Michigan, and BC. They feel the same way about Sparty and Purdue as Texas fans do about Kansas State and Texas Tech. Meh…take’em or leav’em. Boring schools, boring fans, boring stadiums and hell hole college towns. "Those schools need us more than we need them."

No, TAMU does not want to continue playing Texas. If they did, they could force Texas to continue playing them…by staying in the conference.

Mocking Bird: are you sure ND considers playing the Naval Academy sacrosanct, but not playing Michigan? I have always been under the impression that Michigan is arguably ND’s biggest football rival.

No, TAMU does not want to continue playing Texas. If they did, they could force Texas to continue playing them…by staying in the conference.

So by A&M’s leadership publicly stating that they want to continue the rivalry - you have conjectured that we don’t?

As for being in the same conference, what about tu-OU? Fla-Fla St? SCar-Clemson? Ga-GT?

You’ll need the schedule bump of playing an SEC school nonconference - look at what your 2012 home schedule looks like without A&M on it.

“You’ll need the schedule bump of playing an SEC school nonconference – look at what your 2012 home schedule looks like without A&M on it.”

If we were going to schedule an SEC team, shouldn’t we aim a little higher than A&M. We already have a middling SEC team (Ole Miss) on the schedule.

TTR,

We want to continue playing Texas - just not badly enough to be willing to stay married to Baylor and Tech to do so.

We leave that relationship to you. Enjoy it. They’re ALL yours…..

“So by A&M’s leadership publicly stating that they want to continue the rivalry – you have conjectured that we don’t?”

No, by their actions of leaving the conference, we have conjectured you don’t.

burntorangehorn: They already put Michigan on hiatus in future schedules. I would put them in the same category as Nebraska to Texas. Great rivalry games, but not a sacred cow.

The history behind Navy is they saved Notre Dame by setting up GI training during WWII. ND was on the verge of closing and the Naval Academy funneled trainees through South Bend, thus floating the University, which was broke at the time. If not for Navy, ND would have been closed-down. ND’s admin and alumni will never turn it’s back on Navy. Ever.

The history behind Navy is they saved Notre Dame by setting up GI training during WWII. ND was on the verge of closing and the Naval Academy funneled trainees through South Bend, thus floating the University, which was broke at the time. If not for Navy, ND would have been closed-down. ND’s admin and alumni will never turn it’s back on Navy. Ever.

This is true.

“All kidding aside, if DeLoss Dodds, Mack Brown and Texas actually follow through with the A&M-specific threat that Belmont is currently leaking to the media then the Ags should simply laugh it off and let the Horns attempt to awkwardly force a Turkey Day “rivalry” with Notre Dame down America’s throats." -Billy Luicci

I thought this was too funny not to post. Like average joe college football fan in Iowa or wherever is going to turn on his TV Thanksgiving night, and be all pissed that he’s watching Texas vs. Notre Dame and not Texas vs. agricultural. “Texas vs. Notre Dame?? This is an outrage!”.

Damn Aggies you guys are tortured, envy ridden souls. I hope you find your promised land, I really do.
I fear you overestimate the real impact of having the SEC patch on your sleeve long term. I also fear you will be facing the death penalty down the road. Your over invested,starved alumni will pressure your staff eventually and they will respnd to that pressure and justfy in their minds playing by SEC rules in recruiting and in play for cash support in order to compete. You will however not be surrounded by turn the other cheek press in Texas. It won’t be like it is in the Southeast where the press often plays cover for their local good ole boys. Much of the press in Texas will be out to smoke you guys, and that SEC patch will do nothing to save you at that point.

Let me clarify. The relationship between the two schools is as bad as it has ever been. Last summer, when Texas and TAMU had a sitdown about the PAC-16/SEC, TAMU sent a senior delegation to Austin that frankly didn’t disclose anything, and refused to work on a coordinated plan (since 1914, Texas and TAMU had always coordinated on such things from the forming of the SWC, to the forming of the PUF, through the dissolution of the SWC and formation of the Big 12).

Now, TAMU is leaving the Big 12, which is a business partnership of several schools. In the Big 12 are at least three other schools besides TAMU that UT has also played for over 100 years. TAMU is hurting the Big 12. Texas has a history with TAMU, but we also have a history with the others.

It should be expected that Texas would decline to play TAMU for a few years. After a while, the rivalry will probably resume…if relations improve between the two schools.

Let’s be real here: you guys are the ones “taking your ball and going home” and “pouting” because A&M is leaving for the SEC.

We’re not taking orders anymore. If that’s the “relations” you want then you’ll have to wait quite a while to play us.

Enjoy your 2012 home schedule without us on it:

Wyoming
New Mexico
Iowa State
Baylor
Missouri

Looks like at least 3 losses. Ouch.

I have enjoyed the emails from Ags today saying “Look at your 2012 home schedule without us. Ha Ha Ha ha!” as if there is something huge missing without them on our schedule.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I LIKE the way our schedule looks without A$M.

Less hillbillies on our schedule = epic WIN.

Upgrade. CYA milkmen.

When the earth shakes and the trepidation transforms aggies into progressives, an existential crisis is all but inevitable.

Folks should check out AFhorn’s posts at the bottom of the Cosm Q&A thread. It’s looking a lot like Shuttlesworth’s reporting from the Big Cigar on realignment is dead on.

we’ll play LSU on thanksgiving, thank you.

You’ll have to push Arkansas out of the way to do that.

really hate to see the UT/m&a game on T-day going away. But, if ags wanna leave, let them go.

Best line I’ve heard “If a&m leaves for the SEC, the IQ of both the Big XII and SEC goes up.” Of course, the last time a&m had a serious contender, they were caught cheating. same as for Bear Bryant era. Amazing, isn’t it.

Notre Dame to the B12, huh?

That’s one worth waiting for.

I still don’t understand why a&m leaving means you can’t play thm anymore, except out of spite. I guess u guys really hate the attention they are going to draw in the SEC

AFHorn,
            Our fencing team is the business! I agree with you and roach that the admin has been reticent to move aggressively in the past, but Col. Meuh has been more proactive than his predecessors and has a lot of pull on campus. This is the guy who ushered Gen. DeBerry out the door. Moving to the Big12 would mean a huge revenue increase, and a more prominent national profile. I think what forward thinkers we have would jump at the opportunity if it was offered. We have made massive improvements to our facilities over the last 10 years, mostly though private donations. I think we have been trying to position ourselves for big boy football. Hopefully we will get to find out, and get better access to Texas. Our non-revenue sports will get a shot in the arm when we ditch our basketball coach and hire one of the young gun grads. Zoomie Carnival…

xoverx - I’m not sure if you’re responding to anyone, but the word from the Cohiba was that talks were fast and furious w/ BYU and ND. JS’s reporting appears to be accurate if it’s true that BYU has just accepted a contingent bid and ND has been offered.

U guys - Wanting to keep the annual game with Texas while leaving for the SEC is A&M wanting to have its cake and eat it too. No one should have to explain that it hurts A&M to switch to playing no one from the state of Texas. There’s inescapable buzzkill for Ags in that scenario. It also makes sense that Big12 teams and Texas teams in particular would not willingly share the home state spotlight with a previously alien conference with an annual fixture.

triple, it’s hilarious how chip brown blatanly rips off the cohiba and this site. Actually it’s not hilarious but it makes you shake your head. Thanks for looking out. Email me at recruitocosm@gmail.com, I have a question.

I doubted the likelihood of the ND situation, but I am constantly amazed at how the other sites take a lot of what gets posted here and repackage it as their own. The best is that they then have the stones to talk trash about this site.

Are the Ags being willfully stupid about the Texas series? We are in a conference that may be contesting their school legally over withdrawal penalties. There is no way we can schedule or commit to anything until that is done. When it is done, and settled, I’m sure we’ll revisit the relationship and see if they’re the kind of people we want to do business with. Right now, the message goes like this, “Mr. Dodds, the Ags are on line 1.”

“The Ags? The guys that haven’t spoke straight with us for over a year? The guys who have been working to get the SEC in state for over a year? The guys who delivered a hell of a blow to our conference, and threatened so many of our conferencemates with non-BCS status?” Don’t think he picks up line 1.

We are in a conference that may be contesting their school legally over withdrawal penalties. There is no way we can schedule or commit to anything until that is done.

That’s BS and you know it - there’s nothing that says you can’t schedule games with former conference mates and longtime rivals except 1) your fear of getting your head beat in and 2) spitefulness and butthurt

TCU and SMU will continue to play when TCU goes Big East. BYU and Utah are going to play. Nebraska and OU are going to play. You’re full of it.

When it is done, and settled, I’m sure we’ll revisit the relationship and see if they’re the kind of people we want to do business with.

We’ve been giving you the benefit of the doubt for 100+ years and for every inch we gave you took a mile. We’re not doing that any more.

And trust me, it won’t be a private conversation from Bill Byrne to Deloss Dodds, it’s going to be an open, public offer. And if you don’t have the nuts to play us, we’ll be sure to shame you over and over again publicly. I know the longhorns are too proud a program to take that for very long. But whatever you think. A decade, right?

Listen, Running Aggie moron, all of those examples have already sttled the exit fees. All we know about the Ags is they don’t have a lot of money, and want to limit them.

Public challenges to play? Really? I knew a lot of Aggie fans were childish, but are your AD leaders childish, too?

Listen, idiot, and try to get this through your thick skull. At Texas, sports are a recreational activity that augments the campus life. They are not a rason d’etre. We schedule games with schools we care to associate with. The relationship with TAMU right now is the worst it has ever been. Heaven knows, Dodds has tried. Byrne asked for the Lone Star Showdown. Sure, we’ll go along. Byrne asked for the Texas/TAMU game to be on Thanksgiving night? Sure, we’ll go along. Byrne spends a year griping about the LHN (trying to marshall the conference against it while also approahing the SEC), and now the Ags are trying to bail out for greener pastures, nevermind the damage to all of their former partners, pitches UH and SMU to the Legislature as replacements (mainly to screw with us), and then publicly says they want to keep playing? I think the adult response (the response you will see from Bellmont) is to politely decline until the relationship improves.

It doesn’t take 10 years to settle those things. Hell the Big XII wont be around in 2 much less 10.

First, I thought you guys wanted to “preserve historical rivalries”

then it was “A&M is ending the rivalry, not us”

now it’s “oh you guys are going to shame us, well that’s mean!”

Bottom line is we’re not above using your pride against you. You know you want to keep playing (you’ll need to play us with your shitty schedules if you stay Big XII or go independent). Ending the rivalry will be on your terms, which include public humiliation at every turn for being chickenshits who are riding a 2 game losing streak that are afraid to play the big bad SEC Texas Aggies.

Or don’t play us. But it isn’t on us for ending the rivalry, for all the reasons you listed. That’s your reasons for not wanting to play us. You’re the one ending it.

Because you’re scared, pussies.

now it’s "oh you guys are going to shame us, well that’s mean!"

No, it’s just stupid and childish — and it won’t work.

Penn State stopped playing Pittsburgh when they went to different conferences, and we will stop playing you.

We won’t play you because it is good business not to play you.

Because you’re scared, pussies.

You delusional mouthbreathers. Yeah, the unstoppable juggernaut of Aggie football, the USF of Texas, with their ten year high finish in the AP poll of 19th, really inspires terror. Do you think you’ll win the next five MNCs, or would you conservatively estimate only three of the next five?

"All kidding aside, if DeLoss Dodds, Mack Brown and Texas actually follow through with the A&M-specific threat that Belmont is currently leaking to the media then the Ags should simply laugh it off and let the Horns attempt to awkwardly force a Turkey Day "rivalry" with Notre Dame down America’s throats." -Billy Luicci

This is funny, because if ever a rivalry has deserved scare quotes, it’s the Texas-Texas A&M “rivalry”.

I have seen where a lot of Ags scoff at how a Texas/ND game on Thanksgiving would be received. They’re joking, right? Do they really think the American sports viewer is going to say, “Texas/Notre Dame? What the hell is this crap? Where are the Aggies?”

We’re scoffing at ND dropping USC for you.

The American sports viewer’s opinion of texas and your national brand in general are going to continue to nosedive along with your win totals.

You guys doubled down on an ace with the LHN and are looking at getting dealt a 5 of clubs (no providers, another bowless, shitty season).

taunting tip: Don’t use the term “anyhoo” when mocking others. Tip number two: Don’t ever use the term “anyhoo” regardless of the situation, unless you are declaring openly your doosh status.

bigdukesix: Skip Holtz is on line 1, wanting to know why you insulted his program.

“Weak people never give way when they ought to.” - Cardinal de Retz

Poor aggies. They want so desperately to be the equal of UT. Aggie fans have blind faith that they can join the SEC, wave their little magic wands, and presto chango all of their problems will go away.

The aggies aren’t running away from UT. They’re running away from Texas Tech. And why shouldn’t they run away? After all, A&M has a 5 and 10 record against Tech since joining the Big 12. Poetic justice would be letting A&M go to the SEC, but only if they take Tech with them. That way Tech can continue its beat-down of A&M for all eternity.

maroon carrots, like most horn fans has been living the last few years in 2005.

A&M hasn’t lost to tceh since 2008, a year we were awful. We’ve beaten them 2 times in a row, and will pound them again this year.

They don’t have anywhere near our resources in any sport. Hell I don’t think A&M has lost to tech in anything in a couple years. All sports.

We’re not running away from anything if we are consistently beating your asses on the field as we leave. Question is do you want to keep receiving the lessons or do you want to pout and decline to play us out of fear?

OK, explain to me the logic of blaming A&M’s departure on Texas, for reasons that constantly seem to change, but expecting that relationship not to change.

To summarize: “We hate you so much that we can’t stand to be with you… but we still expect to play you.”

Because, despite how much y’all want it to be true, leaving the Big XII for the SEC isn’t about you. It’s about what’s best for us. Why wouldn’t we want to continue the rivalry?

If you guys are so emotionally caught up in us leaving you want to end the rivalry, well that’s fine. but expect to be ridiculed for your hysterics.

UT only has 3 non-conference games on the schedule. Why should we play a crappy school when we can play Notre Dame or USC? It’s not about being scared. It’s about choosing filet mignon steak over a shit sandwich. Show us that A&M can beat Texas Tech 10 out of 15 times - like Tech has beaten the aggies. Maybe then we will consider putting A&M on our schedule.

Being an elite team is not about beating your rivals for one or two seasons. It’s about being consistently good for decades - good like UT has been for over 100 years. A&M’s most successful run was from 1983-1998 - a period when the aggies landed on probation twice for buying players. College Station is a cowtown. The A&M degree is as valuable as a piece of toilet paper. A&M can’t get elite players without buying them. The SEC won’t change that. Don’t count on UT looking the other way when A&M starts buying players again. Get ready for SEC mediocrity, multiple probations, death penalty, Conference USA, and SMU style football for decades to come. Now do everyone on this site a favor and flush yourself running aggie turd.

Wow you actually believe you’re going to get ND to join your conference. You are a moron.

A&M has surpassed tech and tu lately - and that’s not changing any time soon. With us going to the superior conference, you can expect our respective fortunes to continue to head in opposite directions.

And it finally comes to it, the ultimate chickenshit cop out - you’re going to try to bust us for cheating again. I mean, we must be if we are beating you. What a whiny little fucking bitch. A&M isn’t cheating and won’t be in the SEC. We’ll naturally attract better recruits because we’re better and our level of competition is better. We’re already beating you now with supposedly “worse recruits” - that is, according to your own prognosticators.

I guess your morals are dictating your decision to play USC too?

A&M has surpassed tech and tu lately – and that’s not changing any time soon.

As far as Texas is concerned you are putting a helluva lot of faith in one year’s sample. Come back with this taunt after you have actually achieved something — you know like actually win a bowl game or go to a BCS game.

A&M isn’t cheating and won’t be in the SEC.

Then you won’t win in the SEC either.