Long after A&M's warnings, other SEC fanbases realizing letting Texas in was bad idea

I don't think there was any consensus among Texas A&M football fans on exactly how long it would take the rest of the conference to realize that letting the Longhorns in was a bad idea, but I think there was a strong consensus that they eventually would. With a year gone, now, it's really beginning to sink in.

Amid the hubbub of SEC Media Days this past week, the Longhorns registered some suspicious recruiting wins that may have slipped under the radar of the casual fan. I use the word "suspicious" here thanks to the stark contrast that these recruitments cut against the all-too-recent background of Texas fan sites reporting that the Longhorns are refraining from spending as much this cycle.

Even so, they managed to be the top bidder for 5-star LB Tyler Atkinson and flip a highly-rated DL from the Georgia Bulldogs, despite the fact that he had committed only weeks prior. Combine that with a head to head win over South Carolina in Samari Mathews, and the grumbling is getting pretty loud around the Southeastern Conference— just like Aggie fans knew it would.

SEC fans slowly waking up to fact that letting Texas in was a very bad idea

These recent recruiting developments have led to sentiments like the following getting shared across SEC message boards:

"We watched them destroy their previous conference, bring them in and give them the easiest schedule only to watch them throw up the middle finger to the other [members] of the SEC." Gee, who could have seen this coming?

OU is feeling similarly:

As are Georgia fans:

There's more of this kind of talk from the Bulldogs, as you might imagine.

Look, if you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind. That's the way things go. Is it possible to remove Texas from the conference? While I think there are procedures to do so, we're not really near anything like that happening in reality for many reasons.

However, it's becoming clearer and clearer around the SEC that this is a cancerous program— a leech on everyone else rather than just another big time school to play against. Those seeds being planted, it will be interesting to see how they grow.