re: TCU poster says Miss. St booster has tapes

yep clearly a better option than keeping auburn or getting tamu.

they are a huge market and the baseball team isnt just a one year wonder

also a 2 win auburn will hurt the conference sos plus if they ever get good again we will know they are cheating. traditions have to die at some point and this is the point for auburn its time for them to join sewanee. its tcu time in the sec

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people would be upset over destroying tradition.

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psh

You think the SEC really cares about "tradition"? If it came down to realistic talks about booting someone from the conference in favor of another university, the almighty dollar would win out over "tradition". And TCU, with the Dallas/Ft. Worth TV markets, brings a lot more to the table than Auburn as far as money is concerned.

They would never boot someone from the conference without probable cause. But if there was enough evidence that paying players and all that was an epidemic at Auburn, they'd be justified in kicking them out. Especially if they have no football team for a couple of years... football is the biggest money maker in this conference and in this country, so it would be detrimental to the conference if one of its members was not allowed to field a football team. They'd be holding us back, so we'd have to cut the cord.

But there is no evidence, much less allegations, that paying players is an epidemic at Auburn. The only player that has been accused of being paid is Newton.

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Oregon/TCU for it all

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I hate to break it to you, but you obviously weren't paying attention during the conference expansion talks. It's not how many people are tuning in, it's to how many TVs you could potentially be broadcasting your product. And in the case of DFW vs. Auburn, there are many more TVs in Dallas.

It doesn't matter if anybody is actually watching the games, it's the fact that the SEC could go and say to networks like ESPN "hey you get to broadcast our product in the DFW market" which is a lot more attractive than the Auburn/Opelika market. The conference gets paid whether they watch the games or not.

I'm from DFW and there is no fricking way you steal viewers from Texas or OU and get them to watch TCU. It just won't happen.

edit: and yes viewer ratings matter.

Did you even read my post???? I'll say it again: it's not how many people are actually tuning in to the games, it's how many TVs there are in that market. Period.

Nobody even has to turn their TV on on Saturdays in the fall, the fact that there are that many more people in DFW than there are in Auburn's small TV market is much more attractive to the conference for negotiating television contracts.

The conference expansion talks this past summer were all about TV markets, TV markets, TV markets. And that isn't how many people turn their TV on to the game, it's how many people there are in that market.

The SEC was supposedly considering adding Texas A&M because they add a whole new TV MARKET in Texas, which is currently untapped for the SEC. It would be great for the SEC, with respect to negotiating new TV contracts, to be able to say they have their product in Texas. That's why all those conference expansion talks were so heavily geared towards the addition of A&M and not someone like Florida State. Florida already has that market locked up. That doesn't mean that people in Tallahassee are all watching Florida games, it means the game are broadcast there and ESPN makes money off of them anyways.

they all at least have the chance to contribute plus they are all good at other sports. auburn just isn't and if they were to get the death penalty they wouldn't be competing for a bowl for a long long time.