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re: Realignment? The talks are starting again

Posted on 1/15/16 at 6:54 pm to
Posted by finestfirst79
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Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 1/15/16 at 6:54 pm to
I'm all for Texas floundering, but I think they're doing a fine job of that on their own without you trying to break up the OU/OSU marriage.

Back to the original question, why do we want to add anybody? Is it really inevitable? I actually sympathize with others here who wish the SEC was still 12 and you got to play everybody more often than once a decade.
Posted by cyde
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Member since Nov 2005
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Posted on 1/15/16 at 6:59 pm to
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I'm all for Texas floundering, but I think they're doing a fine job of that on their own without you trying to break up the OU/OSU marriage.

It's more about breaking up the OU/Texas marriage. OU is sort of like a battered spouse with Stockholm syndrome in that deal. OSU is sort of like the lamprey hanging on to the whole thing.

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Back to the original question, why do we want to add anybody? Is it really inevitable?

It's less about wanting to add anyone (I was fine with the SEC consisting of ten schools, honestly) and more about preemptively grabbing up the hottest commodities.

If, say, it looks like B1G and P12 are going to expand, you don't want the SEC stuck with the worst choices. You want to grab those schools which will either bring a TV market, add a huge multiplier to an existing TV market due to the value of their brand or add some sort of prestige value.

I just don't want us to get stuck with West Virginia as the best possible option is all.

As Prof mentioned, Duke would give Vandy an academic rival and Kentucky a basketball rival.

Oklahoma could potentially provide some very large-drawing football matchups.
This post was edited on 1/15/16 at 7:01 pm
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