Insignificance reduced? Doesn't that mean we become more significant? I don't think that is what you mean...
Could it Happen? Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC??
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Absolutely, I will agree with this statement that the SEC is interested in having Texas. My point is that the SEC is already a great conference without Texas, so I just do not see this as the SEC letting Texas in the conference and having Texas dictating everything. In the last ten years, four Big 12 teams has left the conference and now two more are rumored to want out. That leaves me to believe that Texas wants out a little more than SEC wanting Texas.
I think that would have been a better way way of expressing it. In my mind, I was thinking about our level. It would be further diminished.
Nobody will leave the SEC. Too much money. The only way that the SEC expands is if they project that it will bring more money for each school member to do it.
A 16 team conference is basically 2 conferences. Expansion has been good for college football in the $$$ category, but it sucks for the game itself. The 12 team conference was perfect. Between the NIL and our team’s lack of competitiveness, another round of expansion might be the final straw for me. Not saying I’ll quit watching. I just think things will naturally get a lot less interesting.
That is probable. But don't ever rule out surprises. If this happens, other leagues will be scrambling. Never say never. Big 10 money is right up there with SEC money.
It's ridiculous. We already go too long without playing some conference members in football. Sixteen teams will only make it worse, but the cads pushing for this are black hearted vermin that lack brains and decency.
You've got three of your Power Five conferences already playing nine-game schedules. You're not going to add teams and stay at eight. Not anymore. Resign yourself to that.
Which makes all of this trash even worse. We'll have nine SEC...hell, might as well just rename it the North American Conference...games and the taters. So that leaves two games, which will no doubt be against the Woffords and Georgia States of the world. Forget any good intersectional games.
It is. But the big attraction of the Big 10 has always been the academic part of the conference and the billions in research money they control and divide among the member institutions.
In Andy Staples column on The Athletic this morning, he offered this nugget...
"Details remain sketchy, but we know that a media consultant hired by the Big 12 delivered a report in May to the league’s presidents that indicated television partners ESPN and Fox do not wish to negotiate a new deal with the Big 12 early."
I can't imagine a bigger sign to a university president or athletic director that your athletic conference is swirling the bowl. I think this is likely the biggest reason TX and OK are suddenly looking to bolt the Big12.
I think the remainder of the Big12 (that is of any value) gets picked clean in the ensuing mayhem.
Nine conference games could happen. But, I think last year illustrated just how brutal the SEC truly is. All week during Media Days every coach roundly condemned going to a 9-Game schedule.
Yes, 3 other P5 conferences play a 9-game conference schedule. It hasn't helped them though.
In a 4-Team Play-Off, the SEC is still the only conference that has put 2 teams into that bracket.
I'll roundly predict nine games. If that doesn't happen, additional OOC games vs. Power Five opponents will be mandated - one or the other.
BIG already has the biggest payouts of any conferences for their schools, that in and of itself would be the bigger offer.
LOL! I heard a sports figure say 30 years ago that eventually there will only be two conferences, the East and West Conferences and the winner of each will play for the National Championship.
It was my life, too, for a number of decades, but it is slowing slipping away in terms of importance in my life.
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Oh it's really possible. The weakening of the NCAA means major realignments are coming and super conferences are inevitable. It was likely regardless. The SEC knows the money and prestige Texas and Oklahoma bring. If the SEC doesn't take them, some other conference surely will.
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From multiple sources I’ve heard it’s happening. Ok and Texas don’t want to renew with B12.
I’ve heard a few scenarios:
1. Auburn, Alabama join east- Tex Ok go to West.
2. Miss St and Ole Miss move East. Tex Ok join west.
3. 4 “pod” situation, where teams are broken into 4 pods. You play the teams in your pod and rotate between the pods every year. So the suggest pod we would be in would be with Florida, UGA and Kentucky. Expansion talks want to make sure you’re not going 10 years in between playing someone.
I’ve heard a few scenarios:
1. Auburn, Alabama join east- Tex Ok go to West.
2. Miss St and Ole Miss move East. Tex Ok join west.
3. 4 “pod” situation, where teams are broken into 4 pods. You play the teams in your pod and rotate between the pods every year. So the suggest pod we would be in would be with Florida, UGA and Kentucky. Expansion talks want to make sure you’re not going 10 years in between playing someone.
If they want to come in, it would be stupid not to take them. Little did we know that the @$$-beating we took from Auburn in Atlanta was the closest we were ever going to come to an SEC championship - EVER!
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