Would love to see 5 SEC teams in Omaha
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Yeah, will watch if an SEC team makes finals. Haven't watched a college or pro baseball game all year.
Well Tennessee is out. Texas Oklahoma, Arkansas, Ole Miss are in, need Auburn to win today. You are counting Texas and Oklahoma, right?
College World Series Appearances | Texas Schools only: Abilene Christian, Baylor, Dallas Baptist University, Houston, Houston Baptist, Incarnate Word, Lamar, Prairie View A&M, Rice, Sam Houston State, Stephen F. Austin, Tarleton St, TCU, Texas A&M, Texas A&M-CC, Texas Southern, Texas St, Texas Tech, UT-Arlington, UT-Rio Grande Valley (formerly Pan American), UT-SanAntonio: 29
The University of Texas at Austin: 38
The SEC invited Texas and OU to join the SEC, the 2 schools accepted and there was a unanimous SEC vote to admit them. Looks pretty fair to call them SEC teams even if there are residual money issues to work out between conferences and teams.
And where did they place in the standings this year??? I also didn't see them play one single game in the SEC Tourney... Why is that???
Oh, that's right... because they are NOT MEMBERS of the SEC YET!!!
Just because games haven't been scheduled yet doesn't mean they aren't members. They were voted in. The schedules are in slow transition due to legal constraints.
Until the existing 14 SEC members schedule OU and UT regularly in conference competition, they are not members. They are members-in-waiting. I noted the OU and UT players' baseball jerseys in Omaha have "XII" patches on them, not "SEC" ones.
When USC announced in March, 1971 they they were leaving the ACC, did that mean that the 1971 USC baseball team was not competing in the ACC for that season? Of course not. It did (unfortunately, IMO) mean that it was the last season we'd be competing with our old rivals as conference members.
Members in waiting means someone is a member. No applications, no votes, no acceptances, etc have to happen. They were voted in as members. All the things you bring up are transition details, not indications of anything other than that.
They are currently competing as members of the Big XII, and that's what counts for the purposes of this discussion.
Depends on how you look at it. They have given notice to the Big 12 of their withdrawal from the conference and been accepted by the SEC as members. Schedules take some time to adjust and there is always a transition period. .
When varsity athletic teams from the Universities of Oklahoma and Texas start sporting "SEC" on their uniforms, then we can consider them competing members of the SEC. Competing is key for me.
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