Thursday, June 10, 2010

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Texas A&M and the SEC have been talking for months

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 10:21 PM PDT

Texas A&M and the SEC have been talking for months

This has been a cataclysmic day in college football. USC has finally received punishment for its dirty dealings in 2004. Nebraska looks to make the Big 10 the official big 12. And Andy Staples of Sports Illustraded has reported as Wednesday rolls into Thursday that the SEC is has been using the wingman approach to get Texas to join them.

Well, that’s the subtext I got out of it anyway. His report is that the SEC has been talking with Texas A&M for months in regard to joining the conference. And it goes without saying that the Texas legislature would seem to want Texas and A&M in some sort of a package deal.

Then again? In and of itself A&M wouldn’t be a bad program to have. Academically, it raises the stock of the conference. And while the degree of difficulty grows in the SEC West, they’ve been able to win games before with time and care. And it allows many fanbases two to three years to heap the most vile of insults at Christine Michael.

He’s Texas A&M’s starting running back. And I didn’t make a typo. That name will be insult fun for the whole family.

Anyway. It seems that tonight has dropped the first dominos of conference realignment. And this long strange journey of a breakdown may be over.

UPDATE: Orrrrrrrrr…Texas and A&M are going to join the Big Ten who are terrible at math. But as consolation prizes go? Oklahoma’s like getting a Maserati instead of a Bugati and a Lexus. If they can get a random college up to the SEC standards.

And apparently Oklahoma State isn’t going to the Pac-10. So, yeah.

UPDATE THE SECOND: The Scott Van Pelt show says that we’re loooking at Texas A&M and Virginia Tech. If I’m the SEC? I’d probably reconsider A&M at present. At least knowing what’s rumored.

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