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The SEC may be on borrowed time

Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:59 am
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
55109 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:59 am
Obviously the bigger the SEC has become, you have differing views from membership. The SEC worked because you had like minded schools that shared common goals. Today, everyone just wants their piece of the pie and damn the torpedos - it's win at all costs. And I realize it's always been that way but in the past you always had that healthy respect for your peers. I really think Texas and Aggies will destroy this conference as we know it.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey acknowledged that some schools within the conference have discussed the possibility of breaking away from the NCAA. While this hardly seems noteworthy these days, he made it clear that he does not believe that is the right path for college athletics.
Posted by HTX Horn
Houston
Member since Jul 2021
1339 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 10:01 am to
Chicken Littles never like change.
Posted by Landmass
Premium Member
Member since Jun 2013
25371 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 10:02 am to
quote:

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey acknowledged that some schools within the conference have discussed the possibility of breaking away from the NCAA. While this hardly seems noteworthy these days, he made it clear that he does not believe that is the right path for college athletics.


Reading between the lines, what he really said was that if they push forward with this equal media rights thing, the SEC is going to leave the NCAA. It was a veiled threat.
Posted by tBrand
Member since Oct 2022
3477 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 10:02 am to
Aggie won’t destroy anything, they love this hayseed conference.

But yes, we will absolutely gut this place from the inside out.
Posted by kilo
No block, no rock
Member since Oct 2011
30092 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 10:03 am to
quote:

While this hardly seems noteworthy these days, he made it clear that he does not believe that is the right path for college athletics.


Sankey is not telling the truth and playing the game. There is zero chance the B1G and SEC haven't had internal discussions about breaking away from the NCAA
Posted by Dr Jekyll
Member since Mar 2026
24 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 10:14 am to
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Greg Sankey
quote:

he made it clear that he does not believe that is the right path for college athletics.

That it settles it. We need to break away from the NCAA.

Sankey is a stooge. A buffoon. I put no credibilty in anything he says.
Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
39638 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 10:34 am to
quote:

Chicken Littles never like change.


"Chicken Littles" were fine with Arky and SC. Excited when they joined.
They assimilated.
Chicken Littles were winning national titles in football juuuust fine before we added the Big12.

Now we have non fits in the league and we've gotten Diluted, and less southeastern, geographically and culturally. OU is the team out of the four that matches the best.


Yea money.
This post was edited on 3/10/26 at 10:36 am
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
18822 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 10:35 am to
Arkansas, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Kentucky are the first schools out.
This post was edited on 3/10/26 at 10:36 am
Posted by VFL67
Member since Feb 2025
1494 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 10:53 am to
Holy terrible take.

Kick out anything after 2012.
Posted by Old Sarge
Dean of Admissions, LSU
Member since Jan 2012
62827 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:05 am to
You pansies started the whole realignment shift by trying to go to the pac

Then cried about it for a decade
Posted by bigDgator
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2008
49228 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:08 am to
quote:

But yes, we will absolutely gut this place from the inside out.


You sound like the woke mob.
Posted by theCAW
Polk County
Member since Dec 2023
8506 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:08 am to
quote:

Kick out anything after 2012.
Florida to the ACC too
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
18822 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:22 am to
I agree with that as well.

Let's get rid of S.C., Arkansas, Oklahoma, A&M, Texas, Kentucky and Vanderbilt as well.
Posted by bamabaseballsec
Member since Dec 2020
3737 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:28 am to
Aggie and usce are a good fit….arky has regressed back to being a swc school since the big 12 boys joined.
Posted by Tropicofcapricorn
Member since Jun 2021
268 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:35 am to
Exactly I think the Big 10 is on the same page..they will pick/ offer a few more teams to come over to a super league and Negotiate their own tv deal.(Se/ Big 10)..Notre Dame will obviously be the one that gets invited but they will have to make concessions
Posted by Buster83
Somewhere in Texas usually
Member since Aug 2021
5662 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:39 am to
quote:

I really think Texas and Aggies will destroy this conference as we know it.


Did not realize we had that kind of power.

NIL and the transfer portal are going to destroy this conference long before A&M and UTrans will have anything to say about it

Posted by JeffLebowski
Member since Feb 2015
2609 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:41 am to
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Arkansas, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Kentucky are the first schools out.


Based on what? The schools themselves wanting to leave of the SEC wanting those schools to leave - if so, for what reason?
Posted by crimsoncoded94
Georgiana
Member since Aug 2025
1988 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:43 am to
College athletics as a whole will change drastically soon. This isnt sustainable for long
Posted by bamabaseballsec
Member since Dec 2020
3737 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:44 am to
The sec just needs to hijack this ship while it’s still possible and take control of the inevitable new pro am division. Every school not in the big ten or sec is looking for a life raft. Go ahead and add any schools that offer value, Clem fsu Miami unc vir vtech wvu Utah zona zona St Kansas Colorado Texas tech ok state. Then target isolated big ten schools. Offer Penn st Maryland usc Oregon and Washington. After that you invite the rest of the big that’s important Iowa wiscy osu Mich Mich st nd. Collective bargain tv rights, end the transfer portal, do a seperate playoff and have a governing body with teeth
Posted by SECCaptain
Member since Jun 2025
2021 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:46 am to
Like it or not, Texas now owns the SEC. Currently have the best team in Football, Baseball. softball and women’s basketball in the conference
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