Lol. People here discuss thinly veiled dick waving. There is no higher purpose, no high road to walk. The intention of the board is to discuss SEC football, of which the revenue needed to support the 14 programs is a part of that.

What team plays who is COMPLETELY different than getting in a PARTNERSHIP with those programs. People can care about playing whoever they want to play. That is what OOC is for. Who is let into the SEC partnership is a much bigger thing.

I get your point: this is a jock forum so us business nerds can take our sport ruining beans and go count them somewhere else. What I think is funny about that is the fact that if the SEC made poor expansion decisions, and was the worst paid Power 5 conference because of those decisions (that was a possibility prior to expansion), the same people who want FSU would be pissed when their recruits go to tOSU because SEC facilities are behind everyone else. If you care about your program being worth a damn you care about the money.

College football is no longer a bunch of regional vacuums, it is a national sport with a major following worth billions of dollars. The cost of putting the wishes of football nerds first isn't insignificant, and therefore any TRUE SEC fan would want what option is best for the league and that isn't FSU, Clemson, or any program already in the SEC footprint.

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Posted by WildTchoupitoulas

Member since Jan 2010

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Posted on 1/20/15 at 4:54 pm to cardboardboxer

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People here discuss thinly veiled dick waving

Well, yeah.

And it's generous of you to offer any veil at all.

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If you care about your program being worth a damn you care about the money.

Wrong.

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College football is no longer a bunch of regional vacuums, it is a national sport with a major following worth billions of dollars. The cost of putting the wishes of football nerds first isn't insignificant

And thus why I find college football less and less interesting.

Yes, I know, it's ALL about the money. that's why actually going to games anymore just flat out sucks. Sitting in the stands waiting for the little guy in the red hat to tell the people actually playing the fricking game when they can start playing the fricking game is just absurd.

I understand that the little guy in the red hat represents money, but he also represents a total disruption of the flow of the game. I don't go to games to wait for opportunities for companies to make money, I go to watch kids play ball for the Old War Skule.

In short, commercial breaks are ruining the enjoyment of the sport.

When everything is about money, there is nothing left but money. That is a sad world indeed.

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