Conference Expansion

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Mizzou- Obvious Reasons, not a fit in the South and awful athletic department

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That awful athletic department has a:

6-6 record against Tennessee in football
10-13 record against Tennessee in basketball
17-16 record against Tennessee in baseball

So does that make Tennessee an awful athletic department too?

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here's how I would do it..

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Miss State- Forget they exist sometimes, not a big fanbase and has 1 natty in the HISTORY of their athletic department.

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State is also as SEC as it gets.

Nobody wants a world where State is not in the SEC.

North Caroliina and Virginia or VT would expose the SEC to the Washington DC metro area and a PILE of nfl talent comes out of that area. 2 of UNC, UVA and VT are the remaining crown jewels in either the SEC or BIG10 plan, I think. Clemson and FSU add nothing as far as recruiting and exposure of the conference....the SEC is already in South Carolina and Florida. The only program outside of UNC, UVA and VT who can bring something to the conference that does not already exist is Notre Dame....and nobody wants that. It would be coup to bring ND in but it would be the end of the conference as any sort of regional conference.

I’ve been in the club saying it’s going to be 35-40 schools breaking off. Doing their own thing playing 12 games of a geographic friendly schedule. Then NFL type playoffs. Their own Rules . Their own TV Contract. Their own Commish (Saban). I give it to the end of the next tv contract and 16 team playoffs.

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Having a private university tucked away in your conference brings all sorts of advantages. Vandy is never leaving.

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Then add Baylor. They try harder, invest more, and typically get far better results than Vandy.

And it's not a joke when Baylor beats someone. They don't dress up like kings and prance around like a novelty act.

This is a dumb hypothetical because the conference isn’t dropping any schools especially founding members like Vanderbilt and State. Also why does everyone like to shite on Mizzou? They are a solid program coming off back to back double digit win seasons. Located in a state with good enough talent where they’re the only P5 team and in the SEC. Also they are pumping money into the program.

Adding two teams to get to 18 and match the Big10 will happen so let’s be real:

North Carolina is easily a top target. SEC is not in that state yet. NC is a large and growing state that is majority pro Tarheels. People can say well they aren’t great at FB up to this point. Ok? That doesn’t matter. That patch on the jersey gives them a bump and their administration is too smart to not understand that FB along with Men’s hoops are the engines that drive the machine.

Virginia Tech:
Similar as above. SEC is not in Virginia yet either. VT is a big brand that has a rich FB history and they truly back their team. The state of Virginia is a mixed bag regarding who the main team is but it seems like VT is a strong front runner for those who love athletics. Especially for FB. I think of them as another mizzou. They’d move the needle enough to make sense.


We’ve expanded west entirely too much. It’s time to dip into the eastern seaboard as this is the southeastern conference and NC/VA are definitely southeastern states with a lot of eyes on them. Throwing names like LSU, Georgia, Bama, Florida and Tennessee on those two teams schedules would really draw eyes considering how large of a footprint they bring.

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Your reasoning?

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State is about as deep rooted in the SEC as it gets.

They have played Bama and LSU more times than any other team in the country.

They are old blood southern football through and through, going back to the 1800's before the SEC existed.

They will never be asked to leave the SEC.

This is constantly being brought up. Chicken should create a board just for this topic.