Will SEC ever be like the Southwest Conference

SWC footprint = AR + TX

SEC footprint = AR + AL + FL + GA + KY + LA + MS + MO + SC + TN + TX

Too much money in the bigger footprint to let it fall. SEC may be TBTF.

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Does he think that currently those schools wouldn't turn in their arch rival if they could? How will that be anything new in the future?

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Better yet he's operating under the assumption that they're not cheating themselves and would end up putting themselves in hot water.

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Hopefully it'll never happen.

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We won't. If SMU would have gotten caught 10-15 years later the SWC would never have folded and SMU probably would have gotten probation, lost schollies, no bowl, and no TV but definitely would not have gotten the "death penalty". The money by that time was too much and still is even to a greater extent today.

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It had to be terrible being an Arky fan during the swc yrs. Every team you played had Texas across their jersey.

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It was pretty gross. 8 decades of texas arrogance engrained the "texas hate" in most Arkies.

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aggy what's the series record?

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Better yet he's operating under the assumption that they're not cheating themselves and would end up putting themselves in hot water.

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It would be the height of hypocrisy for UT to turn in A&M or Clemson to turn in USCe.

It's basically mutally assured distruction. And assistant coaches see each other breaking rules all the time. But they won't say anything, because you never know the next person you may have to ask for a job.

Wow, that was a horrific article. So essentially the idea is that the SEC is going to get taken down by the NCAA for so much rampant cheating that the league folds? Yet he completely ignores the fact the SEC is the LEAST penalized league by the NCAA over the last decade and it isn't close.

Does the SEC cheat? Sure, just like everyone else. The key is that NCAA fears the SEC and the SEC figured out a while back that the juice isn't worth the squeeze to have the NCAA destroy programs, all that does is kill everyone's bottomline. For that matter, the SEC is now so powerful that if the NCAA did try to come down hard on them that it could actually legitimately threaten to leave the NCAA entirely.

Beyond all of that though, cheating isn't why the SWC broke up. The SWC broke up because Texas couldn't handle competition and there just wasn't enough money to go around with 8 schools in one state (4 of which were private). It simply became outdated.

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It would be the height of hypocrisy for UT to turn in A&M or Clemson to turn in USCe.

It's basically mutally assured distruction. And assistant coaches see each other breaking rules all the time. But they won't say anything, because you never know the next person you may have to ask for a job.

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I agree completely, but then what does that say about Phil Fulmer and what he did to Bama?

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Some of the premises in that article are absurd. He writes about future events in this way:
"what if Texas, Clemson and Georgia Tech got so upset with A&M, South Carolina and Georgia that they ratted them out to the NCAA for cheating!"

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Haha, yeah, UTa is going to accuse other people of cheating, b/c they run a pristine program...that author is nutty.

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No. Recruits now post everything on social media. Barry sanders new z-28 Camaro in the 80's would have been all over that shite

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I think you were thinking of this: