re: Would you accept Notre Dame in the SEC?

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And for the record, just adding good teams to a conference is dumb. All conference records equal out to .500. It doesn't matter how good your teams are, that's always going to be the result. Which is to say there is always going to be a limited amount of success. There can only be 1 conference champion every year etc. There is always going to be a Vanderbilt. Remove Vanderbilt, and a new basement team is going to take their place.

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In theory you are right but in actuality the Vandys of the world stay down because they aren’t making any attempt to compete. In a league full of power teams, one of them will always have to finish last, but they won’t always stay down perennially.