A&M hopes to announce SEC by September 1st per Houston Chronicle

I just want A&M in the SEC because of Rudys BBQ...

heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy OH!

Rudy's is meh. There is much better to be had

And the best bbq was from big earl's in my home town (kerrville). A real shame big earl passed a way a while back and his kids closed the business.

My source told me that a&m is actually waiting for LSU to pay the 400k before they come over

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Placebeaux

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dude you really have become a whiny little rag you know that?


give up the aggie hate or whatever your foolish issue is, A&M is on the way to the SEC

dude go be a Ole Miss fan with all your whining and bitching you'd fit right in


Vag

Off the top of my head, A&M could help bring us:

-A worldwide alumni base of over 500,000.

-The nation's 7th-largest university.

-As for football, the Aggies are coming off of a 9-4 Cotton Bowl season that included wins over Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. A&M is ranked 9th entering the 2011 season and Mike Sherman currently has a top-5 recruiting class in place (Class of 2012). Focus on the past ten years if you're trying to break down the Ags' resume but A&M is a rapidly-improving program. Show me a program that hasn't had a lean few years during the last 20. Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma, USC, Miami and LSU have all gone through it until hiring the right head coach, while Tennessee, Georgia, Michigan and Notre Dame are all trying to pull themselves out of multi-season funks.

-Gameday atmosphere and tradition that fits in with the pageantry of the SEC.

-A solid academic reputation, one that includes being an AAU accredited institution (Florida and Vandy are currently the only two SEC schools carrying that label).

-A stadium with a capacity of over 90,000.

-Texas television market, which could bring every SEC team up from $18 million annually to somewhere in the neighborhood of $24-$26 million per team. As Andy Staples pointed out in his article, the Texas market alone would represent a (edit) 42% increase in the SEC's "footprint" (bumping up the numbers from 83.4M people from 58.6M). That's taking the SEC footprint from 19 to 27% of the U.S. population, including two of the nation's top ten media markets.