One of the most entertaining parts of conference realignment is the sniping that accompanies it.
And the state of Texas is the king of delivering parting shots that age poorly.
After the Southeastern Conference announced in 1990 that Arkansas was being added from the now-defunct Southwest Conference, Baylor football coach Grant Teaff pondered, “Who is the SEC, anyway?”
Today’s youth now ask, what was the Southwest Conference? Meanwhile, Baylor endured 14 consecutive losing seasons from 1996-2009 while the SEC ascended to college football’s throne.
Then-Texas athletics director DeLoss Dodds supplied an infamous barb in 2013, following Missouri’s first season in the SEC, when he claimed, “Our bad years are better than (Missouri’s) good years.