Will Texas become the SEC’s most hated team? | College Football Enquirer

Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel, Yahoo Sports senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger and Sports Illustrated's Pat Forde talk about what Texas joining the SEC means for the conference and the teams within it. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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Will Texas be everyone's most hated team immediately in the SEC.

Like I know there's a long, long, long tradition of hate in the SEC, oldest rivalries, hundreds of years Iron Bowl.

I mean, I get it.

I feel like the rest of the league as much as they hate each other is going to learn to hate Texas immediately.

I'm wondering how much?

Well, sure, I don't think they need a lot of runway for it.

Um, certainly Texas A and M is gonna tell everybody how much they hate them and how Texas carries itself in a grandiose manner.

There's enough pride and I think really to a degree enough almost what's the word like, not really honor among thieves, but camaraderie amongst combatants in the SEC too that like, you're not just gonna walk in here and tell us what to do.

You know, Alabama wants to beat Georgia badly and LSU wants to beat Alabama badly and Florida wants to beat Georgia and so on and so forth.

But there's also a lot of pride in how the league has been run and it generally speaking, despite going to war with each other when it's time to lock arms.

They do.

And I don't think they're gonna say, oh, Texas, come on in and take, take over.

I talked to Paul Finebaum who's there and, um, you know, he's always, always up for a good chat in a, in a, in a great quote in, including the description of, uh A and N or Texas kind of stealing Jim Schlossnagle from the Aggies.

It screams sec.

He said we're going to body bag our biggest rival immediately after their glory moment by hiring their baseball coach.

It's so sec.

Uh, so they, they, that's the first Texas's first act and I would guess that we're gonna see many more of, uh, of, uh, of those acts.

Um, already Chris Del Conti took Mississippi State's head women's basketball coach, took Kentucky's track and field coach just over the last few years.

Of course, Steve Sarkeesian was an assistant in Alabama.

Uh, and, and Pat knows well, Bob Bowman, legendary Arizona State swim coach.

How many coaches will they take from other sec schools?

And, and that's obviously going to create some bad blood.

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