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re: How the SEC Should Expand If It NEEDS 16
Posted on 7/2/14 at 7:42 pm to Wardamnbulldog
Posted on 7/2/14 at 7:42 pm to Wardamnbulldog
The SEC will never, never, add Tulsa. Good lord that's dumb.
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Posted on 7/2/14 at 7:45 pm to Patton
Any expansion talk after the ACC GOR is dumb.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 9:53 pm to Matt1
14 is fine. Will everyone just stop the expansion talk for a couple of decades?
Posted on 7/2/14 at 10:08 pm to Kentucker
Unless a court overturns schools signing away their TV rights to conferences, there is not going to be any more conference changes of note. Not in the ACC or Big 12 or Big 10. Of the 5 majors copnferences, only SEC teams have not signed their TV rights away for long periods of times. Example: if NC State or VA Tech joined the SEC, the ACC would retain their TV rights for at least 15 years PLUS they would each have to pay a huge fine.
If you want to add 2 teams to the SEC, it is gonna hafta be BYU or some lesser-known school NOT in the ACC or Big 12 or Big 10 or PAC 12.
If you want to add 2 teams to the SEC, it is gonna hafta be BYU or some lesser-known school NOT in the ACC or Big 12 or Big 10 or PAC 12.
This post was edited on 7/2/14 at 10:10 pm
Posted on 7/2/14 at 10:17 pm to LaFlyer
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LaFlyer
I'd be pissed off too if a new Tiger team, that my team had never won against, joined the conference.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 10:53 pm to Mizzoufan26
Hell no to the suggestion to add OU and OSU.
Anybody that comes in needs to bring their own recruiting territory with them!
Anybody that comes in needs to bring their own recruiting territory with them!
Posted on 7/2/14 at 10:57 pm to Matt1
How many thousands of these pointless threads do we have to see? Off season or not...pitiful.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 12:53 am to StopRobot
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Why is it so hard to understand how and why expansion works? You expand to increase your footprint and gain markets and viewers. Adding two schools from the same state doesn't do that
Why should Auburn/Bama, MSU/Ole Miss, and UTenn/Vandy be forced to recruit on the same level against their instate rivals while Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina are free to keep their rivals (FSU, GaTech, and Clemson) under thumb as beta-level recruiters in the ACC?
Besides, adding FSU, GaTech, or Clemson would consolidate the SEC's TV influence with the other half of the populations of those states (which are currently watching ACC games).
Posted on 7/3/14 at 12:57 am to Mizzoufan26
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I'd be pissed off too if a new Tiger team, that my team had never won against, joined the conference.
That's actually a great idea. Add Clemson and have an all-Tiger division: Auburn, Clemson, LSU, and Mizzou. Maybe Sewanee could seek re-admittance to the SEC and then we could have five Tiger teams in the conference.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 7:30 am to Matt1
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The ACC is too stable right now,
If the ACC is so stable, why is Maryland leaving?
Posted on 7/3/14 at 7:31 am to Matt1
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Matt1
You should write an article about it.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:49 am to spslayto
Maryland already left for the Big ten dollar
Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:57 am to Matt1
frick Expansion.
As it is we should be looking to contract back to the original teams pre 1991.
As it is we should be looking to contract back to the original teams pre 1991.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 10:16 am to Patton
But they added Mizzou?
Posted on 7/4/14 at 1:53 pm to AaronDeTiger
Sorry, but you're NOT going to axe the WLOCP! 
Posted on 7/4/14 at 1:54 pm to Wardamnbulldog
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But they added Mizzou?
You should eat multiple penii.
Posted on 7/4/14 at 1:56 pm to Wardamnbulldog
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Wardamnbulldog
South
LSU
UF
UCF(USF)
Houston(Tulsa)
WHY would you match Louisiana & Texas with Florida? They're nowhere near each other.
Posted on 7/4/14 at 1:57 pm to Wardamnbulldog
Sorry - that should have been a thumbs up for this post.
Posted on 7/4/14 at 1:57 pm to Matt1
How many times do people have to be told that the SEC isn't interested in Duke and UNC. They are 5 miles apart. Expansion is about markets.
If the SEC expandsto 16, it will add NC State and one of the Va schools.
If the SEC expandsto 16, it will add NC State and one of the Va schools.
Posted on 7/4/14 at 2:02 pm to Matt1
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Matt1
How the SEC Should Expand If It NEEDS 16
The ACC is too stable right now, as enticing as it would be to take Duke and UNC, but that does not mean that expansion is a bad idea. Instead, I would look at the Big 12 and try to get OU and OSU to join together. They would both join the SEC West, along with Mizzou, while Bama and Auburn would move to the East.
At that point, permanent crossover opponents would be unnecessary, as The Third Saturday in October and The Deep South's Oldest Rivalry (the only reasons they were kept in the first place) would be divisional games. The only one that would be grandfathered in would be Alabama-LSU. Unless we are OK with some former traditional rivalries only playing once every 8 years (and only once every 16 in each stadium), we would have to expand to 9 conference games, something I would only support in a 16-team SEC.
UK/MSU have a rivalry going on between the 'Cats & 'Dogs. I'm sure they want to keep that going.
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