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power — would carry the Aggies to a position of national relevance. He referenced University President’s R. Bowen Loftin’s declaration of a “100-year decision,” emphasizing the impact of the move.

“Anytime a presi-dent declares a 100-year decision, it’s very significant. In a way, this move is going to say that Tex-as A&M has ar-rived at a nation-al level,” Cook said. “We see this as Texas A&M be-coming a national brand because we are now able to associate with an extremely powerful national brand with the SEC.”

If television ratings are any indicator of exposure levels, the SEC is head-

and-shoulders above the competition. According to the 2011 Nielson report, the SEC averaged 4,447,000 view-ers per college football broadcast. By

contrast the Big 12, A&M’s previous conference,

averaged 2,347,000 viewers — more than 2 million fewer pairs of eyeballs.

Cook said the conference disparity in tele-vision packages.

“We are go-ing to be able to

participate in [the SEC’s] na-tional media con-

tracts, which will allow our athletic programs in our institution to be

He was deployed to Iraq in January 2007 and in April 2007, he and other members of his platoon suffered injuries while guarding a highway overpass that became the target of a suicide bomber. May suffered broken shoulders, frac-tured ribs and two collapsed lungs.

“I spent a year-and-a-half in the hos-pital. I had to learn how to walk again, how to use my shoulder. But it was the easiest year-and-a-half of my life. You tell a Marine to go do something and he’s going to get it done to the best of

his abilities.”May said he found out he’d be hon-

ored at the Star-Spangled Sing-Along about an hour before the event.

“I thought I was coming to speak on behalf of Impact a Hero and it turns out, I was going to be presented with this honor. It’s very humbling. I don’t think I deserve it, but other folks dis-agree,” he said.

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University President R. Bowen Loftin, Athletic Director Eric Hyman, women’s basketball player Kelsey Bone, football player Jonathan Stuart and other athletes “saw’em off” at the SEC flag raising celebration Monday at the Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium.

‘100-year decision’ puts A&M on national stage

Officially SEC

With the move, the Aggies will seek to attain something they’ve never pos-sessed previously: a nationally recog-nized brand.

Certainly sacrifices were made in the process. A&M, renowned for the preservation of its cherished traditions, severed ties with fellow Texas rivals —

including the Longhorns — to allow for the possibility of transition. Yet, the Aggies exclusive grasp of the for-midable SEC brand presents a unique opportunity.

Jason Cook, A&M vice president for marketing and communications, said the SEC — thanks to sheer brand

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nd so it begins. Texas A&M University officially

joined the Southeastern Conference, the premier

athletic conference in the country, effective Sun-

day — thus closing the University’s latest chapter in its

rich, tradition-laden history.

Texas A&M student-athletes com-peting in the Olympic trials are steps away from reaching their goal: mak-ing it to London for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

So far, A&M will be represented by at least five athletes who have qualified for London.

For Team USA, sophomore Breeja Larson won the 100-meter breaststroke by .07 seconds over reigning two-time champion Rebecca Soni.

Larson said in her post-swim inter-

view that every fiber in her body was burning but she was going to make them burn more just to keep going. Lar-son also finished sixth in the 200-meter breaststroke.

Fellow A&M sophomore, Cammile Adams, joins Larson on Team USA as she won the 200-meter butterfly.

Adams, who during the race fell be-hind to eventual runner-up Kathleen Hersey, pulled away in the final 50 me-ters to secure the victory by more than a second.

“I can’t even put it into words,” Adams said. “I just feel so blessed for this experience, and to be part of Team

USA. I think I’ve made five junior teams and you get to a point where you say, am I ever going to make a National Team, and so this will be my first one, for sure.”

In the Track and Field Olympic tri-als, junior agricultural leadership and development major Sam Humphreys set a school record when he threw the javelin for 268 feet, 7 inches to capture the victory at the Olympic trials in Eu-gene, Ore. Although Humphreys won the event, he was 5 inches short of the minimum qualifying distance —

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Breeja Larson swims in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke semifinal at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials on Friday in Omaha, Neb.

Purple Heart recipient honored by church

SUGAR LAND, Texas — Purple Heart recipient Lance Cpl. Steven May was honored Sunday evening at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Star-Spangled Sing-Along.

May, sophomore industrial distribu-tion major, joined the Marine Corps in September 2005, serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

May is a third-generation Marine and said he was called to serve following the Sept. 11 attacks.

“At 15, when 9/11 hit, that’s when I [realized] this is what I want to do…9/11 was the day that it turned for me,” he said. “That’s the day I decided I needed to stand up and fight for my country.”

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Lieutenant colonel, former student killed

An Aggie was killed Thursday at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

Authorities said 42-year-old Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale, Class of 1992, died immediately after being shot dur-ing a safety briefing, according to The Associated Press.

The shooter and fellow soldier, Spc. Ricky Elder, turned the gun on himself after firing on Tisdale. Elder died Friday after undergoing treatment.

A statement from Fort Bragg said El-der, an infantryman, had been charged recently with larceny of a toolkit valued at $1,700 and had been awaiting court martial at the time of the shootings.

Tisdale took command of the Fort Bragg-based 525th Brigade Special Troops Battalion in January.

He was commissioned as an infantry officer after graduating in 1993 from Texas A&M with a bachelor’s degree in animal science. Tisdale was in Company D-2 of the Corps of Cadets.

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Lance Cpl. Steven May, second to the left, is honored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lt. Col. Willie Blackmon, right, class of 1973, attended the event to honor May.

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fruition and A&M is a bona fide member of the SEC, here’s a brief “Guide to the SEC.” Let’s talk about the numero uno, big kahuna sport at all SEC institutions, including yours: football.

The Aggies will kick off their days in the West division, which I will admit is in recent years, the toughest division of college football. Alabama, LSU, Arkansas finished in the top five in 2011, and Au-burn was a solid fourth place behind that trio of powers. The Aggie’s SEC play kicks off as A&M hosts Georgia’s biggest rival: Florida. A request from all UGA fans: BEAT FLORIDA, please. It’s not that we won’t later in the season, but we love to see the Gators lose no matter what week of the season it is. That’s an important thing you should know enter-ing the SEC. Even if it’s not football season, Georgia fans want to see Florida beaten. Whether it’s in basketball, tennis, baseball, swimming, chess, badminton; it doesn’t matter to the Georgia faithful as long as Florida suffers. I’m sure the Gators would say the same, or something similar. So know UGA fans DO NOT like Florida.

Anyway, back to A&M concerns. Week in and out this fall, the Aggies will face the toughest defenses the country has to offer. The Big 12 is definitely known for its high-powered offenses. Robert Griffin III did win the Heisman and Brandon Weeden may have torched many a defense, but in the SEC you face that caliber every Saturday. Most times

it’s not just one player who can have that impact either.

A third thing A&M fans should know entering the SEC is “upsets” can and do happen every SEC Saturday. Being ranked in the top five and unranked has no bearing in the SEC. The cliché in the NFL is often “any given Sunday.” In the SEC “any given Saturday” is no cliché; it is fact.

You also might have heard bowl subdivision college football will have a four-team playoff beginning in 2014. For A&M and the other 11 SEC schools every week is a playoff week. One slip up and your conference title hopes can be dashed, in the blink of an eye.

These are only warnings, nothing to scare the Aggies off. All I can say for sure is the Aggies are a member of the tough-est conference the country. From Athens to College Station, welcome. We look forward to hosting the Aggies to Tee It Up Between the Hedges and a trip to Aggieland sometime soon.

shown nationally. That is significant,” Cook said. “For too long Texas A&M has been seen as a regional institution within the state of Texas. I think a lot of that is because of our athletic conference af-filiation, whether it was in the SWC or even the Big 12, which is concentrated in a thin sliver in the center of the U.S.”

One particular benefit the Aggies are already seeing in force is a significant boost in recruiting. Recruiting the best athletes often means the difference between win-ning and losing, and A&M has milked its conference affiliation to achieve high re-cruiting standards.

Loftin noted the SEC’s effects in re-cruiting across the athletics department.

“[The SEC] gives us a true recruit-ing advantage because being recognized

as the premier athletic conference in the country means athletes throughout Texas and beyond want to play at Texas A&M because we’re part of the SEC,” Loftin said. “It’s really been a great boost for our recruiting in all sports, not just football.”

The boost, in football, is evident by glancing at leading national recruit-ing sites. Rivals.com and Scout.com list A&M as the No. 3 and No. 2 recruiting class for 2013 at the time of publication, respectively.

Loftin received feedback indicating as much.

“Head coach Kevin Sumlin’s 2013 class looks like a top five class. We’ve nev-er been there before,” Loftin said. “I’m hearing good things also from Coach Kennedy, Coach Blair, Coach Henry, golf, tennis and down the list.”

Still, right, wrong or indifferent, foot-ball said contributes to the perception of the A&M brand through its success and exposure. Football is king in the SEC, as

shown by its television numbers. Thus, A&M’s performance in the SEC will in-fluence national perception.

Former Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach, who compiled a 7-3 record against A&M, said the Aggies will be able to compete in the SEC West.

“A&M’s one of the greatest traditions in the history of college football and now they join a league with great legacy and tradition… I think it was a good move [for A&M] to go to the SEC,” Leach said. “I think A&M’s going to fare well in the SEC, it’s going to be challenging. If you win the SEC, you have a great chance to win national championships.”

Encompassing athletics, A&M Athlet-ic Director Eric Hyman said Aggies will wonder why they hadn’t shifted to the SEC before.

“We’re the big leagues. I say that be-cause look at the track record. Look at the success this league has had.”

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Luke Dixon: Glad to have you Aggies; please beat Florida

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Southeastern Conference. We are glad you’ve decided to join

the “Conference of Champions” as Ag-gie Athletics puts it.

Here’s the little bit I know about A&M. It is in College Station, Texas, about 90 minutes northwest of Hous-ton, and Aggies really dislike that other school in Austin, and there is a huge athletic tradition in Aggieland, but I digress.

When I first heard Texas A&M was joining the SEC, I was puzzled. Over the past few years, we all heard the rumors and were intrigued by the pos-sibilities of various conference realign-ments, a lot of which has involved A&M’s former home, the Big 12.

Just for the fun of it (and because I can in the virtual world of EA Sports) I created a Super SEC Conference of 16 teams on NCAA Football 12 which I added the Aggies, Missouri, Boise State, Wisconsin (yes, those previous two make no geographical sense whatsoev-er), and Florida State for good measure. It turned out A&M was pretty solid finishing with a winning record in the SEC west, so if EA Sports can predict the future, then the outlook is a good one for the Aggies.

Now that the chaos has come to

Luke Dixon is a sports reporter for The Red and Black, University of Georgia’s student online newspaper.

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Impact a Hero, a not-for-prof-it organinization created to support wounded veterans post 9/11.

Impact a Hero supported May while he was in the hospi-tal and he now speaks on behalf of the organization.

Retired Lt. Col. and former Judge Willie Blackmon, Class of 1973, attended the event to honor May. Blackmon said May’s service is a testament to this nation’s greatness.

May said, “The word, ‘love,’ you really don’t associ-ate it with Independence Day or the fourth of July. But love is what drives this country. I love this country. It fires me up.”

May said the transition to Texas A&M University from the Marine Corps was hard.

“Coming back out of high school, I forgot a lot and it’s been difficult. Dealing with all the things, both mentally and physically, has been a struggle. But the camaraderie and fel-lowship at A&M is like the Marine Corps.”

Ken Barrow, president of the Houston Texas South Stake of The Church, said the event allows all area residents to come together to celebrate the nation’s birthday and to say “thank you to a hero that selflessly and bravely served his country and fellow man.”

Barrow, when asked why he chose to honor May said, “Every year we want to rep-resent and honor a veteran. May represents not only him-self and the service he provid-ed to his country but all those who served.”

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Funeral services for Tis-dale will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday at Central Baptist Church in College Station, followed by burial at the Ag-gie Field of Honor. The fam-ily asks that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to a me-morial fund that will help his children pay for college. Do-nations can be made through PayPal to the following email address: Jeepzero3@hotmail.com.

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The Purple Heart is award to military personnel injured or killed in action serving for the United States.

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269 feet.“I’m a little upset, but I

have a lot more room for im-provement,” Humphreys said. “There is always the next four years to get that mark.”

Over on the track, Prezel Hardy advanced to the 200-meter semifinal. Hardy won his heat to advance into the semifinal with a finish time of 20:51 seconds, ninth best time out of 16 runners. Hardy placed 10th in the semifinal.

Jeneba Tarmoh advanced to the 200-meter final, yet placed fifth. But she will go to Lon-don in the 4x100 relay.

“Tie,” like a repeating nightmare, has not been an unfamiliar word to Tarmoh during these Olympic trials. At the 100-meter dash, Tar-moh apparently won the third and final spot for Team USA only to find out from reporters she had actually tied with Al-lyson Felix with an exact finish of 11.068 seconds. There was no protocol in place and USA Track and Field officials scram-bled to make a tie-breaker, which could have been a coin flip or a runoff. It was decided the women would compete in a runoff.

According to ESPN, Tar-moh was uncomfortable with the decision to compete in a runoff and subsequently de-cided to give the spot to Felix.

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Tarmoh told ESPN she earned her spot from the beginning.

“In my heart of hearts, I just feel like I earned the third spot,” Tarmoh said. “I almost feel like I was kind of robbed.”

While the Aggies are setting the tone in their respective races for Team USA, fellow Aggies are advancing to the Olympics for other countries.

Sophomores Erica Dittmer and Rita Medrano, along with senior Liliana Ibanez made the

Mexican Olympic swimming team.

Dittmer advances to the London Games and will be competing in the 200-meter individual medley after claim-ing two victories, one in the 200-meter individual medley and the other coming from the 100-meter breaststroke.

Ibanez took the victory in the 50-meter freestyle event with Dittmer finishing in sec-ond. For Ibanez, her perfor-mance at the Mexican Olym-pic trials are nothing short of spectacular, considering she was out of the pool for six weeks after she cracked three vertebrae in a bike accident shortly after returning from the Pan American Games. Her results show she has healed and is ready to show the world her speed in the water come Au-gust.

Medrano, a senior this past year, won four events during the Mexican Olympic tri-als, including victories in the 100- and 200-meter butterfly, as well as in the 50-meter free-style.

The 2012 Summer Olym-pics start July 27 in London.

Jeneba Tarmoh starts her heat in the women’s 200-meter semifinal at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials Friday in Eugene, Ore.

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