NGL after thinking about it this is probably the best it'll e, and it does have some nice perks
1. This effs over texas and ou who now are forced even more to consider how long they want to stay in, they can't hope espn comes in and uses the AAC to dissolve us, we we're at least proactive and didn't go quietly into that good night, so I'm happy about that. I enjoy that for the next couple of years basically we can act like texas and ou don't exist when it comes to decision making so that's nice too, they now have to be along for the ride rather than the other way around. sure long term for texas and ou they'll love it more being in the SEC, w/e, I'm done with them.
2. Other than maybe BYU (but being mormon and new I can't imagine them being too much this) the only real prima-donna fanbase left is ku bball, which is w/e. No more 800 lb gorillas acting like they own the joint doing whatever the eff they feel like, being all pissy about horns down or w/e, that crap is done and we can wipe our hands clean of all of them, good riddance. I think it'll make the conference long term be more egalitarian and less self serving to any one school or set of schools, and realistically being one of the last 4 of the original big 8 left we kinda get to be more of the core.
3. It will be I guess exciting to have new members, and see how we do things like divisions and whatnot. Last time we "expanded" we only really added one semi-exotic team in West Virginia (TCU being in the footprint to me doesn't really make them that novel) but UCF, BYU, and Cincy to a degree fit that perfectly, Houston not so much but w/e.
We will lose prestige, but we did not overall lose it all, and in general going forward I think being cut adrift from those giant names will make it be a better conference for all. SEC will become the single dominant conference for football, but like while they'll never say it outright, I'm sure Arkansas, Miss St, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Vandy, Mizzou, and even Tennessee and South Carolina probably feel a bit out of their depth now being in a conference with the likes of LSU, Florida, Bama, Auburn, A&M, Georgia, Texas, and OU. Be like a more worse version of having to be TT and Baylor in the Big 12 south once upon a time. One of those happy to be there but in generally utterly impotent to anything.
