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  1. 3 hours ago, gmr548 said:

    OU is always the game. Think about how different we’d all feel about going 8-4 in 2022 if Texas had closed out Tech or OSU but lost to OU.

    Beyond that, probably at Michigan or at LSU should the latter come to pass. Both are novel with the former being a once in a generation type road trip and the latter being a visit owed.

    A&M will be fun too, I know not everyone wants to say it.

    Georgia is cool but there’s nothing special about playing Georgia specifically, it just so happens that they’ll probably be really good.

    But is that not what  you have said you want forever?  A schedule that has names that matter, especially with half of those visiting your stadium?  There is no way to make completely equal schedules in the SEC, but actually, the office did a good enough job that no one that year can say they have a schedule leagues harder or leagues easier than any other team.  IT looks on paper like a really good year before injuries, etc. that every week will have a lot slugfests.

  2. PAC 12 teams joining the Big12 immediately become more exciting to casual fans and the media, just due to the time changes in their games.  At least initially.  It would be up to them to maintain the interest.

    The luckiest group is the 4 who already signed up.  Those schools still do not conjure up the "importance" of the schools leaving a P5 conference, even if they have fielded more competitive teams for a good while.

    The 8 remaining + the 4 corner schools + the 4 step ups, make a group that could put fun, competitive teams out in the 3 major sports, The Norhtwest schools deciding to tag along would be like adding rich icing on top of a good cake.

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  3. I had always heard it as Royal and Broyles were keen on the move and A&M was ready to go also.  The SWC was fading in power and viability. The SEC would also look to the east.  But, due to the issues that came up with the Texas schools getting free and FSU wanting no part of the SEC schedule, independent South Carolina was eager to take the 12th slot making the SEC eligible for a championship game.

  4. From the Arkansas side, and being ofa "more mature age", I wish the young ones had not stormed the field.  Yes, rivals, but expect to win.  Better image.  I can understand a bit of it, though.

    A lot of it is Texas hatred.  I came here and commented in the realignment thread that I was glad the series would be renewed.  I remember SWC days clearly.  Welcome in Texas, get bent.

    Second, and probably most importantly, it says more about where we have been and our concerns with us than it "being Texas".  We have the self-inflicted wounds from the last few coaching hires that have devastated the fan base.  I posted before about how this is a dismantled a feeling as I could imagine, short of the SMU death penalty.  Beating a ranked team for this coach (Pittman is widely loved and respected just for the attitude and the quiet passion he shows to the Razorback) is huge.  It gives us the feeling that we are progressing and there is light ahead.

    3rd, I a certainly did not want to be the first SEC team to lose to you on your way into the conference.  That would just be one more brick n the wall.  It would be must more fitting for you to get A and M as the kickoff game in your first year in and beat them...

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  5. Responding to why Hogs win:

    I don't have any "reason".  I think it is possible, because although Texas has higher recruiting rankings and is much higher ranked this year, it doesn't always just go that way.

    Arkansas is better than they have been in some time.  i am not sure that, outside the SMU death penalty, anything has hurt a program quite as deeply as the "Smile" year, the fall of Beliema and the Morris years did.  The emotional health of the Razorbacks was completely gutted.  Pittman has started the rebuild with attitude and pride.  AND IT ABSOLUTELYHAD TO START THERE.  Pittman grew up a Hog fan and can understand the old ARK/TEX dynamic.  I do not know if any player on either team can do that.

    So, personal opinion, Arkansas may be out talented but they will not quit.  If Texas cannot distance themselves from us and it goes late with a close score, the Hogs will have a slugger's chance.  And this board will either be complaining that they are not what the first week suggested and the world is ending (hey, it is what forums do) or complaining that a lesser team beat them and looking to find excuses.

    Barring an Auburn ending from last year, if the Hogs lose I will say that we are not there yet, but light years ahead of 2 years ago and this is a mid-term grade in a rebuild to see how well we are progressing. If we win, I am hoping at least a few of the people here will acknowledge we are just found a way to outplay you and make a win happen.

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  6. 18 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    Okay, our first SEC Championship is in:

    A) Football

    B) Basketball

    C) Baseball

     

    I'm guessing it's B, followed a couple of months later by C.

    I would have to think that realistically, baseball is where Texas can be immediately in the mix.  It seems baseball can spin on a year's notice anyway, and Texas already has a good team.  But, as said above, almost all of the teams in the SEC can brag on baseball teams.  It is the best of the best.

    Basketball may show success early as quick turnaround teams with portal, etc.  Beard is a good coach, but SEC is underrated most years.  The Big12-SEC challenge should show it is solid without the fanfare other leagues get.  We have been seen as an "athletic" league.  But look at Kentucky on most years, Arkansas (who beat Beard in the tourney this year), LSU with their talent, Alabama  if they can sustain what they did this year, Florida usually, and a few others, it is not necessarily a given for Texas to come in an be great immediately.

    Football.  I believe Texas will be ok, at least eventually, but will need to shore up recruiting on offensive and defensive lines.  However, you hired a coach who has seen what the program needs to be built for sec success.   Just depends on if he can do what he knows needs to be done.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  7. 12 minutes ago, SuckitKevin said:

    Tell your office mate he can suck our big  burnt orange wieners.

    Mr. Kevin, if your male appendage is actually swollen and of a burnt orange pigment in coloration, I would offer for your own health you should seek a physician's opinion of treatment.  

     

  8. 3 hours ago, theBigHen said:

    I have friends and relatives bombarding me with texts telling me how Texas is the bad guy and how we have fucked everyone in the conference over. Can someone provide me a brief and factual retort to this that will shut them up? 

    How about "So? "

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  9. 23 minutes ago, Lidig8r said:

    For the younglings who were not around or too young to remember 1990 ... Arkansas' last appearance at DKR. The Show band of the Southwest expressed their view on Arkansas jumping ship to the SEC pretty damned well ...

     

    See, even most Razorbacks don't get mad at that.  Colleges are supposed to be fun and poke a little at each other.  Sad to say, but in today's world a lot of that is lost.  Too many hurt feelings and too much money to guard.

  10. 1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Maybe I dreamed this, because I can’t find any link to it, but I recall a&m only receiving a partial share their first year or so in the SEC.

    If this was the case, and OU/Tex both negotiate to receive full shares their first year that would be glorious.


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    Don't think so.  That is what contributes to SEC stability.  All paid the same from the get go and you do not have exit fees if you want to leave.  Just say I am gone and everyone would wave goodbye.  But I would ask Georgia Tech before I ever left.  Getting voted back in seems to be a little difficult.

    Nebraska, Maryland, etc.  faced less pay entering the B1G.

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  11. I think (which means nothing  People on forums do not make league policy.), SEC will have to go to 9 games to work some kind of seeing non-divison teams more than once in a lifetime.  so 3 non-conference games is a safe working point for now.  It seems a little silly to have teams you never see if it would stay at 8.

    RE: Recruiting for AandM specifically being hurt.  When Mizz and AandM came in, it specifically hurt Arkansas in recruiting.  We were the closest team for many kids in Texas that wanted to play in the SEC.  People on message boards griped a bit, but officially and for public consumption, Arkansas said "Come on in, guys.".  This move COULD bring recruiting back to where it was before.  Slight benefit for Razorback, slight hit for AandM.

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  12. 2 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    Last year was a one off in every shape and fashion in every way.  Arky’s 2019 schedule wasn’t that difficult.

    The schedule was better that year, but did you see the coaching we had that year? 😱  When North Texas, and Western Kentucky and and any other Sunbelt equivalent team can laugh at you from the rout they left, it is real bad.

  13. 4 minutes ago, troph said:

    Texas had the toughest 4 game stretch in the history of college football a few years back in the SEC I mean Big 12. It don’t make a shit.

    Protection of power last year for sure.  When it was decided SEC only schedule, a lot of people thought it would be your schedule for that year and then move in the next 2 scheduled to come on your schedule.  But, in an almost comically obvious action, all of the sudden it was completely revamped and you would play your schedule plus whoever was "randomly" assigned as 2 extra games.  So since Arkansas was expected to be painfully bad following Aggie Chads years, somehow we were awarded the top 2 teams from the East, Florida and Georgia.  Missouri somehow got to see Alabama and LSU.  Didn't work out as well the offices hoped, we were a fair bit better and didn't look like keystone cops, even though we were not gonna take down Bama, Gators and Georgia.  But most people who rank schedules said we had the toughest and will have the toughest this year also.  Most years our schedule is ranked among the toughest. It is part of the reason (see also Aggie Chad above) that we have looked so inept on field in the last few years.

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  14. 7 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    I'm already hearing the "You're not used to playing good teams every week."  They're also not used to playing good offenses every week.  Now, a team like Arky is going to have to play LSU and then OU the next week.  They'll just have a few days to prepare.  Good luck with that.

    Did you see the schedule they stuck us with last year?  We are used to good teams in successive weeks.

  15. 5 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    I believe he's a fat fucking fuck... or something.

    Indeed and, embarrassingly, he owns lifetime scoreboard on you.  It was just poking Troph.

    It is ok though, we have embarrassing things to live down, also.

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  16. 8 minutes ago, troph said:

    Yeah like the time we fuck your shit up with  VY and El Ced (RIP). Bring it, glad you hate your jethro asses. 

    Bret Bielema says hi. 

    Glad to have this kind of board fun back in  my life.  It is like professional wrestling promos.  Like I said, in case some of your members are not actual UT people but folks who take everything literally and think you have to pull a knife if a person asks if their off-orange shirt was bought from a street corner hawker, Respect and dislike (and board messages) can co-exist.

    And by the way, that Texas team was stout.

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  17. 1 minute ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    I think a rising Arkansas would be at the expense of aggy, OU and Mizzou...They used to get some good players out of St. Louis (Atwater) and Columbia (Gary Anderson, the Jheri curl RB). They also pull from Oklahoma some (McFadden and Felix Jones)....At least they don't full on raid Texas and Texas alone like OU, and it seems like it was only Dallas and the NE corner. (Fertile territory but if they were all we had to deal with OOS you could live with that easily.) 

    We know we won't get kids you want.  We know, unless it is a rare exception, we won't get kids OU wants.  But now, with both of you in our conference and raised visibility in your state, kids still good enough to add real value we have better chances to get over TT, Baylor, TCU, etc. if they don't have the same conference appeal and especially if they wind up in AAC or MWC type leagues.

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  18. 6 minutes ago, troph said:

    My family is up there except my mom. Arky hate is a beautiful thing. It really though had some magical moments. Tony Jones and Eric Metcalf miracle at Arky might be my favorite moment Texas football moment of all time outside of the USC and Michigan games. 

    42-11 in 1981 might be the fav or our series that I witnessed live.  😜

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