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Yes, the offer from SEC was unconditional and they guaranteed they would take A&M even if they were only the 13th member"

billyliucci Jun 14 11:25 pm

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Take that Chip Brown, Galloway, Techtards, ESPN Austin Radio numbnuts...



[This message has been edited by Signel (edited 6/15/2010 12:20p).]

Either Liucci is wrong or your BOR is filled with idiots who aren't looking out for A&M's best interests.

Personally, I think the first is more likely.

yeah, alex the tsip speaks his opinion! f off.

Thankfully our BOR hasn't met yet. I believe that is scheduled for later this week.

<junior high voice>I'll fight you after school, Finc. </junior high voice>

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"Yes, the offer from SEC was unconditional and they guaranteed they would take A&M even if they were only the 13th member"

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If this is indeed true





Our BoR are indeed morons.

We have to assume the offer was made saturday when Slive was in town. Since it was informal, they could have retracted that offer since Texas committed to the big12

Regardless, we can assume that we were in with the SEC if the rest of the big12 south left for the PAC16. Otherwise, we would not have been given the lion's share of the cash with OU and Texas (no matter what the projections for payout are, we know we will be at the top - call it a bribe).

Alex, you're a sad little man, run along and go play with your burnt orange toys.

The dust is only beginning to settle. We all will hopefully get some solid answers about this entire ordeal in the coming weeks.

[This message has been edited by FincAg (edited 6/15/2010 12:02p).]

I am a dyed in the wool, Georgia Bulldawg. Live in Georgia, and will die here. I live for SEC football too; just so you know. So I beg to ask a simple question:
The SEC would like to have A&M, and so would most of the fans here in the SEC. Frankly they are o.k. whether the Ags come in or not. All of that aside though. Why don't the Ags just flip Texas the horns down, and come to the SEC anyway? IMHO that would really stir things up.

That's a good ass question, my man.

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Why don't the Ags just flip Texas the horns down, and come to the SEC anyway?

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We would like to know this also.

Seth McKinney said that the SEC told us "we would get an offer when the Big 12 collapsed".

McBuck.. My dad is a dawg, and I wish we would. I'd love to crush Georgia with a payback game between the hedges and gig'em like fleas.

BOR's decided against it and now we are a in a far lesser conference than even the old big12.

life sucks.

Something definitely doesn't add up about this SEC offer. I'm figuring in the next couple days all will be known one way or another.

This morning Seth had an interview and said something to the extend of, the SEC didn't want to be turned down, so the spot was ours, we just had to apply. Much like Neb did with the Big Ten.

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For anyone who's not clear on the matter: A&M had a verbal offer to join the SEC, no matter if Texas chose to join the Pacific-10 or stay in the Big 12. All A&M had to do was call. The Aggies passed on the chance to play in the best, most celebrated football league in the nation, however, and chose the safe route.

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http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/aggies/2010/06/so-long-sec-we-never-knew-ye.html

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Either Liucci is wrong or your BOR is filled with idiots who aren't looking out for A&M's best interests.

Personally, I think the first is more likely.

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Thing is, Liucci isn't exactly know for just spewing stuff out, at least not in this realignment debacle.

we had an offer and still came back to the big 12? WTF? Is this some sappy teen movie where the geeky guy turns down the really hot cheerleader so he can stay w/ the homely chick thats been his friend the whole time? everyone hates that guy. go get some hot cheerleader arse!

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Either Liucci is wrong or your BOR is filled with idiots who aren't looking out for A&M's best interests.

Personally, I think the first is more likely.

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Thing is, Liucci isn't exactly know for just spewing stuff out, at least not in this realignment debacle.

Did I miss something? Wasn't a meeting scheduled for either Thursday or Friday to discuss? They gave their 72 hour notice on Monday.

They, being the BOR. Yesterday's announcement wasn't from a BOR meeting.

were you awake yesterday?

This is probably already posted elsewhere, but Zwerneman confirms the offer was solid and unconditional:

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A&M had a verbal offer to join the SEC, no matter if Texas chose to join the Pacific-10 or stay in the Big 12. All A&M had to do was call. The Aggies passed on the chance to play in the best, most celebrated football league in the nation, however, and chose the safe route.

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http://blogs.chron.com/aggies/2010/06/so_long_sec_we_never_knew_ye.html

There was an emergency meeting when Gene got back to aggieland over the weekend (or monday).

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@Doug_Fu no Doug but I think my sources are as good as it gets. if I'm wrong I will gladly admit.Ags GUARANTEED AT LEAST $20-mil per

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FincAg.

Did I miss something? Wasn't a meeting scheduled for either Thursday or Friday to discuss? They gave their 72 hour notice on Monday.

Yes. They only have to give a notice to hold an in-person meeting, not a conference call determining our fate. They had that call, and made their decision. If they still meet in-person, I'd suspect they might confer if they were "bribed" by Beebe, without any real substance being there. If that's the case, I'm sure the SEC would likely understand. We were loyal to our state and the conference, which I bet they respect no matter what.

Why pay for such liucci garbage?

This could cause lots of canceled subscribers...

TxReb, I don't live on this GD thing, I have a job and kill my lunch break here.

Thanks, peacedude, for the explanation. I'm interested to see what all the details are of this mess.

That was a direct message from Billy to me. It is on twitter and you could have read it. It was not before the decision yesterday so it was not a secret. I just got Billy to confirm that we had an offer.

If you had premium you would have heard all kinds of stuff before the rest of us low no star having aggies. =(

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We have to assume the offer was made saturday when Slive was in town.

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No, we don't. We don't have to assume an "unconditional" offer was made at all. The more likely scenario is that it never even got that far with the SEC. By the time Slive came to Texas, the 10 schools were probably well on their way to agreeing in principle to stay in the Big 12. I have to agree with the others that if a split appeared imminent (to the school administrators, NOT to the clueless media and the fans) and A&M had an SEC offer in hand, they would've taken it without hesitation.

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we had an offer and still came back to the big 12? WTF? Is this some sappy teen movie where the geeky guy turns down the really hot cheerleader so he can stay w/ the homely chick thats been his friend the whole time? everyone hates that guy. go get some hot cheerleader arse!

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What if I met her at band camp?

"Why don't the Ags just flip Texas the horns down, and come to the SEC anyway?"

Vince Young would hit us.

Gene basically confirmed my speculation on ESPN dallas today. He told Galloway that had t.u. gone to the pac10, we would be in the SEC (that was his opinion).

He said he couldn't be sure how the rest of the BOR would vote, but he believed we would have gone that way.

He was highly vocal saying that the pac10 was never a choice for us.

Guys, maybe the third time will be a charm. I think eventually you guys will join the SEC. As an LSU fan, I'd be delighted.