Texas doesn’t deserve to be in the SEC!

#52
#52
It’s funny how attitudes change, too. That Texas-TCU game was like watching a 30 year old iron bowl game, scoring and defense wise and everyone thinks it was a snooze fest. Meanwhile a good bit of the SEC is now like watching a 30 year old WAC game scoring wise and we are absolutely there for it.
 
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Sudden Impact said:
Texas and Oklahoma additions to the SEC are valuable from the aspects of recruiting.
Since we offer an exciting brand of offense and since CJH has ties in this area and is a known commodity.
We will be able to retap into an area that we have not been in for a while.
It is a plus. So before we stated they don't deserve to be in the SEC look at the residuals of them being in the SEC
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I mean honestly we’re not going into Texas and doing any big time recruiting.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
One could have said the same thing about Tennessee during our dark age (we even lost to Wyoming, and Troy dragged us up and down the field, though we did win), so I'd be a bit more modest before puffing out my chest at another P5 school currently experiencing their own performance malfunction. They will be back soon enough as they have the money, fanbase,, and rich recruiting ground. You might want to tune it down a bit, Tarzan.
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They have always had these things.
 
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DaddyChad said:
I mean honestly we’re not going into Texas and doing any big time recruiting.
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We have before and we do not have to do big time recruiting.
It is an area we have not recruited well in the last 10 years.
You take 1 to 4 recruits out that area vs zero and it is a plus.
Visibility makes for strange recruitments and appeals.
Tennessee is developing a brand that is appealing.
Recruiting is based on need and based on the appeal.
The Transfer Portal also allows for Recruits to have options to change.
The addition of Texas & Oklahoma gets us into another TV market.
 
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volfeeva said:
Yeah, that QB looked like he didn't have the skills to be in a top tiered program. Hard to believe with all the talent in Texas area they struggle at that position. They'd won that game with a good QB. Makes me question the coach to not see this void back in the summer practice
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Ewers was a 5* freshman who still maybe 19 years old. I can't stand him and his mullet after the stunts he pulled to enroll a year early for the NIL money at OSU, but he's a top tier talent.
 
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Chad F said:
Texas is going through a milder version of what we suffered since the last years of Fulmer’s tenure. Under Dooley, Butch, and especially Pruitt, one could have easily argued that we didn’t look like we deserved to be in the conference either. Tennessee endured more than a decade of absolute incompetence. Texas has gone through something similar.

Personally, I like Texas a lot more than A&M and the other “recent” add-ons to the SEC, especially Missouri. Once they get some continuity under some competent leadership and coaching (without too much big donor meddling), they’ll be a significant force again. Too much talent and resources at their disposal for them to be down forever.
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Agree with this. Both Texas and Oklahoma have legendary histories, SEC level resources, and money to burn, and should be far better representatives in both football and basketball in the SEC than any of the 'added' schools (excepting possibly Arkansas) once they get established here.

A&M, Missouri, and South Carolina have never felt like 'real' SEC schools, with USCe being more of an ACC fit and the other two more at home in the Big 12 or old SWC.
 
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perico said:
Ewers was a 5* freshman who still maybe 19 years old. I can't stand him and his mullet after the stunts he pulled to enroll a year early for the NIL money at OSU, but he's a top tier talent.
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Greed is a common trait of humans. Can't fault the boy for being human. And quite a number of y'all do the same if people were waving basket loads of money under your nose to sign on to play. Plus, he's 19 by your account, so what do you expect? I'm not saying it was a smart move on his part. Expect this to happen with more kids as the NIL becomes ever more part of the CFB landscape.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
The point is the OP puffing out his chest and being smug about Texas' plight. What he said of them, could be and was said of Tennessean during our long drought. We lost to worse teams, and embarrassingly so.
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I think I was also referring to the poster who was saying that Texas was going to be a juggernaut when they got the right coach because they have all of these other things in place. As though that’s all they’ve needed for 100 years.
 
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volfeeva said:
Texas will always be in the Southwest Conference along with Ok. It's a sad day when they abandoned those traditions of playing each other for the right to be leader goes away all for the love of money. This conference jumping by teams just reeks IMHO. To me it dilutes the schools in both conferences. Should have never let in Missouri/Ark either.
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Oklahoma was only in the Southwest Conference from 1915-1919.
 
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Woodrow Call said:
Texas is powerhouse athletic program that will fit into the SEC. Don't be fooled by their recent gridiron failures. But it seems to me like a conference with Texas, OU, A&M, Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri and Nebraska would have made more sense for all of those schools.
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Most of those schools were in a conference together but they split up cause they couldn’t get along with Texas. So SEC brings in Texas. Go figure.
 
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Fightmaker said:
I think I was also referring to the poster who was saying that Texas was going to be a juggernaut when they got the right coach because they have all of these other things in place. As though that’s all they’ve needed for 100 years.
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Got it. See, I didn't know what poster you referred to, I quoted and responding to the one I was responding to. If yours was a different one, I got no idea why you quoted my post when you answered that guy. Maybe in your case, it was a, uh..., ehh.., umm..., a condition known as:
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Neither does Vandy, Miss St, Mizzu, or SoCar most years. But here we are.
 
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