The SEC is already tired of the Longhorns—just like Texas A&M warned them.

The SEC is already sick of the Longhorns, just like Texas A&M said they would be

When the news broke that the SEC was exploring adding Texas and Oklahoma, Texas A&M football fans had one question for its conference partners: are you sure you want this?

After all, none of the rest of these schools save Arkansas and Missouri had ever had the displeasure of sharing a conference with the Longhorns, and given the manic attention that Texas pays to A&M, not to mention the pathetic one-upmanship they obsessively practice with regard to the Aggies, those in College Station were uniquely positioned to provide a perspective on this matter.

Of course, money talks, and in this era of college football—one that seems to be inevitably barreling towards super conferences—you have to eat or be eaten. The SEC chose to look the other way on these warnings and extend an invite.

Now, less than five months into the official tenure of Texas as an SEC school, everyone else is already fed up with them. I'd say the speed is impressive, but this is a school with apparently unrivaled internal competition for just how insufferable they can appear to every single outsider.

Matt Hayes wrote a scathing article for USA Today yesterday regarding this attitude towards Austin around the conference.

In it, he details their pillow-soft schedule thus far: "Texas played wildly overrated Michigan, the worst team in the SEC (Mississippi State) at home, the worst Oklahoma team in decades in a neutral site game, and three non-conference punching bags at home."

He pulls no punches when discussing the sentiments towards the Longhorns around the conference: "Every team in the SEC wants another Vanderbilt win this weekend... They want Florida coach Billy Napier to save his job two weeks after that, and Arkansas to win its third consecutive game against its former Southwest Conference rival, and Kentucky to find its big game mojo, and Texas A&M to extract 12 years of frustration from Bevo's hide."

He also includes this blistering detail about how much of a pariah the Longhorns are already: "I spoke to three coaches this week, and each not only confirmed the rift about the laughable schedule given to Texas in its inaugural season, but each also made sure to text Georgia coach Kirby Smart and thank him for making it perfectly clear that Texas may be a member of the conference — but Texas hasn’t come close to experiencing the conference."

It wasn't long ago that Texas fans were writing fanfiction about how accepted they would be in the conference, as opposed to those silly hillbillies down in College Station who they for some reason simply can't stop thinking about despite their insistence that they never think about A&M, I swear. If there were ever a rejoinder to such daydreams, this is it.

This isn't because they're the dominant program with a target on their back, either. They're the self-obsessed, self-important, braggart rich kid who can never back up his loud mouth—and so everyone takes pleasure in seeing him get humbled.

Moreover, this has nothing to do with the "storied history" or "blueblood status" of the program—after all, Alabama had as many national titles from 2009 to 2012 as the Longhorns have in the entire history of their program—save their fans' attitude towards that largely-imagined prestige.

Congrats on already being an annoyance and a joke to everyone in the conference, Texas fans. In a world full of risibility on demand, you have managed to stand out yet once more—after all, with so much money behind you, you've got to be the best at something.