By the time this is all over and done with the SEC is looking to become a league of its own, free of the NCAAs influence. Then it will create new conferences or divisions as needed.
Report:The SEC Is Targeting Ohio State, Clemson, Michigan And Florida State For Expansion
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This is similar to what I’ve been thinking the whole time. This is the beginnings of the power players in college football giving the NCAA half a peace sign and telling them to pound sand. Folks are tired of them and how they do business.
What’s amusing is Barrett Sallee opted to go with this hasn’t happened and Twitter isn’t real life.
He said this on Twitter of course, as if he knows every contact that ever happens. I’m not saying it did, I’m just saying that because he said it didn’t doesn’t necessarily mean he has a clue at all.
He said this on Twitter of course, as if he knows every contact that ever happens. I’m not saying it did, I’m just saying that because he said it didn’t doesn’t necessarily mean he has a clue at all.
I feel like they should become an "independent" in football.
I'd tend to think the idea of Clemson and FSU reaching out is legit. There was supposed to have been some contact between the Big 12 and those two programs years ago. Those two teams are unhappy with the basketball oriented power structure (and FSU in particular doesn't seem to be doing as well financially as they'd like).
Unless you reform the entire SEC, there is nothing you can do. There will be legacy schools. There also of course has to be someone there to soak up the losses. This is one reason I think the idea of just trying to snag every team currently enjoying success in football is sheer madness. Every conference game will result in one winner and one loser. If you no longer have FCS cupcake games and the like, you will have even more losses on top of that. If you end up adding FSU, Clemson, Oklahoma, Texas and another conference game for example, that will mean a lot of losses.
Teams we think of now as football powers won't be. So whether or not they belong in the conference has to rely on more than success in football. Not just that but you strategically almost have to try to add a couple programs (like the Big 10 did with Rutgers and Maryland) that will lose all the time so you pad the stats of the other teams. That way the rest feel like winners and their fans still pay attention.
Barrett Sallee is a moron and tries to be an insider but rarely breaks things that people didn’t already know.
Vanderbilt is by far the most worthless program in the SEC. they don’t even sell out baseball.
I think Clemson and Florida St have explored the idea but I don’t think they are as far along as Texas and Oklahoma were. I think most powers are in “wait and see” mode because things are about to get interesting in the next Few weeks.
To say they haven’t talked to the SEC is just unlikely as to say they are on their way.
To say they haven’t talked to the SEC is just unlikely as to say they are on their way.
If I had the magic power to just go out and make a few moves (without touching the Big 10) it would probably be something like this.
Remove Vanderbilt, Miss. State (one school in-state has to go, neither are worth much), and Auburn because I'm vindictive and they are somewhat redundant. Then I would add Notre Dame, North Carolina, and Virginia.
The SEC would have added two massive brands and 25 million in population without without really disrupting things for the remaining teams. Of course that can't happen but one could dream.
As far as FSU/Clemson I do think there has been some communicating and it all sounds very un-Slive like. The SEC under him was focused on the states of Virginia and North Carolina and he was looking at expanding the SEC's brand into new territory. I liked the idea of four super-conferences with Texas and Oklahoma going out west, I always have. That not happening. I dislike the idea of 0 new territory expansions a lot though.
and we keep fourteenessee because we need a dumpster too.
And because twentyessee just rolls off your tongue
I hear his latest story is that the SEC is expanding to 12 teams, and the addition of South Carolina and Arkansas means that there's gonna be a conference championship game!!
He tries so desperately to be Ken Rosenthal
and Joe Klatt’s love child. I swear most Braves fans know more inside knowledge than him and he vacations with Alex. The guy really has no purpose in sports journalism.
There remains, among the ND faithful, significant resentment of the Big 10 for anti-Catholic bias in the early days. ND is loyal to USCw and service academies because they scheduled ND when Big 10 schools refused to. I wouldn’t say the issue can’t be overcome, but it’s not as simple as geographic logic either…
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