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Here you go Techies. You are one step away from joining Aggy.
If that were true, they wouldn't have invited A&M to join.
Here you go Techies. You are one step away from joining Aggy.
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That's pretty good.
If Tech joins the SEC i'll out of my butthole
Getting the easy one outta tha way...
you 100% sure about that?
the ranch isn't yours to bet if you still owe money on it.
how incredibly ignorant.
Those pictures might sting if I was a Southern Cal fan...
t-shirt Greats, tbh
Armstrong is a t-shirt fan. McConaughey isn't.
C'mon now, Matthew McConaughey is a pretty well known UT grad.
duly noted.
I guess it's more surprising that he's actually wearing a shirt.
How much more money?
Surely some Aggie has twitted about it.
Sisk with the Aggie joke goods
That's a legitimate point; however it only reinforces the fact that he's not a t-shirt fan.
JGW is, you stupid ing aggie
smh @ armstrong supporting a college football team from his home state. turrible
Well now that Dan Beebe is out... whats next?
Rumors are that BYU, TCU, and Air Force are among teams being considered to add to the Big-12...
More importantly - have you planned on purchasing your season tickets next year? Check out this amazing home lineup your horns have.
Wyoming
Iowa St.
Baylor
Missouri
At Texas, Texas is the draw, not the opponent. The effect on attendance will be negligible. Besides, Baylor (if only because of proximity) and Missouri are actually decent draws. The non-conference schedule needs to be improved. USC, Notre Dame and others are coming up though.
WSJ chimes in... Link
Realignment Can't Make You Smarter
As Schools Jockey for New Conference Berths, Academics Play an Ambiguous Role; Texas Tech Is No. 160
By KEVIN IKER
Oklahoma has the top-ranked team in college football. But its academic standing is, by some standards, abysmal.
The school can't be found among the nation's top 100 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings. In the rankings that many academicians take most seriously - federal research expenditures - Oklahoma isn't among the top 150 universities. Nor does it belong to the Association of American Universities, an elite group of 61 research ins utions.
So here's a question: when it comes to college football's current conference realignment drama, in which schools like Oklahoma have been exploring their options, how much do academics matter?...
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...Until this year, every member of the Big Ten belonged to the AAU, the Ivy League of American research universities. Only after accepting an offer to join the Big Ten did its newest member, Nebraska, get booted out of the AAU on grounds that its level of compe ive grant-getting no longer reached elite status. Nebraska argued that the AAU unfairly devalued its agricultural research dollars. Not merely an athletic conference, the Big Ten decades ago created a research cooperative linking member libraries, course materials and research missions. "On our campuses you'll find more Nobel laureates than Heisman Trophy winners," said Barbara McFadden Allen, executive director of the cooperative, called the Committee on Ins utional Cooperation. She said academic stature invariably figures into expansion conversations. (The University of Chicago belongs to the CIC but pulled out of the Big Ten in 1946)
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The major conference with a relatively low academic ranking that isn't concerned about membership is the SEC, which recently added Texas A&M.
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...If academics were paramount, it's fair to assume Texas - No. 45 according to U.S. News - might leave the Big 12, which has limited scholarly distinction. One possible reason it hasn't: political pressure to drag along Texas Tech, an in-state rival that U.S. News ranks No. 160...
So a Texas game vs. Notre Dame pulls the same interest as a game vs. Iowa State?
Attendance at the stadium? Absolutely.
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