re: Best Plan Ever to Maximize SEC $$ in the Future (Realignment/Expansion)

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1. 9 SEC Game Football Schedule.
-SEC games are worth more than watching a SEC team beat an FCS team.

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The OOC game against an FCS team is not the one that will be dumped to make room for the 9th SEC game. It'll be the more high profile games against teams that demand a home and home or a neutral site. Nine SEC games means five on the road some years, so teams will be less able to afford to play away from home OOC.

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2. Expand the SEC's Geographic/Media market share.
- We need to add schools in states/media markets that don't have SEC schools:
TOP 5 Choices: Oklahoma, UNC, UVA, KU, WVU
- That would create 19 teams as of now in the SEC, but see the next step below....

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Why in the hell would Kansas be in there? What, besides KU's basketball reputation, does anything in Kansas have to offer the SEC? WVU is questionable, but does have some pull in the DC market, so maybe they make sense. Oklahoma is only good for the national reputation of the Sooners. There's not much population in Oklahoma and not much other reason to take anyone from there.

NC and Virginia, yes, absolutely.

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3. Cut Schools who are NOT needed for that Geographic/Media market share.
- Goodbye: Auburn, Miss St, Vanderbilt and aTm.
- These schools aren't needed to maintain the state's media market interest, plus they ARE NOT flagships, and everybody knows, the SEC is a Flagship Conference.

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OK, sorry, thought you were serious. Obviously, no one is getting cut from the SEC.