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Posted on 11/21/12 at 10:13 am to Ag8556
Posted on 11/21/12 at 10:13 am to Ag8556
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Agree on that order:
1) UNC, UVA
2) NCSU, VT
UNC and UVA add great basketball inventory to future SEC Network. UVA has strong baseball program.
SEC schools should form up research consortium to compete with Big 10 CIC. UNC & UVA add 2 more AAU schools to the consortium.
Double win - Sports $$ and Research $$
This would be ideal. Decent/potential football (we have enough current/past football powers already) and strong in all other areas: new tv market, strong academics, contiguous, good basketball & baseball, known nationally, etc
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Posted on 11/21/12 at 10:30 am to SwatMitchell
I didn't think there was much hope to land UNC either until reading their scout board. Seemed like a small majority preferred the SEC and were worried that NC St would surpass them if they let them get the SEC invite.
NC St f ans were almost unanamiously in favor of move to SEC.
NC St f ans were almost unanamiously in favor of move to SEC.
Posted on 11/21/12 at 10:44 am to SwatMitchell
a little off-topic, but: wow. Ignore TV and radio a couple days, and you get 2 teams into the B1G (or whatever it is). In the middle of football season, no less.
I'm with another poster here- screw expansion. At some point it gets too big, and starts to collapse. We're beginning to see the scheduling issues already.
If you HAVE to expand to 16, then... screw the geography concerns. And stop looking at heading to the Northeast. Instead, improve the brand.
2 more teams? Take USC and Oklahoma, and watch the world burn. Make 4 divisions, not 2, and have a 2 round SEC championship.
Fla-UGA-SC-Ky
Alabama-Auburn-Tenn- Vandy
LSU-Miss St-A&M-Ole Miss
Okla-USC-Missouri-Arkansas
Winner then decides (only a little bit of a joke) if they even need to play anyone else for the national title
I'm with another poster here- screw expansion. At some point it gets too big, and starts to collapse. We're beginning to see the scheduling issues already.
If you HAVE to expand to 16, then... screw the geography concerns. And stop looking at heading to the Northeast. Instead, improve the brand.
2 more teams? Take USC and Oklahoma, and watch the world burn. Make 4 divisions, not 2, and have a 2 round SEC championship.
Fla-UGA-SC-Ky
Alabama-Auburn-Tenn- Vandy
LSU-Miss St-A&M-Ole Miss
Okla-USC-Missouri-Arkansas
Winner then decides (only a little bit of a joke) if they even need to play anyone else for the national title
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