Conference expansion = more money?

Thank you.

Exactly what I said before it happened.

Tv contracts > bowl money.

Long hair don't care.

Contracts have to be renegotiated. Clay Travis wrote an article about it that I'm too lazy to find, but I suggest reading that. SEC will see a nice monetary increase across the board.

TAM was a no brainer. Missouri was a lame brainer. When we could have had WVU and the Pittsburg market, or NC State and the Raleigh market, or Louisville etc.

Missouri was plain crazy

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I hate Slive for his hand in the SEC expansion

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Slive wasn't looking to expand the SEC from 12 teams (unlike Delaney and Scott, both of whom wanted to get to 12 so their conferences could have a CCG).

But when a flagship university within the 2nd largest state in the US is interested in joining (and isn't trying to call the shots in the process), you have to at least bring the offer to the other university presidents/chancellors to gauge their interest.

And even with an odd number of schools (13) the SEC was still happy and willing to make it work (after all, the B1G worked with 11 schools and no divisional alignment for several years) and not pushing to make it 14. But we got to 14 with Mizzou.

If VT, NC State, or someone else wants in, we'll take a look to see what they bring to the table. If they would be good additions and we get to 15 or 16, fine; if not, our 14 will sit back and rake in the dough.

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So far I'm seeing the the same phrases being thrown around but nobody has shown that the SEC is currently making more money. I think CBS has not upped the contract, and I don't know about ESPN.

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As of now, no, the SEC is not making more money, but if you're not smart enough to understand why the SEC is due to make substantially more in future returns then no amount of explaining will help. We're not talking 25 million a year anymore, we're talking about 50 million. Just calm down, there are a lot of people that are more intelligent working on this.

You are such a whiny bitch.

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You do realize that the St. Louis and KC markets are > than anything you just listed above. Nice try though...

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Just realize most people that throw out WVU being better than Mizzou as a conference addition are going to be trolls or idiots, there is a reason WVU got publicly rejected not only by the SEC, but the ACC too.


And to this thread in general: it is too early to start bitching about lack of additional money from conference realignment.

A) It's not done yet and therefore impossible to judge.
B) No TV contracts or bowl tie-ins have been renegotiated yet.

It's the reason the Big 12 is hanging out with ten teams for the time being - they are getting overpaid on outdated contracts and tie-ins, when renegotiation time comes around, they're going to be fricked while the SEC and Big Ten will be sitting pretty.

-Googled the SEC TV payouts. Last year SEC teams made about 20 million each from TV rights, that means each team is losing three million a year each year plus loss of bowl revenue.

- One poster noted that CBS has guaranteed equal pay per team. I can't find anything to verify that. CBS' public stance is, no more money because they still are broadcasting the same amount of games.

- Didn't realize I was whining, just looking for info and curious about the current numbers. As I said in OP, no amount of money would make me happy about expansion.