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re: Pat Forde getting slammed for his latest piece by fans on ESPN.com...
Posted on 8/14/11 at 11:37 am to GeorgeTheGreek
Posted on 8/14/11 at 11:37 am to GeorgeTheGreek
I've never liked Forde ever since his days writing for the Courier-Journal in Louisville. Every article was basically a smear campaign against UK and the SEC.
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Posted on 8/14/11 at 12:37 pm to busey
I thought Pat Forde was the old dude on 30 for 30 ....
Or is that Peter Forde? Any relation?
Or is that Peter Forde? Any relation?
Posted on 8/14/11 at 1:03 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
I don't know, but Pat Forde isn't on 30 for 30.
Posted on 8/14/11 at 1:29 pm to busey
After reading the piece on Nebraska leaving and comparing it to vitriolic article on TAMU, PF comes across as just another butthurt UT shill.
Posted on 8/14/11 at 1:47 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
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Problem No. 2: Texas A&M has less chance of achieving kingpin status in the SEC than in the Big 12. That's not even debatable. What's gained in autonomy could be sacrificed in glory. Put it this way: Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State and Baylor don't play in the SEC.
bullshite article, but I do agree with this
Posted on 8/14/11 at 1:56 pm to Sloan Kettering
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A&M was better off getting away from a conference where an AD controls the commissioner.
Somewhere Mal Moore is laughing his azz off at that comment.
Posted on 8/14/11 at 2:11 pm to busey
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I don't know, but Pat Forde isn't on 30 for 30.
N/M I was thinking about Frank Deford.
Posted on 8/14/11 at 2:23 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
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people aren't falling for the ESPN bullshite this
ESPN was mild compared to CBS
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Texas A&M would get its butt kicked.
Sorry, that's just the way it is. Texas A&M hasn't exactly distinguished itself in the Big 12. One conference championship and one BCS bowl, both 13 years ago. Three division titles in 16 years, only one since 1998. A record of 1-9 in bowls as a member of the Big 12. All of which tells you two things:
Not only has Texas A&M not dominated its own league ... but it has been dominated when it played quality non-conference opponents in the postseason. Add it up, and Aggies haven't finished a season in the Top 10 since 1994.
And now Texas A&M wants a piece of the SEC, which has won the last five BCS titles -- by four different schools? Really? Read this from my colleague Tony Barnhart, who put it better than I could: "Last season Mississippi State finished 9-4 and beat Michigan 52-14 in the Gator Bowl ... and Mississippi State finished FIFTH in the SEC West."
Texas A&M would be joining the SEC West, where it would have no chance. Not based on its history in the Big 12 South, where over the last decade it has finished on average fourth. That means finishing ahead of Baylor and either Oklahoma State or Texas Tech. Finishing fourth in the SEC West would mean finishing behind Alabama, Auburn and LSU, which would happen almost every year.
And then finishing ahead of Arkansas, Mississippi State and Ole Miss -- every year.
No way.
See my point here? The SEC is an awful move for Texas A&M, just about any way you slice it. Yet they're on the verge of going, and I understand it. I really do:
Texas A&M is cutting off its nose to spite Texas -- regardless of what the procedure does to Texas A&M's own face.
CBSports
Posted on 8/14/11 at 2:45 pm to TigerintheNO
Do the "journalist" really not realize that A+M will start getting better recruits from their home state because they now play in the SEC? They won't stay irrelevant for very long, IMO
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