Does the SEC need another Texas school or are the Aggies enough?

I'm sure A&M is enough for that, but if we can't get a quality program in a decent state (i.e. if we can't get ACC schools) then we would be well served by having 2 schools in TX.

I think most SEC teams, especially in the West have pretty good sized alumni in DFW area. I know Ark/OM/LSU are all well repped

Someone smarter than me can answer this:

What happens when a market is "fragmented"? In other words - TX markets are now fragmented between B12 and SEC. If Mizzou heads SEC, then the KC market will be SEC B12 as well.

Does that mean anything to these network deals? It seems like everyone is playing a form of "Risk" (board game) but forgetting that other schools have a share in that market. In other words...just because the SEC has ATM, doesn't mean that all the college football eyeballs in TX will watch SEC games.

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tcu would be the only add, and that is marginal.

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Agreed. TCU is a trendy team right now. They were abysmal in the old SWC days, and they will return to their roots eventually.

I would like to know where most Mizzou alum live...and would they care enough about football to clamor to get cable companies to add an SEC Network to their lineup.

I like Rice as the second team. Rice great academics like vandy. good at baseball like vandy. Rice has no woo factor at all but gives the west a easier win game instead of going of conf. If not rice then TCU for a second team in texas.

A&M is it...good catch, no use watering down the product. We only need 1 premier program in Florida, same for TX.

And everyone stop with the TCU garbage...how old are you? The horny frogs have only been relevant for a couple of years, cannot sell out their stadium and are a coaching change away from being irrelevant once again.

Rice, SMU...? Why not "steal" Texas State from the WAC while we are at it. Good grief...

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Agreed. TCU is a trendy team right now. They were abysmal in the old SWC days, and they will return to their roots eventually.

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Trendy... For 13 years.

TCU also was a factor on the national level before they became terrible in the last 3 decades of the SWC, so really we went from strong roots (some of the strongest in the country, see the Davey O'Brien award) to a bad few decades, to almost a decade and a half of winning. Since the late 90's, there's been quite a culture change and lots of money is being spent on athletics--I doubt that stops anytime soon, and spending leads to success. TCU in the 90s wouldn't have spent a million bucks to upgrade concessions in the stadium, much less 160 million to demolish the stadium and build a new one as they've just done. Our only athletic facility that isn't less than a decade old is the basketball arena, and that will get the dynamite once the stadium is done.

Speaking of going back to roots, is Arkansas going to finally win something now that they have a conference mate in the state of Texas again? Who would've thought back in the day when Arkansas bolted for the SEC, that little old losing history TCU would have twice as many BCS bowls and a Rose Bowl trophy, while Arkansas hasn't even won a conference championship, much less a BCS game. Come to think of it, for a few days there TCU had two BCS bowls and one win while the piggies hadn't even played in one yet (though thats a little nit picky since it was the same bowl season). It's weird how things can work out...

Rice balances out Vandy.