re: Has there ever been a costlier decision in college sports than GT leaving the SEC?

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The SEC allowing Vandy to stay is extremely costly. 60 million a year in revenue going to a program that contributes nothing. ESPN would pay us more just to leave Vandy’s spot vacant simply to have anyone but Vandy as an SEC opponent for 8 games. They cost the rest of the SEC in unsold tickets whenever they unfortunately end up on a home schedule.

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Now this is just not seeing the forest for the trees.

Let me point something out: Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, LSU, Florida, Auburn, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M.
One of those teams will finish as low as 9th overall in the conference standings every year, maybe lower if one of the other schools step up. Now that divisions are going away, there won't a an East or West title to give to a second team, it will just be SEC Champs. Teams are going to settle into pecking orders; I guarantee Oklahoma isn't happy at being down while entering the SEC. They're in danger of disappearing like Nebraska did.

Tulane and Georgia Tech made hugely bad decisions, in retrospect. Tulane did worse, as they aren't P5 anymore.