re: Clemson joins FSU in ACC Lawsuit

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The SEC will grow to 20-24 conferences, and then split into 10-12 sub-conferences... maybe 3 groups if you get to 24 or more.
Big 10 will do the same.

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I assume you mean grow to 20-24 members

Once you do that, you are no longer a conference, but rather, just a confederation of sorts. Unless we increase the number of games played, there is a limit to how big a conference can get and still function like a conference. If you get the SEC up to 24 teams, and try to split it into groups, you'd end up with something like A&M, Texas, OU, Aransas, and Missouri being lumped together, and 1 other school being forced to join a 6-team pod (yes, pod scheduling would be the likely end result) that looks more like the Big XII than the SEC. I'm sure LSU would love that.

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Yeah, my bad

In my opinion, the SEC is working towards 24+ MEMBERS.
And what will occur, is as you call it, pods... or spin-off conferences under the umbrella, or whatever. 24 teams give you the option of 3 groups of 8; 7 game round-robin for that group, then say 2 from each of the others, then 1 random true OOC for the actual "must have" rivalries in other conferences (or if you still want to play down). Or maybe 2 from one group, and 1 from the other, and rotate back and forth.
That isolates/concentrates the SEC games, and squeezes the other conferences out.

It's not current business as usual with the scheduling, but the current model will go away.