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Athletic directors meeting at SEC headquarters
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:05 pm
By JOHN ZENOR
AP Sports Writer
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - SEC athletic directors and Commissioner Mike Slive met Wednesday to discuss the logistics of Texas A&M's
entry as the 13th member even though No. 14 might soon be on its way.
The meeting comes a day after University of Missouri curators voted unanimously to consider leaving the Big 12 - likely to join the Southeastern Conference - instead of committing to the league for the long term. However, SEC spokesman Charles Bloom said the AD meeting at league headquarters was scheduled several weeks ago.
"The focus of the meeting is the integration of Texas A&M into the Southeastern Conference," Bloom said, adding that the majority
of the day would be spent discussing scheduling with 13 teams.
Other athletic department staffers and the transition team formed after Texas A&M's admission into the league also participated in the meeting in a conference room in the downtown
Birmingham offices that was still ongoing Wednesday afternoon.
Slive has said he would prepare to go into next year as if there will be 13 teams, which would create unbalanced divisions. As for
adding a 14th, he has emphasized that the SEC would be "strategic and thoughtful" in expansion, but shed little light otherwise on the league's plans.
SEC school administrators have indicated that adding a 14th school is likely, perhaps imminent.
South Carolina President Harris Pastides has said he doesn't "think 13 is a sustainable number, but I think 14 is." He added that he doesn't advocate growing to a 16-team league.
Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart has said the SEC will expand again but that members need to be deliberate in taking that next step.
The vote by Missouri curators makes the Tigers a leading contender.
The Big 12 said Monday that presidents and chancellors of the remaining nine members - including Missouri Chancellor Brady Deaton
- have agreed to equal revenue sharing and to seek approval from each university to hand over the most lucrative television rights to the conference for six years.
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Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:07 pm to Sports2
its all formailty - Mizzou is coming :)
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:08 pm to Thracken13
So is WVU. watch it'll happen. We are going to 16 teams
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:08 pm to Thracken13
Rather Mizzou than West Virginia FWIW but Mizzou is gonna be a cellar dweller in fricking everything now that they lost Mike Anderson. He would have ran shite.
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:09 pm to memphisplaya
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So is WVU. watch it'll happen. We are going to 16 teams
frick. that. shite.
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:09 pm to memphisplaya
quote:Not unless someone else does first, IMO.
We are going to 16 teams
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:09 pm to memphisplaya
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So is WVU.
Hide yo couch, the hillbillies are coming!
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:09 pm to Sports2
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South Carolina President Harris Pastides has said he doesn't "think 13 is a sustainable number, but I think 14 is." He added that he doesn't advocate growing to a 16-team league.
Finally someone with some sense.
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:10 pm to Elleshoe
Lsu has company in the cellar in bball now..
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:10 pm to Elleshoe
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now that they lost Mike Anderson. He would have ran shite.
He is still going to do this.
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:11 pm to TT9
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Lsu has company in the cellar in bball now..
you guys were relatively good for one year and now yall are the fricking 1990's Bulls. Hell, yall were only NIT good last year. Make a Final 4 sometime then come and talk some smack.
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:12 pm to Elleshoe
quote:That might be the point. Mizzou is a name school that adds a tv market but doesn't threaten the dominance of the big dogs in the SEC. Frankly, I would rather have aTm and Mizzou than OU and UT. IMO there is a thing as too strong/difficult of a conference.
but Mizzou is gonna be a cellar dweller
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:12 pm to TheCheshireHog
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He is still going to do this.
yup. I dunno much about Arky's team right now but I wouldn't doubt if he has them looking at least like Tennessee did under Pearl in the next 2-3 seasons.
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:13 pm to memphisplaya
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Why not be proactive ?
i never thought "proactive" and "adding WVU to the SEC" could ever be used in a sentence without the word "not"
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:13 pm to Elleshoe
We are on the ups,and we've never been as bad as you guys the last couple years,damn doormats...
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:13 pm to WDE24
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Not unless someone else does first, IMO.
Who went to 14* before us?
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:13 pm to memphisplaya
quote:16 teams only makes sense if it becomes a foregone conclusion that college football is going to 4 (maybe 5) super conferences. We aren't there yet and there is still hope that this expansion stuff gets figured out and the dust settles before we get there.
Why not be proactive ?
Posted on 10/5/11 at 3:14 pm to WDE24
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@jonsol Jon Solomon Two SEC ADs say no 14-team schedules were discussed at AD meeting today in Birmingham. bit.ly/oggCfZ
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