re: Seriously, if not Bham -- where should the SEC

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We are only the most successful and richest conference in history

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So Birmingham is the reason for this?
How does that equate?

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change just for the sake of change is foolish

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Several reason's for it a not just "change"

1)The SECCG is played there

2)Much bigger and better media infrastructure
Which town do you think the media would choose
during "SEC media days" if given the choice?
Atlanta, and wouldn't be close.

3)The hometown of 2 the SEC biggest sponsers
(Home Depot and Chic-Fil-A)not to mention Coke

4)Better and bigger airport to hanlde any type of
traffic to and from SEC institutions.Please,
nobody important would travel by car anyway.

5)College FB HOF and don't forget about the kickoff classic thats also played there.The SEC
FB season pretty much begins and ends in Atlanta.

It's not moving so why have the conversation?

I recommend moving the SEC Office to Denver, Colorado. I also recommend that the SEC only hire football officials who grew up WEST of the 100th Meridian and have no ties at all to any SEC team.

Houston would be the most impactful move. It's the largest city in the SEC footprint with a strong presence from 2 SEC schools. There is no market that has as much upside potential for the SEC to take over as there is in Texas. Dallas doesn't make sense because the Big 12 is already headquartered there. It also provides a nice bookend with the SECN offices in Charlotte. Atlanta or New Orleans are fine but those are already died in the wool SEC cities and they are both smaller than Houston.

Texas is the biggest SEC market and Houston is the largest SEC city, putting the headquarters there would put a true stake in the ground that it is SEC territory.

Because there's nothing to be gained by moving it. It will only cost money. It's just some a damn office building.

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ATM fans need to humble their perspective when it comes to their position in the league.

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frick that.

We'll preen and crow to our hearts content and y'all will deal with it. frick this be quiet bullshite.

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Where in the SEC can you not fly to from Birmingham?

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I do not know of an airport in a single city with an SEC school that has flights to Birmingham. They all must connect through a hub city...typically Atlanta.

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Not Houston. Best reason is that THEY WOULD HAVE TO PAY PREMIUM RENT ON CORPORATE SPACE(which is at an all time high for the forseable future). I doubt the city of Houston would give SEC the deal they are getting in Bham, $1 a year in rent for a very nice peice of property in downtown.

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adding Texas did not make the SEC what it is today. ATM and Mizzou did help speed up plans for an SEC Channel, but the league was already strong before yall came asking for a home.

the Texas market is still dominated by fans that will first root for the Big 12. I feel almost embarrased for you that I have to remind you of this but Texas / TCU / Texas Tech fans outnumber ATM fans by a wide margin.

ATM has given the league more exposure in Houston/Texas. but far from the impact your alluding to.

The league also has a practice of not putting one school above another(equal TV distributions/vote) and moving it to Texas just to cater to a new market would go against one of the values of the SEC's mission statement.

And you dont cater to a new market by putting a HQ there. You put actual events there. But I doubt Houston will ever get a basketball tourney(in the next 10 years) ATM does not have agreat following for basketball which is the exact reason why St. Louis is getting a tourney.

ATM fans need to humble their perspective when it comes to their position in the league. they matter just a sequally as Alabama and Mississippi State. If they dont like it they can leave. Dont forget you asked us to join, not the other way around.

If the leage was all about Bama then we would be playin a 9 game schedule. I think we were the only school to be advocates of that change.

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Cheap rent is not exactly something that should be a big deal to the SEC offices and I wouldn't be surprised if the City of Houston wouldn't come up with a package if that was really an issue.

Obviously Texas didn't make the SEC what it is today, A&M has only been in the conference 2 years. Texas is the largest market though and has the most potential for growth. That is the point.

I hate to tell you this but the most recent survey showed A&M to have more fans than Texas. Tech is a very minor player outside of West Texas in terms of fans, it is over 500 miles from Houston. TCU has about 20 fans and they are almost all in DFW. Houston DOES have a ton of LSU fans though as well as other SEC schools. It's the 4th largest city in the US and yet it has no Big 5 Conference schools located there.

You do actually cater to a market with an HQ there because if the SEC offices are in Houston then far more Texas reporters will cover SEC stories that are generated out of the SEC offices. There are about a million more people in the Houston Metro than the entire State of Alabama. It's a huge potential market that is growing in SEC interest.

People from Houston also have one thing in common, they absolutely hate Dallas and Dallas is where the Big 12 is HQ'ed. It is already culturally becoming more of an SEC town because it has the highest number of A&M Grads and the oil industry is so big there (which is dominated by A&M Grads) as well as being the largest population of LSU grads outside of Louisiana.

I also don't think putting the HQ in Texas suddenly means A&M gets favorable treatment at all. I do find it funny that a Bama fan thinks this is a reason to lecture Aggies though on "knowing our place" and "all things are equal" while the SEC Offices are just down the road from Tuscaloosa though. A&M may be new to the conference but we are the largest and richest school from the largest state with the most growth potential. I don't think we deserve special treatment but neither does Bama, everyone brings something to the table.

I do think that the conference offices would be better suited in a major city though, be it Houston, Atlanta, or New Orleans moreso than Birmingham. Even Houston's second Airport (Hobby) is busier than Bham and Atlanta is the busiest in the US. Access matters.