re: What has A&M brought to the conference...

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Adding TAMU and Mizzou increased the SEC's viewership footprint by 40%. Some like to bitch, but their schools still like cashing those checks.

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The amount of negotiating power by adding the TV markets those schools bring helped make the SEC network happen and payout what it does.

You'll never convince some of the mouth breathers here of that but there are several that get why we were brought in to the conference. We weren't just picked up because the SEC home office was bored.