UGA AD thinks Texas football, OU are ‘great culture fit’ in the SEC

The talk has died down a bit of late for the Texas football program and Oklahoma Sooners upon the move to leave the Big 12 for the SEC. We still don’t know yet when Texas and Oklahoma will officially leave the Big 12 to start competing in the SEC. But the deadline for that time seems to be the conclusion (in terms of college football) of the 2024 season.

There is a lot of excitement for the Longhorns and Sooners to start competing in the SEC. And it seems like it’s realistic to expect that the Longhorns and Sooners could be playing in the SEC by the start of the 2022-23 athletic calendar.

One of the parties from the SEC that sounds very excited about what the Longhorns and Sooners will bring to the table for the conference is the Georgia Bulldogs athletic director Josh Brooks. Brooks was the senior deputy director of athletic for Georgia for 11 years prior to getting the AD role officially back in January 2021.

Brooks made an appearance on the “Paul Finebaum Show” on Aug. 13 to give his take on a number of different topics concerning the Dawgs and the SEC as a whole. That included how he and Georgia felt about the SEC adding the Longhorns and Sooners from the Big 12.

Georgia AD Josh Brooks like the fit with Texas football and Oklahoma in the SEC

Brooks noted with Finebaum on Aug. 13 that Texas and Oklahoma have a “great history of academic success and athletic success”. More importantly, he tabbed the feeling for Georgia that Texas and Oklahoma will be a “great cultural fit” in the SEC.

This tends to be the feeling around most of the SEC and college sports landscape as a whole. With the resources and brand recognition that both Texas and Oklahoma bring to the table, especially in football, the SEC gains a lot of strength with these additions.

Texas and Oklahoma are clearly still set to compete this year at least in the Big 12 in all sports that did prior to this news of the move to the SEC. That might extend through 2022, but the common school of thought is that Texas, Oklahoma, and the SEC administration, will do everything possible to move conferences by the time next fall arrives.

Texas is set to open up the regular season slate on Sep. 4 at home at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium against the Louisiana Ragin-Cajuns. And then, the Big 12 slate is set to open up at home at DKR on Sep. 25 against the Texas Tech Red Raiders.