Aggies Should Join the SEC

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On the other hand, A&M in the SEC would be able to market itself as the SEC team in Texas, the lone opportunity for hotshot Texas recruits to play in the best football conference in America.

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yes please

I think a&m would definitely be better off by joining the SEC. they would probably struggle for a couple of seasons. But just like you said, they could definitely sell the SEC to recruits and get out of UT's shadow.

We aren't kicking out vandy. They are a founding member. I'm torn on adding the Aggies. I would love to have them for the competition, but I think we lose key texas recruits that what to play in the SEC but stay closer to home. I would rather see Vtech or WV. Stay out of our recruiting area!

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We aren't kicking out vandy

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Why not? They have never sniffed an SEC Championship, have only been to one bowl game since 1982 and are holding the SEC back.

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I think we lose key texas recruits that what to play in the SEC but stay closer to home.

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We would gain recruits because of the newly formed LSU-A&M rivalry, not lose. More trips to College Station=more opportunities to pluck players from the Greater Houston area.

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I would rather see Vtech or WV

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Baton Rouge to Blacksburg/Morgantown would be a logistical nightmare for the swim team, tennis, women's basketball, etc. Virginia and West Virginia aren't Southeastern states. Virginia may have been considered "the south" back in the Civil War era, but Blacksburg is closer to Philly than it is to Atlanta. Not the south. Texas isn't really "southeast," but College Station is in East Texas, good enough to stay inside the fringe.

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I didn't know the SEC couldn't bounce Vandy since they were one of the original members of the SEC.

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They can; they just won't. It's never been discussed; if it were voted on today, it likely would be unanimously shot down.

get a&m and clemson/gatech

to address another point...
we need vandy... they keep our academics up

Good link.

Vandy is not going to be kicked out. They are a charter member and can compete in other sports.

I don't like a 13 team conference. Go ahead and go to 14, seven in the east and seven in the west.

Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss St, LSU, Arkansas and A&M in the west

Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vandy, Kentucky plus one in the east.

If TV markets are that important then go to 16, eight per side. Oklahoma brings in a good team but Missouri brings in over 2m TV market in St. Louis and Kansas City.

In the east Virginia Tech bring in 1.5m with Norfolk, Richmond and Roanoke. A North Carolina school would bring in 3m with Ralaigh, Charlotte and Greenville.

The state of Texas brings in 6m with Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio.

I believe this was already posted, but I found it intersting...

Recent post on Texags...

re: Texas A&M to SEC talks heating up?
Take it FWIW, but what you aren't seeing are the discussions on the Scout, TexAgs and Rivals premium boards.

I have 3 unrelated sources that do not know each other (One is a direct tie to an A&M regent, one is a Sooner/Tiger(LSU kind) and one is a Horn). For the first time since conference realignment heated up, they are all agreeing on the story.

From what I have been told, A&M to the SEC is a done deal. What the hold up is, is whether OU comes along, and if OU comes along (all seem to think it is likely) then OU will broker OSU and Mizzou into the SEC as well. Frankly, I'd rather it just be us.... but if someone else has to come along, I'm alright with OU. I'm not a big fan of OSU and Mizzou coming along too, but I guess if OU/OSU is really a package, then that would have to happen.

Let's just get one myth out of the way before some rebuts my post. A&M and Texas have never been a package and never will be a package. Legislative reasons for keeping them together are far less important in 2011 than in May 2010 (especially since the ESiPN contract was signed). A&M is in very good standing with the State Legislature right now, and I have perused the 100 or so pages for their funding presentation to the legislature, and it all looks great. Yes, politics helped to stem the tide in 2010, but I can promise you Perry and other lawmakers, not named Aggie or Horn, have not had any influence, nor will have any influence on this 2011 decision.

Now, for the timetable.... I have been told for a while that we would announce in June that we would go to the SEC. I have been told, as of yesterday, that it is much much sooner.

(Ball Gravy gets a little more specific about his three sources on p.7 of the same link)

My sources are a combination of being apart of the Champions Council at A&M (think higher up TAF committees), knowing the Castiglione family and those who have worked for the OU Athletic Department, and having a business relationship with a large Horn booster.... those are my 3 unrelated sources.

Couple that with what is being tossed around on some of the premium message boards and those shaking out with the stories I am hearing, and for the first time since all of this started, the stories line up across the board.

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I think if it meant substituting A&M for Vandy it wouldn't be shot down!

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I think you are dumb as all frick