So...Applying this logic to current TN staff, if TN doesn't win the SEC in the next two years, the system Jones has in place and the evaluation process will have sucked? Is that a correct assessment of your statement? Don't back down now.
It really hurt Texas when A&M joined the SEC. Texas would have been wise to have done it first or joined with them.
On national TV. SEC nation...said they were 8 and 5 last season with a couple of blowout losses and then got hammered in the bowl game.
The national media sees that TCU and Baylor are taking the reigns from oklahoma and Texas. Which are 2 schools that rely on Texas for their top talent.
Gonna be tough for the old guard to recruit Texas when Texas is the 3rd or 4th best team in the state and oklahoma is an "also ran" in the same conference. Not to mention aTm. Offering the same kids a chance to gain the exposure of playing in the SEC instead of the big12 (now 10)
Welcome to the new reality sooners.
That's laughable. Finenbaum is an SEC troglodyte who gets paid to be the dancing court jester clown for the SEC. He's had a burr in his ass since Bob talked smack on his beloved conference because it's his gig. Paul will be there in the stands forever after the lights go off still waiting for OU to decline and the day will never come. I can't believe anybody takes that clown seriously. He's a joke.
As for ATM, kids aren't going to continue to go there only to go 8-5 every year. Their recruiting has already tapered off from what it was the last two seasons.
Texas A&M has had top 10 recruiting classes the last 2 years. Idk what your talking about. Oklahoma has been ranked 14th and 15th the last 2 years.
Go look at their recruiting class THIS year. They're running even with Baylor and TCU right now. That fake "swag" of theirs is rubbing off due to lack of results. If you think ATM is going to sustain their SEC novelty without results you're nuts. If you think ATM is the premier program in Texas, you're nuts. ATM is the 3rd best team in their own state, even with that patch on their shoulder. Recruits see that.