We already hated Muschump from his stint in Austin... Not surprised he didn't enjoy his time there considering he came in with burnt orange on....
with the addition of a&m and mizzou to the SEC, technically. the SEC is now a superior academics conference to the big12. Remember, the big 12 lost CU and NU as well. Both schools are highly rated as far as academics go.
Its funny you mention the blowback from Media towards a&m.. To this date, no other school has faced the backlash like the Aggies had. I find that extremely odd. Hell, TCU headfaked the big least and no one even batted an eye. WTF gives? I believe ESPN did not want to have to renegotiate the huge contract that the SEC is going to get with the 24 million new viewers in texas.... Hard to argue when you see how many votes the aggies pulled in on the gamedayvote.com contest... This should be an interesting next few years in college football to say the least.