We think that there are private conversations taking place between the Texas president and major boosters and renowned graduates, state politicians, etc. urging the continuation of this rivalry. Somehow, somehow, we think saner minds will prevail and the rivalry will continue.

If LSU can get Oklahoma to agree to home on home games (albeit in 2018 and 2019), when previously they would not stating their hard schedule in the Big 12 was already enough, and get a game with TCU and working on games with Stanford, Notre Dame, Michigan, etc. we believe Texas can find a way in their schedule to continue the rivalry with Texas A & M just as USC finds a slot in their schedule to continue the 65 game/year rivalry with Notre Dame.

The fact that they beat the U$C Dream Team (you know, the greatest college football team EVER) will ensure that I could never hate Texas.

Not like they or their fans care what I think. Not like they care what most people think. Nor should they.

Do I think the Longhorn Network is wrong? Yes. Do I blame Texas for doing it? No. What school wouldn’t turn that down?

Notre Dame has their own network. Except it gets to show all the classic EPIC FAILS of the last 15 years. Which is entertainment that is priceless.

I would hope that they could keep the Texas vs A&M game. I find it usually entertaining, but it doesn’t matter to me if they play each year or not.

But I bet it matters to a lot of Texans.

Somehow, I think they’ll work this one out.

It’s a free country. Texas has made prior arrangements about who they’ll play in future non conference games. Teams don’t frequently drop those plans. The other Big XII schools approved the Longhorn Network. If they did not like it then they should have stopped it when they could have done so.

And you’re full of it if you think Texas is scared of little brother. Texas just sees no reason to breach contracts with the likes of Notre Dame or Arkansas to reward the little farmers for running away, just because the little farmers consider Texas their biggest rival. The agricult cares a lot more about Texas than Texas does about them, because UT’s #1 rivalry by far is with Oklahoma, not aggie.

Monetary penalties? Do you think Ole Miss and Arkansas are going to enforce monetary penalties on Texas for canceling their games if it means that our new conference member gets to keep their historic rivalry going?

The answer you SHOULD be saying is, “NO!”

Why? Because in the SEC, it’s all for one and one for all, not like in the Big-Whatever, where it’s Texas for itself, and all for Texas.

It’s a weird concept, I know, for you to wrap your head around: The idea that in a conference in which probably 6 or 7 teams could have their own television networks on cable (Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Bama, and LSU for sure) just like BevoTV, but instead, we do what’s best for ALL the teams, to make the conference as a whole stronger, not weaker… Texas and their fans just can’t understand that, can they?

So, once again, Texas, and you and all the other fans, have NO EXCUSES for refusing to continue playing TAMU.

Well, unless, “we’re little bitches” is an excuse. More like a reason, I guess.

If I was Texas I would definitely tell them we will research this and see if we can slot you in around the 2025 season. Adios enjoy your new league, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out………..

Texas didn’t leave the Big (XII-II).

Texas shouldn’t have to break existing contracts just because Texas A&M chose to leave.

If Texas A&M wants to play Texas, they should be willing to pay the penalty fees to one school Texas has to break an existing contract with for each of the next 6 years.

If A&M is willing to do that, then I would have a problem with Texas not playing Texas A&M.

Don’t expect Texas to pay for the honor of playing Texas A&M.

If you’re skeered, say you’re skeered.

Sincerely,

Dawgs, Yellowjackets, Gators, Seminoles, Wildcats, Cardinals, Gamecocks, and Tigers

In what way is Texas A&M going to the SEC dumb?

Leaving a sinking ship where every other week there’s a report that some school/schools are leaving?

Leaving a conference where it is uneven to the point that one team has it’s own network partnered with ESPN?

Going to the best conference in America as far as sports goes? (Spare me PAC-12, nobody but you cares about national titles in sports like water polo)

Going to a conference where revenue is shared equally?

Going to a conference that will break the bank in the next round of TV contract negotiations?

Texas is a joke. All that talent, and one national title in the last 30+ years. Get over yourselves. You’re not nearly as great as you think you are.

But I am glad you beat the U$C “dream team” ^^

Im sure if TAMU wants the ooc game with UT, let them pay any financial penalities associated with UT having to cancel any of their games. Should UT drop Ole Miss for the next two seasons in favor of the Aggies? or Arkansas in 2014-2015? who do you think has more national appeal, Tamu or Notre Dame? UT is set, sorry Aggie….guess this years game will be the last for a while.

Aggie, you wanted to leave and get out of UT’s shadow so bad, so now is your chance…..get to stepping, and enjoy your beat downs you are about to receive from LSU, Alabama, Auburn and others….Arkansas already owns you snitches…

TAMU isn’t “running scared.”

In fact, as many have pointed out, TAMU is going to a MUCH more difficult and better conference.

What TAMU is doing is making a sound business decision based upon the fact that Texas wants to act like a little bitch with their network instead of strengthening their conference, which is what the SEC teams do.

TAMU is going to make about 5 million more a year playing in a tougher conference, but they’ll be able to recruit better, they’ll be on television more, and again, they’ll make more money.

Texas will remain selfish and petty. TAMU and their fans will be fine.

A&M made a business decision to change conferences, and it’s kinda creepy that Longhorns fans keep making all these jilted lover analogies. No wonder the Aggies were so anxious to get away.

TAMU’s big SEC games will make losing the shorthorns all worth while.

If Texas won’t schedule Texas A & M, then we will see if they will schedule LSU. We could play them for the first game of the season in one of the next few years as we did Oregon this year, and hopefully Boise State, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Michigan, etc. over the next years. We will mention it to the Associate AD at LSU who schedules the games.

It is sad that Texas would not see the importance to this rivalry with A & M to continue it. Maybe some saner minds will prevail over the next few years. Maybe that is something that Rich Perry can bring up to the president of Texas?

What a bunch of morons, that reside in the most overrated college town in the country.

If Texas wants to see how it’s done right, just look at the stable, rich conference of excellence that TAMU is joining.

Georgia-Georgia Tech.

Florida-FSU.

Kentucky-Louisville.

Carolina-Clemson.

These SEC teams play their hated, in-state rivals who play in other conferences EVERY YEAR.

EVERY YEAR without a single problem. Yet Texas can’t do the same? What a bunch of little bitches.

By being a bunch of little bitches, the only people DeLoss Dodds and Texas are hurting are their OWN fans.

Trust me, TAMU fans, in adding teams like LSU, Bama, and a natural rivalry with Arkansas, are going to be okay for the next six years.

I live on the border and would like to see this rivalry continue.

http://blog.chron.com/aggies/2011/10/byrne-horns-decline-to-face-aggies-through-at-least-18/